#faircompanies #video of 360-acre Ozark homestead #dwelling by military veteran concerned about facing hard times #toread
on 02026-08-15#faircompanies #dwelling #video about an #underground Atlas missile silo. #toread
on 02026-01-16#faircompanies: “access to tools for the beginning of infinity”
on 02026-01-14#faircompanies #video #toread on a 12m² micro-apartment #dwelling in Paris
on 02026-01-13#faircompanies #video #toread on a 24m² “mini-piso transformable” #dwelling in Barcelona
on 02026-01-13#faircompanies #video #toread on Graham Hill’s “morphing” micro-apartment #dwelling
on 02026-01-13#faircompanies #video on Paul Elkins #dwelling in a US$150 bike camper. It weighs 60 “pounds”, made out of Coroplast recycled from political campaign signs, sort of Airstream-shaped but only as tall as his recumbent bike. Aluminized bubble insulation is duct-taped to the inside to keep it warm in the winter. A frame made of 1" × 2" wood under the floor connects to the wheels. He sewed the Coroplast panels together at the edges with zip ties, then duct-taped over them. He got the (two) wheels from a US$20 garage-sale bike. He has a tiny single-burner propane camp stove and kitchen sink inside; the sink is a bread-loaf pan, with a glass water jug above it for water. He hasn’t really taken it on the road yet, just near where he lives.
on 02026-01-13#faircompanies #video #toread on a #dwelling in the California redwoods that’s been #off-grid for 50 years
on 02026-01-13#faircompanies #video #toread on Kristie Wolfe’s Washington #underground home. #dwelling
on 02026-01-13#faircompanies 10-minute #video on “Lulu’s” shipping container tiny home and cargo trailer bedroom. #dwelling She cut holes for the windows with a “jigsaw”, consuming “a bunch of blades per opening”. She framed the inside with 2×4s and what she says is “denim insulation” under the drywall, plus bubble wrap around the edges to cut down on “a condensation issue”. The tongue-and-groove floor (wide pine boards with tatami on top) is sitting on styrofoam insulation. The ceiling is plywood she wants to replace. Later she added bedrooms outside on a flatbed trailer, in the form of basically a wooden shed. She’s from #Argentina and lived for a year on a boat.
on 02026-01-13#faircompanies #video #toread on Felice Cohen’s 90-square-foot “micro studio” in NYC #dwelling
on 02026-01-13#faircompanies #video #toread on a “Lego-style” apartment #dwelling in Barcelona
on 02026-01-13#faircompanies #video on Zach and Allison Anderson’s “#underground maze of light-filled earth homes” #dwelling, which is mostly not really underground. The above-ground part looks magical, #building with twisted #ferrocement trees for pillars and a central tower, with curved raised-bed gardens on some of the roof. Totally based on ferrocement. Most beds are inside apses behind archways in the walls of bedrooms, sleeping niches with a bed-height floor. Footage is included of spraying the “falseworks” of ½" rebar and slab mesh and expanded metal lath with shotcrete after plastering one side with fiber-enriched plaster. Rainfall from the top is collected through a 3 “inch” pipe into a huge donut-shaped underground cistern (60000 “gallons”). For tax purposes most of the house is categorized as “landscaping” because it’s not climate-controlled. Largely inspired by Forestiere’s underground gardens. The bookshelves on the spiral staircase up to the vault house contain Robert Ludlum, Orson Scott Card, William Gibson, Jo Nesbø, Andy Weir, James Patterson, and Kate Atkinson. His main bed is on a balcony near the top of the tower, “high enough off the ground that there are no mosquitoes”. For outer walls with sandstone-like veins through them, with the appearance of wind-eroded strata, they built custom trowels to plaster it on there, then used an “organic patina acid” to darken some of the strata after it cured. Elsewhere he “pivoted” his ferrocement around an existing oak grove in order to incorporate it into the living space. There are lots of bookshelves that are actually doors. Also there is a chicken coop. His term for the standard superadobe geometry is “lancet dome”, like a lancet arch.
on 02026-01-13#faircompanies #video #toread on a self-built fully #underground #dome #dwelling
on 02026-01-13#faircompanies #video #toread on a Spanish couple’s “hermit homestead” for US$25K #dwelling
on 02026-01-13#faircompanies #video #toread on a military couple’s self-sufficient homestead inside a greenhouse #dwelling
on 02026-01-13#faircompanies #video #toread on Thomas Dambo’s abandoned troll homestead #dwelling
on 02026-01-13#faircompanies #video on a French (?) couple living in an unusual #dwelling in the village of Maina in Greece, which is almost abandoned (two inhabitants); the café closed in the 01950s as most people moved to Athens. They’ve built wooden “bedroom box” housing inside the old stone buildings that can be easily disassembled and moved elsewhere. “It’s between [a piece of] furniture and [a] mobile structure.” A flat roof gathers drinking water; rocks in one corner hold down metal screening to keep leaves out of the water tank, which seems to be a new plastic tank. They converted the old egg-shaped cistern into a (nonportable) house, building a metal structure inside its waterproof plaster to hold the floor, shelves, etc. Condensation has created rust spots on some of the internal metal structure where it wasn’t painted. Inspirational!
on 02026-01-13#faircompanies #video #toread on moving into a backyard cottage #dwelling
on 02026-01-13#faircompanies #video #toread on Nordic prefab homes from a factory ruin #dwelling
on 02026-01-13#faircompanies #video #toread on a solo budget off-grid homestead #dwelling
on 02026-01-13#video #toread of #faircompanies looking at bioplastic #materials at Barcelona’s Fabricademy, interviewing Anastasia Pistofidou, lead Material and Textiles researcher at Fab Lab Barcelona and co-founder and Scientific Coordinator of the global Fabricademy educational program.
on 02025-10-1828' #video #toread by #faircompanies about a dome home in Spain with geothermal something
on 02025-09-06#faircompanies building Quonset hut bunker villa #video #toread
on 02024-04-05