Location Roxbury, CT

Owner / Client Mr. Charles Forman

Year of Completion 2021

Size 2,500 sq ft + 3,000 sq ft

Budget: Withheld $2,800,000

Nestled in a rocky plateau of secluded forest among hills and ravines, the Roxbury Creative Compound augments the site's extraordinary environmental conditions such as its flora and its rocky topography while minimally affecting the surrounding woods and wetlands. The compound arranges a 2500 sf combination of residence and greenhouse --that meet passive house standards-- and a 3000 sf structure housing studios, programming rooms and workshops. The different spaces and volumes are mainly choreographed riffing of the site's rock formations and ravines. Further influenced by solar orientation, the spatial and material design for both buildings engender a series of relations between the different programs, their inhabitants and the environment. These relationships of program and site are most noticeable in a series of liminal or in-between spaces within the buildings and the landscape. Key among these spaces is the multivalent greenhouse and main space for the workshop.