A Geothermal House

A Geothermal House
When an architect and client click, a certain energy is sparked.

That's what happened when Cambridge, Massachusetts-based architect Maryann Thompson met the family of four who commissioned what would become the Geothermal House, on a 3-acre site outside of Boston.

According to Thompson, the wife of the couple with two adolescent children who were her clients for the project, had grown up in Litchfield, Connecticut, in a house built by an architect who worked for Marcel Breuer.

With Modernist principles so ingrained in her life, Thompson's client longed for a home that had the same transparency and connection to the outdoors she had grown up with. "It was more than just opening the house up to the outside," says Thompson.

"We wanted to actually 'exteriorize' the inside of the house and 'interiorize' the outside."

The 3-acre site was ideal for this approach.