Projects
Vertical Gardens Initiative (UHC-VGI)
If it's big and blank, it should be doing more than just sitting there. Let's grow on it!
UHC Lecture and Film Series
Giving you the tools to address today's environmental concerns.
2006-present
Sunlight of the Spirit | 3600 W Fulton
A rooftop garden is just the first step in retrofitting a 4-building complex into a sustainable, regenerative community.
2010 -
Joy Garden at Northside Prep High School
Reconnecting students to their surrounding environment through restorative landscape technologies.
2009
2607 Backyard Forest
How quickly can Mike turn his backyard from a passive decoration into a living, breathing environmental machine?
2006-present
True Nature Foods Rooftop Victory Garden
Better than a green roof... a food-producing roof for this Edgewater business.
2005-present
Deconstruction advocacy
Deconstruction is the right thing to do at the end of a building's life.
2006-present
Tennessee retreat
Designing a refuge for urban parents and children to be able to experience rural life.
Completed: Summer 2007
Materials research
Whassat crazy stuff?! Rather than satisfy ourselves with accepted ways of doing things, UHC likes to try it ourselves, make mistakes, learn, and produce hybrids of different things that might work in urban environments.
2005-present
Atsushi Kikuchi House deconstruction
In June 2005, UHC was notified days before a 1955 house designed and built by the Japanese watercolor artist Atsushi Kikuchi was to be demolished, and we salvaged as much material as we could in one week.
Completed: June 2005
Lawndale Carriage House adaptive reuse
An adaptive reuse of an 1890's carriage house to be used for education, community outreach, and demonstration of ongoing projects.
Completed: Summer 2005