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, …
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, …
Modern cabin hangs like a treehouse over Acadian New England by Kirsten Dirksen on November 6, 2016 Maricela Salas and Mary McGoff admit they were “naive” about buying raw land before making their purchase of a hillside …
Rubik cube flat flips office, storage, dining, bedroom in SF by Kirsten Dirksen on October 16, 2016 When Donnie Wang bought his 530-square-foot studio apartment in San Francisco’s Financial District, he was single. When his now wife, …
Turning Montmartre flat into adaptive space perched over Paris by Kirsten Dirksen on October 2, 2016 When tasked with adding space, functionality and light to a small-ish apartment on Montmartre- the tallest hill in Paris-, architect …
Medieval granary-on-stilts becomes tiny summer cabin in Spain by Kirsten Dirksen on September 5, 2016 In Northern Spain, small farmers have stored their crops in “hórreos”- a granary raised on pillars – since medieval times …
Big Easy’s shotgun: cross-ventilated narrow houses stay cool by Kirsten Dirksen on August 28, 2016 Since the 1830’s shotgun houses (AKA shotgun shacks, shotgun cottages, shotgun huts, “long houses”) have been popular in New Orleans. …
SC hobbyist on building DIY geodesic mobile dwelling for 7K by Kirsten Dirksen on July 31, 2016 Hobbyist Michael R Weekes believes that tiny homemakers haven’t gone far enough “to do more with less”, so using the ideas …
Kasita: tiny prefab home-as-a-service for post-land urbanism by Kirsten Dirksen on July 24, 2016 Professor Jeff Wilson wants to create the “iPhone for housing”. He thinks we need to shed our preconceptions of housing …
