Habitat 67 stacks 354 prefabs that get urban/suburban balance by Kirsten Dirksen on January 12, 2020 Habitat 67 was a 1960s experiment in dense, downtown housing that tried to combine the best of urban and suburban …
Brothers build boreal utopia of open-roof cube cabins in nature by Kirsten Dirksen on November 3, 2019 On a piece of land purchased by their grandfather in Charlevoix, Quebec, Jonathan and Simon Galarneau have built a dozen …
Dymaxion: could homes be as affordable & precise as appliances? by Kirsten Dirksen on July 28, 2019 Supported by tension cables around a central mast, the Dymaxion House was a light-weight, prefab home designed to be flat-packed …
Bunkie prefab cabin uses joinery & assembly of furniture design by Kirsten Dirksen on July 22, 2019 Furniture designer Evan Bare wanted to create a cabin that could be built like a piece of furniture. Architectural designers …
Small prefab tests space-era rotating rooms: sleep-cook-bath by Kirsten Dirksen on March 17, 2019 To make a small home more efficient, designer Luigi Colani put a 6-round-meter cylinder in the living room so with …
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 …
Translucent Swiss barn-modern home regulates views & climate by Kirsten Dirksen on January 21, 2018 In small town on the outskirts of Basel, Switzerland, where the weather is highly changeable and the views are impacted …
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 …
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 …
