Work
Lodgers
Lodgers is an ongoing project of land restoration and ecological rehabilitation situated at Fly Ranch in Northern Nevada. Conceived as a series of architectural installations dispersed across the site, the project explores the relationship between contemporary building practices and land-based environmental knowledge, examining both the tensions and possibilities that emerge when these approaches converge on the land. At the same time, the installations function as environmental enrichment infrastructure for the desert flora and fauna of Northern Nevada.
Architecture is often constrained by a human-centered worldview. Lodgers proposes an alternative vision of environmental stewardship in which human intervention is not positioned above the biosphere, but exists in reciprocity with it. Here, architecture becomes a medium for fostering kinship between humans and our other-than-human neighbors: structures that live, transform, and decay alongside the environment rather than irreversibly reshaping it. Like lodgers upon the land, they arrive and depart, no different from the countless other species that inhabit, move through, and eventually return to the earth. In doing so, the project positions architecture as both a stationary shelter for habitation and a temporary catalyst for biodiversity.
Location: Fly Ranch, Nevada
Status: Ongoing