This project is the new office space for Greenway Studio Architecture and is located on a forested rural residential property next to a single family home.

• The office includes work spaces for five people, a small washroom, good natural lighting, storage, and a multi purpose breezeway.

• The interior organizes a collage of images on the wall and creates a strong, but not distracting, connection with the outdoors.

• The office is sited in relation to the main house as to complete an entry courtyard and to blend with existing landforms.

• The design combines a rolling glulam post and beam structure with glass directly inset into the structure with a custom attachment system with very low thermal bridging.

• The living roof controls rain water runoff, covers 30 cm of roof insulation, mitigates interior temperature in the hottest and coldest days, and is populated with native vegetation and pollinators.

• Existing land forms and rocks from the site are accentuated and adjusted to root the building to the site.

• Energy use is mitigated by overhangs designed to passively control solar gain, triple glazed windows, thick insulation, and a high efficiency heat pump.