Sustainability

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Urban Habitat Chicago (UHC) formed in 2004 to demonstrate the viability of sustainable concepts and practices in urban environments through research, education, and hands-on projects.

Echo Studio’s founder Dave Hampton is Secretary as well as director of Research and Development, which means he gets to take a break from the drawing board and work on unique things like planting collard greens on a Chicago roof, advocating for deconstruction (no, not the crazy French literary movement…), and looking for new ways to reuse materials people don’t seem know what to do with anymore.

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In This Section

• All Projects
• Architecture 6
• 1. Residence in Japan
  2. Bronzeville rehab
  3. Friedewald Residence
  4. Process: a way of working
  5. Warren-Boulton Residence
  6. Sushi Taro
• Sustainability 11
• 1. Window on the World
  2. Residence in Japan
  3. Living walls
  4. Bronzeville rehab
  5. Global Green Competition
  6. A Chicago Residence
  7. True Nature Foods
  8. Urban Habitat Chicago
  9. Warren-Boulton Residence
  10. World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition
  11. Northeast Denver Housing competition
• Building Performance 1
• 1. Suites on the Lake
• Competitions 3
• 1. Lifecycle Building Challenge
  2. Global Green Competition
  3. Northeast Denver Housing competition
• Sketchbooks 1
• 1. Series 1
• Travel Journals 2
• 1. Scandinavia-Europe 1993
  2. Painting diagrams
• Music 13
• 1. Twelve Modern 2009
  2. Summer 2009
  3. Composition class
  4. Collaborations
  5. Twelve Modern
  6. Live at the Speaker Project
  7. Trashy music
  8. Winter music
  9. From the Vault
  10. On the Boards
  11. Chicago Reflections
  12. Vocalises
  13. Selected Music 1994-2004