Resilient Design Studios

We design a root-cellar into every passive and off-grid house we do. This is the first pre-fab solution to powerless food storage we've seen, however -- and we think its awesome!

Groundfridge lets you store perishables without traditional refrigeration Their Groundfridge is a modern take on the familiar root cellar concept, allowing you to keep your produce fresh without traditional refrigeration.

Fantastic example of Adaptive Reuse. Very cool!

Modern Scottish retreat is disguised as an old stone mill WT Architecture concealed a modern timber-clad holiday home inside the shell of former threshing mill in Scotland.

We love natural light, we love increased self-sufficiency and generating more of our own power. Whats not to love here?

With These Transparent Solar Panels Your Windows Could Harvest Energy It is called a transparent luminescent solar concentrator, and researchers from Michigan State University report that they can be used on buildings, cell phones...

Rural is where its at for us. If the Kitchen is the heart of the home, imagine what a farmhouse Kitchen is.

15 Farmhouse Kitchens That Made Us Swoon This Month There’s just something about a farmhouse kitchen that gets people’s attention. And not in the way, say, a supermodern kitchen might turn your head. The raw materials, simple design and old-world vibe that farmhouse kitchens exude seem to have homeowners spending a bit more time staring, wondering an…

We've done a couple of REALLY cool off-grid retreats. We have never done a converted grain silo, however -- and we would love to.

Young architect transforms a 1955 grain silo into a gorgeous, affordable home for two Architect Christoph Kaiser converted an old 1950s grain silo into a gorgeous tiny home for him and his wife in Phoenix, Arizona.