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 …
Rebuilds $8K remote ruin by hand alone: best water/solar so far by Kirsten Dirksen on December 11, 2022 Outdoors enthusiast Luca Ventrella was living in a dense city in Northern Italy when, on one of his weekend hikes …
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 …
Towable, off-grid Ecocapsule gathers energy/water anywhere by Kirsten Dirksen on July 26, 2020 Can off-grid, anywhere-living appeal the masses? The Ecocapsule mobile dwelling gathers solar/wind energy, harvests/filters water. It shelters 2 and includes …
Valldaura Labs culls restored forest for buildings & biomass by Kirsten Dirksen on May 3, 2020 When a computer-based, self-reliant city-lab high in the hills above Barcelona designed and built a tiny home, they used parametric …
50 years off-grid: architect-maker paradise amid NorCal redwoods by Kirsten Dirksen on April 26, 2020 In 1968, Charles Bello and his wife Vanna Rae moved onto 240 acres of redwood forest looking to live a …
Nautilus houseboat: German functionalism, golden ratio shape by Kirsten Dirksen on April 12, 2020 The Nautilus houseboats are modeled on their namesake, the spiraled-shell mollusc, to fit seamlessly with the natural world. Nautilus Hauseboot …
Sunken greenhouse wraps home & feeds suburban antifragile co-op by Kirsten Dirksen on March 8, 2020 When Richard Weaver inherited 3 acres in the center of a golf-oriented community developed by his father in Bozeman, Montana, …
$700 mechanical micro-A-frame blends with Montana wilderness by Kirsten Dirksen on August 4, 2019 When Alla Ponomareva and her husband Garrett Hohn found Derek “Deek” Diedricksen’s plans to build a transforming A-frame cabin for …
Forsaken Joshua Tree hut becomes off-grid folly for stargazing by Kirsten Dirksen on February 24, 2019 When Malek Alqadi and Hillary Flur first drove down the dirt road in Joshua Tree and saw the collapsing homestead …
