2 greenhouses and 3 containers in wasteland become dream home

[@spinosa360]

Black interior paint in strategic places and a few hundred plants would launch this project to another level. . Without it feels unfinished, but still interesting.

[@GwynneDear]

t_traspis I was thinking the same thing!

[@mihiec]

They need a lot of nice plants!

[@FloridaGirl-]

Man! I’d have plants everywhere! Would be awesome! But I am an obcessed gardner as well so. 🤷‍♀️ I’d literally be living in a garden there! I think the train there would drive me nuts though. Too close.’ But this is interesting

[@syalutsa]

Brilliant man, working with transformative ideas about structure, design and habitation. Very inspiring. Yes, I would also fill the greenhouses with plants, but the main thing for him is to demonstrate a liveable structure built inexpensively with utilitarian components. He succeeded.

[@tr3sCarajos]

a green house as heat replacement, this actually a genius idea!!!!

[@1mtstewart]

See also, " citrus in the snow" (,of Nebraska).

[@evyrichard553]

Thank you so much! As a single mum I always admire people who work and still keep their dream alive while raising kids. Your videos are incredibly inspiring...have been doing of lots of research and sketching , hopefully building some days. It will be in France so I will try get in touch with Patrick for advice. Wonderful work, thanks 🙏 to all

[@sarahvegangarden4822]

Well, I was very doubtful at the start of this video but gradually he won me round to his way of thinking, and I ended up admiring the beautiful home he has made for his family. Kudos!

[@noworriesimfijian]

Probably one of the most original concepts in a long time. Industrial, yet aesthetically pleasing, simple but tasteful, practical to boot. Kudos to the owner/designer, great job.

[@betsyolsson-mackowski7682]

How do you blow my mind every single time with each video you do?! Thank you! I enjoy seeing your family growing and changing in the background too. I am so happy you are all together so much in these videos. I think having all of you there interacting with each other and the places you visit just makes the narrative so much richer and also more accessible to the viewers.💕💕💕

[@Bonobo3D]

I love this house, the spaciousness, the use of industrial materials and the philosophies of Patrick Partouche. One can easily see how it could be adapted to other uses and other people's ideas. Utterly brilliant and inspiring!

[@katiekane5247]

I would want to grow things in there!

[@CyclingSteve]

Yes, it struck me as odd that he has no plants despite having two huge greenhouses.

[@CrankyBubushka]

Me too. I totally would grow stuff.

[@MELODYMUNRO]

Yes, me too. I would have it looking like a rainforest - full of lush indoor plants ... and you could have bananas, fig trees, dwarf mango ...

[@heartlandranchtv4943]

He grew his family and a life in there. I would say that's a great use of the space. Better than tomatoes and cucumbers IMHO.

[@markroeder2491]

Yeah, have you ever noticed that in the wild plants are always oriented in the same direction and in nice neat rows? LOL, plants would be a welcome addition as they would clean the air and provide oxygen and sustenance.

[@LucGendrot]

The most interesting part of this video (apart from the house itself) was discovering that the whole Dirksen gang speaks French.

[@gabigabgub]

Luc Gendrot hahaha so true! She speaks spanish as well :-o

[@AnotherDayOfBeauty]

Luc Gendrot Yasss ! I was in shock !

[@wanderingman8921]

@@gabigabgub I think her husband is from Spain.

[@Robert_Hermigua]

They live near Paris.

[@sofiaruss8958]

"Experiment is to make mistakes..to make mistakes is also to improve..."

[@HristosIisusEdomnul]

and there is no place for experiments because this society dont allow us to make mistakes anymore! it is not space for mistakes. it is like a final countdown. but, i do believe Christ. thats where my strength comes from. and He helps us not to make mistakes.

[@MarkShepard]

This house inspired me MASSIVELY! Cowabungah! I love his practical attitude and creativity.

[@michaeldoster4847]

I LOVE the innovation. The new fresh ideas; the unconventional items used in an unconventional way! What makes houses so expensive is why they are so boring! Limited budgets and limited thinking WITHIN the box. Outside the box, sky's the limit! This is SO innovative and fresh, I like EVERYTHING about it! Even the trains, and industrial setting. Brilliant job! Thanks for sharing this love of creation.

