KEENAN GIBBONS

First, I created this site to showcase what you can accomplish sustainably without compromising conventional comfort. It begins with materials. Take concrete for example, something I always try to assess personally + professionally prior to spec'ing. Concrete is a number one off-gassing producer of CO2 on the planet. It has contemporary applications, but is dramatically overprescribed across the construction industry. Combined with its post-installation permanence, concrete needs to be rethought in our everyday life... Creative alternatives + reuse of materials are a passion, and I feel this thinking is a necessity for our collective future. To use concrete as an example, I have completed a variety of pretty common domestic projects at different scales that are conventionally ubiquitous to concrete, but entirely eliminated concrete from them. Furthermore, the performance data + dynamics of these alternative design approaches satisfied- if not exceeded concrete. Those data range from..