Arizona’s autonomous home: entirely off-grid, no hookups needed by Kirsten Dirksen on November 24, 2024 Brian Stark’s Sparkboxes can add a fully functional home to your backyard—or a remote location—in just one day, with no …
Tenant couldn’t afford city. Their alleyway studio made him stay by Kirsten Dirksen on October 20, 2024 More and more families living in urban and suburban setups across California are slowly turning their single-family homes into lots …
Solo girl terraforms lava field with off-grid oasis & rugged tiny home 🏝️ by Kirsten Dirksen on January 21, 2024 15 years ago, Jade Chen left New York City to settle on a remote lava field far from any store …
They wanted affordable & livable housing. They got company towns by Nicolás Boullosa on December 21, 2023 Fed up with constraints around a lack of enough housing inventory around their sprawling offices that could alleviate pressure on …
Jupe flat-pack prefab is built for comfort & fast deployment by Kirsten Dirksen on November 28, 2021 He lived in a dumpster, then designed a slick plug-and-play prefab that got stuck in permitting purgatory, but now Jeff …
Built a backyard Yome (yurt + dome) to stay in San Francisco by Kirsten Dirksen on September 5, 2021 When Ava Rosen first slept in a yome – a hybrid between a yurt and geodesic dome – she fell …
Cantilevered containers become popup housing for NYC creators by Kirsten Dirksen on May 24, 2020 New York City rents are unattainable for most artists, but at one marina in Queens, stacked shipping containers provide instant …
Old West train depot revives as home near Roosevelt’s Medora by Kirsten Dirksen on December 31, 2019 Fargo-residents Nykky and Josh were visiting a friend in Luverne, North Dakota when they saw a house for sale for …
Agile villages for fire victims as template to fix CA housing? by Kirsten Dirksen on October 20, 2019 After a fire destroyed over 5,000 homes in Santa Rosa, California, locals got together to help their neighbors: one resident …
359 Rotating Home follows the sun like a sunflower by Kirsten Dirksen on August 13, 2017 Ben Kaiser’s 359 house can be rotated by just one person- or two kids- pushing a bar and walking around …
