Wood City: Timberizing the City’s Building Blocks

The real estate development value chain is being recast in sectors like fuel retail, fast food, grocery, and warehousing, while new venture-capital interventions are hybridizing housing, hospitality, healthcare, and the senior services markets in value-adding ways. Wood City explores the possible roles of mass timber in this market transformation.

AuthorStephen Luoni
The Circle

The Circle is a mixed-use live-work destination in a small town (Bentonville, Arkansas population: 40,000) undergoing urban succession from low-density metropolitan sprawl to a mature city with density and good town form.

AuthorStephen Luoni
Categorieshousing
Hawaii Base Yard Prototype

The intent of the Baseyards manual is to provide small-scale producers in Hawaii with a matrix of options and information on regulatory and construction guidelines that will allow them to tailor their own Post-Harvest facility.

AuthorStephen Luoni
7Hills Homeless Day Center

The day center is an anchor component in a community-wide ecosystem of service providers offering overnight shelter, transitional and permanent housing, and meal service.

AuthorStephen Luoni
Luminaries

Luminaries’ fabric and timber construction would be Dubai’s first major landmark made from modern timber construction, signaling a new green sustainable economy of construction.

AuthorStephen Luoni