Thanks to Katherine McLaughlin for featuring the Starburst House in another Architectural Digest article.
The Doolittle House pictured here is fabulous! I’d love to visit it sometime.
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Low-cost Desert Living /
Model of Casa Milagro by Whitaker Studio, a low-cost house for the Californian desert. To keep costs low the internal space is as compact as possible, but supplemented by covered outdoor space at each end of the house. The long south side of the house has large eaves to shade the house reducing its need for mechanical cooling.
12 months ago a lady got in touch saying that she would like to retire to the desert, to a plot of land that she bought with her late husband. The only catch is that her budget is very tight.
To begin with I dismissed it, thinking the task impossible, the budget too low, but the emails kept coming.
Now I’ve got the bit between my teeth. I want to see if there is anyway we can make something work. And not just anything, but something that is low-cost, low-energy, low-carbon and accessible, all packaged up inside a considered piece of architecture that enhances day to day life.
The task might yet prove impossible, but I think there might just be a way to achieving something here. And if we can, somehow, make it work then we will create a design that can be reproduced for other desert dwellers in need of a low-cost home.
If you know anyone who might be interested in this project do spread the word.
Model of Casa Milagro by Whitaker Studio, a low-cost house for the Californian desert.
Business Insider reports on the Starburst House /
Business Insider have featured our Starburst House this week. If you visit our instagram feed you’ll see a special little animation that we made for the article that shows the house in a new way!
Some new images of the Starburst House /
La Rosa Del Desierto /
Lovely to be in this months edition of Eme magazine in Spain.
Joshua Tree Press Roundup /
What a crazy couple of weeks! In September I contacted Dezeen about a house that I'm designing at the minute and it ended up being their most popular article for 10 days. It went viral. Forbes wrote about it. The Metro would like to see it on Airbnb. One reader of Bored Panda thought that it would increase his chance of being abducted by aliens. CNN featured it, as did Huffington Post Deutschland, The Sunday Times, Dwell, Archdaily, Elle Decoration Netherlands, Curioctopus, Curbed, Inhabitat, Casa Claudia, Ignant, Hypebeast, Design Boom, Demilked, Konbini, The Awesome Daily, Inside Hook, Plain, World Architecture Community, Mind Body Green, New Atlas, Architectura Viva, Interesting Engineering... There are a whole load more articles out there to explore but even this shortened list is very flattering. I'm looking forward to the next stage now!
Change the Future /
At home we use ecotricity for our gas and electric. We like to tread lightly. A recent mail-out from them sent me spiralling off, thinking about an image and footage that I could create.
They will all be on sale soon via Getty Images.
