Expandable home with loop-filtered water is indoor/outdoor game changer by Kirsten Dirksen on July 7, 2025 Experiencing MO.CA gives one the feeling of entering a new type of experiencing mobile living: it’s flexible, indoor/outdoor, and entirely …
Turning dark & narrow apartment into luminous, plant-filled home oasis by Kirsten Dirksen on June 5, 2025 In the heart of Barcelona’s Eixample district, a long, narrow apartment—typical of the city’s early 20th-century “shotgun” floor plans—has been …
LA breezy in-law unit is multi-level “cabin in the woods” by Kirsten Dirksen on October 10, 2020 When Bo Sundius’ father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, given the 6-to-8-thousand-dollar-per-month cost of 24-hour care, Sundius and his architect wife …
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 …
Versatile passive house to balance live/work, urban/country by Kirsten Dirksen on March 21, 2011 As an architect passionate about passive solar and urban live/work design, Alan Cohen got tired of waiting for a client …
Crowdsourcing tiny home design (a 420-sq-ft Soho pad) by Kirsten Dirksen on September 11, 2010 The average home size in the U.S. doubled in the past century but happiness levels stayed flat. Serial entrepreneur Graham …
LifeEdited: cut space, stuff, media, friends and be happier by Kirsten Dirksen on September 9, 2010 If the 20th century was about supersizing our food, stuff, cars and homes, the 21st century- according to TreeHugger.com founder …
