Archon, The Essential Dwelling
A documentary book ↗ showcasing the work of all participating students in the Archon Studio. I was responsible for producing the book.
Related Projects
12 Miles a Year
Archon Studio Prize (2nd Place), 2018An architectural proposal that reclaims industrial infrastructure for habitation, this was my winning entry for the Archon Studio of 2018. Developed with the supervision of Olsen-Kundig Studio and professor Carl Lewis, the project drew inspiration from the post-industrial landscapes of the Midwest, particularly those of early nuclear research and energy production. Dresden Generating Station—the first privately financed nuclear power plant in the U.S. and a keystone of postwar energy optimism—sits within a landscape where rail lines, river corridors, and prairie converge. This terrain carries the layered histories of industry, energy, and abandonment. By re-inhabiting its disused rail lines, the project reclaims infrastructure not for transit or commerce but for reflection and habitation, transforming the residues of industry into a framework for living. Rather than treating movement as speed or efficiency, the project reframes locomotion as a slow inhabitation of landscape. Its propulsion system borrows from the mechanics of a grandfather clock, scaled up into a pendulum, counterweights, and a 1.5-meter winding wheel. Each day, residents wind the mechanism to power the ultra-slow drive, where a heavy steel "foot" presses against the ground to move the house forward. Built on the reclaimed steel frame of boxcars, the house unfolds as a linear sequence—private quarters, dining, power, and communal spaces—that extend dwelling into a year-long passage across prairie, rivers, marshland, and ruins. In place of the forward thrust of rail or the concentrated energy of nuclear power, the project proposes a cyclical, patient mode of inhabiting the Anthropocene landscape. The house becomes an instrument for reading its environment slowly and deliberately, reframing abandoned infrastructure as a stage for observation, ritual, and renewed attachment to place.
Staked Bench
A solid maple bench with a CNC milled and hand-refined form. This piece was a key deliverable for the Archon Studio, a funded competition where students design a house and matching furniture that embodies a particular concept of dwelling. This bench was designed for my house entry, '12 Miles a Year'. The staked furniture technique was later revisited for the 'Staked Desk' project, though it was not affiliated with the studio.
Tales From The Incoherence Era
A small zine of collected writings and graphics. As the primary creator and editor, I contributed a significant portion of the content and handled the final assembly, including a custom embossed cover on recycled paperstock.
New Models Codex Y2K20
An article titled '#The-New-Aesthetic: Objects in Mirror are Much Closer than They Appear', reading James Bridle's term of the technological uncanny into the strange photography of lockdowns and security in 2020. I contributed this piece to a retrospective on 2020, the year we were trapped inside.