Design Your Own Eco Cabin · Masterclass

Off-Grid Essentials

Off the grid, the cabin trades with the land around it.
Four exercises in the masterclass, then the sizing at your own pace. You mark your systems on a tracing sheet over Sheet 4. Everything saves on your computer as you go.
01

Your cabin's loop

The cabin consumes and produces. What it takes from the land, it gives back.

02

Pick your systems

There is no waste in nature. What one living thing leaves, another one uses.

03

Reduce first

Before you design, reduce the demand. The cheapest litre and the cheapest kilowatt hour are the ones you don't use.

04

Place your systems

Put each system where it works best.

05

Size your systems

Volume informs the system. Size it for the hardest season.

Keep your Systems Brief

I'll send it to the email at the top of this page as a Google Doc you can keep working on. I get a copy too. Once it arrives, add a photo of Sheet 5: open the doc, then Insert, Image.

Start over and clear everything