Home Made Home

The Tyee continues its focus on tiny homes.

As you know, we've been pushing this idea for years, everywhere we can. We have a team ready, willing and able to jump into this. Who has the will, locally, to get on with it?

Blue Cabin Floating Artist Residency deckhouse. Photo by Soledad Esnaola

Some photos of our completed build of The Blue Cabin Floating Artist Residency deckhouse: a 500 square foot off-grid residence with sustainable systems also designed by Germaine.

We're building the deck house designed by Marko Simcic for The Blue Cabin Floating Artist Residency. Here's the crew celebrating the first of the 360 windows going in.

Coverage of our current building project.

We're currently building the deck house for the Blue Cabin Floating Artist Residency, hitting the water later this summer: https://vancouversun.com//art-seen-the-blue-cabin-launches

Opening of Patch Work, a system of panels using standard wood construction, for quick assembly as emergency shelter.

Good summary by Michael Geller of the range and status of smaller housing forms discussed at the Small Housing Summit.

Come visit us on the Robson Street plaza in downtown Vancouver from Friday through Sunday, 10-3, for the @Small Housing Summit showcase.

I’m involved with the Small Housing Summit happening in Vancouver on 17 November, and a related showcase of my and other small dwellings on the Robson St plaza on the 16th-18th. Stoked to learn about so many initiatives around smaller housing forms.

Still a few days to get early registration for the Small Housing Summit on 17 November.

Opening reception Friday 14 September, 6-8 pm.

Artist Germaine Koh discusses the exhibition "Home Made Home"

Big crowds touring through the City of Vancouver’s latest Temporary Modular Housing site. Some of the 600 units of affordable, supported housing in progress or complete in 2018.

This weekend we’re up in unceded Secwepemc territory, helping the Tiny House Warriors finish off some tiny houses to place on their ancestral territory across the Kinder Morgan pipeline and address housing in their communities. If you can, consider supporting their GoFundMe for building expenses: https://www.gofundme.com/tinyhouse2.

Richmond Art Gallery 17 June - 26 August 2018 Evergreen Cultural Centre 14 September - 4 November 2018 Photos by Dennis Ha and Melanie Devoy

This 20' x 8' structure will be ready for exhibition at the Richmond Art Gallery in June 2018.

Words from Germaine & a sneak peak of the collective energy for small homes that is gaining momentum. Join us Saturday, June 16 at 7pm for the opening!

Lululiving, 170 sq.ft. wood frame structure. Visit Lululiving 16 June to 26 August 2018 in Germaine's exhibition at the Richmond Art Gallery, and then 14 September to 4 November 2018 at Evergreen Cultural Centre.

Germaine Koh: Home Made Home opens this Saturday, June 16 at Richmond Art Gallery: exploring small-scale, low-impact dwelling as social sculpture, and the need to work together across fields to imagine other possible ways of living. Here's a glimpse of work-in-prog for the newest structure, Lululiving, a 160-ft microwdwelling which will sit on the Gallery’s front lawn. Join us for the opening June 16 at 7pm! ... 'Resistance Begins at Home,' a symposium on housing issues and solutions, runs from 2 - 6pm. All welcome, free and open to the public. See more

HuffPost profiles Opportunity Village and Emerald Village in Eugene, one of the initiatives featured in the Home Made Home exhibition opening Saturday at the Richmond Art Gallery.

Speakers announced for the symposium on June 16 preceding the opening.

In case you can't wait until the Home Made Home exhibition opening on 16 June, Lululiving is open to the public this weekend for Richmond's Doors Open.

This symposium around the exhibition should generate some good discussion.

Lululiving is heading to Richmond Art Gallery for the Home Made Home exhibition, 17 June to 26 August, and then to Evergreen Cultural Centre for September to November. Come visit!

This Thursday Germaine is speaking in the City of Richmond’s Lulu Series, about vernacular and DIY building.

We're pretty excited about the how the upcoming show at the Richmond Art Gallery is shaping up (http://www.richmondartgallery.org/exhibition/home-made-home/). The exhibition is focused on new models for housing, with a special emphasis on small and DIY shelter. Germaine is curating an exhibition-within-an-exhibition of documentation from other producers and activists working in this realm, and we have almost two dozen fantastic case studies already confirmed, all local to th...e Pacific Northwest, and ranging from low-income villages (eg. SquareOne Villages, Low Income Housing Institute), via cohousing projects, local modular housing initiatives and small building types (eg. Lanefab Design / Build, Rewild Homes, through beautifully crafted treehouses (The HemLoft) and stunning architecture and prefab solutions (eg. The Backcountry Hut Company, NOMAD Micro Home). What other great examples of activist, vernacular, self-built, modestly-scaled, or interstitial models of dwelling should we know about? Bonus for being endemic to the Pacific Northwest.

Germaine is speaking in the City of Richmond’s Lulu series, about DIY building and action.

Come Away Home, an installation in two parts including a custom garden shed imagined as a sleeping structure at the West Vancouver Museum's summer exhibition Home/Shelter/Belonging.

Germaine spoke to CBC North by Northwest about the Home Made Home project and a new small mobile kiosk launched as downtownspace.

Movable Structures. See the collection here http://trib.al/W7iHhfs This collection was uploaded and maintained by members of Dwell.com

Home Made Home: Cart To Go, a new piece constructed of surplus and recuperated building materials. This piece will be given away at the end of the show to someone who will make use of it. Message us with a proposal if you are interested.

Housing first principles in action.

There's a new Home Made Home piece made of surplus and recuperated building materials in this exhibition opening Wednesday 23 November at the Audain Art Centre at the University of British Columbia.

Germaine Koh: Home Made Home exhibition runs 22 October 2916 to 12 February 2017. Exhibition includes the prototype for Core and a site-specific project, Infill.

Home Made Home exhibition opens Saturday 22 October 2-4pm at Kelowna Art Gallery, continuing to 12 February 2017.

Acknowledgement of small living by CMHC.

Home Made Home - Hemlock off-grid micro studio

A 100 sq. ft. community-built off-grid studio in the Southern Gulf Islands of BC.

Hemlock off-grid micro studio.

Vernacular form in Philadelphia.

Part of what makes this innovative architecture so compelling is what’s missing. Watch the full segment with 2016 Pritzker Prize winner Alejandro Aravena and NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown: http://to.pbs.org/1n15U3t

The first non-rainy day in weeks deserves a photo.

Completed yakisugi (burnt cedar) cladding.

First course of shou sugi ban cladding.

Headed to Portland for the Build Small Live Large Summit.

Roof for rainwater collection.

PechaKucha 38 videos are up, including Germaine's talk about Home Made Home.

Finally we have something more than a placeholder website: http://homemadehome.ca