I've just been doing a bit of browsing on building houses without wet trades, and I stumbled across the Irish Vernacular website, which is about a place built for ?25,000 (about $37,000).
Dominic Stevens, the architect, describes the motivation for the project thus:
I found myself without a lot of money and urgently requiring somewhere to live. I had experience of self-building and many years as an architect of building homes for people who had tight budgets and high aspirations as to what a house can be. I sat down and designed for myself what was, as small and simple a three bedroom house as seemed possible.
Invisible Studio, a practice run by the architect Piers Taylor, built the Caretaker's House on similar principles, whilst aiming for Passivhaus standards.
Dominic Stevens, the architect, describes the motivation for the project thus:
I found myself without a lot of money and urgently requiring somewhere to live. I had experience of self-building and many years as an architect of building homes for people who had tight budgets and high aspirations as to what a house can be. I sat down and designed for myself what was, as small and simple a three bedroom house as seemed possible.
Invisible Studio, a practice run by the architect Piers Taylor, built the Caretaker's House on similar principles, whilst aiming for Passivhaus standards.
