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Using custom-cut lumber from ash trees damaged by the emerald ash borer, assistant professors of architecture Leslie Lok and Sasa Zivkovic designed and fabricated a cabin from wood that otherwise would have been left to rot. The culmination of a three-year project in collaboration with architecture students and Arnot Teaching and Research Forest staff, the Ashen Cabin was completed last summer. Its component parts were fabricated at the Cornell Robotic Construction Laboratory, directed by Zivkovic as a unit of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP).