Nakagin: 140 plug and play capsules float in metabolist tower by Kirsten Dirksen on August 9, 2015 Resembling clusters of space pods stacked 13 stories tall, the Nakagin Capsule Tower is the world’s first example of capsule …
Sequía en California: eficiencia, aguas grises y sensores by Nicolás Boullosa on July 7, 2015 California continúa en estado de alerta por la prolongada sequía. De acabarse de manera abrupta, remitiría el renovado interés tecnológico …
Master/disciple movie saga: SPA (Socrates>Plato<Aristotle) by Nicolás Boullosa on June 16, 2015 Last summer, while I was taking a walk in Northern California after reading some excerpts of “Classical Greece” by C.M. …
Experiments in small space gardening in Mexico City by Kirsten Dirksen on June 15, 2015 In the ruins of an old storage building, young urban farmers in Mexico City’s Roma District are experimenting with how …
Lloyd Kahn on his NorCal self-reliant half-acre homestead by Kirsten Dirksen on May 18, 2015 At 80 years old, Lloyd Kahn is an icon of alternative housing. In the seventies he was a poster child …
A spaghetti western on lean urbanism (documentary) by Kirsten Dirksen on May 11, 2015 What makes a good shelter? For thousands of years we’ve been attempting to regulate the idea. Even the bible had …
Urban self-reliance: homestead in Oakland’s small rented lot by Kirsten Dirksen on April 13, 2015 Sheila Cassani began farming her rental home while a college student. She started with a small vegetable patch, but it …
Coche del futuro: de plataformas modulares a personalización by Nicolás Boullosa on April 9, 2015 En la novela de ciencia ficción El valle de las adelfas fosforescentes, una historia distópica ambientada en el valle de …
Farm-to-table organic produce growing in dense Hong Kong by Kirsten Dirksen on March 23, 2015 Hong Kong is one of the densest cities in the world (in some parts there are 400,000 people living in …
Life on the road: converted budget eurovan as trip home by Kirsten Dirksen on March 9, 2015 At 25 years old, Robin Raindropcatcher had never owned a car and didn’t have a driver’s license, but he dreamed …