T-Fold wooden home blends design & disaster-proof tech by Kirsten Dirksen on February 13, 2022 After the 2009 earthquake in Central Italy left 40,000 people homeless, Nico D’Incecco and the team at A-Fold began thinking …
Lived on dumpster & built Kasita. Now tests Freemium homes by Kirsten Dirksen on November 28, 2021 He lived in a dumpster, then designed a slick plug-and-play prefab that got stuck in permitting purgatory, but now Jeff …
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 …
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 …
Cierra Katerra, «unicornio» de la construcción prefabricada by Nicolás Boullosa on June 22, 2021 Una de las debilidades percibidas de Europa con respecto a Estados Unidos o China en el crecimiento empresarial exponencial es …
3-story container townhouse shines in street art vibrant alley by Kirsten Dirksen on June 7, 2020 When Carl Cassell started his restaurant in Toronto’s Queen West, land was affordable; now it’s not, so when he and …
Casa prefab desmontable de Jean Prouvé: vigencia de una idea by Nicolás Boullosa on June 4, 2020 A mediados del siglo XX, el diseñador y arquitecto francés Jean Prouvé trató de crear casas precisas, cómodas y económicas …
Cantilevered containers become popup housing for NYC creators by Kirsten Dirksen on May 24, 2020 New York City rents are unattainable for most artists, but at one marina in Queens, stacked shipping containers provide instant …
Urbanismo y viviendas a prueba de pandemias, recesiones y clima by Nicolás Boullosa on May 20, 2020 Un político local parisino publicaba hace unos días una ilustración que ejemplifica el contexto en que nos encontramos y las …
Pittsburgh incremental house: a home that can grow with you 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 …
