A custom home should be designed for your family, not for a future buyer. We listen to the memories you carry and give them a form they never quite had before.
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Affordable Housing Is Leading the Way on Innovative Design
Exciting lessons from income-restricted housing in designing for connection, community resilience, and healing.
Continue readingHow They Pulled It Off: A Record-Breaking Passive House Behind a Refreshed Bungalow
The 5,000-square foot duplex on a compact, sloping lot shows how energy efficiency and architectural heritage can coexist.
Continue readingBuilding Science, Mold Prevention and Restoration Collaboration
Forge Craft Partner Trey Farmer shares how building science and restoration can unite to create healthier homes
Continue readingModular Architecture: Building Smarter to Solve the Global Housing Crisis with Rommel Sulit
The single biggest need in our industry is housing—globally, worldwide. But what if the solution to this massive crisis could be built faster, smarter, and still be beautiful?
Continue readingAustin churches answer prayers for affordable housing — by building it themselves
KUT NEWS: Five years ago, the conference that oversees United Methodist churches in this part of Texas entered into an agreement with Foundation Communities, an affordable housing builder in Austin.
Continue readingAddressing Affordable Housing Needs Deep In Heart Of Texas
FORBES: Austin’s Forge Craft Architecture + Design, focusing on multifamily affordable and market-rate housing, teams with mission-driven organizations to generate sustainable, resilient, socially impactful solutions.
Continue readingFCAD Takes the Stage at Facades+ to Share Insights On High-Performing, Sustainable Design for Affordable Housing
Recently, our Founding Principal and CEO, Scott Ginder, shared these insights at The Architect’s Newspaper Facades+ Conference in Austin, TX, where he presented on “Zilker Studios: Insulation and Electrification for High-Performance Design.” Through meticulous energy modeling and strategic selection of assemblies and systems, we were able to achieve net-zero readiness while prioritizing resident comfort and operational efficiency for this deeply affordable 110-unit project in Austin, Texas.
Continue readingForge Craft uses “hammock” approach to create outdoor space for transitional apartments
DEZEEN: Local studio Forge Craft Architecture + Design has created affordable apartments for people transitioning out of homelessness in Austin that feature a breezeway to encourage rest and preserve heritage trees on the site.
Continue readingAn Introduction to the Benefits of Passive House Design
INNOVATION & TECH TODAY: Article authored by Trey Farmer, Partner, Principal, and Chief Sustainability Officer at Forge Craft Architecture + Design
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