CONSTITUTION SHED wins AIASeattle award!

A small off-grid restored SHED used to support forest restoration on a remote island mountaintop, Constitution SHED layers built reflections of site, ecologies, memory and legacy. The simple, utilitarian SHED, located high on a remote mountaintop on a Pacific Northwest island, had lost its functional purpose as a support structure for a large water tank, and its strong proportions had been slowly decaying for decades. The grandfather of the owner/architect had built the SHED, as a protection against fires high on the then nearly inaccessible mountain. Upon refinding the SHED, decades later, during intense forest restoration efforts of the long-neglected mountain island forest, the owner/architect had the SHED relocated to a island local workshop, to restore the stalwart proportions and the 80 year old Douglas Fir boards that had once been milled on site

INNOVATION IN ARCHITECTURE AWARD from WAN

Thrilled to be recognized internationally for our innovative work with mass timber, from our small house to our current 8-story mass timber housing project, and of course, helping to lower the construction industry's carbon footprint through new codes, fire/lifesafety, and lower carbon construction at scale. Thank you to all our valued atelierjones colleagues and national collaborators!

INNOVATION IN ARCHITECTURE AWARD FINALIST - WORLD ARCHITECTURE NEWS

Thrilled to announce the World Architecture News (WAN) Finalist in the Innovation in Architecture Award category for their FEMALE FRONTIER AWARDS for atelierjones founder, Susan Jones, FAIA. The Award material states: “Her prolific work over the last nine years has advanced and restructured the carbon-intensive construction industry towards adopting lower carbon materials by using design as a catalyst creating sustainable change at scale. She is an exemplary role model for architects, demonstrating how design can lead innovation at all scales, to urgently lower our carbon footprint in our fight against climate change.” World Architecture News | Innovation in Architecture Finalist 2021. Thank you WAN!

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.

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.