atelierjones WITH DESIGN FOR FREEDOM

atelierjones is proud to be a member of Grace Farms Foundation Working Group on their groundbreaking initiative, Design For Freedom. Led by their CEO and Founder, Sharon Prince, Design for Freedom is rapidly mobilizing the Architecture/Engineering and Construction disciplines to eradicate the use of slave labor for the production of building materials as part of the built environment’s global supply chain of materials. We were thrilled to see Susan presenting at Design for Freedom’s Inaugural event in late October, in partnership with Harriett Harriss, Dean of Pratt University’s School of Architecture , moderated by Yale University’s Associate Dean of the School of Architecture, Philip Bernstein, and fellow architects, Chris Sharples and Michael Green.

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MASS TIMBER HOUSING GEEKS

Yep. That’s us. atelierjones is geeking out over here. Today we found out that we are using almost three times the amount of sustainably-harvested Pacific Northwest wood than concrete for our 8-story middle income housing project in central Seattle. We’re excited to be planning a project that houses 126 folks with such a light impact on our environment! See more at our material takeoffs detail under Mass Timber Middle Income Housing project.

MODERN ARCHITECT INTERVIEWS SUSAN at STANFORD UNIVERSITY - NOV. 2019

Super cool to have Tom DiOro interview our founder, Susan Jones at Stanford University - back in November 2019 - for MODERN ARCHITECT. It was amazing to be on campus again - yes, it seems like ages ago - but this PODCAST was released some weeks ago, just before COVID times started. Hear about atelierjones’ leadership in Mass Timber, our CLTHouse, stories of being an undergraduate Stanford philosophy major, and other various moments that Tom had fun teasing out of Susan’s lore of architectural and personal memories.

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Susan to present at Harvard GSD with leading voices on Mass Timber

GSD writes: “From cross laminated timber blanks to glulam slabs, beams, and columns, topics on mass timber tend to center around sustainability and industry advancements. The aim of this symposium is move beyond default topics of instrumentality and technology in mass timber by collecting unique positions from a group of architects, engineers, developers, and manufacturers in contemporary design, while also underscoring the value of intellectualizing these topics from within academia.” Organized and moderated by Jennifer Bonner and Hanif Kara. With speakers Nader Tehrani, Yasmin Vobis & Aaron Forrest, Kirsten Haggart, Friedrich Ludewig, Michael Ramage, Ben Kaiser, Susan Jones, and Kay Hartmann.

MASS TIMBER EIGHT-STORY HOUSING ANNOUNCED FOR CAPITOL HILL

atelierjones is leading a vertically integrated team to design and build a 61,000 SF middle income housing project in the heart of Capitol Hill. The project is being designed to use a mass timber structural system, from locally sourced, sustainably harvested timber. The eight-story, 114-unit project will utilize the new Type IVC building codes, which our founder, Susan Jones, helped to craft as part of the ICC Tall Wood Building Committee from 2016-2019.