Stick/Vine Shelter Caves/Hobbit Huts by Patrick Dougherty (tiny houses)- Relaxshacks.com

A spur-of-the-moment micro-video I shot while passing Middlebury College in Vermont, where they had an outdoor art installation on the work of Patrick Dougherty. Middlebury has a very well done video on this work as well, but criminally, even though its been up for quite some time, only had 33 views as of the time of me posting this little video I just shot. In anycase, I thought these might appeal to free-form house builders, and tiny house, small shack, micro-architecture fanatics in terms of the bizarre and organic shapes that this artist offers up.

Derek "Deek" Diedricksen runs Relaxshacks.com, is the author of the tiny house/shelter design book "Humble Homes, Simple Shacks..." (through the Lyons Press 2012), and hosts "Tiny Yellow House" TV.

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• forts
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• shacks
• thatched roof homes
• natural building
• dwellings
• shelters
• tiny houses
• small living
• kids forts
• garden sheds

[relaxshacksDOTcom]

Apparently they're mostly made of willow (no pun was intended in the video) and were installed in 2007 (or so I just read). Its actually commendable (if true) that they're still in such decent shape. -Deek

[gary7vn]

I heard about this wonderful new "micro shelter" that will come in handy next time you want to shoot in the rain. It's called an umbrella;)

Very interesting work, brilliant. Thanks for sharing!

[jaeckt]

I would love to have you design a normal sized house for me, i dont think i could ever live in something small like the things you normally make but your creativity amazes me haha though we may have to leave things like water cooler jugs out of it :P

[garfield10101011]

why does it always rain when you make your videos? iT takes away from the beauty of the actual structure!

[Davelarious]

Nice Willow reference, great movie...

[rosskstar]

@dogsdroole durka durrrr!

[TIAAVENDEALANTIN]

@riothero313 that was exactly the thought I had...had to scroll down and see if anyone else had said it first :p

[ooonurse33]

You are great...;)

[krupter]

more vloging style like this one please

[theharvester97]

Rly cool vid once again :) ... Just wunderin , are u gunna make any more tiny houses ? I rly love those :D im making my own at the moment too :)

[bikemessenger7]

I have seen that kind of structure here in Oregon, I have read about different plants that adapt well to this kind of thing while growing, it seems to me I have heard them called fence scrubs. I visited a spot in Maui that had larger trees formed this way, maybe room for 10 or 20 people, I was told as many as 50-100 arrive for native weddings there. I tried my own weaving and found that bugs were attracted to the calm cool space. thanks for sharing. yours Earl