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21 Apr, 5 tweets, 3 min read
that small, fine grained urbanism that everyone raves about?

single stair exits make it possible.

they also allow for flexible units

family-sized units

cross ventilation

light on multiple sides

in short - it's an urbanism special sauce.

we should #LegalizeIt
gaudi? his calvet house in barcelona is a 6 floor plus inhabited attic building w/ single stair

archeyes.com/calvet-house-a…
single exit stair on this really stunning 6-floor, flexible precast concrete mixed-use building in berlin by FAR frohn&rojas

archdaily.com/928487/wohnreg…
the *stunning* 6-floor plus roof deck baugruppe in barcelona for 4 households by domenech, lussi + partner is also a single exit building.

archdaily.com/929295/apartme…
10-floor residential building w/ single stair exit in tokyo by kino architects.

schoen

archdaily.com/885364/akasaka…

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michael eliason Profile picture
21 Apr
it's interesting to me, that in my @Treehugger piece on how bad the US architecture and construction industries are - everyone latches on to the single stair issue.

treehugger.com/america-archit…
it really brings out the most amazing comments, and it's something i've been meaning to talk about for a while, so here's a little thread on the topic.
european cities are *laden* with pre-war buildings that contain only a single means of egress, like this one. many don't even have elevators. there are a number of reasons for this.
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michael eliason Profile picture
20 Apr
realized i've done a fair bit of writing over the years, and this is an easier way for me to access it...

'Affordable housing in Seattle is not the enemy.' @seattletimes, 2 March, 2018. seattletimes.com/opinion/afford…
this one on keeping public land in public hands, for mass timber social housing. w/ @CaryCMoon

'Seattle could make a dent in housing crisis with its own property.’ Crosscut, 17 July 2018.
crosscut.com/2018/07/seattl…
for @Treehugger at the invitation of @lloydalter, on what i perceived as large differences between EU and US architecture, and why.

‘Why is architecture and building so different in Europe?’ Treehugger, 20 November 2019.

treehugger.com/why-architectu…
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18 Apr
attended a happy hour work thing and everyone was surprised i had worked abroad, been on a panel at @SPUR_Urbanist, spoken internationally on mass timber, passivhaus, and baugruppen.

like did you even look at my resume? apparently not.

explains a lot!
the SPUR event was fun and piggybacked on a talk at @naphnetwork - got to learn about what @JonDishotsky was doing at starcity, and have the grand dame of cohousing in the US tell me to stop using the word 'baugruppe' 🤣

spur.org/events/2017-10…
i mean...

gonna be a fun monday for me! Image
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28 Mar
my gross salary in bayern was 3/4 of my salary in seattle.

quality of life was far higher in bayern.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
our brand new almost passivhaus 3 BR maisonette in a 4-plex was 1/3 rent of townhouse in seattle.

daycare was 1/12th cost v. seattle

dining out w/ tip and drinks was half as much or less.

travel: cheap, green and easy v. seattle
can't take a train to go skiing in seattle. hell you can barely take a train to get to vancouver BC. and it's slow, very infrequent and sometimes cancelled.

lots of skiers on train to/from garmisch.
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michael eliason Profile picture
28 Mar
new development in seattle v. new development in stuttgart

spot the differences
seattle:
1. no sense of community
2. no private outdoor space not observable by neighbors
3. auto-oriented despite 1 block from decent transit
4. not accessible
5. not affordable
6. no diversity in unit size or type
7. poor design
8. setbacks and driveway make for sh*t urbanism
seattle (cont'd)
9. built to bare minimum
10. poor sound protection
11. few to no eyes on the street
12. no place for kids to play
13. little privacy
14. virtually no open space on site
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22 Mar
is there no longer room for innovation or experimentation in US architecture?

are our construction costs too high?

are our building codes too restrictive?

are our procurement processes to narrow?

is our construction industry incapable of rapid chage?
the most minimal, high performance sliding doors aren't made in the US, they're Swiss

sky-frame.com/en/sky-frame-w…
the highest performing windows in the world?

they're not made in the US. they're manufactured in places notorious for conservative industries, but that are adopting stringent energy codes - like germany, austria.

passivhausfenster.com/privatkunden/p…
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