Home Made Home

Home Made Home Home Made Home is a creative enterprise, led by artist Germaine Koh, to design & build innovative, l

Home Made Home is a creative enterprise led by visual artist Germaine Koh, to design and build innovative small dwellings for modest living. Our mission is to make thought-provoking, practical, and dignified designs to fulfill real needs. Based in the critical art practice of Germaine Koh, Home Made Home operates uniquely as both a design-build enterprise with social objectives, and an art project

concerned with spatial design and civic engagement. With this twofold approach, Home Made Home projects will range from custom-built structures tailored to client needs, through concept units and prefab prototypes, to mobile and habitable sculptures, gallery-based installations, and speculative research that imagines other models for living.

03/06/2021

Los Angeles has launched a program with over a dozen preapproved designs from top architects for backyard dwellings, cutting the bureaucracy for needed housing.

On the wisdom of vernacular building based in local conditions.
02/18/2021

On the wisdom of vernacular building based in local conditions.

The Tyee continues its focus on tiny homes.
08/27/2020

The Tyee continues its focus on tiny homes.

City staff dismiss the model, shown to be warmer and safer than tent cities, and ‘a bridge’ to stable living.

As you know, we've been pushing this idea for years, everywhere we can. We have a team ready, willing and able to jump i...
08/19/2020

As you know, we've been pushing this idea for years, everywhere we can. We have a team ready, willing and able to jump into this. Who has the will, locally, to get on with it?

Many US cities are showing us how. Vancouver and other BC cities can’t pretend they don’t know a solution.

02/25/2020

The design field is at an inflection point. It must challenge its repertoire, rethink technology, and begin to see biodiversity as a building block of urban environments. Julia Watson’s lush and meticulous new book, Lo—TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism, provides a blueprint for sustainable archi...

Some photos of our completed build of The Blue Cabin Floating Artist Residency deckhouse: a 500 square foot off-grid res...
10/26/2019

Some photos of our completed build of The Blue Cabin Floating Artist Residency deckhouse: a 500 square foot off-grid residence with sustainable systems also designed by Germaine.

Coverage of our current building project.
07/20/2019

Coverage of our current building project.

Watch Cates Park ‘Blue Cabin’ becomes floating artist residency in False Creek Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca

Good summary by Michael Geller of the range and status of smaller housing forms discussed at the Small Housing Summit.
11/22/2018

Good summary by Michael Geller of the range and status of smaller housing forms discussed at the Small Housing Summit.

Small is beautiful. This was the theme of a recent conference organized by Small Housing BC.

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