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Jérôme and Isabel’s little slice of heaven
Seven years ago Jérôme and Isabel purchased their tiny cottage and the land that sits on after finding it for sale in a free paper and immediately calling the broker. It’s located about 35 miles outside of Paris along the Loing River. The cottage doesn’t have electricity, modern heating or plumbing and the toilet is flushed the old fashioned way with buckets of water hand pumped from the local river. more…
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Some New Tiny House Designs
I find these tiny house designs so inspiring. And now that I know my friend Joe O’Toole is an architect AND also has an obsession with tiny house design, maybe some day if I get my act together I’ll be able to build one with him! Wouldn’t that be smashing :D
Oh boy
Spring is driving me crazy. My nesting instincts are kicking my butt. I’m about to leave on a trip, may end up travelling by land all the way from Nicaragua to Brazil over the next few months and instead of packing light I’ve bought a double hammock with mosquito net and bedding, massage oil, herbal medicines and oils, all these cosy things that smell nice and feel good. This is not a good time for me to be packing for a major trip like this. Clearly. I just crave having and sharing home comforts right now. It will be interesting to see if I can pull it off, do both travel and have home comforts, without much effort.
And I keep seeing things like this. Which isn’t helping. I am homesick. I want to rest. I. want. to. nest. But I don’t want to settle just anywhere… somehow I will know when I find it.
$1000 Egg House on Wheels
Oh I am madly in love with this little pod house!!!!
The newly-graduated architect rarely has the luxury of living in an owned home, and may even find their starting salary insufficient to afford a decent apartment within walking (or riding) distance of the office. For a three-figure sum, this designer has solved both problems at once via a unique DIY dwelling project… more
*** UPDATE ***
Oh no! It looks like the government didn’t appreciate the media attention and forced him out of his house :(
Egg house designer will be forced to live in rented house
San Francisco | Future Ecotopia
The location is San Francisco. The year is 2106. The city is powered by geothermal energy “mushrooms” and algae-harvesting towers produce hydrogen, which is stored and distributed via a series of carbon nanotube walls. Fog catchers capture moisture from the atmosphere to distill fresh water.
A network of above ground and underground systems “fulfill infrastructural needs for the movement of people, water, hover-cars, and energy throughout the city”. Taking cues from nature, a giant super system resembling seaweed and chantrelle mushroom will hold together this network to collect water, power and distribute it across the city…more on gliving.com
Camping in Style
Belgian architect Axel Enthoven has designed a mobile holiday home that resembles the Sydney Opera House.
The Electric Hotel
I DREAM of a visit to this wonderland…
“In the midst of an urban wasteland, crowded with jagged, thick-set metal cast-offs, there sits a chunk of elsewhere. Announcing itself as the Electric Hotel is a four-storey, glass-fronted building bejeweled with the sort of winking neon signs that entice passing tourists, preying on their naivety with glitter and dazzle. It’s almost as if the structure has been wrenched from its Costa del Sol or Copacabana foundations. Light and sound cue the start of a piece of total theatre, a beautiful, meditative and eerie exploration of isolation and violence seen through the eyes of voyeurs.”
“The hotel itself is built from six 40 foot high cube shipping containers which were all hacked apart to fit the floor to ceiling windows, stairwells and larger rooms. And although there is a well documented experience of shipping containers being turned into a variety of different buildings, there are few examples where the finished building then gets broken down into its component parts, driven across the country to get put together again in less than three days as the Electric Hotel has experienced now three times.”
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