Our complicated relation with nature: a quest for biophilic homes by Nicolás Boullosa on April 13, 2022 Back in the summer of 2010, concerned about how drought and water scarcity were developing in California, we headed from …
Bliss of resting in a bubble atop a forest canopy near Paris by Kirsten Dirksen on August 6, 2018 When working in forestry, Stéphane Durocher used to sleep in a hammock high in the trees so when he moved …
How a boatmaker blended math & craft in his round treehouses by Kirsten Dirksen on June 10, 2018 Ever since seeing Jacques Cousteau emerge from a globular bathyscaphe, Tom Chudleigh has been fascinated by spheres. A few decades …
Tree Snake tiny homes defy gravity at Portuguese vintage spa by Kirsten Dirksen on March 27, 2017 Architects Luís and Tiago Rebelo de Andrade wanted to “recreate the fantasy of treehouses” without building a house in a …
Terunobu’s floating tea houses: real-life Studio Ghibli by Kirsten Dirksen on March 13, 2016 The buildings designed by Japanese architect Terunobu Fujimori seem straight out of a fairytale, but it’s his treehouses- with names …
Treehotel: mirrorcube, nest, UFO treehouses in Arctic forest by Kirsten Dirksen on January 19, 2016 In the far north of Sweden in a very tiny town, Kent and Britta Lindvall – believing that if you …
Summer of (family) love: tiny home VW-roadtrip documentary by Kirsten Dirksen on January 5, 2014 One of the most elusive goals in life is determining just what you need to live. As co-founders of a …
Summer of (family) love: tiny home VW-roadtrip doc trailer by Kirsten Dirksen on December 23, 2013 Last summer, life handed us a roadtrip: we had tiny homes to film along the West Coast and while we …
Fully-plumbed DIY treehouses & tree-cabin in Oregon “treesort” by Kirsten Dirksen on December 2, 2013 When Phil moved to Oregon decades ago to be near his children, he began dreaming about building a treehouse or …
Using solar, cob, hemp-crete in stunning off-grid compound by Kirsten Dirksen on July 20, 2013 In 1980 a group of architect friends who wanted to “change the way people build houses and communities” founded a …
