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hand, is an old garage turned design studio. Shackled to an insufficient 800 square feet and lacking
natural daylight, views, and ventilation, the team repurposed the structure and extended its footprint to
accommodate a fabrication shop and varied workspaces. In replacing the building's opaque garage doors
with translucent panels, the studio now opens to considerably more light, diffused for work and review,
along with a view of lush forest and
ferns. Finally, the unassuming gabled
roofline of the existing structure now
extends over the new studio, breezeways
and outdoor work-porch.
Most striking is how High Meadow at
Fallingwater responds to the wondrous
natural landscape: entrance and exit
points bring students to communion
with the terrior and all paths meander.
One walks these routes and reconsiders
the myth: Wright rendering the plans
for Fallingwater in minutes, off the top
of his head, as if the idea had not in fact
been gestating from the moment he
saw how the attributes of the landscape
might be used. It's a wonderful story, but
even the very remarkable takes time. For
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, remarkable
took three years. "at's quite a bit of
time for a smaller project," Suhrbier
concedes. "But worth it." bcj.com
PHOTOGRAPHS:
COURTESY
OF(CLOCKWISE
FROM
TOP
LEFT)
HIGH
MEADOW
AT
FALLINGWATER
DWELLINGS,
NIC
LEHOUX;
THE
STUDIO,
BOHLIN
CYWINSKI
JACKSON;
DWELLINGS,
NIC
LEHOUX
