My project lies at the intersection of historical stone aesthetics, contemporary stone manufacturing, and quarries as the site of stone extraction. This research is situated in the ongoing disciplinary discourse about decarbonizing construction and the renewed interest in preindustrial building methods as alternatives to industrialized materials. Echoing the interest in mass timber as both rapidly renewable and carbon sequestering, followed by earth as a natural and readily available structural material, stone reemerges as plentiful, fireproof, beautiful, and inherently structural.

Historically, stone made up some of the earliest buildings that are still standing. Yet today, it is treated as a surface to wrap and clad carbon-intensive, industrialized building systems. My project positions stone as a low-carbon structural building material and explores the aesthetics of structural stone in defining a new language in contemporary construction.