I have been working at the University of Manitoba in the Center for Architectural Structures and Technology ( C.A.S.T. ) since 2006. The main focus of my research has been the study and exploration the formal and structural potentials inherent in building materials.
The C.A.S.T. facility is a unique laboratory in which structures of all kinds may be conceived of, fabricated and tested with the use of a wide variety of tools and equipment. C.A.S.T. however is not just a building, but a small group of dedicated practitioners and students involved with challenging material and philosophical principles of building. Through my time here I have come to realize that the work here at C.A.S.T. is not the objects produced, but rather the search for a better understanding of the hidden nature of materials, often symbolized yet rarely understood.