Non-possession: seeking intense simplicity and the good life by Kirsten Dirksen on September 3, 2012 Peter Lawrence has few possessions. He can fit nearly everything he owns in a suitcase. He is nearly camping in …
Salvaged boat trailer as mobile home-office: $300 + labor by Kirsten Dirksen on August 30, 2012 Jenine Alexander likes to built tiny structures on wheels. And she loves to find her building materials in the dump …
NYC beekeeping: embracing a once banned activity by Kirsten Dirksen on August 27, 2012 Because he lives in a 21 story building and “bees don’t like high rises too much” (too windy), Guillermo Fernandez …
Fully-customized, modular solar house is CNC cut prefab by Kirsten Dirksen on August 19, 2012 Solar House 2.0, erected this year on Barcelona’s waterfront, uses time-tested passive solar techniques (like south-facing windows to let in …
Tiny home cube: bathroom + kitchen + closet for family of 3 by Kirsten Dirksen on August 13, 2012 When designer Monica Potvin (of the design-build firm Fabrique) and her husband Markel Otaola bought a small apartment in Barcelona’s Poblenou neighborhood …
Buys 14th-C. Pyrenees home, builds treehouse village around by Kirsten Dirksen on August 4, 2012 Emmanuel Grymonpré has invented a new style of treehouse. The shelters he’s built-in trees overlooking the Spanish Pyrenees don’t rely …
School bus becomes off-grid, transformable, tiny home by Kirsten Dirksen on July 30, 2012 As a teenager, Richard dreamed of making a home out of a vehicle. Over a decade later, he met Rachel …
High Line: New York’s skinny park in unused overpass by Kirsten Dirksen on July 23, 2012 Built to haul goods into New York City’s meatpacking district, the High Line stopped carrying trains in 1980 and soon …
Tiny matchbox apartment hides closet & bathtub in drawers by Kirsten Dirksen on July 16, 2012 Micro-apartments are common in historically dense cities like Paris and Barcelona, but architect Valentina Maini wasn’t interested in typical small …
Heating Seattle backyard shed with soda cans as solar panels by Kirsten Dirksen on July 9, 2012 Peter Rowan left his job as a “corporate weenie” in 2010 to live a life with less stuff and fewer …
