BumpZoid was one of four architects asked to submit a scheme to the Roger Tory Peterson Institute for the Study of Natural History.
We selected a site close to the road. In so doing, the Institute acts as a gateway to the largest possible unfettered site. The bulk of the property was left for the development of trails, bird-watch areas and landscaping.
The building, through its structure, detail, and orientation, joins the solid architectural history of Jamestown with the gentler landscape. Its main feature, the 'verandah', which faces south and into the site, would be open to the pond, meadow, and forest views and gain from maximum exposures to winter sun and summer breezes.
