Portfolio.
Hillside Center For Sustainable Living
In collaboration with Hall & Moskow and Moskow Linn Architects
Newburyport, MA
The 48-unit, net-positive co-housing community was designed to surpass both Passive House and LEED Platinum standards. Built using modular wall panels fabricated on site, the project offers a range of one-, two-, and three-bedroom market rate and subsidized residences. Hillside residences are complemented by a shared common house, community barn, greenhouses, and dedicated growing spaces.
Of the four-and-a-half-acre site, three acres are designated for edible permaculture landscaping, integrating food production directly into daily life. Solar energy generated on site exceeds all residential and electric-vehicle needs, and the community operates with a truly regenerative footprint.
The Stowe Chalet
With Winterwood Timber Frames
Stowe, VT
The Stowe Chalet draws on traditional timber-frame aesthetics to create a warm and welcoming mountain retreat for this family of five, featuring 4 bedrooms and 3 baths. The clients wanted an open floor plan with lots of light and access to the surrounding landscape. The mountainside topography was conducive to a walk-out basement and three levels of finished living space.
Howes Ridge Homestead
Fall Masters Project
Buckland, MA
Clients Bonnie and Marco cleared 1-acre on a mostly wooded plot of 16.3-acres for their dream home. Upon its completion—mostly by their own hands—the next priority was a low-impact landscape design that would “rewild” the disturbed land and seamlessly reintegrate it into the surrounding hemlock-hardwood forest.
Bonnie and Marco desired perennial and annual production gardens, pollinator meadows, native forest-edge plantings, recreational spaces oriented toward sweeping western valley views, and functional elements including a woodshed, gardenshed, and sauna. The final design delivers a forested oasis with a light ecological footprint, restoring habitat while stabilizing a vulnerable eastern slope and managing stormwater across the site.
Goshen Retreat
With Winterwood Timber Frames
Goshen, VT
The Goshen Retreat is a zero-VOC timber-frame home with an attached garage, created for a client seeking refuge from the pace of urban life. At the home’s heart is a vaulted great room that brings dining, relaxation, and a generous kitchen together around a dramatic 32-foot stone fireplace. A west-facing glass wall and expressive hammer-beam trusses frame the space with warmth and grandeur. The two-bedroom residence features radiant flooring, rooftop solar, copper plumbing, and natural wool insulation.
The design blends cabin chic with modern geometry and advanced building technology, resulting in a home that feels both timeless and forward-thinking.
Kroka Expeditions Permaculture Campus
Spring Masters Project in Collaboration with Ally Healy
Marlow, NH
Kroka Expeditions is a wilderness expedition school for young people on an organic farm in Marlow, New Hampshire. The client sought a 25-year master plan for their campus as they navigated recent flooding and the purchase of a new parcel, with climate resilience, program expansion, and camper engagement in mind.
The resulting plan reimagines the working farm as a climate-adaptive polyculture orchard that slows, sinks, and stores water across the landscape. Expanded wetland, pond, and stream buffers are designed to absorb increasingly severe flood events, while a system of boardwalks provides low-impact circulation through wet areas and opens access to wild-harvesting zones and recreational spaces.
At the heart of the campus, a new energy center is positioned beside the existing production greenhouses. This hub includes a large educational garden and a timber-framed roundhouse that terraces down to a lawn overlooking the pond and restored wetland ecosystem—framed by the orchard beyond. The roundhouse offers flexible space for classes, community gatherings, graduations, and seasonal celebrations, strengthening Kroka’s mission to connect young people to land, learning, and one another.
Stowe Farmhouse
With Winterwood Timber Frames
Stowe, VT
The Vermont Farmhouse was envisioned as a refined family retreat set near the base of Mount Mansfield. Offering 3,030 square feet of living space, the home includes four bedrooms, three and a half baths, generous amenities, and sweeping views of the Green Mountains, complemented by a 770-square-foot two-car garage. Its traditional farmhouse character is elevated with modern detailing and porches and patios that extend living and entertaining spaces into the surrounding landscape.
Sketches
This sketch represents some thoughts around the adaptive reuse of mill buildings into mixed-use spaces that reimagine how we live and work, housing civic space, offices, studios, and apartments.
This Earth-embedded dwelling concept offers exceptional thermal performance via the thermal mass of the surrounding soil, while reducing the energy demand and carbon footprint. The dwelling disappears into the landscape, preserves the viewshed, and reduces the ecological impact on the land. Moreover, these earthen dwellings are often more fire-resistant, less vulnerable to high winds, and resilient to extreme weather events.
