Temporary photography while we schedule the professional photographers.

A new family getaway on a tiny private island. KMA designed this camp to meet the stringent and complex expansion requirements allowed in Maine Shoreland Zonng and assisted the owner in navigating the zonng board review and approval process.

Collaborators:

Interior Design: Banks Design Associates

Contractor: Taggart Construction

A temporary photograph while we schedule the professional photographers.

A new water front family camp on Cobbosseecontee Lake in Manchester Maine. This modern lake front camp was designed to replace a pair of small, dilapidated camps. KMA designed this camp to meet the stringent expansion requirements allowed in the shorefont zonng and assisted the owner in navigating the zonng board of appeals approval process.

Collaborators:

Interior Design: Jeanne Handy Designs

Contractor: Bruce Cameron, Cameron Builders

An addition and interior renovation in Portland Maine's East End.

Temporary photography while we schedule the professional photographers. A new family home on Long Island in Casco Bay. The interior is brilliant. We can't wait to show it to you (but we've been asked to...)

Collaborators:

Interior Design: Jeanne Handy Designs

Contractor: Phil Fabiano

An expansion of the always wonderful Frontier Cafe, Cinema, and Gallery. This expansion allows frontier to add a cafe and event space to their space at The Fort Andross Mill in Brunswick, Maine.

Collaborators:

Photogtapher: Darren Setlow Photography

Long gone were the livestock and recently gone were the antiques, car, and outdoor gear to make way for a new lifetime home for retiring back to the family farm. The existing composition reflected the the Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn pattern in it’s own Little house, Tiny House, Back House, Barn way. A simple concept governed the program; the barn becomes new living space, the little house becomes guest space, and the ell closest to the barn becomes a screened porch where all can come together. The memory of the barn’s former life is preserved through interior and exterior detailing and finishes.

Collaborators:

Interior Design: Jeanne Handy Designs

Contractor: Taggart Construction

Photogtapher: Randy Ashey

In it's orange shag carpeted heyday this home was featured in Family Circle magazine as an example of passive solar design. Our renovation prepared this Scarborough, Maine mid-century gem for the next 50 years with new windows, a new mudroom, and a bedroom addition sympathetic to the roof forms of the original house. Images illustrate before and after conditions.

Collaborators:

Contractor: Taggart Construction

Photogtapher: Randy Ashey

Terrapin Passive House has been Pre-certified by PHIUS to meet the Passive House standard. The term passive house refers to a rigorous, voluntary standard for energy efficiency in a building, reducing its ecological footprint. It results in ultra-low energy buildings that require little energy for space heating or cooling. More from Wikipedia...

Collaborators:

Passive House Consultant: Marc Rosenbaum, Energysmiths

Designed for Taggart Construction

Urban infill multi-unit apartment building twins in Portland's East Bayside neighborhood.

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  "Thank you so kindly for showing us the apartment . The building design and apartment interiors are beautiful and we look forward to living in a such an appropriate and fine space. "

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Collaborators:

Structural Engineer: Albert Putnam, PE

Landscape Architect: Carroll Associates

Civil Engineer: Blais Civil Engineers

A modest kitchen addition in South Portland Maine.

Improvements to the facades of two local business in Portland's East Bayside neighborhood - Portland's Greener Cleaner and Maine Green Performance Building Supply

AIA Maine Ideas Competition 2009 Award for Excellence winner

In collaboration with Cowles Studio Landscape Architecture

See coverage in Maine Home + Design

A renovation of a Duck hunting camp into a new family getaway. The new cottage reuses an existing foundation as the basis for new a refined camp.

Interior rendering of a home bar and lounge space. (Note, this project was not in Rio. The backdrop image was added just for fun.)

Competition entry for a Sufi temple in the Berkshire Mountains of New York.

The fire left behind a stone foundation, which is a tie to the earth and a tie the earlier community who erected it. This masonry artifact is a symbol of continuity and a bridge to the past. This foundation is within a circle of quartz stones set on the ground. This ring of stone is to be planted throughout with low bush blueberries. This humble plant defines the temple precinct as distinct from the surrounding forest floor. The seasonal changes of the plant animate the site. From early spring leaves, to white berries, to red berries, to deep blue-purple berries, to vibrant red autumn leaves, the plant reminds us of nature's cycles.

Materials have been selected to embody the present time and place and to demonstrate the cycles of nature. The timbers are joined with pegs and joinery that evidence the human hands that have shaped the natural material. Copper panels weather throughout the seasons and display the passage of time. The canvas is enlivened by sunlight that makes it glow and the moving shadows cast by the surrounding trees. The banners at the perimeter of the oculus are animated as the passing breeze catches them. The Universel displays the natural processes of its specific place on the earth.

Images of projects in the works. Contact me if you'd like to see yours here.