lanefab - laneway housing - past, present, future
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Emerging Green Builders
Laneway Housing: Past / Present / Future
March 2013
Laneway Housing – Past / Present / Future
Sprinkled
throughout
Vancouver are
the original
laneway houses.
Dating from the
early 1900s, these
early lane homes
take on a wide
variety of forms
and sizes…
Vancouver‟s laneway house rules
(and single family zoning policies)
take their cue from an idea of the
pastoral cottage.
Granny flats, coach house, lane
cottage…
There are, however, other
precedents for laneway living…
There are also other precedents for
design and massing…
….some of which are more
indigenous to the west coast than
Craftsman, Queen Anne or
Victorian
Laneway Housing – Past / Present / Future
This is “Pod 1” – A 360sf condo
renovation that served as a
laboratory for small living…
…and as a prototype for
subsequent Lanefab projects.
A queen size bed, and space to
seat 10 for dinner… with no
gadgets or moving walls required.
photo: krista jahnke
The Mendoza Lane House (710sf).
The city‟s first lane home to be completed under the Laneway House bylaw (2010).
19th & Slocan Laneway House (800sf including the garage)
photo: tordia images
57th & Vivian Solar Laneway House (1020sf including the garage)
57th & Vivian Solar Laneway House
11th & Carnarvon Laneway House (1050sf including the garage)
11th & Carnarvon Laneway House
E.7th Tree House – Designed around the existing large Magnolia
Laneway Housing – Past / Present / Future
Our sources of inspiration
Lanefab R40 Hybrid Wall : SIPs + Service Wall + 3x Glazed Windows >> 12.5” Thick
Structural Insulated Panels
For the Mendoza Lane House
Insulspan, Delta BC
Installing prefab panels. Mendoza Lane House
500 Gal. In Ground Rainwater Tank
Purple pipe distribution to toilet and laundry
The purple pipe distinguishes
rainwater from potable city
water inside the building.
‘Whole House’ LED Lighting
Drainwater Heat Recovery
Recycles heat from the hot shower water going down the drain.
12 Panel Solar PV system. We‟re currently working on our 4th solar lane house.
Laneway Housing – Past / Present / Future
The future… …may be different from the past.
Buildings are time capsules that we send into the future…
… and the future probably won‟t have the same relationship to low cost fuel
Global populations are growing, shifting, and becoming more urban…
…perhaps the pastoral cottage shouldn‟t be the only starting point for thinking about homes
Row houses. Amsterdam docklands.
Urban “Passive House” (a home so efficient it doesn‟t need a furnace)
A more
adventurous take
on the idea of
„home‟, from
Japan….
…of course
The City of Vancouver recently adopted a mandate to densify along commercial corridors…
…behind all of these commercial corridors are lanes which abut single–family zoned properties.
These lanes are a bit grittier than the typical residential lane…
… and represent a place where we could be more adventurous with our thinking
We could also start to explore ideas for lane housing that come from a more urban idea of living…
… and reimagine the spaces between.
