PLAIN Design-Build is an architectural collective that creates buildings from renewable resources of wood.
PLAIN promotes all types of timber construction, ranging from advanced forms of engineered lumber to small-scale forestry and local fabrication. Renewable resources include undesirable trees discarded by insect borer infestations or the by-product of forest fire fuel mitigation. Our projects support material flows that sequester carbon and reduce the embodied energy of construction. Our buildings establish circular economies by learning from vernacular forms of architecture and regional forestry ecosystems. We empower students through a co-creative educational model of experienced-based learning and hands-on construction.
PLAIN Design-Build presents XX-LAM – The architecture of curved, cross-laminated timber in a Nine Square Grid.
COA Associate Professor Jason Griffiths has received a Nebraska Environmental Trust grant to build The Eastern Redcedar Design-Build Microdwelling cabin (The Mizer’s Ruin)
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XX-LAM explores the spatial and structural possibilities of curved, cross-laminated
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The Mizer’s (Eastern Redcedar Design-Build Microdwelling) recieves an award from
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In October of 2020 Jason Griffiths was interviewed for the
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Jason Griffiths and College of Architecture – University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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BAXA Cabin / Jason Griffiths and College of Architecture –
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Emerge / Jason Griffiths and College of Architecture – University
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Great Plains CLT market Development through Architectural Education – U.S.
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Emerge awarded a 2017 Regional Excellence in Wood Design Award
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Ashed Community Orchard Facility opening featured on the Siouxland News.