{"id":728443,"date":"2026-04-14T23:52:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T23:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/728443\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T23:52:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T23:52:25","slug":"payette-creates-timber-farm-stand-in-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/728443\/","title":{"rendered":"Payette creates timber farm stand in Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"

US studio Payette<\/a> has completed a pro-bono project called Land’s Sake Farmstand in Massachusetts<\/a>, USA, designed as a “functional and poetic” timber pavilion<\/a> that emulates early agrarian buildings.<\/p>\n

Located just outside of Boston, the building is part of a community farm in Weston, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

\"PayettePayette has designed a farm stand in Massachusetts<\/p>\n

The site is owned by Land’s Sake<\/a>, a nonprofit focused on environmental education, land management and food donation programmes. The site includes growing areas for a wide range of produce and a pick-your-own flower garden.<\/p>\n

Working on a pro bono basis, Boston-based Payette<\/a> designed a master plan for the organisation’s 40-acre (16-hectare) site starting in 2018, calling for the construction of several new buildings.<\/p>\n

\"TimberThe structure serves as a gathering place and shop<\/p>\n

The farm stand is the fourth building to be completed (the others include greenhouses and a barn). Positioned along the site’s central axis, the building was conceived as “a heavy timber pavilion set within the landscape”.<\/p>\n

“The design deliberately preserves uninterrupted views across the agricultural landscape while drawing on the vernacular logic of early agrarian buildings,” the team said.<\/p>\n

“The new farmstand exemplifies an architecture that is both functional and poetic, rooted in the rhythms of New England farming while aspiring to a regenerative future.”<\/p>\n

\"PayettePayette’s farm stand was conceived as a “heavy timber pavilion” in the landscape<\/p>\n

Rectangular in plan, the building is topped with a gabled roof, sized to accommodate a large photovoltaic array.\u00a0 The metal-clad roof extends outward to provide shade.<\/p>\n

Along the south and west elevations, the eaves cover areas for produce displays and casual seating.<\/p>\n

\"FramingIt has a hybrid structure that utilises standard timber and mass-timber elements<\/p>\n

The building features a hybrid structural system. A traditional frame is made of Douglas fir columns and beams, while cross-laminated-timber (CLT) panels provide lateral support for the frame.<\/p>\n

Exterior walls are a mix of rough-sawn pine siding and glazing, including retractable panels that enable the building to be opened up to the outdoors.<\/p>\n

\"PinePine wood clads the interiors<\/p>\n

Inside the farm stand, there is a mix of public and support spaces.<\/p>\n

The front portion, which faces the fields, contains a commercial market and a demonstration kitchen, which are meant to act “as a social hub for growers and visitors”.<\/p>\n

\"LoftA loft was designed to be a workspace<\/p>\n

The rear area contains storage, a staff office, a walk-in cooler and a vegetable-washing area. Sliding doors lined with polycarbonate<\/a> panels draw in filtered daylight.<\/p>\n

A loft is located above the support areas and is used as a workspace and as a small venue for educational programming.<\/p>\n

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Payette creates sculptural Ragon Institute on triangular site in Massachusetts\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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The building was designed to achieve net-zero energy performance. Solar panels generate power for the building, while passive design strategies help reduce energy consumption.<\/p>\n

The team was also mindful of water conservation, leading to the inclusion of a system for collecting and reusing rainwater.<\/p>\n

\"MetalThe building was designed for net-zero energy performance<\/p>\n

The landscape was only lightly altered during the project.<\/p>\n

“Landscape interventions prioritise existing paths and protect mature trees and cultivated fields, reinforcing the agricultural landscape as the project’s defining framework,” the team said.<\/p>\n

\"PayetteThe building’s deep eaves cover the large spans of glass<\/p>\n

Payette is known for designing large, complex buildings, such as research buildings and healthcare facilities.<\/p>\n

Recent projects by the studio include an engineering building with a “folded form”<\/a> at Penn State University and a research facility in Cambridge<\/a>, Massachusetts, that features a doughnut-shaped terrace and green roofs.<\/p>\n

The photography is by Warren Jagger<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US studio Payette has completed a pro-bono project called Land’s Sake Farmstand in Massachusetts, USA, designed as a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":728444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[32],"tags":[648,1032,107745,1033,171,287018,67601,2739,61774,301570,36316,92915,92916,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-728443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-cross-laminated-timber","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-gables","tag-mass-timber","tag-massachusetts","tag-net-zero","tag-payette","tag-pine","tag-sectionall","tag-sectionarchitecture","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116405755288124672","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}