There is a farmhouse just beside the barn where couples can get ready for the big day with their bridal party or family. The front of the venue features a stone patio with a beautiful canopy of twisted branches and vines — the perfect spot for an intimate ceremony. Just off the patio is a large, open, indoor room with windows lining either side and a large fireplace in the center.
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Home School Show. Consumer E-Newsletter. Fall LongWeekends Co-Op. Summer Co-Op. Holiday Happenings Co-Op. Featured Listing Package. The owner and design team were flexible and open to opportunities that became available during the renovation process; materials were regularly evaluated for inclusion, reuse, and recycling. Renovating a barn from animal storage to human habitation required a thorough cleaning of all exposed surfaces. As an added precaution, the indoor air quality was tested and analyzed prior to occupancy.
This new interpretive center serves the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy WPC mission to reconnect people to natural communities by providing a location for new conservation-based education and outreach programs.
Twenty miles of free trails are open for year-round use on the 5,acre reserve owned by WPC. As a center for conservation education, the Barn at Fallingwater is a resource for the local community as well as the many visitors to Fallingwater. The intent of the design and programming of the facility was to help visitors understand and connect to the natural forest environment and learn about green building techniques.
Although most visitors arrive by car, the center is connected to Fallingwater via the network of trails through the Bear Run Nature Preserve. A new parking lot, with three handicap-reserved parking spots near the entrance, was built to provide a safer, more accessible approach to the building.
The number of parking spaces on the site is greater than the facility requires, as the Barn is part of a large land reserve. The team felt that using this existing parking area for shaded bus parking reducing the need for buses are to idle for air-conditioning provided the best stewardship of the existing natural campus.
Icons of an agrarian heritage, barns are utilitarian structures. As in most of the country, the rural heritage and agrarian way of life in Western Pennsylvania is threatened by urban sprawl.
The adaptive reuse of the structure and farmstead secures a long life for the structures and the local environs. Tourists visiting Fallingwater and Ohio Pile State Park will have the opportunity to experience the trails of the Laurel Highlands and the environmental mission of the conservancy from the Barn at Fallingwater.
As such, the multifaceted program truly enriched the architecture, and the first exhibit, "A Fallingwater Homecoming," celebrated the strong tie the community has to this beautiful mountain landscape. The immediate site is composed of former hay fields and a terraced parking area.
The larger site is second-growth evergreen and deciduous forest. Improvements to the site were approached with a light hand, and development was kept strictly to the open and previously disturbed areas. No trees were removed; in fact, 39 new native trees were planted. The planting palette for the Barn at Fallingwater was chosen to reflect the natural succession of an open site to a native Appalachian Oak Forest.
All species used, with the exception of a minimal lawn area, are native to the immediate locality and are well adapted to site conditions. No irrigation system was installed. The trees — red maple Acer rubrum , red oak Quercus rubra , white pine Pinus strobus , and serviceberry Amelanchier canadensis — grow naturally in the forests of this area.
Seed mixes used in the wetland and meadow areas are composed of native grasses and forbs. Shrubs planted at the edges of the wetland are native wetland species. Bear Run, which runs through the property and receives runoff from the site, has been designated a Pennsylvania Exceptional Value Stream.
Every effort was made to filter and slow the existing and new stormwater runoff before it enters this stream. A decentralized system of bioswales, retention areas, and naturalized basins captures and filters the runoff from the parking lots and surrounding upland.
All of the stormwater from the paving is captured in these areas. Post-development stormwater runoff rates for a 1. Protecting the local ecology required building a large bat house to accommodate the colony of Myotis lucifigus small brown bat and Eptesicus fuscus big brown bat displaced from the rafters of the renovated upper barn. The bat house, which faces south, is situated 20 feet from the edge of the woods, adjacent to one of the bioswale retention areas.
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