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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab
@lanefab.com

@onecityvan.bsky.social posted their housing platform. Lots to like: more housing options, more non market housing, better support for renters. Also, they're calling for affordable & accessible flats (like our Four/Five prototype 👇) to be allowed everywhere we already allow plexes and large homes.

Bryn Davidson - Lanefab
@lanefab.com

And yes we're channeling a retro futurism vibe with these prototypes. There was a lot of great urbanism at the start of the 1900s (before cars took over) and a lot of that same aesthetic can work well with modern passive house principles, low embodied carbon, and dense single stair urbanism.

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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab
@lanefab.com

Yeah when I walk around and look at the buildings that have retained their love-ability over the span of a century, those buildings have a lot to suggest for what we might do now.

Bryn Davidson - Lanefab
@lanefab.com

Too much of Vancouver has seen "Character Gentrification": extreme land value lift in areas where character zoning has excluded new apartments. We need to bring more housing options, incl sub $1m homes, more rental, more alt-ownership (like co-op, land trust) to these n'hoods.

Bryn Davidson - Lanefab
@lanefab.com

A few other variations on the FourFive in terms of style. The left one borrows heavily from our friends at MA&HG. The right borrows from one of our previous passivhaus projects. Given the political challenge with bringing apartments into detached 'hoods, the 'mod-wardian' is what we now lead with