Abigail Light

Abigail Light is a CASE alumni through the Arch Away program. She graduated from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a Bachelor of Architecture. At RPI, she was a member of NOMAS, National Organization of Minority Architecture students, a club that helped her connect with minority students like herself to speak up about their thoughts on architecture studies at RPI. Her studies and club participation at RPI led her to the great opportunity to study at CASE. While at CASE she further explored her curiosity in environmental conditions when designing structures. She is researching an alternative building material to concrete, hempcrete, that can change the energy consumption in built ecologies. In this project, she proposed a reconstruction of the Dennings Point Brickstone factory into a hempcrete manufacturing company in Hudson, NY. This building aims to reduce CO2 emissions and energy consumption for housing in the Hudson, NY area. The facility will allow people from all over to tour the facility to understand the hempcrete manufacturing process and provide architects with the opportunity to design and build their own hempcrete project that will be displayed on the site.