Category Projects

Lighting Changes Everything

Night Light

Good lighting isn't about making everything brighter. It's about shaping how a room feels, what people notice, and how the space works when it is actually being used.

How Starved Rock Taught Us LiDAR

LiDAR-derived contours of Starved Rock State Park.

A difficult bluff-side project sent us down the LiDAR rabbit hole. Starved Rock became our testing ground and helped shape the topographic mapping workflow we still use on complicated sites today.

1980s Supper Club Conversion

Fajitas restaurant interior after renovation of the former John’s North Star supper club.

A dated 1980s supper club became Fajitas through a focused renovation that balanced budget, schedule, existing conditions, lighting, and a completely new identity.

Old Bones, New Life

A historic home renovation that balanced preservation requirements with modern living, including a new attached garage, a carefully optimized site plan, and advocacy through the local design review process.

The Wolfpack

An early-stage fieldhouse concept created to turn a big idea into something stakeholders could see, understand, and get excited about before major investment or construction decisions were made.

Harbor House

Camber Design Co. - Rooftop Patio Addition

A tightly constrained addition that transformed a modest vacation home into a full-time residence, adding bedrooms, an expanded primary suite, and a rooftop patio while making every inch of the site work harder.

Sheridan House

Sheridan Craftsman Home

A timeless Craftsman-inspired dream home designed for an older couple, with guest quarters, quilting space, optimized site views, and future improvements in mind. Built to serve the family today and endure for generations.