Nobody wanted underground fixer-upper. He turned it into sun-warmed gem by Kirsten Dirksen on November 8, 2026 Adrian and Jeff Young had been carrying around a photo of a dream house for years: an arched, glass-sided mountain …
Three-sided greenhouse house masters heat & cold in tranquil Nordic village by Kirsten Dirksen on October 25, 2026 Svend Buchardt is a light lover. Light, he says, makes him breathe, eat, digest, sleep, and live better. So he …
Family’s self-built greenhouse home in farm country has indoor orchard 🌳 by Kirsten Dirksen on July 20, 2025 When Roja Brimalm and Johan Holmstedt set out to build a home for their family on the windswept plains of …
Solar Alpine home warms up via 3-story greenhouse facade by Kirsten Dirksen on November 22, 2021 Emanuele Almagioni wanted to build a home in a cold and windy, but very sunny, town high in the Italian …
Cork-clad home uses Trombe Wall & circular vents as free A/C by Kirsten Dirksen on November 9, 2021 When Nancy and her husband found a lot at the edge of Catalonia’s Garraf forest, they wanted a home that …
Dome design toughens with size, regulates home/garden within by Kirsten Dirksen on November 14, 2020 When Buckminster Fuller conceived of the geodesic dome in the 1940s he was intrigued by the efficiency of a super-lightweight …
Photographer’s open-floor glass home perches over Canadian lake by Kirsten Dirksen on September 6, 2020 To create a photography studio with maximum daylight, Larry Williams built a glass house. Doubling as a boat garage (the …
Underground dome house of the family who led geese to fly home by Kirsten Dirksen on August 17, 2019 Paula and Bill Lishman spent many winters in a poorly-insulated A frame cabin before realizing they needed to go underground …
2 greenhouses and 3 containers in wasteland become dream home by Kirsten Dirksen on September 16, 2018 Twenty years ago architect Patrick Partouche wanted to build an affordable home for his family on an undeveloped piece of …
Dutch greenhouse home harvests energy, food & winter heat by Kirsten Dirksen on April 30, 2018 When Helly Scholten was offered the opportunity to spend three years living in a home inside of a greenhouse on …
