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 …
8 micro-studios reassembled as Cubist family home in Japan by Kirsten Dirksen on January 4, 2016 With most of their micro-studios unrented, a family in Chiba, Japan was ready to demolish their 8-unit apartment building, but …
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 …
Abandoned turf house becomes remote cabin getaway in Norway by Kirsten Dirksen on October 18, 2015 In Norway, owning, building, maintaining a rural cabin is a national pastime. With just 1 person for every 15.5 square …
Sheep wagons as classic campervan: the Airstream of pioneers by Kirsten Dirksen on October 8, 2015 Sheep wagons were once a common mobile home in the American West. These tiny structures (usually 7 to 8 feet …
Lolcat home Japan: old parking becomes loft for couple, cats by Kirsten Dirksen on October 4, 2015 Masayoshi and Yoko Matsumoto wanted a home designed for cats, because they love their cats and because they believe what’s …
Gothenburg stacked cargo containers as instant house/offices by Kirsten Dirksen on September 28, 2015 Mats Johansson has rehabbed shipping containers in the port of Gothenburg (Sweden) for over 20 years, but in the past …
