Tokyo’s impermanent skinny house made to age well with owners by Kirsten Dirksen on March 19, 2017 Inheritance taxes on land in Japan means plots often get smaller as they are passed on. This “divide and sell” …
Paris microflat gets precise in space use with thrifty ideas by Kirsten Dirksen on February 19, 2017 On a nurse’s salary, Flore Devaux knew buying a home in Paris would be difficult so when she stumbled upon …
Kayaker builds Hobbit Van with butterfly windows for vanlife by Kirsten Dirksen on February 6, 2017 When Canada’s top-ranked whitewater kayaker Ben Hayward decided to pursue his Olympic dream, he began a life on the road …
Indoor/outdoor budget home in Japan: affordable & permeable by Kirsten Dirksen on January 16, 2017 When a family of four asked architect Takeshi Hosaka to create a home embedded in nature on a small Tokyo …
LA coliving: a permeable intersection between social/privacy by Kirsten Dirksen on January 8, 2017 Calling it “a social network with an address”, Los Angeles entrepreneur Elvina Beck created PodShare, a coliving experiment where dozens …
Tracks of an old Frontier shepherd life: Great Basin Basques by Kirsten Dirksen on December 19, 2016 “What is a Basque?,” asked Orson Welles in his 1955 television travelogue. “All we know for sure is what a …
Porto’s cramped hayloft becomes tiny, daylit modern studio by Kirsten Dirksen on December 11, 2016 When Portuguese architect Florêncio da Costa was asked to turn an old hayloft into a guesthouse, he created a clean, …
NorCal community blends nature with communal & private space by Kirsten Dirksen on December 4, 2016 In 1965, a group of young architects- inspired by the local Pomo Indians’ belief in “living lightly on the land”- …
Dome village inspired by Buckminster Fuller as UC Davis dorms by Kirsten Dirksen on November 20, 2016 Inspired by Buckminster Fuller, in 1972 a group of UC Davis students set out to build their own affordable tiny …
Virgil unbound: Italian Alps ruin becomes dream budget home by Kirsten Dirksen on November 13, 2016 When his wife inherited a ruined stable in Italy’s Orobic Alps, architect Alfredo Vanotti reinvisioned the space as a family home, …
