Lindsay Schack

Regenerative Metropolis '25 - Passive House as Foundation to System Integration

Regenerative Metropolis ‘25: #passivehouse as the Foundation to System Integration, Friday September 26 in #NewYork #NY @NYPassiveHouse
I’ll be sharing about a recent LSA strawpanel project
#architecture #regenerative #building #naturalmaterials #passivehouse

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Agreed. Just one more thing: Taking the "extra step" to achieve Passive House status is (by far) not as difficult as is often claimed: It's a matter of know-how and experience. Once implemented, it's actually quite simple. (Good airtightness is the core example—PH makes implementation achievable.)

My starter pack for #PassiveHouse powerhouses and pioneers on BluSky. Waiting for more to join!

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Unlocking the Missing Middle: Why the U.S. Housing Model Needs a Redesign Gensler is a global architecture, design, and planning firm with 57 offices and 6,000+ professionals across the Americas, Europe, Greater China, and APME.

"We need a cultural shift. We have to reimagine what good housing looks like — and recognize that compact, well-designed, community-oriented housing in walkable neighborhoods isn’t a compromise. It’s the goal."

@holz-bau.bsky.social closing Gensler interview quote

www.gensler.com/blog/unlocki...

Montana's Housing Miracle Strikes Twice | Sightline Institute Bipartisan efforts won a string of bills for more homes, lower costs, and less red tape for Montanans—with lessons for other states.

Montana is leading the nation on pro-housing policy — but not by accident.

Reading this great thread from a campsite near St George, Utah thank you @holz-bau.bsky.social
There are pockets here of great bike infrastructure-so much potential to NOT sprawl out, if going ‘up’ were considered.

Life cycle analysis with emissions and carbon storage shown.

Homegrown timber frame

Straw insulated panels

Homegrown timber, straw, screw foundations, robots. Whole life cycle analysis.
The new robotic living lab by Bennetts Associates delivers it all 👏🏽. #strawhouse #strawbuilding. Typically you'd expect all sorts of excuses to build with status quo materials, not here.
www.linkedin.com/posts/bennet...

Thank you @phnetwork.bsky.social for sharing our first PH project in Bozeman, MT completed in 2019

Nice! Is this similar to 'DLT' dowl-laminated-timber, or would the fastener system be considered unique/diff?

Photo of volunteer cyclists of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps posing on Mammoth Hot Spring's Minerva Terrace in Yellowstone National Park, 1896. The 8 cyclists were Sgt. Dalbert P. Green, Cpl. John G. Williams, Pvt. John Findley, Pvt. Frank L. Johnson, Pvt. William Proctor, Pvt. William Haynes, Pvt. Elwood Forman, and Musician William W. Brown.

The U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps was an all-Black unit of soldiers created to see if bicycles could effectively transport troops. In 1896, the Corps did a test run from Missoula, Montana to Yellowstone National Park, where this photo was taken.

#BlackHistoryMonth

SCL Straw-Bale House / Jimmi Pianezzola Architetto Completed in 2016 in Vicenza, Italy. Images by Alberto Sinigaglia. The project reveals an idea of architecture based on archetypes as a trend-proof horizon. The archetype for home is shelter. You can ...

Someone was asking me if there is #strawbale building in #Italy. Of course, there is #strawbuilding almost everywhere. Just not yet in the quantity that it replaces highly fossil construction of today. (It could, for a good chunk.)
www.archdaily.com/875652/scl-s... #strawhouse

As a western MT resident that grew up in eastern MT, this is a very welcome report. I would love the option to take a train for business & personal travel in the state, and the potential for tourist train travel is significant (as well as the services that supports those MT ports of call). Bravo!

The background is a rendering of a house, Sunflower Sanctuary, designed by Shape Architecture and located in Colorado. The next says "Fire Smart Building, Wildfire Resilience with Passive House."

Fire Smart Building and Passive House make an ideal pair. Check out a list of ways that Passive House can make your buildings more wildfire resilient: passivehousenetwork.org/featured/fir...

Building Forward in the Face of Fires Andrew Michler discusses how Passive House building methodologies can improve fire resilience for individual homes and communities, even compared to standard best fire-aware practices.

@andrewmichler.bsky.social wrote this three years ago after the Marshall Fire in Colorado, & considers design elements of passive house that also resist fire and smoke damage:
passivehouseaccelerator.com/articles/bui...

A modern home in Pacific Palisades survived the fire while all the homes around it burned. It was luck, but also it was made to withstand a wildfire, and it did.

I spoke with the architect who designed it, plus other architects, about designing for disaster: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Ecococon wall modules with sone data, like 120min Fire Resistance at a density of 110kg/m3 and passive house level of insulation.

Seems counterintuitive to talk about #strawbuilding while the climate arsonists in the offices are setting the world on fire?

Brace yourself for a reality check. Straw panel from ecococon.eu

5 Ways to Showcase Your Work 5 Ways to Showcase Your Work Whether you've been designing Passive House projects for years or are just getting started, you're on a journey to bring safe, hygienic, efficient buildings to your commun...

You’re on a journey to bring safe, hygienic, efficient buildings to your community–and we want to tell the world about it. Here are 5 ways to showcase your Passive House Knowledge with PHN. passivehousenetwork.org/featured/5-w...

☝️The coolest thing you will see today.
'straw bale anchor' made for fast straw bale wrapping of houses. Perfect to turn unloved ugly industrial buildings into modern #passivehaus climate positive social housing for good urbanism.
And no this is not unsafe. 😉
From: www.schelfbauhuette.de

This is due to Republicans moving to Montana under the spell of Yellowstone’s John Dutton. Montana’s political landscape has changed because newcomers see this state as a place free of regulations—an imagined libertarian cowboy lifestyle. We’ve gone from purple to red because of western mythology.

That big ol roof over the garage is now hosting solar power!

This Passive House Was Built to Withstand Harsh Montana Winters A Montana house was built with the tenets of Passive House design in mind. Now it can withstand freezing winters with minimal energy use.

#sunsetmagazine feature of our PH project near Bridger Bowl:

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Whoa—the Montana Supreme Court holds that its state constitution protects the right to "a stable climate system," and strikes down a law that barred consideration of greenhouse gas emissions when permitting new fossil fuel projects. juddocumentservice.mt.gov/getDocByCTra...

sketch to finished result - bravo!

PHN Presents - The Passive House Network PHN Presents: Building for People Noon ET, Tuesday, December 17th, 2024 In Building for

PHN Presents: Building for People - starting today at NOON ET! Register and join us - passivehousenetwork.org/phn-presents/

reducing toxins in your home & work = balanced ventilation & constant fresh air = passive house design for all buildings

Want to learn about healthy & resilient materials for buildings that sequester and store carbon? Online conference this Friday, Dec 6th, with dynamic experts on the topic:
passivehouseaccelerator.com/events/reima...

Building for People

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Building for People: Designing Affordable, Low-Carbon Communities by Mike Eliason

It’s here! Congrats to @holz-bau.bsky.social on ‘Building for People’, this book is needed in the design & building community:

Across the Network with Marcy Conrad Nutt Across the Network With Marcy Conrad Nutt Licensed Architect, CPHD, LEED AP, and Founder of Yarrow Architecture, Marcy Conrad Nutt is also a Leader of Passive House Minnesota. Based in Minneapolis, Ma...

New interview series! Find out what's happening Across the Network ft. @marcyconradnutt.bsky.social. Follow along with our blog: passivehousenetwork.org/across-the-n...