Grow Box is a 1975sf (185 m2) home in Lexington, MA, designed for an MIT University Professor, his wife, and their young son. The landscape surrounding the house is elaborately planted, with over 40 different varieties of Japanese maple trees painstakingly cultivated and maintained by the clients.  

© John Horner

Architects: Merge Architects

Location: United States, Lexington, MA, USA

Area: 1975.0 ft2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: John Horner

Principal In Charge: Elizabeth Whittaker

Project Manager: Amit Oza

Project Designer: Allison Austin

Project Team: Jamie Pelletier, Anne-Sophie Divenyi, Duncan Scovil
Structural Engineer: Evan Hankin

Steel Fabricator: Ramos Iron Work

General Contractor: Evergreen Group Company, Inc

© John Horner

From the architect. Grow Box is a 1975sf (185 m2) home in Lexington, MA, designed for an MIT University Professor, his wife, and their young son. The landscape surrounding the house is elaborately planted, with over 40 different varieties of Japanese maple trees painstakingly cultivated and maintained by the clients.  

© John Horner

The extents of the existing gardens limited the footprint of the new house, and inspired an architecture that utilizes landscape to affe...