Newton Residence

NEWTON RESIDENCE
Newton, Massachusetts

Heimarck & Foglia, LLC worked closely with the architects to site this new home in order to take advantage of the unusual wooded slope lot, maximize natural light into the house, provide recognizable street relationships to the front, and design a vehicular access which both capitalized on using the disturbed portions of the site, minimized views of the car, and provided an outdoor play area for a family of growing boys. The house is at the nexus of three distinct garden types: the open estate front lawn with shade trees rolling into the sunken parking court; a woodland garden enhancing the preserved trees and privacy, with a family outdoor deck; and working garden for vegetables and cutting flowers.

This new home beautifully combines materials to give it the patina of age and belonging to the older neighborhood, while employing recycled materials in the interior and green technologies on the exterior: porous pavement; rainwater recovery systems for irrigation and cleaning; solar technologies; and a largely native plant pallette. It is a model of environmentally responsible technologies inside and out.

In collaboration with Miller/Boehm Architects