Vina Lustado’s home-office using 2 tiny houses in “L” + deck by Kirsten Dirksen on August 27, 2018 When Vina Lustado moved into the 140-square-foot home on wheels she and her husband Cliff had built (for $40,000) in …
Graham Hill’s NYC tiny flat #2 attunes L space to moment by Kirsten Dirksen on August 12, 2018 Graham Hill began experimenting with small space living in 2010 when he bought two units in a pre-war coop in …
Fluid NYC flat uses sliding furniture to create 3 rooms in 1 by Kirsten Dirksen on July 30, 2018 Russian architect Peter Kostelov and his artist wife, Olga Feshina, wanted private rooms to work from home in their aging …
Mechanical cottage moves receding facade with use/seasons by Kirsten Dirksen on July 1, 2018 When his mother began talking about putting a prefab in her backyard, Caspar Schols– a physicist by training- was working …
Pivoting wall adds/subtracts rooms in NYC modular micro-flat by Kirsten Dirksen on June 24, 2018 When architect Robert Garneau was asked to turn a Manhattan prewar studio into an apartment that would sleep 6 and …
Bauhaus to tiny “haus”: rethinking homes in Modernist Berlin by Kirsten Dirksen on February 4, 2018 When it was created in 1919, the Bauhaus aimed to be a “School of Building”, exploring dwellings, life & art: …
aVOID: if a Swiss Army knife were a tiny home by Kirsten Dirksen on December 24, 2017 All of the furniture and rooms in Leonardo Di Chiara’s tiny house fold, swing, and pivot into the walls, so, …
Paris home-within-home: metal core adds space to modern loft by Kirsten Dirksen on December 3, 2017 To preserve the open, industrial feel of a 1920s industrial loft in Paris’ 11th arrondissement, architect Alex Delaunay inserted a …
Grid Beam modular system builds anything, furniture to bikes by Kirsten Dirksen on September 17, 2017 Grid Beam is a kind of LEGO, or Erector Set, for grownups who want to build real things. Its creators, …
Kayaker builds Hobbit Van with butterfly windows for vanlife by Kirsten Dirksen on February 6, 2017 When Canada’s top-ranked whitewater kayaker Ben Hayward decided to pursue his Olympic dream, he began a life on the road …