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Housing prices in the US are out of balance. Affordable housing is difficult to attain in entire metropolitan areas. There are few options for middle and working class residents. We need a reset on the American dream. Better living through Baugruppen: larchlab.com/baugruppen/

Alright... Megathread unpacking our report on Point Access Blocks (single stair buildings) for the city of Vancouver. 'Unlocking livable, resilient, decarbonized housing with Point Access Blocks' larchlab.com/2022/01/06/cit…

First time occupied space 'Sufficiency' is required for funding "climate friendly building in the affordable segment". (And only there so far, what do you think about that?) bmwsb.bund.de/Webs/BMWSB/DE/…

US cities even do this on minor arterials, supposedly quieter streets. Because of road configuration here, cars routinely exceed 40 mph. It's not pleasant to walk on. If running errands you have to cross this street multiple times. There's no safe biking infrastructure...

This also does nothing for walkability - especially when transportation infrastructure prioritizes speeding cars over public health and safe streets. The noise levels on this road often exceed 80dB continuously during rush hour.

Limiting density to loud, polluted, dangerous streets is not just, nor sustainable, nor livable. It is the antithesis of these... Focusing affordable housing on the most toxic roads forces renters to be the pollution and noise buffer for homeowners on safer, quieter streets

Seattle's train station has like 2 poorly protected bike racks in front.

@BurchertMichael Schoen

Found a little gem from 2000(!) while looking for a workshop place: Wooden diamond vault, made on site by bending & nailing together spruce boards. #earthplaster, #greenroof. #Holzbau Brettstapelgewölbe Coswig, Sachsen. Evang. Gemeindesaal. Reiter Architekten 📸Lothar Sprenger

CO2 absorbed by a tree: 48 lbs. CO2 emitted by a car: 10,140 lbs. Trees are essential but real climate action requires taking cars off the road.

Headed to Bend this week to give a presentation on how we can build 'a New American Dream' with decarbonized, community-oriented, climate adaptive housing - like Baugruppen. Should be fun. buildingabetterbend.org/upcoming-lectu…

Bike parking at railway stations doesn’t need to be fancy, but is should be as close to the trains as possible. Best practice from #Offenburg. #CyclistsLoveTrains

Hotels are being forced to convert ground floor meeting rooms into bike parking. Just a question of demand!

@holz_bau @Larch_Lab Full credit to @andreareimer who on a trip to Vienna, made the @ViennaHouseVan project happen, which I was vollentold to work on. It had a research budget and single stair looked interesting. Thanks @Larch_Lab, you have shifted housing in #BritishColumbia #VanRe

on September 20th, Larch Lab's Michael Eliason will be speaking at @aia_newjersey and @USGBC New Jersey's East Coast Green Virtual Conference. Session title: Designing Livable, Affordable, Low Carbon Communities Registration: aia-nj.org/ecg/committee-…

Build, baby, build. An agenda of housing abundance - with a focus on community, affordability, and climate adaptation - is a winning one. Baugruppen. Social housing. Cooperatives. Ecodistricts. Passivhaus. Mass timber. LFG!

Higher fuel prices lead to more cycling! New German research 👇 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

As summer draws to a close, get a sneak peek at some of our forthcoming fall titles. 🔍See any books that you're interested in? 📚 islandpress.org/catalogs @Larch_Lab @bethsawin

Happy to announce Larch Lab's founder Michael Eliason will be presenting on ecodistricts and climate adaptive development, at AIA NJ's East Coast Green Symposium Details soon. aia-nj.org/committee-on-t…

@InklessPW @danielfoch The IAFC is as international as the World Series.

Canada is the most restrictive amongst 30 advanced nations when it comes to a simple building code requirement: linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

Single Stair taking the code world by storm.

Simple passive house prefabrication: Use straw bales >85kg/m3. Stud spacing 2cm smaller as 2 bales standing next to each other. Lacing visible to you, then the thermal conductivity is usually correct. Install at least 10% more straw, compress bales tool-free: Build a bridge.