RESIDENTIAL COST SHEET
- April 11, 2019
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The cost-sheet was created after seeing many shifting and shifty budget conversations. Subsequently, we decided to take the topic of construction costs head-on. Lately, we’ve been having ever-more informed conversations about construction costs with current and potential clients. Escalating construction costs and protracted permitting timelines amongst most building departments in our area have made the […]
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VOID STAR / GLITCH
- January 18, 2019
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via WIRED TRULY UNDERSTANDING ARTIFICIAL intelligence is rare. AI doesn’t think in concepts and images the way humans do. It has individual goals, like to preserve humankind as technology’s caretakers, or to dismantle complex systems. And in the sci-fi thriller Void Star, things are further complicated by the fact that AI’s “thoughts” are actually glyphs, or waves […]
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CONTINUOUS NEGATIVE

Located in the Nevada desert, Michael Heizer’s Double Negative is 6.4 miles away from Moapa Valley. Double Negative is 50ft deep trench that is taken out from the corner of the mesa. This land art has unique features that can be experienced by entering, and can be viewed from above. In this project mesa is […]
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Designs of Cargo Planes
- July 6, 2018
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Collaboration with Arlo Namingha
- July 4, 2018
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Working with Arlo and Nicole on a museum project, there was one sculpture that kept popping up in my head, staying with me day and night: “Windows and Doorways #1”. At dinner one night, Nicole mentioned how she envisioned herself living in that sculpture as a ‘cabin’ someday. So, Carol and I started this architectural […]
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RECLAMATION
- June 16, 2018
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Via WIRED THE FRANTIC PHONE calls to the Community Water Center began in the summer of 2014. In the 7,000-strong unincorporated community of East Porterville, nestled against California’s Sierra Nevada mountains, homeowners’ wells were failing amid a historic drought. Folks were hauling water from their workplaces or from agricultural wells. Parents were sending their kids to […]
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Machines that suck CO₂ from the AIR
- June 1, 2018
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pretty cool, via ARS – When you spill a drink, you don’t say, “Oh well, the only thing we can do is spill fewer drinks in the future.” You grab a towel. So there’s also a natural attraction to the idea that we should develop a towel that can remove CO2from the atmosphere. That isn’t as […]
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ZEN MOBILE
- April 11, 2018
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via Colossal The Kei Truck, or kei-tora for short, is a tiny but practical vehicle that originated in Japan. Although these days it’s widely used throughout Asia and other parts of the world, in Japan you’ll often see them used in the construction and agriculture industries as they can maneuver through small side streets and easily park. And […]
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Harvesting Water
- March 6, 2018
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low tech followup, via Verge – The Earth is 70 percent water, but almost all of that liquid is seawater us humans can’t drink. Already, California is besieged by drought, while citizens in South Africa’s Cape Town try to push back Day Zero, the day the city runs out of water. As our population grows and temperatures rise, the […]
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Summit Preparatory School
- March 6, 2018
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The new girls’ dorm and conference center for Summit Preparatory School in Kalispell, Montana is situated a steep south facing sloped hill. WAMO Studio has designed this building to the Passive House standard. This building sets a new model for high school dormitory design in both social student life and low-carbon footprint
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