Future Pod or Minimalist Sculpture?

"We are the primitive men of the future and this is our future cave." Pod or sculpture?

Story, pix and video via designboom>http://tinyurl.com/awellxr

The House with No Windows

Three-room, concrete Japanese house with no windows, but with two dramatic light wells on the roof. Entrance is a door at the side. Darkness, starkness, bareness can be cozy. House is a light-trap and the light moves and changes from hour to hour, from day to day, from month to month. A mattress on the floor is all I would need.

Interiors and text via dezeen.com>http://tinyurl.com/c53yuwq

Tree Houses Built to Order

Baumraum in Bremen, Germany, will build a tree house for you anywhere. Pictured is one of their tree houses in Upstate New York.

Eat your heart out: http://www.baumraum.de/pages/2/gallery/

Cabin Porn!

For those Artopians who dream of a cabin away from it all,  two sites I found on tumblr through freecabinporn may prove inspiring: projects in Putnam and Sullivan Counties in Upstate New York: 

http://beaverbrook.com/
http://ashleysaturdays.tumblr.com/  
And as always: http://freecabinporn.com/

Sloping Hut

  

"Sloping House," on the edge of an extinct volcano in France, is a temporary, one-person     
  refuge. 

Txt & more pix via designoom> http://tinyurl.com/cojjyhh

House on Narrow Lot in Melbourne

New "Hill House" on Melbourne narrow lot. Solutions: placement in the old backyard; put the kids on the side in their own dorm; build a hill for solar orientation. AND enter through the kitchen. 

Pix, txt, diagrams of process via archdaily>http://tinyurl.com/bm4ars7

Tree House Pod

Following up on a link to the plans for a 20 ton tree house (!), I found this suspended pod to be more interesting....We will check back when the 20 ton tree house is actually built.

More pix via dezeen> http://tinyurl.com/aqbgmpv