What Would Wood
This studio explored housing as a reconfigurable framework, using undervalued wood to challenge established typologies. Rather than treating workforce housing as a fixed form, it framed it as an adaptable system, capable of absorbing irregular material, shifting climates, and changing needs. Precedents were not imitated, but dismantled and reassembled, serving as structural outlines to be tested under the logics first discovered in studies of wild and messy timber.
Through this approach, housing was treated as an act of translation—moving from fragment to dwelling, from material constraint to tectonic invention. Each proposal operated less as a singular object and more as a working system, asking how architecture might emerge from what is gathered, not manufactured.

The Bird Blind served as the studio’s initial act of calibration—an investigation at the scale of the fragment, where irregular timber pieces were tested for their structural, spatial, and narrative potential. It functioned as a laboratory of joints, spans, and failures, revealing how undervalued wood might generate its own tectonic logic rather than conform to industrial norms. By working with wild grain, twist, and imperfection, the Bird Blind established a methodology of making through constraint—one that later guided the transition from part to whole, and from material study to inhabitable form.
The bird I studied was the Chimney Swift, a species historically observed through accidental apertures in domestic architecture. One early observer, a woman living with deteriorated chimneys, began documenting their nesting through the very cracks and voids in her walls. That condition of unintended visibility became the premise for my structure. The design assembled a hybrid frame of new timber and discarded plywood sourced from construction waste—material marked by holes, knots, and flaws. At its core, a three-story chimney anchored the vertical form, punctured at the ground and second level to create intentional sightlines, echoing the original act of watching. The outer shell organized plywood based on vacancy: the largest and most perforated pieces gathered near the base, allowing passersby to glimpse inward, witnessing those who, in turn, watched the birds. Access to the second platform was built directly into the exposed structural framework, necessitating an inversion of typical construction logic—placing the timber frame on the exterior so the ladders could grow from the structure itself.
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It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world.
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It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world.