Larch Lab is an architecture + urbanism studio/think and do tank focusing on climate adaptive, low-energy urban buildings
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The thought leadership of Larch Lab’s founder Michael Eliason, AIA will be on display with two sessions at this year’s annual event. We are looking forward to standing with the architecture and design industry’s top architects and thought leaders. Check out Larch Lab’s presentation line up below, and watch for updates on linkedin. Session: The […] The post Join Larch Lab at the AIA Conference on…
Larch Lab’s Michael Eliason is curating and moderating a session for Passive House Network’s 2023 conference. In a world where climate change makes the simple act of staying home more dangerous, where excess heat leads to excess death, where storms can knock out life-saving power for days on end, and where polluted air and smoke […] The post Larch Lab to curate, moderate Passive House Network…
Larch Lab’s founder Michael Eliason was invited to prsent on climate adaptive ecodistricts at NAHRO’s 2023 Summer Symposium. The way we plan Transit Oriented Development in this country is a not conducive to making high quality and affordable places to live. There is way too little social housing. Too much parking, with auto-centric buildings centered […] The post Eliason presented at NAHRO Summer…
This week, Larch Lab’s Michael Eliason heads to Edmonton, for a series of presentations and meetings on building more family-friendly and climate adaptive housing with Point Access Blocks and ecodistricts. Better housing. More affordable housing. Better noise protection. More blue/green infrastructure. Space for trees. Larger courtyards. Until we start tackling those things – and layering […] The…
Larch Lab founder Michael Eliason will join SPUR for an online panel presentation on better multifamily buildings through the incorporation of Point Access Blocks (single stair buildings). The panel will take place online, at 12.30 pm PDT on Wednesday, 14 June. Eliason will be joining Stephen Smith (the Center for Building in North America), and […] The post Larch Lab’s Eliason to sit on SPUR…
Larch Lab’s Michael Eliason was appointed to serve on the board of Seattle’s new Passivhaus Social Housing Developer Public Development Authority. This board represents a broad array of experience and knowledge, from lived experience of housing instability, homelessness, and accessing services in our current ecosystem, to public finance, labor representation, public policy, non-profit affordable…
Larch Lab’s founder Michael Eliason will be co-presenting at xChats – a webinar hosted by Housing Forward VA. On 11 May at 1 pm EST, Eliason will be joining Ed Mendoza of Los Angeles-based Livable Communities Initiative for xChats: The Single Stair Case – Rethinking Building Codes to Legalize Affordability. Michael and Ed will be […] The post Eliason to present at xChats: The Single Stair Case…
The Architect’s Newspaper invited Larch Lab’s Michael Eliason to submit an op-ed on Point Access Blocks This piece presented an opportunity to get the concept of Point Access Blocks – single stair buildings – in front of a larger audience. To discuss the benefits and how building access and exiting significantly affects issues like livability […] The post The Architect’s Newspaper picks up Point…
On 7 March, Larch Lab’s founder Mike Eliason heads to New Zealand (virtually!) for a webinar on climate adaptive, car-light ecodistricts. The post Larch Lab’s Eliason to speak on car-light ecodistricts in Auckland appeared first on larch lab .
Over the last few months, we’ve been working with several policymakers, advocacy groups, and jurisdictions on Point Access Block legislation. To facilitate those conversations and educate policymakers, developers, and planners – we’ve developed a policy brief highlighting their benefits, and what Seattle’s Building Code allows. Larch Lab Policy Brief: Unlocking Development with Point Access…
