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Scaling Natural Building as a Poly-Solution with Massey Burke
Scaling Natural Building as a Poly-Solution with Massey Burke
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Piper explores the diverse stories of the designers, architects, builders, brands and wellness experts working to make the built environment healthier and more sustainable for people and planet. Each episode aims to decode the complexities of healthy and regenerative design to make it more accessible to designers of all backgrounds.
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- Scaling Natural Building as a Poly-Solution with Massey Burke · 34 min · Kausi 3 Jakso 42What does it take to bring natural building out of the dirt road context and into the urban fabric? For natural materials specialist Massey Burke, that question has shaped two…
- Decarbonizing the AIA's Brutalist-style headquarters · 39 min · Kausi 3 Jakso 41In the 1970s, Brutalist-style architecture and the use of concrete in its purest, raw form were the name of the game. It was a demonstration of innovation, cost effectiveness and…
- Taking Circularity 180 Degrees · 28 min · Kausi 3 Jakso 40Making reuse and circularity repeatable, scalable and efficient is not without its challenges. Especially in an economic model and an industry like the built environment, that…
- Raising bale: Building a straw think tank · 31 min · Kausi 3 Jakso 39Thirty years ago, out on the Carrizo Plain just east of San Luis Obispo in central California, 30 or so natural-building enthusiasts met at a deserted motel to explore the…
- Rebuilding regeneratively after a wildfire with Anni Tilt and David Arkin · 38 min · Kausi 3 Jakso 38After a wildfire destroyed their half-century-old family home in Sonoma County, architects David Arkin and Anni Tilt (Arkin Tilt Architects) set out on the journey of rebuilding…
- How story can preserve and erode architecture with Michael Paul · 38 min · Kausi 3 Jakso 37Let's travel back to the late 1800s to Tombstone, Arizona––a boomtown where gunslinging, gambling, saloon brawls and shootouts like the Gunfight at the OK Corral were the norm…
- Connecting bio-based materials: Inside the BBMC · 42 min · Kausi 3 Jakso 36On a November morning in 2023, more than 60 individuals across the bio-based construction value chain descended upon the MASS Design Group office in Boston to address one…
- Rewilding Through the Art of Storytelling with Joel Caldwell · 44 min · Kausi 3 Jakso 35Writer, photographer, filmmaker, grassroots organizer…Joel Caldwell dons many titles, but at the heart of it, he is a storyteller––and a powerful one at that. An avid outdoors…
- Circularity in Interior Design: The New Designer Mindset · 42 min · Kausi 3 Jakso 34In talking about the embodied carbon and waste burden of the built environment, much of the focus has traditionally been on the structure and enclosure––or the core and shell––of…
- Forging Transparency Pathways to Responsible Wood With Evan Schmidt and Oliver Ogden, Sustainable Northwest · 45 min · Kausi 3 Jakso 33For a material as seemingly straightforward and simple as wood, it has a very complex, layered and often opaque supply chain. While certifications like FSC, SFI and PEFC may tell…
- The evolution of material transparency with Lona Rerick · 32 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 35Like many of today's architects and designers, Lona Rerick wasn't taught material health in school. She had some exposure to sustainable design in college at the University of…
- Nobody said it was easy: Overcoming resistance to change · 28 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 31For the composer, conductor, songwriter Steve Hackman, life has been a journey through parallel realities––or maybe, parallel dualities. At a young age, he developed an…
- Rising from the urban ashes with Paul Hickman · 35 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 30According to the US Forest Service, 36 million trees are removed from urban areas every year. These trees offer a tremendous opportunity to reduce some of the demand on forests…
- Five innovators from Greenbuild '25 · 22 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 29What do a battery-operated induction range, hemp insulation, a straw-based structural insulated panel (SIP), a whole-life carbon visualization tool, and product transparency…
- Understanding materials through the lens of data with Melanie De Cola · 12 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 28In 2009, the American Institute of Architects launched the AIA 2030 Commitment, a strategy and framework that takes direct aim at reaching net-zero emissions in the built…
- LEED v5: The path to building product transparency with Wes Sullens · 21 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 27Responsible material selection and procurement is keystone to lowering the environmental impact of the built environment and improving occupant health over the entire life cycle…
- From Story to Seed to Shelter: A Library Emerges from the Badlands · 51 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 26The badlands of North Dakota, much like a library, are rich with story. The layers of mineral deposits visible in the buttes and hoodoos that make up the region are like…
- Reimagining buildings as circular systems with Marcus Hopper · 56 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 25Can buildings be circular systems? Unlocking overlooked opportunity If we were to think of buildings as living beings, how might that change the way we approach their design?…
- Turning to history to decarbonize the future with Carl Elefante · 1 h 9 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 24Are we too quick to turn to technology and novelty to solve today's most pressing challenges? Perhaps history and nature hold the answers to modern-day dilemmas––particularly…
- Carbon smart: Is all wood good? with Jason Grant · 47 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 23We need forests. They're the lungs of the earth. They're also home to more plants and animals than any other terrestrial biome. They protect watersheds and mitigate flooding…







