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.

We've done big net-zero projects before, and are working on plans for a net-zero Tiny House as we speak. Most people intuitively know that if you want to make your own power, rule #1 is to to reduce the power you need. In this video clip, Matt Risinger's 4 main tips on achieving net zero are Limit Glass, Overall Design, Air-sealing, and Mechanical design. Thats very achievable in a 2000sq.ft house, but some aspects become very challenging as you scale down to the point of a tiny house! Tiny houses typically use little power, but offer very limited opportunity for creating power.

Tips for a Net Zero House Using a house he recently completed in Austin, Texas, Matt Risinger succinctly boils down what it takes to get a home to net-zero energy useage.

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...

Absolutely wonderful. Even if cutting edge modern isn't 'you', its hard to argue with the view, the isolation, the incredible blurring of boundaries... (all of which would be much harder without 'cutting edge modern'...)

We're working on a project right now with as much outdoor living space as indoor. In addition to being a very cost-effective way to add living space (few if any walls, no insulation, rarely fine finishes, limited plumbing, no hvac...), it also increases the flexibility of your home. What is your outdoor living space like? Need ideas on how it can be improved? Give us a call...

Less bunker and more interesting retreat, but a cool project nonetheless.

He Needed More Room, So He Dug A Hole In His Backyard. The Result? GENIUS! | Beauty of Planet Earth Hobbits in J. R. R. Tolkien’s novels have the right idea. They eat six meals a day, they give away presents on their birthday rather than receiving them, and they live underground because they know it’s the place to be.

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.

We were retained to do an underground home, but the project evolved to being more above grade. Someday we would like to do one like this.

6 Fascinating Underground Homes That Go Above and Beyond Come with us as we explore six fascinating examples of buried homes that you may have overlooked the first time around.

Yes. Please. This is our kind of project. Yes!