[@tomstopper5281]

I actually like the fact that he has a occupied the site without making any intervention. It proves that any building an become a home. Let’s remember we use to live inside natural caves, we did not always build homes.

[@SriRaamajayam]

what a unique one of a kind place to live....that is so lovely...everyone must do this...not just claim to be unique and live in cookie cutter homes, which many of us are doing... great job, great thinking lovely home...

[@HristosIisusEdomnul]

belle! vraiment belle! lumière, chaleur, bonne atmosphere...this house has everything! be blessed, lady Kirsten! be blessed, sir Patrick Partouche!

[@beezneez2056]

I love this idea

[@evyrichard553]

You could put a pond, with edible fish, for aquaculture (Dutch bucket system) loads of food, perfect use of the sun in winter, cools the space in summer! Bravo Monsieur, quelle maison magnifique, du Bon boulot🤗

[@laurieedeburn2449]

Wow....glad he likes it....

[@peggyvick935]

I love seeing your children playing, exploring each home you visit.

[@ancientlights]

Fantastic space. Thanks Kirsten Dirksen for making these films. I watch this channel all the time. :)

[@ludovic9477]

Je connaissais déjà cette construction et c'est un plaisir de la re découvrir en vidéo. Il y a aussi la possibilité de construire de grandes cerres agricole et d'y introduire des modules en bois type containers pour les pièces de vie pour un prix moindre que de la maçonnerie et une surface totale bien plus importante. Chapeau Monsieur pour la réalisation et merci Kristen pour la vidéo 👍

[@ballet07]

Love this home!

[@dananelson3534]

Thanks guys, enjoyed the video. Like how the roof opens for ventilation.

[@CliffordBustria]

Such darling children, & getting a world education

[@carlosmartin3104]

Great house, great architect, great ideas. Someone said the house looks like an abandoned factory; and i love 'cause that. Some people say grow plants... i know it would look nice, but he's not that kind of person, maybe he prefers the grass growing wild outdoors... everything at its place... minimum effort. Impressive video, impressive channel. Thank you.

[@WonderMagician]

Imaginative and inventive - yet supremely practical

[@cliffordl.2943]

Love, love, love it! Brilliant.

[@icecastles1432]

I kept seeing a sculpture studio in the open space green house. I would love to see some form of flowing water in the blank space.

[@fuzzypebble]

Wonderful, I worked for a commercial Bulb Farm and Greenhouse in the Pacific NorthWest. They had a Greenhouse extended in the T position from the office-warehouse. In it was a elevated potted garden, a koi pond, which transitioned in the summer with opened windows. We worked in large greenhouses, and this is what I imagine a home in a greenhouse, add the garden, you may enjoy it.

[@izzyplusplusplus1004]

Very unique. Love it!

[@ahmadalsamaraiy3400]

100,000 Euro for this big space is very wise, in the future he can add many features, good job

[@adamgambescia9650]

I really love being able to be fluent in both languages and be able to fully watch episodes in french or English, I also adore this property, the decor and aesthetics!

[@gristlevonraben]

Very cool video

[@DanyT77]

L'idée est SUPERBE!!!... j'adore sa façon d'évoluer dans l'esprit de l'habitat... On est tellement conditionné à avoir des maisons de pierres comme tout le monde, qu'on oublie qu'aujourd'hui il faut penser différemment avec un moindre coût!... très accessible pour tous le monde et il y a beaucoup de place à se faire, je trouve ça génial. Donc BRAVO à vous Monsieur pour ce changement d'étude pour les habitations!.. Bonne continuation!... 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

[@Kraftydesignsbyopie]

Nice, just proves you can make a home out of anything

[@Raggo12345]

What a BEAUTIFUL home! I LOVE this!

[@TheRedverb]

Love the structure. Adorable kids. Don't love the train. Also, I felt like this gentleman was crowding the camera.

[@TheRedverb]

@Ned HillSo you missed it, or maybe you're use to people standing too closely and talking too constantly, or maybe you are one of these people yourself, whatever the case, I wasn't looking to highlight something negative, I was simply sharing my impression of how the interviewee came off to me. That's all.

