Nature's Technology: The Fab Tree Hab House

Javier Arbona is a Master of Science in Architecture Studies candidate at MIT. He holds a B.Arch from Cornell University, and received an Eidlitz Travel Award from the Department of Architecture at Cornell University to examine the prison industrial complex in relationship to the urbanism of Los Angeles and Southern California.

Lara Greden is a PhD candidate at MIT in Architecture. She holds a dual MS from MIT in Civil and Environmental Engineering and in Technology and Policy, and a bachelor in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on decision-making for sustainable buildings and application of options theory.

Mitchell Joachim is a PhD candidate at MIT in Architecture Design Computation, and a faculty member of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He holds an MAUD from Harvard University and an M.Arch from Columbia University. As Archmode Studio principal, he is a consultant on architectural designs involving ecology, informatics, and urban habitat forms.