Kirsten Dirksen

Real estate broker Jeff White dreamed of transforming used shipping containers into affordable housing. Laughed at by the first architects he approached, he began to work on his concept using a 40...

Kam Kasravi and Connie Dewitt wanted a modern cabin that wouldn't disrupt the Redwoods on their property. First they considered prefabs, but quickly realized they wouldn't fit up the narrow road to...

In the late nineties, Alexis and Eric Koefoed moved onto a Northern California farm that had been abandoned for 30 years. There was no house, no running water and no electricity. They started out c...

In 2008, architect Joe Haskett was hired to design an office building on an abandoned lot in Providence, RI. Then the economy crashed and the owner needed something more affordable. Haskett began i...

Lulu is a single mom who'd gone back to school and didn't have the time or interest in working full-time to pay for rent. So when she had to move out of her more conventional home, she decided to m...

Mats Johansson has rehabbed shipping containers in the port of Gothenburg (Sweden) for over 20 years, but in the past decade he’s being hired to turn aging cargo capsules into architecture. He’s cr...

Shipping containers are built to carry huge loads and the refrigerated units are very efficient at climate control. So it's unsurprising that when they're retired from the sea, they're being used a...

Luke Iseman is a creator: he's invented automated gardening assistants, built a bike taxi company and designed kilns for Kenyan farmers. Like crafters of past centuries, he makes his own prototypes...

James Alfandre comes from a family of real estate developers (his maternal ancestors helped settle the Salt Lake Valley). He credits his paternal grandfather for contributing to the sprawl around W...

Christian Salvati of Marengo Structures thinks shipping containers make great building blocks, and in time, he hopes it will become an affordable and quick method of building homes.

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Bigger is not always better and it's nice to have options. Or that is how Cloverdale (CA) artist Joe Hawley chose to live in a tiny house with a couple of shipping containers for an art studio.

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On the desert mesa of New Mexico, miles from the nearest town of Taos (pop. 5,70...

Luke Iseman and Heather Stewart were tired of paying San Francisco rents and had always dreaming of living in a shipping container so for less than one month’s rent they bought a used shipping cont...

When we first visited Luke Iseman and Heather Stewart on a formerly abandoned lot in West Oakland (CA), they were renting out space to friends to build tiny homes from shipping containers. The idea...

The Danish company VIPP (famous for its iconic 1939 wastebasket, now in the MOMA) has created a prefab tiny home designed down to the last detail (flashlight included). Their 592-square-foot “plug...

When carpenter Jay Duffy began building a treehouse in his fiance's front yard for her two sons, he used discarded materials from his construction jobs. With leftover redwood siding, recycled windo...

Architect Camino Alonso wanted to create a small, portable, prefab homes, but she didn't want it to feel like a shipping container. Camino, along with her husband and siblings (also architects at ...

Teresa Carey lives on her sailboat Daphne with no flush toilet or shower, an icebox for a refrigerator, no television and few electronics. She doesn't see it as a sacrifice, but as an opportunity t...

Seven years ago John Wells sold his heavily-mortgaged home in upstate New York and bought 40 acres in West Texas for $8000. The area (Brewster County) is so isolated there are no codes or zoning re...

Architects Suzan Wines and Azin Valy were trying to come up with the ideal building material for refugee housing in Kosovo. It should be recycled, recyclable, affordable, plentiful. They thought ab...

Five years ago Macy Miller was “four years outside a foreclosure”, looking for a place to live with her Great Dane and in need of a hands-on project for her architecture training. Inspired by tiny ...

In 1987 the FDA banned interstate shipping of raw milk and today it's retail sale is only legal in dozen or so states. There's a very devoted group who believe that pasteurized milk is "dead milk"...

When Christian Schallert isn't cooking, dressing, sleeping or eating, his 24 square meter (258 square feet) apartment looks like an empty cube. To use a piece of furniture, he has to build it.

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When architect Karl Wanaselja built his home in Berkeley, California the junkyard became his urban forest for materials. 

For months he visited one of three local yards looking for car roofs and D...

Juliano Lima believed in the skills of his countrymen, but he knew that few Brazilian crafters had the resources to bring their work to a larger market. He wanted to create a global brand of leathe...

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They're huge metal structures that resemble trees in that they create oxygen, breezes, shade and gathering places. In the urban heart of Madrid (Spain), these structures offer a respite on hot summ...