Carroll Hall is a hidden botanical walled garden and series of buildings that explore material reuse of the site and ideas of time travel and ecology to create immersive, unlikely experiences. Visitors continually discover the unexpected within an architecture of crafted materials and unconventional construction techniques. The buildings breathe with automated windows and skylights to naturally ventilate. Handmade mosaic murals tell stories of underground creatures. There are moving walls and secret doors. The plants are an idealized woodland, dressed-up cousins of what might have grown along the edges of fields and farms past.

The wall that contains the garden is an artwork constructed of pieces from previous buildings on site—from 16,000 years ago to today. It is a time machine. Designers reused over 11,000 salvaged bricks from the demolition of an existing warehouse to create a 200-foot long streetwall of reassembled bricks and stones, illustrating the material history of the site in an impressionistic tapestry.

Sunday Tours: 12pm, 1pm, and 2pm

Half-hour tours will be led by architect Christopher Dameron. The tour will provide guests with information to enrich their own discovery of the space. The tour will touch on ecology, ideas of time travel, and material origins and reuse.

Family Programming: Dameron Architecture will provide a “scavenger hunt” postcard to inspire self-exploration of the street wall and artwork, “A Wall Made of Bricks.”

The guided tour will be fully wheelchair accessible. There is one area of the site that guests are welcome to self-explore, but it is not wheelchair accessible. This is an indoor/outdoor space, and the majority of the tour will be outside. Dress accordingly and comfortably. Children must be supervised at all times for their own safety.