Every architect is a sucker for board form concrete.

The heart of this modest house is this 14’ tall barrel vaulted living/dining. Can’t wait for windows —one end frames a massive cedar, the other opens to the backyard, with a terrace along one side.

Not yet. I’m working to widen the corridor idea to 4 blocks, not just 2 block faces, provide extra housing on adjacent streets, rework both the right of way design (slower, multimodal) and the development standards (more perimeter blocks with courtyards) to connect the 30 neighborhood centers.

while the corridors and centers part of the comp plan is tabled, this is a perfect time to consider what is the character of the corridors, but also the adjacent streets. How do we maximize housing, add tree canopy/open space, repurpose the right of way to be safer, friendlier, and healthier.

I'm moderating a seminar Monday with two fantastic architects working on low-rise middle housing: Alex Gauzza of ISA and Bryan Alcorn of David Baker Architects. Register here! us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

“ …building homes near existing jobs, stores, and transit saves public dollars, in both up-front infrastructure and ongoing maintenance costs, and produces more revenue in property taxes per acre than local governments can expect from development at the edge of town.” www.pew.org/en/research-...

It is a tell that their logo has three detached single family homes with downtown in the background. No apartments, no middle housing.

Apparently we are Kowloon City now?ridiculous fear mongering and disinformation by an anonymous individual.

It does not bode well for Patrick Condon's academic talk about Seattle's land use code when he is using AI GENERATED SLOP AS MAPS FOR HIS TALK, and doesn't understand that the whole city's base height is 3-4 stories, not just the fantasy realm colored in here. This talk is going to be great.

Having a kitchen window was a priority for the Spokane Six project. Our next project will have the kitchen facing the street, not the sideyard, with a 6' high x 5' wide window. Not as sexy, but we have a operable window in the master bathroom too.

3-0 Junction FC! Goalllll!!!!

Enjoying Junction FC home match! USL2!

First ever $100 plus fill up. Usually it is like 65. Good thing we are mostly EV!

Harrell’s narrowly drawn EIS was a Trojan Horse all but guaranteeing SEPA appeals and delay, now Tree Action Seattle does not want CM Lin to close the loophole, or let Mayor Wilson scope a broader SEIS to avoid future pitfalls.

At the AIA Housing Design Forum, great convo between CM Lin, Patience Malaba (housing development consortium) and UW prof Greg Colburn.

Just broke ground on this modest little house in Magnolia. This one is going to be so cool!

I just finished an online presentation of the Spokane Six to the National Planning Conference. Preaching the gospel of stacked flats, middle housing and building up neighborhoods. 200 people showed up-way more than I thought!

We are building a modest little house in North Seattle and leaned into the idea that each room had a different volume. The living room has a barrel vault with arched windows at each end (14' ceilings!), the kitchen is pyramidal topped with a skylight. Each shower is skylit too!

here is the transport for the our off-site townhouse concepts: Indigo (ground floor walls, 2 mods, roof trusses) Garden (ground floor walls, 5 mods, trusses) Beacon (ground floor walls, 4 mods, trusses)

'BEACON' is 1090sf 3BR 2BA on a narrower 16.7x40 footprint perfect for a backyard duplex, or 3 across the face of a 60' lot. Two 10x40 modules, with all the plumbing+kitchen+mechanical in two 6.7x 27 modules. The stair runs perpendicular to the length, eliminating hallways.

One thing most townhomes lack is any private open space. by pulling out the garage a little, we get a modest private courtyard space and a walk-out terrace off the living level + a fourth bedroom. 'GARDEN' 1406 sf+garage, 4BR 2.5BA 20x38 footprint. panelized ground floor, 4 mods+2 bath mods.

We're exploring off-site construction+pre-approved stock designs as a way to make townhomes a little more attainable as a 'starter' ownership model. First: INDIGO: 1173sf + in-unit garage, 3br2ba 20x26'7 footprint. 2 Rohe Homes Lotus modules on a panelized first floor. Fits 4 on a 5000sf lot.

This is a bad person.

Working on a super fun townhouse project in north Seattle targeting a multi-generational market.

I applaud a bold choice of house color inspired by Honey Bucket.

Leah Martin, David Lieberman and I started this group of seattle architects interested in development, and we’re doing cocktail sessions where we talk about one aspect of the process, compare notes and share knowledge and resources. It has been super fun!

We can have Milk Carton Houses or Perimeter Blocks. Zone accordingly.

We had proposed this for that site--72 apartments in 6 single stair stacks with 7000sf of retail. The problem is that this required a lot more capital, was more complex, and generally a lot more risky than bog standard townhouses.

He isn’t talking about Iran, it is the America I know and love that has ceased to exist.

Here is the latest schedule I've seen for completion of the sub-area plans across the city.