#westport

This building utilizes a cost-effective, prefabricated structural system clad in fiber cement to create a refined shed for new 8 court squash facility for Greens Farms Academy, a private K-12 school in Westport, Connecticut. A school-bus yellow paneled frame marks the entry portal. Two cylindrical chimneys encompass all the exhaust from the building while creating a balanced façade. Paúl Rivera Paúl Rivera Paúl Rivera More

This project created a permanent home for the performing arts program at Greens Farms Academy, a private pre-K through 12 school in Westport, Connecticut. The challenge was to position a large theatre, gallery, and additional classrooms in a prominent location on the school’s 40-acre campus overlooking Long Island Sound. Paúl Rivera The solution was to depress the mass of the new 18,000 square foot building into the naturally sloping grade, separate program components, and create new outdoor spaces. A classroom addition positioned at the end of an existing classroom corridor overlooks an exterior theatre courtyard. Paúl Rivera The theatre and gallery spaces, depressed gracefully into the site, are accessed by... More

Rooted in a traditional setting, beachside creates the appearance of a traditional home from afar, with a very contemporary spin. The gabled forms and familiar door and window openings respond to the regional and historic precedent of the area, however the fiber cement siding, zinc roof and steel sash windows announce the present. Paúl Rivera Paúl Rivera Programmatically, it is a series of four gabled forms containing shared public spaces below and bedrooms above, linked by a central glass arcade made up of large full height windows and doors. The glass connector functions as the front door, where upon entry, visitors peer through a thick punctuated wall to the central, double height great room. The whole house is d... More

Compelling and ambiguous, this underground pool house is experienced as an apparition in the landscape along the coast of the Long Island Sound. Set into a subtle incline just before the land drops off to meet the beachfront, it is almost invisible as one approaches from the main entrance of the estate. From this point of arrival, the only hint of what lies below is a series of glass skylights cut into the ground. The structure faces the sound through full-height glass walls that bring daylight into the interiors and retract to give access to a terrace that is shaded by a brise-soleil. The central interior space is clean, minimalist, and unoccupied except for the 75-foot-long lap pool with a floor-to-ceiling glass wall at one end to provide... More