Living Roof in Mill Valley, California

By Lloyd Kahn on March 5, 2013

By Feldman Architecture, on DesignBoom here.

About Lloyd Kahn

Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include Shelter, Shelter II (1978), Home Work (2004), Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008), Tiny Homes (2012), and Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
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3 Responses to Living Roof in Mill Valley, California

  3. While I would like to have one of those, maybe in the roof of one of our sheds, that would be something to maintain. You’d have to make a separate layer for that, otherwise it’s just going to seep into the roof and rot it off. Though it really does look amazing.

    Keaton

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