Kirsten Dirksen

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

How to build a straw bale wall: natural building expert tips

Couple builds dream natural Roundhouse with hempcrete, cob & lime 🐚

Ancient church becomes unique home-studio for Basque artist

Living like its 2050: a Transition Farm in North Carolina

Arctic Homestead: 10 years living off the Alaskan wilderness

Strawbale Home couple built after fire is bioclimatic marvel

Patagonias soda bottle jackets and recycled underwear

Bought rocky lot, created megalith home amid boulders

Using a core of light & mirrors to amplify a dark apartment

Finds cave home ruin on a cliff, restores it on a budget

Backyard aquaponics as self-sustained farm in (sub)urban LA

Inside Patagonias fabric lab: recycling fabrics

Backyard aquaponics: DIY system to farm fish with vegetables

Idaho modern oldtimer builds underground & solar $50 houses

TX teacher builds space-saving container home at materials cost

Trapped in paradise: how we got the homeless situation (part 1)

Old barn becomes young architects budget, elegant home-studio

Villa Slow housebarn couple builds 30m2 mini-version 🐌 (timelapse)

Shipping container motel honors 2nd life of salvage

High-yield Solar Greenhouse harvests food & energy (timelapse)

Turning a garage into an in-law unit as empty nest alternative

Internet of Farming: Arduino-based, backyard aquaponics

The dirty dozen: shoppers guide to organic produce

Idle parents in search of a slow, free range childhood

Salvaged pallet tiny home has IKEA-style assembly guide

Underground dome house stays warm in Omaha winters

2-story wine barrel beats familys charming redwood log house

Turned lousy shed into 3 dream homes around zen garden & spa

6-foot-wide home in DCs driveway elbows to 10 feet: see how

Nakagin: 140 plug n play capsules float in metabolist tower

Urban goats for organic raw milk in a San Francisco backyard

$700 mechanical micro-A-frame blends with Montana wilderness

NJ retiree builds off-grid Wood Tower homestead in remote Andes

Couldn’t build higher. His Dugout backyard home grew upside-down

Family builds their own private ecovillage with free materials

Underground bike parking system in Tokyo: how it works

People left cave homes. He restored ancestors underground town

Budget modern micro-apartment uses space-era warped walls

DIY-crafted Seattle micro apartment: 8 spaces stacked in 182 sq ft

LA med student turns small van into ideal dorm on wheels, $14K total

$150 bike camper: DIY micro mobile home (downloadable plans)

Where its legal to farm goats in the city

Family builds twin underground homes in ancient mountain farm

Kristie Wolfe turns 1950s fire lookout into off-grid shelter

High Line: New Yorks skinny park in unused overpass

They left for city. Offspring came back to restore farmstead

Paris micro-apartment stacks kitchen, bed, bath in 129 sq ft

Vermicompost Utopia: 50 years building off-grid Tea Homestead 🪱

Enchanted Castle hides underground water-maze in San Francisco

Arctic ancestral survivalism: on extreme weather Sami wisdom