Dignifying urban/rural lives: decentralization done right by Nicolás Boullosa on September 13, 2021 Recently, someone brought up this logical paradox: most people who are urban are not elites. And most “urban elites” grew …
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 …
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 …
Pittsburgh incremental house: affordable home expands with owner by Kirsten Dirksen on January 26, 2020 “While we have, in Pittsburgh, autonomous vehicles driving around the city, we’re still building homes with a hammer and a …
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 …
Oakland college program shows how to build your own tiny house by Kirsten Dirksen on June 16, 2019 In Carpentry 221, Laney College students build a tiny house in two semesters. The Digital Fabrication class first designs and …
Going to the woods to live deliberately (not leaving Berlin) by Kirsten Dirksen on June 9, 2019 I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and …
Transformer furniture hidden on ceiling deploys by command by Kirsten Dirksen on April 28, 2019 Having worked on the Tesla Model Y and the Apple Watch, when Sankarshan Murthy wanted to add more space to …
Bottom-up urbanism solves urgent housing needs in CA vicinity by Kirsten Dirksen on February 3, 2019 When Johnny Sanphillippo wanted to upsize his 700-square-foot home in Sonoma County, California, he discovered that a legal backyard cottage …
On life, work & leisure in Swedish tiny house allotment by Kirsten Dirksen on March 21, 2016 Sweden’s first allotment gardens and summer cottages were established in 1895, much later than the dachas of Russia or the …
