Kirsten Dirksen

Modern building, ancient A/C: wind-tunnel facade cools apartments

7 friends built restoration ecovillage. Outcome 50 years on

Origami-style cardboard furniture for dorms, urban nomads

Big Easys shotgun: cross-ventilated narrow houses stay cool

Family wraps homestead in greenhouse to warm up & grow food all year

Young family turns parking lot into stunning eco-home (DC alley)

Hester Street Fair: homemade, homegrown, hyperlocal shopping

Couldnt afford the city. They got Starter Homestead in Vermont

Wasp 3D-prints eco-homes from local raw earth for $1K

Clei: Italian family shapes high end space-saving furniture

Biokabin: our modular eco-home to snap & build in backyard, Nature

Dagoba: another type of fairtrade bean

From old Belgian water tank to dream tower house with a view

Kristie Wolfe builds underground home & sets rural WA hamlet

Sliding home enlarges with railed-walls, underfloor bed & tub reveal

New Earthships capture more energy, water & food at lower cost

Bought whole ghost-town. They connected ruins in dream maze ꡙ‍

Factories closed. This family thrived with wit & old machines

Couple's stunning home-on-wheels produces water, has solar awnings

Jupe flat-pack prefab is built for comfort & fast deployment

Versatile passive house to balance live/work, urban/country

LA architect needed small home. He got turnkey custom prefab

Liveaboard life: minimalism in a tiny home at sea

Homestead Paradise: got barren land, boosted it at a profit

Building Bunker Villa on a budget using Quonset Hut structure

Backyard prefab blended perfectly. So she installed it in front

(Un)housed in paradise: how the homeless can get off the street

Turns drafty townhome into tranquil Cork Passive House

Guide to the Good Life from architect-farmer amid redwoods: 55 years off-grid

Builds open-plan home by hand with Japanese-inspired carpentry

LA family turns unused garage into small home Oasis (before/after)

Universal home-kit builds homes & campers: if IKEA/LEGO had a baby

Couple builds off-grid ecovillage with friends & leftovers 🐎

Boeing DIY inventor shows new ultra-cheap houses to nomad shepherd

Land was barren. He dug 10-acre underground village & orchard

Is Paris’ best bedroom in a closet? 6-in-1 yoga apartment

A dam flooded family's mill home. They found hidden ruin to fix

Viking longhouse above Arctic Circle is protective half-buried dwelling

Highrise transformer studio unfolds 5 rooms in 327sqft - 30m2

Property sat 7 years unsold. She created dream underground villa

The lot fit 9 McMansions. They built 44 small homes for locals instead

Family builds village of dugout homes into remote SoCal hill

Full village living off land & craft like modern Amish: 350 families & growing

His Velomobile RV is a bicycle-camper to live (bed, kitchen, WC included)

CA artist-farmer builds $25K quiet home to savor simple life

Nebraska retiree uses earths's heat to grow oranges in snow

Extreme transformer home in Hong Kong: Gary Chang's 24 rooms in 1

Turns warehouse into dream home with underground living + Roman bath 🏛️

A tiny home tour: Jay Shafer's 89-square-foot home on wheels

What can be learned from a 17th century American town

The magic of urban beekeeping: a backyard San Francisco hive