Modern prefab keeps Mediterranean character & sense of place by Kirsten Dirksen on October 14, 2018 For forty years the JEC family has been growing their “mas” (Catalan country home) from a basic 45m2-square structure to …
Wikkelhouse: pick your modular segments & click them together by Kirsten Dirksen on September 30, 2018 After a couple decades creating theater sets in Amsterdam, Oep Schilling and his company of makers Fiction Factory, put their …
Tiny cabins in VA’s woods to slow down & resync inner clock by Kirsten Dirksen on July 15, 2018 Is the “simple cabin” the ideal vessel for disconnecting from modern life? Friends Jon Staff and Pete Davis have placed …
Friends turn vacant zoo on rocky hill into hotel of minimalist cabins by Kirsten Dirksen on April 1, 2018 When the young group of Vivood architects discovered an abandoned animal preserve perched on a hillside in the stunning Guadalest …
Transformer CNC cabin by a lake as a father-son work dialogue by Kirsten Dirksen on December 10, 2017 Daniel Yudchitz and his father, Bill, are both architects who took their love of craft, cabins and Swiss precision in …
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 …
Bill Lilly uses containers to rebuild a burnt Oxford MS home by Kirsten Dirksen on October 30, 2017 Since Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi builder Bill Lilly had been drafting ideas for building on the foundations of disaster so when …
Grid Beam modular system builds anything, furniture to bikes by Kirsten Dirksen on September 17, 2017 Grid Beam is a kind of LEGO, or Erector Set, for grownups who want to build real things. Its creators, …
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 …
Hydraulic doors transform containers in retrotronic shelters by Kirsten Dirksen on April 17, 2017 Comparing their work to reanimating a corpse, Matthew Quilty and Adam Kalkin* believe in giving new life to unused shipping …
