ox-bow house
photo by Aron Gent
location: Douglas, MI
date: 2022-present
type: residency
role: architect-in-residence
From 2022-2024, principal Charlie Vinz is in residency at Ox-Bow House, developing designs for the eventual transformation of the space.
Ox-Bow House is an extension of the Ox-Bow School of Art and Artist’s Residency in Douglas, Michigan. It will serve as an exhibition hall, programming space, and retail environment that connects the school to the broader community. It will also house archival and administrative space.
Part of the project involves a comprehensive embodied carbon accounting using an iteratively developed methodology first piloted on Narrow Bridge, another AO reuse project in Chicago. An inventory of relevant materials and their quantities is produced, followed by research into the embodied carbon associated with each material. These values are added together to estimate the carbon emissions associated with constructing a hypothetical identical building made using modern material sourcing and processing techniques.
Organization: Ox-Bow School of Art and Artist's Residency
