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.

Just started. Cool! But we are way too slow with this on both sides. The industry with its minor changes and the progressive side vs the politics which is happy with minor changes to report to the public. A little more on this important project: x.com/BurchertMichae…

Excellent Andrea Thompson piece in Scientific American about how our summers are shifting due to climate change Unfortunately, we aren't changing how we design buildings to adapt to this. As we saw w/ 2021 PNW heat dome, the SW last year - the effects will be deadly. scientificamerican.com/article/summer…

Straw works. Querbeet co-housing community in Lüneburg, Germany.

"the 'Brabant #straw caravan' will move on to insulating homes" Oh yes! Uden, Netherlands🌾blow-in chopped straw #carbonsink #bauwende linkedin.com/posts/circular…

We do not lack space to make our cities livable, sustainable and human friendly. What we miss is the #imagination and #leadership to make it happen! —Place de Catalogne, #Paris🇫🇷

“The worst thing that many American cities have done, for low-income people, is create a world in which you need a car.” vox.com/2014/6/27/5849…

We knew that #cycling is good for your health. But now we know using public transport is too! Just imagine the benefits of public transport and cycling seamlessly connected! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

i was interviewed alongside Market Urbanism on point access blocks/single stair buildings in this lengthy piece for NFPA journal. 'The U.S. is a complete outlier in how housing is built' -me nfpa.org/news-blogs-and…

Single Stair taking the code world by storm.

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…

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 Dr. Elizabeth Sawin

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

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!

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

Mike Eliason Larch Lab Full credit to Andrea Reimer (she/her) who on a trip to Vienna, made the Vienna House 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

got stuck moving back from germany (schengen closure), left toxic job, founded an architecture and urbanism studio focusing on climate adaption, helped kickstart single stair movement, got selected to passivhaus social housing PDA board, wrote a book: x.com/holz_bau/statu…

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

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

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…