#vanlife with no filter: couple records work/life on wheels by Kirsten Dirksen on February 15, 2016 Shelby and Simon are wedding photographers from Ottawa, Canada who had become enamored by the hashtag vanlife. “We started getting …
Sweden tests tiny wooden pods as college dorms of the future by Kirsten Dirksen on February 7, 2016 Every year thousands of Swedish college students are left without housing- for 2015, it’s estimated there were 20,000 “dorm-less” scholars …
Can micro-apartments avoid NIMBYism in suburban San Francisco? by Kirsten Dirksen on February 1, 2016 San Francisco’s housing crisis is now legendary: the average rent for a 2 bedroom studio is $5000. To add housing …
Macy Miller builds adaptive small home for family of 4 & dog by Kirsten Dirksen on January 10, 2016 Five years ago Macy Miller was “four years outside a foreclosure”, looking for a place to live with her Great …
Arctic ancestral survivalism: on extreme weather Sami wisdom by Kirsten Dirksen on December 22, 2015 The Sami people are one of the oldest semi-nomadic indigenous groups in the world. Traditionally herding reindeer in the Arctic …
Capsule hotel, ancient city: sleeping in a Kyoto pod for $40 by Kirsten Dirksen on December 14, 2015 In the late ‘70s, Metabolist architect Kisho Kurokawa (designer of the Nakagin capsule tower) dreamt up “a hotel for 2001”. The …
$150 bike camper: DIY micro mobile home (plans to download) by Kirsten Dirksen on December 6, 2015 Paul Elkins makes things: driveable plastic cars, tipis, treehouses, fluted-plastic boats and many micro-shelters. He made his first micro-RV a …
Vipp Shelter tiny prefab as precise industrial-era appliance by Kirsten Dirksen on November 29, 2015 The Danish company VIPP (known for its iconic 1939 wastebasket, now in the MOMA) has created a prefab tiny home …
High desert skinny home feels big facing Bend’s mountains by Kirsten Dirksen on November 15, 2015 Gary Beaudoin wanted to build a home with intention, where every square foot was laid out for a purpose and …
Moving walls transform home into office in Tokyo apartment by Kirsten Dirksen on November 2, 2015 To avoid paying Tokyo rents for office space, architect Yuko Shibata created moving walls that allow her to switch between …
