Follow the Story of CarbonShack
Episode 1: Follow The Dream
CarbonShack is born when Home Front Build sets out to salvage materials from a house built in the early 1900s and give them a new life.
Episode 2: From The Ground Up
Starting with the foundation, the team tries to measure the carbon dioxide emissions of building the CarbonShack.
Episode 3: Salvaging is the New Forestry
The CarbonShack takes shape as the team frames the house and discovers that some of their salvaged lumber came from trees dating back to the 1400s.
Episode 4: Surprise CO2 Savings
Skinning the home’s exterior with salvaged clay roof tiles, stone, brick and reclaimed redwood shingles yields surprising savings in CO2, prompting the CarbonShack team to develop a calculator to measure embodied energy, and they finally learn the results of the CarbonShack's application to LEED For Homes, an exhaustive assessment of a project’s green building features.
Episode 5: CarbonShack Design: Living with the Invisible
Transitioning from the construction phase to the design of interior finishes, the CarbonShack team works with an artist to dive into the microscopic world of bacteria and mold for inspiration, eliciting bewilderment but intrigue when they connect with local craftspeople to make tile and layer handmade processes to develop original textiles. With the impact of carbon dioxide emissions from our homes in mind, they must wade through the green-washing of everything from fabrics to countertops, chasing down the details to identify which materials and manufacturing processes are actually greenest.
Episode 6: CarbonShack Design: Building in an Age of Climate Change
Developing the interior finishes continues as the CarbonShack team works with artisans to further the project’s use of salvaged wood in flooring, wood paneling and cabinets, rediscover a traditional technique of adding natural materials to textured plaster which they combine with lower-carbon intensive materials, and design sculptural low energy lighting fixtures inspired by the changes in climate.
Episode 7: CarbonShack Design: The Pure Magic of Chloroplasts
The wonder of photosynthesis as the basis of all life as we know it, not to mention an essential way that carbon dioxide is sequestered, sparks the team to work with a master woodworker to design a history of plants in carved furniture for the main room in the CarbonShack, and to collaborate with an artist to make intricate, sculptural lighting fixtures based on diatoms, the microalgae generating a great deal of the oxygen produced on the planet each year.
Episode 8: CarbonShack Design: What Connects Us
The biophilic designs are brought together across many of the CarbonShack finishes — fabrics, carved wood doors and furniture, tile and custom decorative grates — with an exploration of mycelium, the fungal threads that live under the forest floor, breaking down plant materials which they give to trees through their roots, in return for sugars the tree makes via photosynthesis, and creating a kind of wood wide web by enabling trees to communicate with one another to promote the health of the forest as a whole. Using the calculators the team developed for measuring embodied energy, they discover the amount of carbon dioxide they were able to save from being released into the atmosphere in building the CarbonShack.
Makers of the CarbonShack Video Series
PRODUCER & DIRECTOR
Alicia Dwyer
PRODUCER & CAMERA
Michael Dwyer
EDITOR
Johanna Witherby
EDITORIAL & CAMERA
Dimas Corona
Hee-Jae Park
PRODUCTION SOUND
Jesse Dwyer
GFX & ANIMATION
Jorge Sanders
CONSULTING
Juli Vizza
Justin Miller
ADDITIONAL CAMERA
Ali Reza-Nusrat
Tom Curran
Jerry Henry
Rachel Dusa
Jesse Dwyer
CAMERA DEPARTMENT
Ronnie Bourdeau II – Swing
Anthony Eslami – Drone
Dylan Farr – Time Lapse
Andrea Gill – AC
LJ Kim – AC
Jose Solozano – Gaffer
ADDITIONAL SOUND
Kevin Cheng
Josh Landis
Randall Good
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Iliana Garcia
MUSIC
"Stay Safe"
By Alex Arcoleo
Music courtesy of Audio Network
"Clear Morning"
By Alex Arcoleo
Music courtesy of Audio Network
"For the Better"
By Max Brodie
Music courtesy of Audio Network
"Making Me Smile"
By Max Brodie
Music courtesy of Audio Network
"Inquisition"
By Terry Devine-King
Music courtesy of Audio Network
"Uncomfortable Questions"
By Igor Dvorkin, Duncan Pittock, Ellie Kidd
Music courtesy of Audio Network
"Sacred Place"
By Tim Garland
Music courtesy of Audio Network
"Living Elements"
By Philip Guyler
Music courtesy of Audio Network
"Soul Wagon"
By Christian Marsac
Music courtesy of Audio Network
"Pilot (Instrumental)"
By Owen Bones
Music courtesy of Marmoset in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.
