Uber driver saves money to build hand-cranked Expandable Home by Kirsten Dirksen on January 28, 2024 Ten years ago Kamal Kadhar began dreaming about a home that could be easily transported around the world and could …
This home goes up like a Coachella modular build: fast/cheap by Kirsten Dirksen on January 23, 2021 When the Woolsey Fire burnt down their home in 2018, Molly and Ed Murphy wanted a house that would go …
Pittsburgh incremental house: affordable home expands with owner by Kirsten Dirksen on January 26, 2020 “While we have, in Pittsburgh, autonomous vehicles driving around the city, we’re still building homes with a hammer and a …
Mount Athos cabin light-pierced via olive-leave openings by Kirsten Dirksen on July 8, 2019 On a hill in an olive grove overlooking the sea and the monasteries of Mount Athos, Eva Sopeoglou designed a …
LA startup offers custom small prefabs adapted to area code by Kirsten Dirksen on June 2, 2019 In 2017, California lawmakers forced cities to relax their regulations on backyard units; Alexis Rivas and Jemuel Joseph were ready …
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 …
Skinny Portland prefab home stacks space to fit family of 3 by Kirsten Dirksen on March 10, 2014 When Matt Kirkpatrick and Katherine Bovee bought a half-sized lot in Portland, Oregon, instead of filling the reduced area with …
