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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...

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Shelter, 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...

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A 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...

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Simple 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...

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Arctic 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

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Ed’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...

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Homeless 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...

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Earthbag & 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...

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Cabins 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

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Dream 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...

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Simple 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...

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Ecoshelta 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...

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Reinventing 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...

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Flat-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

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Not 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

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Got Rocks? Build a Tiny House

A toue (shepherd’s shelter) in the Pyrénées.” - Cabin Porn via A toue (shepherd’s shelter) in the Pyrénées

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215 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...

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Tiny 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.

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Student 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.

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Modern 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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