"Feel Tha Groove (Instrumental)"
By Fleece Panther
Music courtesy of Marmoset in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.
"Neo (Instrumental)"
By Ryan Teague
Music courtesy of Marmoset in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.
IMAGES AND FOOTAGE
The Atheist Homesteader
Dorothea Lange
Joe Nunez
Benita Welter
Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division
LocalWiki Contributors
Pond5
Maps of the USA
www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com
NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
National Archives
Pixabay
Courtesy of the Santa Monica Public Library/Connie Cramer Collection (Santa Monica Toastmistress Club)
U.S. Geological Survey Department of the Interior/USGS
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FEATURED IN THE CARBONSHACK VIDEO SERIES
Home Front Build
Fernando Calderon - Site Supervisor
Luis Diaz - Plasterer
Alfonso Garcia - Construction Coordinator
Eugenio Javier - Framer
Anthony Loaiza - Projects Coordinator
Charlie Markowitz - Environmental Data Analyst
Joshuelo Mondragon - Site Supervisor/Lead Framer
Lazaro Mondragon - Lead Framer
Steve Pallrand - Green Builder & Entrepreneur
Emmanuel Reyes - Finish Carpenter
Fermin Rodriguez - Plasterer
Rudy Román - Plasterer
Greg Roth - Senior Interior Designer
Derek Ryder - Lead Architect
Artists
Rachel Mayeri - Lead Designer, CarbonShack
Jose Clemente Orozco - Co-founder, Taller Ditoria
James Peterson - Sculptor & Designer, Art + Contraptions
Jennifer Robbins - Jennifer Robbins Textiles
Sabino Rodriguez - Owner, Bellas Artes Wood Carving
David Reyes - Owner, Reyes Carving & Frame
Subcontractors
Francisco Castañeda - JMC Electric
Brian Kaiser - Kaiser Plumbing
Rick Luoma - DL Construction Services
Bill Kranhold - Automation, Pacific Audio Labs
Ramona Pratt - Pratt Lighting Design
Jeffrey Sogge - Pacific Redwood Products/Eco-Salvaged Fine Wood Products
West Coast Lumber Inspection Bureau
Frank J. H. Anderson
Alternative Energy Systems
Colin Garrett - LEED Consultant
Troy Lindquist - Founder
Harvey Mudd College
Cassandra Burgess - Student
Joseph Sinopoli - Student
Tanja Srebotnjak - Director, Hixon Center for Sustainable Environmental Design
J&J Roofing
Norberto Cabrera
Adam Herrera
Anthony Herrera
Alejandro Rojas
Victor Romero
JS Glass & Mirror
Angel Espinoza
Francisco Negrete
Mauricio Negrete
Mission Tile West
Tisa Adamson - General Manager
Hideo Franco - Manager
Noemi Mejia
Mirexa Mendoza
Narciso Sandoval
Cesar Silva
Rosalina Romero
Carmen Ambriz
Spanish Galleon Custom Woodshop
Leland Smith - Owner, Spanish Galleon Custom Woodshop
José Luis Guardado, Wood Worker, Spanish Galleon Custom Woodshop
Sundial Powder Coating
Freddy Diaz - General Manager
ACE
José Nuño
Jose Pelayo
Juan Prudencia
Jorge Virgil
Also Featuring
Val Brocato
Dan Hakes
Mimeos Solar
OJ Insulation
David Omar Reyes - Carver, Reyes Carving & Frame