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While a bit delayed by seasonal colds, office deadlines, and the holidays – much appreciation to Tim and Diana for hosting a fantastic CAST dinner last night. Fun was had by all – with an especially enthusiastic kids table leading the charge. Further raising the culinary bar for our quarterly dinner - good food, wine and great company was enjoyed by all – thanks everyone!
I would like to take a moment to welcome Parkour Visions, our new building mates, to our corner of Freelard. We’ve always tried to keep a fun group of creative folks in our building and I think we are set to continue the trend. This weekend Parkour Visions had their grand opening, and all of us at CAST are looking forward to getting to know Rafe and Tyson better as we take them up on some lunch time workouts! There has to be some form of symbiosis (or karmic irony) that an architecture firm and a Parkour gym are sharing the same building, but we are all excited to find out what it is like to play more directly in our built environment!
The 10×10x10 is an event put on by the Northwest EcoBuilding Guild annually to highlight regional sustainably oriented projects each year. The name derives from the fact that they showcase 10 projects, and give each presenter 10 minutes to talk about 10 slides. This year CAST was selected to be one of the presenters for our work on in-fremont, a series of 5 town homes designed for 5 star BuiltGreen certification. The event was held at the Gates auditorium, at the Seattle Public Library last Friday. There were some great projects discussed – I especially enjoyed Christina Bollo’s talk from SMR on Kenyon House a LEED platinum affordable housing project. Since I have all the material handy I thought I would post the slides from my talk, as well as a quick transcript, which steps through some of the concepts, and techniques we were working on with the in-fremont project.