[@Michelessex]

This is now one of my favorite vids. He is an original thinker and that is worth everything. It makes me feel the wonder of imagination and the value of being able to think differently. I especially love the greenhouse floor as seen from the drone, just fantastic images. The negative comments are a prime example of our general inability to not think unconventionally. That is why housing hasn't changed since forever; most builders and most people are stuck mentally in a bygone era. You guys are the BEST! Thank you. Michel Pariseau

[@EskimoInAlaska]

I agree 100%

[@HouseJawn]

Gorgeous

[@carolewarner101]

Wow, affordable for sure. Especially given all the space! I need to have natural earth based materials in my home - wood, stone, natural plasters, cobb, etc. so this esthetic doesn't appeal to me. However, I LOVE the idea of an attached greenhouse where the entire roof can be opened up like that for venting or closed in cold weather and allowed to heat up to supplement the heat of the house. It's brilliant! Gosh, where do you find all these amazing places?!

[@MicahJohns]

I LOVE THIS!!!

[@5eilat5]

i'd be growing food in those greenhouses. beautiful home!

[@tamasgyorffy1]

super! :) Merci!!

[@HannaARTzink]

Excellent.

[@manfredschmalbach9023]

Yup, Ile-de-France climate is nearly perfect for living long stretches in an industrial greenhouse. I love the possibilities opening with a wide space heated by the sun most of the year. It's pretty much ideal for Europe north of the alps. And the climate improvement will stretch the months this will be usable even further. I'd subsume only December to February it's not enough sun to become warm enough in those greenhouses.

[@susanmathis1682]

Fascinating

[@belekas565]

Amazing!!!!!!!!!!

[@EskimoInAlaska]

BRILLIANT ❤❤❤❤ Thank you!!!

[@npcwill283]

Covid happened and this guy was like i built for this !

[@lau.e.3316]

Incroyable! j'adore. bravo monsieur!

[@533david709]

Children often follow their parents, go to see the house everywhere, and the child will become an architect in the future.

[@JohnnyGonzalez710]

Keep up the interesting vids, Kirsten and the gang :)

[@larryguy7160]

This looks to be a home that will pay for itself in utility savings, as the years go by and it's concept is unusual but, interesting way of living.....Thank you Kirsten and family...

[@sheilasaxton3836]

Awesome design that I would love to incorporate into my home

[@barbaradomingues9200]

Excellent. T you!

[@GhostofCerberus]

I would love to live in a place like this.

[@badapple65]

This idea, very similar to the Swedish family who’s home was featured on this channel definitely have a great idea. The large greenhouses keep the cold and the heat out. The video about the Swedes their entire traditional home had a huge greenhouse erected over it, around it. So their home is existing in a climate controlled bubble.

[@joecutro7318]

Fantastic, each one as good or better than the next. I want a house like this!

[@Meluforever]

Partouche loves seats from huge designers too ;)

[@amigostoso]

what an awesome house, really greenhouse, c'est une belle Maison, île de France

[@cathylynnpietranton]

Wow that's sure different and unique

[@furrystep]

Nice docs, lovely places, thank you for this content.

[@dejayrezme8617]

"Maison de fous" haha a crazy house. It's an awesome house!

[@dogcatparty7371]

Very pretty and practical.

[@marionguilbert5352]

Wow ! je suis passée par là en train tous les jours pour mes études sans savoir que ce bijou se trouvait là !!

[@JWB671]

I used to live in a friend's warehouse in an industrial area. It was actually very peaceful and quiet on the weekends and at nighttime which was the only time I was there anyway.

[@Corsonmcnash]

Love that this exists and that Patrick is experimenting with materials and convention. I don't think i could live comfortably with such a lack of natural materials, stone, wood etc though. All that linoleum and plastic on the interior... The idea of buffer zones to constrain temperature fluctuation on both sides of the internal structure is great. Would love to see some food being grown in those huge spaces, could have citrus fruit and fresh veggies almost year round!

[@jizmoglass4202]

this is amazing. I want to have a "house" like this.

[@jizmoglass4202]

Thank you Kirsten. Love your channel. ;-)

[@veramentegina]

i love it. what a genius idea.!

[@W4TRI]

Your title leaves out a 2 story industrial building in the middle. Thought they were all shipping containers. Nice for him

[@건축공감]

잘 보고 갑니다. 자주 오겠습니다.^^

[@mamemckee2190]

Fascinating!

[@lokisfriend]

One of those greenhouses would be providing good organic food for my family

[@angelob9465]

so buy one.

[@williamreeder4902]

Great video

[@Questinia1]

I like the yellow sales sticker on the oil barrel of the table.

