Bright Built Barn

Rockport, Maine

USGBC LEED for Homes 2009 Innovative Project of the Year

LEED Platinum Certified

Treehugger.com’s 2008 Best Single Family Project

Building: Kaplan Thompson Architects

Site Planning / Landscape Design

Bright Built Barn was a cross-disciplinary collaboration to design and build an ecologically sustainable, pre-fabricated small building with net zero carbon emissions. AKD worked closely with client, architect and builder throughout the project, ensuring a well-coordinated construction staging and planning process that minimized damage to the existing, beautiful native Maine landscape. AKD developed a post-construction landscape restoration plan, re-establishing the original plant community and adding new native species to increase biodiversity and food reserves for local animal and insect populations.

SITE RESTORATION USING LANDFORM GRADING, NATIVE SHRUBS AND BLUEBERRY SOD

FINAL GRADING WITHIN A CONSTRAINED CONSTRUCTION FOOTPRINT

BARRENS RE-ESTABLISHED, FIRST YEAR