Available for consulting, design, and building projects:
— Residential remodeling and repair
— Plan sets, permit application assistance
— framing and finish carpentry
— custom woodcraft
— cabinetry and furniture
— artistic tile design and setting
— sound structures/integral instruments
— living roofs
— landscape integration
• ecological design:
— siting and orientation
— appropriate materials
— sensible energy strategies
— water conservation
— habitat enhancement
— design for human comfort and livability
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Ecological Design and Building
— Residential remodeling and repair
— Plan sets, permit application assistance
— framing and finish carpentry
— custom woodcraft
— cabinetry and furniture
— artistic tile design and setting
— sound structures/integral instruments
— living roofs
— landscape integration
• ecological design:
— siting and orientation
— appropriate materials
— sensible energy strategies
— water conservation
— habitat enhancement
— design for human comfort and livability
Crucial ecological design considerations:
• solar orientation
• thermal comfort
• natural light
• airflow
• access to views
• nontoxic, natural materials and building process
Where possible I use materials that are close to their source, salvaged, and hand-fabricated. In addition to conventional light-wood construction, I am experienced with post-and-beam framing, cob, adobe, fiber-adobe, slipstraw, strawbale, natural plaster, and other ecologically based materials and processes.
I look for ways to integrate the human and non-human worlds through design and building craft—projects that help bring quiet, calmness, activated awareness, focus, beauty, resonance, a momentary glimpse of the ineffable into a person's life:
• spaces for meditation and music
• garden rooms
• stringed instruments and other auditory features
• details that catch light in a way that enlivens space
• attention to acoustics
Ecological perspective is inseparable from design that activates perception and allows for the possibility of sacred experience.