Cork-clad home uses thermal wall & circular vents as free A/C
When Nancy and her husband found a lot at the edge of Catalonia’s Garraf forest, they wanted a home that would fit the environment so they wrapped their home in cork insulation and installed a “natural” swimming pool that uses…
Read more »He was a bike nomad. Now revamps derelict Alpine farmstead
After spending years cycling around the world, Martijn Doolaard was ready for a more permanent home and he wanted something with a view. Remembering the rough beauty of the peaks of Val Pellice from a bike trip, Doolaard discovered dozens…
Read more »Didn’t use garage, turned it into his parents’ modern home
To convert a garage into a home, Ramiro Losada-Amor left the structure untouched and dropped a birch box inside to operate as a transforming home within a home. “That box is like a Swiss Army Knife where everything can open…
Read more »FedEx tinkerer custom builds no-waste micro farmstead
Ramutis “Ray” Narkevicius kept his day job with FedEx but cultivated his dream job by gardening his small Los Angeles backyard to a point of passion. His high yield system produces fruits, veggies, eggs, & fish thanks to composting. He…
Read more »Wanted common area for people, not cars. Built a Pocket Hood
On an empty lot next door to a popular craft brewery, the Blockhouse team wanted to build housing that would fit a buzzing Spokane (WA) neighborhood. They carefully placed micro and skinny units around some old-growth trees to create a…
Read more »Student built Tiny House Cabin In The Woods (all materials HIKED in!)
With input from Pam and Chris Daniele ( @DirtandGlass ), I (Derek “Deek” Diedricksen) designed and provided the sketches for this cabin, and oversaw its initial framing alongside a group of workshop students at Tiny House Summer Camp in 2018…
Read more »Aptera commutes just on solar, gets 1K mile-range when full
When Aptera debuted plans for their electric vehicle in 2007 the solar panels were only powerful enough for climate control, but now, 14 years later, Aptera’s 3-wheeled rig relies on just the sun for most of its charging needs. To…
Read more »A Frame Tiny House Rental built for only $2k!
A frames seem to be admired in the tiny house world, and while they can’t often be placed on wheeled trailers because of height restrictions (and because a frame cabins aren’t so space efficient), they ARE sturdy, simple to build,…
Read more »Rundown apartments reborn as food-forest coliving Agritopia
In 2007, Ole and Maitri Ersson bought the rundown Cabana apartment complex in the city and immediately began to de-pave parking spaces to make space for what today is a huge permaculture coliving space and urban food forest. Today, the…
Read more »3D-Printed in 24h, no waste. Price to fall as builds ramp-up
Thanks to new extra-large 3D printers, it’s now possible to print a house with a machine that extrudes a material – usually concrete/cement or a polymer, but more lately even earth – in an entirely additive process so there is…
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