Welcome
The built environment is a resulting cause of our present climate crisis.
This site promotes the design aesthetic of a designer working from within the waste; envisioning circular potentials to redefine the relationship between the built and natural environments. By working with salvaged materials at various scales and taking a systems approach to designing, this work questions the impact of time, the influence of community, and their situating in place.
Changing climate, while a crisis, provides the space, and leverage, to institute the changes that must be made to right wrongs and form resiliency — and in this process, utilize design as a tool of injecting novelty, nostalgia, and innovation.
about me
Andrew Boghossian is a research associate in the Circular Construction Lab and Regenerative Architecture Lab at Cornell University. His work explores circularity in its two facets: technical---in the development of LiDAR assisted building surveying for material reuse and diversion from waste cycles; as well as biological---in the exploration and testing of mycelium structural panels grown with local agricultural waste. Andrew recieved his Bachelors of Architecture at Cornell University in 2023 with a focus in architectural science and technology as well as a minor in Urban and Regional Studies. Andrew has previously worked in historic preservation, architectural design, and building deconstruction and salvage.
