Jenn Largesse

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192 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 21 Feb

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You said wood.

So we're going to travel north to Washington state where architect Susan Jones has been building with mass timber, including CLT.

My name is Susan Jones.

I'm principal architect of Atelier Jones, an architectural firm in Seattle, a pioneering frontrunner in the world of mass timber in the U.S.

I think tilt-up concrete only made out of a really low carbon material that's actually replacing the higher content carbon of concrete.

Exactly.

And that's what I loved about mass timber was that it had so much freedom.

It's not prefabricated as like, OK, we're making, you know, 20,000 cookie cutter pieces.

No, we're making actually every building can be a custom building, which to me, the designer loves that.

Right.

But it's also very precise.

I'm just bummed that we didn't talk earlier because we've already built four of these in the middle of a fire zone in Greenville, California.

When I designed my house, I covered it with a material called shaoshugiban.

It's an ancient Japanese exterior wood treatment of natural Douglas fir that's burned.

And the Japanese did that to protect the houses from burning in the future.

I was just there this morning.

It's just a beautiful experience every day.

It's a very immersive experience.

The acoustics are even different.

Yes, we have some beautiful triple-glazed windows, which also add to the silence of the house, the quiet of the house.

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