U-Build hands-on: a flat-pack modular home you can assemble by Kirsten Dirksen on April 24, 2021 U-Build is a modular construction system even completely inexperienced builders can assemble with simple hand tools. The flat-pack kit is …
This home goes up like a Coachella modular build: fast/cheap by Kirsten Dirksen on January 23, 2021 When the Woolsey Fire burnt down their home in 2018, Molly and Ed Murphy wanted a house that would go …
Shipping container motel honors 2nd life of salvage by Kirsten Dirksen on October 17, 2020 On a former ranch in Round Top, Texas (population: 91), Flophouze hotel is made of six converted shipping container cabins …
Outdoor voluntary simplicity & survivalism in Santa Fe hills by Kirsten Dirksen on October 3, 2020 Since a “forced retirement” three years ago, Tomas Robison has been stretching his savings by exchanging labor for rent on …
Container home brings high-end functions to tiny prefab market by Kirsten Dirksen on August 29, 2020 Concerned about the California housing market, friends Nate Garnero & Doug Burdge decided to make a high-end, prefab container home …
3-story container townhouse shines in street art vibrant alley by Kirsten Dirksen on June 7, 2020 When Carl Cassell started his restaurant in Toronto’s Queen West, land was affordable; now it’s not, so when he and …
Brothers build boreal utopia of open-roof cube cabins in nature by Kirsten Dirksen on November 3, 2019 On a piece of land purchased by their grandfather in Charlevoix, Quebec, Jonathan and Simon Galarneau have built a dozen …
On designing a stackable, bioclimatic shipping container home by Kirsten Dirksen on March 4, 2019 Motivated by her love of mobile homes and bioclimatic design, as well as the surplus of shipping containers at Athens …
Crane Triplex: vacated harbor crane as micro-flat over Amsterdam by Kirsten Dirksen on August 19, 2018 Figee crane 2868 sat abandoned in Amsterdam’s Eastern Docklands for nearly four decades until a team devoted to boutique apartments …
Side-door container 2nd life as WA’s ski town outdoorsy home by Kirsten Dirksen on November 12, 2017 Shiah Lints was tired of life in a 2500 converted farmhouse, so he bought a side door shipping container to …