3 Little Pigs Wall Assembly
FAA 330 · 2025
A straw-bale wall assembly that ordinary builders can put up: conventional stick framing, R-52 insulation.
Anthropogenic Effects of Construction on Freshwater Aquatic Biodiversity
2024
Four months of river fieldwork in Pilar, Paraguay, testing whether building the Costanera changed the fish and invertebrates living there.
Beaver's Burden
ARCH 172 · 2025
Gizmo architecture that works alongside beavers to rewild the Kankakee Marsh: something you wear, a boat, and a field of shipping-container-sized interventions.
Mylo To-Go
ArtD 326 · 2025
Takeout containers grown from mycelium rather than manufactured, designed to replace single-use Styrofoam and decompose without a trace.
The Dark Side of Chicago · USS Lead (ARCH 273)
ARCH 273 · 2025
A semester on East Chicago's USS Lead Superfund site: a time-bending atlas, gable prototypes that dunes could grow on, a village modeled on Dutch dikes, and a hundred-year story told by birds and wind.
Genealogy of a Beaver Dam
ArtD 326 · 2025
A construction manual for a building made by beavers: its materials, site, foundation and walls, drawn the way you'd document human architecture.