[@BillReals]

Cool house, I like the idea. The one thing that I would not like is living that close to a rail line again. I lived next to one in college, you kinda used to it but you felt it, via the ground, as it went by each time.

[@precisiont5188]

Amazing. I would just have more interior plants.

[@kmw4359]

That’s a great point about creating a thermal buffer. In winter, he opens his doors to recover passively heated warm air from the open spaces.

[@siegridthomas9674]

Great place, lots of room, my 3 dogs would love it....

[@cupbowlspoonforkknif]

Where's the garden!? He's living in a greenhouse after all, haha. Love the concept! I wouldn't go so starkly industrial but a home should fit the unique context, location and occupants.

[@Vibe_Enjoyer]

damn, a greenhouse like thats giving me all kinds of ideas, like a quarter pipe on each end with curbs, rail and wheelybox in between. never ending fun. hnnng

[@valeria-militiamessalina5672]

I grew up in a house located in a very similar setting, the railroad, highly circulated, was just in front of the houses. There were like 90 trains passing within 24 hours. It was not really as noisy as it might seem because the passing of the trains was usually swift, almost unnoticeable. I hated it personally, I remember wishing for the railroad to be removed. Now, approaching old age, I think I might retire there, although I have mixed feelings for now.

[@pnwadventuresandgearreview8749]

Very cool! Would not be possible in America probably due to building codes!

[@SouthernIowaLady]

My motto usually is do what makes you happy. I hope his foundation is extremely solid. The vibrations from trains can destroy the foundation over time.

[@clubherbalife6292]

Great house

[@EmpressVicky0116]

I feel inspired to build one myself I think that's the most unique awesome thing to do it's seem like it saves on the environment and everything I just might give it a try.

[@offgridsweden]

Really awesome!

[@ChazEvansdale]

There is something quite appealing about this place and I can't put my finger on it. I just know I really like it! I'd definitely want to see how comfortable it is in the middle of summer and middle of winter, since it's different from the typical house design. Id' want to test the insulation of the place. If it's comfy year round then I want something like this, but a smaller version. I like how it's not the typical stick construction. I don't know if there even is wood used in any of the walls.

[@Flexiblelip]

merci beaucoup

[@brettjohnson6807]

That is an amazing home! I wish the climate in Mississippi would allow such designs, alas we stay hot to many months of the year. Great design though, I would have plants everywhere!

[@angelob9465]

O'le Miss is far to wet for any design like that

[@EskimoInAlaska]

Shadecloth is a wonderful invention

[@CrankyBubushka]

Awesome!

[@ablack9677]

2 greenhouses but not a thing being grown to eat in either of them, what a waste!

[@allthingsharbor]

I know! I would have potted plants of herbs, veggies, etc. Edible decor !

[@tenylegnincsevem]

maybe because of the humidity? but they use the greenhouses for heating the house, so in a way they are not wasted.

[@ironboobs]

I agree, it's like doing it halfway to use it just for heating and not for growing food. Although in that region of France you can grow outside all year round.

[@nickthomas6206]

Except Astroturf

[@wordsworm]

He's growing his family. How is that a waste?

[@vasvaristudios]

Perfect!

[@batlajeri]

Awesome

[@josephmor4680]

very effective, i need like this in Israel, thanks

[@sundowner998]

Insurance should be lower. Very little fire risk. Cheap to repair.

[@THE-VVATCHER]

Great concept. I don't find the house too appealing, personally, but he made great points: 10:28 "...like rivets... It's how to turn an error into something interesting." 16:36 "These days there's no place for experimentation." 22:40 "A house is the dream of each person. It's the base of personal construction." If that train derails, it could take out his family. I would never live off of railroad tracks. Very interesting house, though. Thanks!

[@robertcoogan1070]

That's really cool - but it costs a lot of money to convert shipping containers. They're generally a bad idea for housing anywhere unless you have the budget to convert them​ or buy them already converted (which it looks like he did here).

[@crymr3]

They function well if you dont cut them up and they make economic sense if you are near a port/area that sells them cheap. Otherwise they're a fad.

[@angelob9465]

no you just have to have ingenuity and do the work yourself.

[@marzymarrz5172]

I think he’s on to something. What a great way to use the ocean of recycled plastic that we’ve created.