Hub firm honored for sustainable design
Architerra Inc., a Boston architecture firm specializing in green buildings, said it has been honored by the American Institute of Architects for its design of a school project in Weston.
The project is the Garthwaite Center for Science & Art (shown above) at the Cambridge School of Weston, and the center made the institute's list of top 10 green projects for 2008, Architerra said.
The project team's environmental goals included preserving as many trees as possible on the school's wooded campus, said the firm, which added that the contours of the building's layout were designed to mimic the hillside that the building's floor levels sit on.
A partial green roof manages storm water and lowers heating and cooling loads, and the building is oriented to the south to take advantage of daylight and passive solar heating opportunities, the firm said.
(By Chris Reidy, Globe staff)
