Retreat Platform for Living.

Not a residence, but a platform for living. Get it? North Face tent on roof. A refuge in the woods. A camp site. Stretching what a house could be? Check out slide show images.

Via tumblr> hyperform> dwell> slide show:http://tinyurl.com/b4deb53

San Francisco Goes Micro!

San Francisco joins micro-apartment trend, approving 250 square foot pads. Give those singles a place to sleep! But will SRO hotels and rooming houses return? 

via inhabitat.com> http://tinyurl.com/acur8cq

I'll Take The House on The Roof!

French housing project. Although they function as a sign, I want to live in one of the houses on the roof. But, really, hierarchy prevails; must be something about France. 

Text & more pix via dezeen.com> http://tinyurl.com/br5vh2x

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/