The Asterix village in the dark: resilience in a blacked-out world by Nicolás Boullosa on April 30, 2025 The Iberian Peninsula’s recent power outage exposed our deep reliance on electricity and digital systems. One village’s self-sufficient approach offers …
Formentera counterculture: pre-modern slow world on a tiny Mediterranean island by Nicolás Boullosa on January 30, 2025 Formentera in the 1960s was an off-grid, hidden Mediterranean refuge where artists, free spirits, and countercultural seekers embraced a slow, …
Turns stone barn into minimal hideaway with stealth furniture-rooms by Kirsten Dirksen on May 12, 2024 Africa Lao had spent her career designing homes from an office in Barcelona, so when she moved to the country …
Young couple self-builds hempcrete home with innovative compost toilet by Kirsten Dirksen on March 3, 2024 When Nil and Olivia found an affordable plot in picturesque Garrotxa, Catalonia, they quickly bought it and began to build …
Turns grandfather’s rammed-earth barn into budget dream home by Kirsten Dirksen on July 3, 2023 Up until recently, Jordi Salvia’s hometown in rural Catalonia used rammed earth bricks as an ancient and effective method to …
Acorns: why we failed to domesticate a beloved wild food source by Nicolás Boullosa on June 2, 2023 There’s no older way of showing one’s agency over one’s surroundings than providing our own food from sources that our …
People left cave homes. He restored ancestors’ underground town by Kirsten Dirksen on May 15, 2022 Rubén Mendi is a giant pumpkin grower who has consistently broken world records, holding several of the heaviest, most gorgeous specimens …
Fast & cheap revamp of long-time abandoned small apartment by Kirsten Dirksen on January 2, 2022 David Tapias (Aixopluc founder) and Ricard Pau installed their first experimental home inside a former photographer’s studio that had been …
We needed simple furniture. This is our Spartan transformer system by Kirsten Dirksen on August 29, 2021 To furnish an old country home in a 12th Century town, we wanted to create the minimal expression of furniture …
Bed, wardrobe & washer stack in Mediterranean tiny apartment by Kirsten Dirksen on October 31, 2020 With only 25 square meters (270 square feet) to work with, Yuda Naimi decided to think cubically when redesigning a …
