Greensboro Children's Museum

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This small but meaningful project provided a new 480 sf greenhouse for the Miriam P. Brenner Children’s Museum in downtown Greensboro, NC. Located within The Edible Schoolyard, this fully custom cedar structure expanded the museum’s teaching garden facilities.

Cedar was chosen for its natural durability and stability. Another valued characteristic was its ability to weather beautifully and sit well alongside the existing structures within the garden, a crucial part of the museum's brief.

The asymmetrical roof form provides a south facing bias to increase midday sun exposure. The southern slope is pitched at the optimal angle for light transmittance throughout the year. The dimensions of the structure were determined by standard sizes of lumber, cedar siding and polycarbonate sheet in order to minimize waste and reduce labor.

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"The Museum’s Edible Schoolyard features a hands-on, teaching garden and kitchen classroom where children will learn about the relationship between food, nature, and life through planting, tending, growing, harvesting, preparing, and cooking organic foods..."

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