Wildflower Meadow, Year 3
As Summer comes to an end and Autumn approaches, the wildflower meadow we seeded in 2019 has begun to mature. The late Summer Asters are showing their brilliant blues and purples. Traces of yellow remain, and seedheads are beginning to prominently signal the coming change of season.
A baker’s dozen eggs (finally!) from the coop
It has been a few years tweaking and adjusting the functioning of the modern chicken coop, but we finally – today, two years later – got a full round of eggs from our twelve chickens. A full 13 – a baker’s dozen.
Modern High-Performance Chicken Coop under construction
As the world shut down in late Spring 2020, we turned our attention to creating a modern high-performance chicken coop. I used site-collected black locust posts as the foundation, conventionally framed superstructure using advanced-framing techniques (2′ on center with door/window openings defined by framing module), and passive-style air sealing techniques at floor, sill, walls, windows, […]
North Miller Passive Multifamily in Newburgh
Michael Robinson of Urban Myth Construction held a grand opening ceremony for the North Miller Passive Multifamily project, a pioneering low-income project in the City of Newburgh. The Figure Ground Studio provided architectural services, with John Loercher of NE Projects taking the major technical and design lead. This was a monumental undertaking for Urban Myth […]
Mullet Hall – We Seeded A Native Meadow!
We seeded a meadow!!! We had to clear a larger area than we otherwise would have in order to accommodate our septic system, so we decided to re-vegetate the 7000 square foot bare ground with a native grass and wildflower meadow. We are excited to see how it all grows. This year it won’t look […]
Mullet Hall – Thermal Bridge Mitigation at Slab
All too often, I am approached towards the end of the design phase of a project and asked to create an overlay scheme for energy efficiency. One of the major drawbacks of this approach is that an approach to mitigating thermal bridges must be developed very early on in a project. Just as a suspension […]
Mullet Hall – Construction Underway
Breaking Ground On a cold February morning in 2017, we broke ground for construction at Mullet Hall. The contractor is Third Floor Corp/Doctor Structure. Having grown so accustomed to being in the forest on the land, it was hard for us to see the trees begin to come down to make room for the house. […]
