He was a bike nomad. Now revamps derelict Alpine farmstead by Kirsten Dirksen on November 1, 2021 After spending years cycling around the world, Martijn Doolaard was ready for a more permanent home and he wanted something …
Off-grid container home uses pulleys to lower/raise bed & deck by Kirsten Dirksen on July 19, 2021 Vojtěch Valda’s shipping container house runs on wind, solar, and pulleys. He and his carpenter brother converted the 20-foot (6 …
Texan maker’s underground survival bunkers are real batcaves by Kirsten Dirksen on June 29, 2020 In Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, the protagonists are surprised by marauders, but are lucky to find a well-provisioned survival shelter. …
Intersection of rurex & philosophy: visiting Heidegger’s hut by Kirsten Dirksen on December 2, 2018 Can a place change how we think? “At most a city-dweller gets ‘stimulated’ by a so-called ‘stay in the country’, …
A Dust Bowl chicken coop became Aldo Leopold’s beloved house by Kirsten Dirksen on August 21, 2017 In 1935, Aldo Leopold bought a worn out farm along the Wisconsin River. Taking up residence in a former chicken …
Building your own Hawaii minimal house for a vacation’s cost by Kirsten Dirksen on December 22, 2014 Kristie Wolfe spent $5000 to build herself a tiny home on wheels in her hometown of Pocatello, Idaho. It started …
Dune Shacks: taste of Cape Cods’ floating, well-aged homes by Kirsten Dirksen on December 15, 2014 They are 19 worn-down and well-aged shacks that sit at the edge of the continent. They’re surrounded by sand- Thoreau …
Survivalist tiny dorms at Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin arq school by Kirsten Dirksen on October 27, 2014 Since Frank Lloyd Wright began building Taliesin West– his winter home and school in the desert-, students have been living …
Earthships: self-sustaining homes for post-apocalyptic land? by Kirsten Dirksen on October 6, 2014 On the desert mesa of New Mexico, miles from the nearest town of Taos (pop. 5,700), Star-Wars-like shelters rise from …
Westfalia campervan as minimal nomadic home in Santa Barbara by Kirsten Dirksen on August 11, 2014 Last year Sam Jacquette was paying over $1100 a month in rent and working a job he didn’t enjoy to …