This sketch depicts a single-floor dwelling with passive air conditioning. Cold air sinks into the stone cooling well, shown in the foreground. Warm air rises through the exhaust stack, shown above the house. When the cooling well and exhaust stack are opened, a pressure gradient is activated that pushes cool air throughout the dwelling, pulling warm air out. The stone wing houses the sleeping corridors while the glass wing houses the living corridors. Large glass doors slide to open the living room up to the courtyard, with the cooling well at its center.
Above is a 10-sided, 2-floor treehouse concept with decks on each floor. Light and air floods the treehouse and creates a storybook setting. By night the treehouse glows like a lantern, suspended between ground and canopy, conjuring imaginations of Middle Earth.
Woodworking
The Sugar House
Ferrisburg, VT
The Sugarhouse was conceived as a compact home with an outsized commitment to sustainability. The clients embraced passive design strategies to minimize energy use and reduce long-term infrastructure costs. South-facing glazing welcomes low winter sun for warmth, while generous overhangs provide shade and natural cooling in summer. Thermal-mass walls surrounding the wood stove absorb heat by day and release it slowly through long winter nights. A maple-sugar-house-inspired cupola offers a cozy lofted retreat while functioning as a passive cooling stack in the summer months, drawing warm air upward and replacing it with cooler air through lower-level windows.
An open floor plan, thoughtfully designed built-ins, and expansive windows define each space with light, clarity, and elegance. The result is a home that feels simultaneously compact yet spacious, and unmistakably tied to the rhythms of its environment.
Sawin Hill Homestead
Bethel, ME
The Sawin Hill Homestead is a multi-generational retreat designed for a father–daughter duo seeking a shared family sanctuary. Perched atop a southeast-facing slope, the compound consists of two modest homes and a flexible shed-turned-music studio, each positioned to capture sweeping views of the pond and valley below. The buildings share a cohesive architectural language—stained wood siding, generous porches, vaulted living spaces, and lofted bedrooms—creating a unified sense of place.
The 12-acre site comprises eight acres of Northern hemlock–hardwood forest that rise to a prominent overlook, and four acres of open grassland. An intermittent stream emerges from the woods and traces the driveway, shaping opportunities for ecological restoration. The landscape design transforms the property into a productive and resilient homestead: a quarter-acre native pollinator meadow, a three-quarter-acre edible landscape featuring an eight-bed vegetable garden and “food forest” orchard of berries, apples, and stone fruits, and a half-acre low-mow lawn for gathering and recreation. The remaining two and a half acres of grassland are preserved for a future donkey pasture, aligning the project with the clients’ vision of an outdoor-oriented, working landscape.
Sawin Hill Homestead
Bethel, ME
The Sawin Hill Homestead is a multi-generational retreat designed for a father–daughter duo seeking a shared family sanctuary. Perched atop a southeast-facing slope, the compound consists of two modest homes and a flexible shed-turned-music studio, each positioned to capture sweeping views of the pond and valley below. The buildings share a cohesive architectural language—stained wood siding, generous porches, vaulted living spaces, and lofted bedrooms—creating a unified sense of place.
The 12-acre site comprises eight acres of Northern hemlock–hardwood forest that rise to a prominent overlook, and four acres of open grassland. An intermittent stream emerges from the woods and traces the driveway, shaping opportunities for ecological restoration. The landscape design transforms the property into a productive and resilient homestead: a quarter-acre native pollinator meadow, a three-quarter-acre edible landscape featuring an eight-bed vegetable garden and “food forest” orchard of berries, apples, and stone fruits, and a half-acre low-mow lawn for gathering and recreation. The remaining two and a half acres of grassland are preserved for a future donkey pasture, aligning the project with the clients’ vision of an outdoor-oriented, working landscape.
The Bungalow
With Yestermorrow Design/Build School
The Bungalow tiny house concept elevates compact living into a bright and efficient space. Within its 25-foot by 8-foot footprint, the home accommodates a living room, two beds, a full kitchen with an eat-in bar, and a full bathroom featuring a Japanese soaking tub and composting toilet. At each end, lift-up roof sections—reminiscent of classic pop-top camper vans—rise an additional 18 inches, creating a more spacious interior and enhancing natural ventilation during the summer months.