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Piene Farm Artists' Co-Housing
Groton, MA
Moonlight Studio
Tim Hess, Studio Director
Dillon Hanratty
Ann Walters
Briana McBride
Harry Solie
Todd Fulshaw
Sarah Naznik
Brandon Sylvia
People in the Piene Farm neighborhood will live in small private homes gathered around a hilltop courtyard. Views over shared hillside gardens in the middle-distance will sweep out to the horizon, where the tower of the Groton School's chapel pierces the canopy, and Mt. Monadnock is visible.
Around the courtyard, a wind turbine generates power, an amphitheater sculpts and graduates the stormwater detention pond, and a maple-ringed earth berm shelters parking for a few shared vehicles.
Residents - including a jewelry-maker, musicians, painters, and a sculptor - keep small studios in their private homes and/or work in shared studios at The Barn. The flexible common building includes space for group activities like yoga, a stage for public performances, and a small gallery where the neighbor-artists' work is for sale to the public.
The project ennables a group of six couples of artist-friends to retire in the comfort of each other's company and pursuits, with a quality-of-life enriched by the otherwise out-of-reach ammenities which together they can afford.
