Low-Cost Earthbag Buildings
If you have a subscription to Mother Earth News you probably spotted this cute earthbag building. While it’s small footprint (8-foot diameter) is probably too small to be a tiny house for most people...
View ArticleShelter, Shacks and Shanties
Steve from Murchison, New Zealand send me a link to a book written and illustrated in 1914 by Daniel C Beard. Beard was also one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America. The book is called...
View ArticleA Bold Solution for the Homeless
The Mad Housers are an Atlanta based non-profit organization dedicated to showing people how to put a roof over their own heads. The end result are temporary tiny houses build with and by the folks...
View ArticleSimple Panelized Shelter
Some recent news about the Sacramento Police rousting a group of homeless folks from their temporary tent town got me a bit riled up last week. Being someone who likes to take proactive measures when...
View ArticleArctic Shed
2-B-2 Architecture has a shelter solution for those working in the extreme conditions of the Arctic. This until will support three people and is moved from site to site.Arctic Shed
View ArticleEd’s Shed
A fellow named Ed built this tiny house for $50 to use as a place to sleep while attending a 4-day music festival. He hauled it there in the back of his truck.While Ed’s shed is a bit on the funky side...
View ArticleHomeless Shelter in a box
I really love the ingenuity of this simple rolling homeless shelter designed by Paul Elkins. Paul has an amazing mind for coming up with incredible solutions for tiny mobile spaces and I highly...
View ArticleEarthbag & Pallet Emergency Shelter
Dr. Owen Geiger, the Director of the Geiger Research Institute of Sustainable Building, posted one of my design concepts on his Earthbag Building Blog. I had whipped this design up for a 1 Hour Design...
View ArticleCabins for Haiti
This is a prototype of a flat pack cabin being built for deployment to Haiti. The plan is to setup a factory near Port-au-Prince and donate 1,000 of these homes to Haiti.Cabins for Haiti
View ArticleDream and Fly Bubbles
This is a little design concept for little shelters that are intended to be placed at airports, and other transit centers, to provide a quite place to stay for travelers. I can really understand the...
View ArticleSimple Shelter with Pump House and Tank
So far the cabins I have built are remote, more like art projects, without plumbing or electricity. That is easily added to a shell, however, and solar power and composting toilets are an option if you...
View ArticleEcoshelta e.Pod – Modular Building System from Australia
Made from space-age alloy, our e.pods and bigpods can be easily transported and erected anywhere, in as little as a day, for an oceanfront retreat, ecotourism accommodation, studio or any number can be...
View ArticleReinventing the Mud Hut
It’s not often that a project requires you to bulk up on your haggling skills. Then again, it’s not often that a project requires you to re-invent the African Mud Hut either. But that was exactly the...
View ArticleFlat-Packed Emergency Shelter
Arriving flat-packed, the Shelter can be assembled quickly and has the potential to make a significant difference when applied to a range
View ArticleNot All Earthships Are Tiny, but Yours Could Be
Earthships are 100% sustainable homes that are both Energy Effecent and Awesome to live in. They offer amenities like no other building
View ArticleGot Rocks? Build a Tiny House
A toue (shepherd’s shelter) in the Pyrénées.” - Cabin Porn via A toue (shepherd’s shelter) in the Pyrénées
View Article215 Square Foot Off-Grid Concrete Solar Shelter
We realize this is not a house; but wouldn’t this 215 square foot concrete shell make a cool solar tiny house? See more at LJB.no and ArchDaily. The main structure has the shape of a tilted cube and...
View ArticleTiny Houses are Not a New Idea – Here’s an Ancient Shepherd Shelter in Italy
Ancient shepherd shelter in Val Brembana, Bergamo, Italy. ” – CabinPorn.com via Ancient shepherd shelter in Val Brembana, Bergamo. Photo by Carlo Catellani.
View ArticleStudent Created Shelter in Sandhornoy, Norway
Shelter in Sandhornoy, Norway. Created by students for the SALT-festival.” - Cabin Porn™ via Cabin Porn™ – Shelter in Sandhornoy, Norway. Photo by by Marthe Vaagland.
View ArticleModern Winter Shelter in Bjelašnica, Bosnia
Modern Winter Shelter in Bjelašnica, Bosnia Herzegovina by FO4A.” – nonconcept.net via Modern Winter Shelter in Bjelašnica, Bosnia
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