On a back alley in Washington DC where only a few weed trees grew between derelict cars, Andrew and Hannah Linn erected a totally compostable house of bamboo, cork, wool and wood as a healthy, and affordable, home for their growing family.
“For over a century, people lived in hundreds of wooden homes in DC’s alleys until the Alley Dwelling Authority “developed” and “renovated” the alleys by demolishing them in the 1930’s and 1940’s,” explains Linn’s website BLDUS. “Seventy years later, in 2016, DC’s zoning regulations were removed, once again permitting alley living in the District.”
There are over 3000 alleys in DC, many of them currently parking lots or trash storage, that could become homes. Calling his a farm-to-shelter building, Linn used local materials, even trees felled and milled at the site. The primary wall material is BamCore, hybrid bamboo-wood plywood panels that eliminate studs in walls, thereby eliminating thermal bridges and improving the home’s insulating performance.
There’s no space for a backyard so, inspired by the Roman Domus, Linn and architecture partner Jack Becker, created a center of the house open to the exterior with a huge skylight that illuminates both the second and first floor by using net flooring on half the second floor. Nearly everything material in the home is natural: from the wood pavers to the milk paint.
https://bld.us/
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To each, their own. ????????
This guy reminds me of the bad guy dude in a track suite in "Despicable Me", you know the guy who stole the pyramid
It's nice, but having the fence entirely around the house would bother me.
I could live there if it had dozens of plants and trees in and around it.
I love the healthy part of it.
Also clearing out the junk that was in the space prior to breaking ground.
That would have likely grown.
Thanks Kirsten for sharing this interesting home with us.♡
Cool aspects. Just don’t understand why it’s sooo large. Build smaller and fit a garden for children to play in, and food to be grown ❤ American house sizes with 2 bathrooms with 4 (!) sinks for one family just seems crazy. In Europe, most of us grew up with one bathroom and one sink per family, and we’re doing just fine ???? less cleaning and less waste and resources
formidable ¡ le petit garçon est mignon
Hope they ditch the MDF as soon as they can upgrade to real wood. Kind of blows the "healthy" credentials.
It is a lovely home but I wonder why I didn’t see a single plant somewhere inside, living plants.
Wow – I would say that this is exactly what it looks like when brain and heart meet as equals
Nice. But how monotonic beige it all is. And the family all dress to match it….
I'm getting a major "keeping up appearances" fibe from this video.
But I do like the materials and way of thinking they used.
i can't get what are the outer walls made of
Brilliant! I like everything except the black bedroom and the dark bathroom. I would perhaps go for shades of grey.
I somehow feel the woman does not exist
one thing / color is missing: green ! Not one plant…not inside… not outside…this is not a healthy environment for humans to live….
Love the house, but put some shoes tho please lmao
A Mulberry tree is not a weed tree 🙂
wow the outside is so ugly 🙁