The couple named their company Konga after the young son, Vinca’s mispronunciation of the Lithuanian word for “socks” when he was learning to speak. “For us, it formed a symbolic association with the feeling of the earth under bare feet,” says Goda. “It encouraged us to leave our footprint, but with minimal impact on nature and meaningful value to humans.”
Jorge Pliego and Cony Mier built a home outside Mexico City with polished black concrete floors that have been rid of their top-most layer of gravel to reveal the terrazzo-like texture of the mixture. “The pigment is made from natural colorants and different types of earth,” says Agustín Pereyra, an architect who collaborated with Michel Rojkind on the house.
2,629 people live in a group on 91 floating islands, and individual islands are inhabited by up to 12 families. While they live isolated on Lake Titicaca, the Uros islands are located only three miles from the small port city of Puno in Peru.
The corner is the family’s favorite gathering spot—“a contemporary cave for three,” says Serge. Luisa’s module, with its cactus-lined terrace, is visible through the glass wall.
Jose Mármol Reform by Micaela Racca Kitchen
Asheville, North Carolina, has long drawn creatives seeking a connection to nature. Garden Party in West Asheville is one of the quirky Appalachian city’s most inspiring stops.
A lofted drawing studio features a sawtooth roof with expansive skylights that frame the branches of a jacaranda tree overhead.
ESCAPE's new line of all-electric tiny homes are finished with white birch flooring, walls, and ceilings. The pale wood tone offers a fresh aesthetic that ties to nature.
A wide picture window overlooking illuminates the living room toward the rear of the plan.
The curved blue kitchen larder has a projecting “nose” that illuminates the worktop and a mirrored eye that “winks” each time the door is opened.
Kast Concrete Basins offers their whimsical designs in 28 colors. The Aura basin is seen here.
Clé Tile's authentic zellige collection comes in a rainbow of glazed and unglazed finishes.
The walls of this contemporary one-room cabin are covered in insulating polycarbonate siding.
Designed by Trias, the 215-square-foot Minima prefab packs the versatility of a Swiss army knife.
The building site is located about 1 kilometer from the closest road, where her parents have a trailer. The land has been in their family for 70 years. "My mom always said if she won the lotto, she'd build a log cabin here,
Project 01, a 262-square-foot micro cabin imagined by Canada-based Instead is clad with black-stained pine that helps it to meld with the natural landscape.
The interior is lined almost entirely in birch plywood panels.
My Cabin launched after Draugs couldn't find a prefab structure he'd want to vacation in. The exterior is made of spruce, which can be stained according to customer specifications.
Nestled into a grassy hillside, the cabins overlook ponds and oak, birch, and linden trees that grow on the property.
Chief architect of Moscow Sergey Kuznetsov created this alluring hideaway in Nikola-Lenivets Art Park.
Inspired by the idea of a living organism, Madeiguincho designed a 188-square-foot cabin that collects, stores, and reuses rainwater and produces food and energy.
When architects Thomas Karsten and Alexandra Erhard toured the raw industrial space, they were struck by how much light streamed in, a gift bestowed by large windows and the rare presence of a private patio.
CW Dwellings designs affordable shipping container homes starting at $36,500. Their Sparrow 208 model is a studio-style home with a generous covered deck.
Small, simple, yet fully functional, La Casa Nueva is an off-grid timber camper designed by Ecuador-based architect Juan Alberto Andrade. He created the dwelling as a personal retreat for himself and his partner, Cuqui Rodríguez, to travel throughout the country photographing various forms of architecture.
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