Projects
Urban Habitat Chicago Institute
(UHCi ) Launched in 2012! - A coherent urban environmental educational program to provide hands-on training to a broad public, with a strong focus on urban agriculture.
2012-
Marshall High School | Green Lungs Environmental Education
Austin area Green teens Learn to Use Nature's Gifts Sustainably - both in and out of the classroom.
2011-2012
Northside College Preparatory High School | Master Plan
We reimagined an expansive public high school landscape as an educational, sustainable, accessible, and aesthetic whole. Now we're making it happen.
2010-
Northside College Preparatory High School | Joy Garden
Reconnecting students to their surrounding environment through restorative landscape technologies. Winner of Mayor Daley's 2010 "Gardener of the Year Award".
2009-ongoing
Sunlight of the Spirit Armitage Recovery Residence | Gethsemane Community Garden
A sustainable garden nourishes residents in recovery from addiction as well as a food pantry and a cafe.
Sunlight of the Spirit Fulton Recovery Residence | Green Building: Roof, Porch, Stairs...
A rooftop garden is just the first step in retrofitting a 4-building complex into a sustainable, regenerative community.
2010 -
Cooking Matters | School Gardens
Disadvantaged kids from across Chicago learn to cook and eat what they grow with UHC's help
2011-
Goethe Elementary School | Brainstorming Event
A brainstorming event to re-envision a schoolyard
2011
True Nature Foods Rooftop Victory Garden
Better than a green roof... a food-producing roof for this Edgewater business.
2005-present
UHC Lecture and Film Series
Giving you the tools to address today's environmental concerns. Also find podcasts of previous lectures.
2006-present
Vertical Gardens Initiative
If it's big and blank, it should be doing more than just sitting there. Let's grow on it!
2607 Backyard Forest
How quickly can Mike turn his backyard from a passive decoration into a living, breathing environmental machine?
2006-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