Minnesota
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Project • By Strand Design(2) • Private Houses
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Where open field meets wooded hillside at White Oaks Savanna, near Stillwater, Minnesota, Strand Design designed a low, grounded home drawn from the region's agrarian buildings. Dark, vertically clad gabled volumes with metal roofs sit in a meadow of grasses and wildflowers, and natural wood siding lets the house settle quietly into the landscape.
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The gables frame a planted courtyard and are joined by a glass link, so the plan reads as a small cluster of farm buildings rather than a single large house. Patios, a dining terrace, a screened porch and a covered entry tie the house to the lawn and plantings around it. Inside, the open living, dining and kitchen rooms s... More
Project • By MSR Design (Meyer, Scherer & Rockcastle, Ltd.) • Information Centres
Three Rivers Park District Eastman Nature Center
Three Rivers Park District’s goal for the new Eastman Nature Center is to create a stimulating learning environment that heightens the awareness of nature in a highly sustainable building.
The design integrates site, building, and exhibit design in order to create a holistic visitor experience in the forest. A long south facing glass facade brings in light, passive solar energy, and extends the exterior paths through the building from the understory on one end to the tree canopy on the other. An active solar array and a geothermal-based heating and cooling system provide much of the energy needs. Operable windows provide ventilation and bring in the sounds and smells of the forest. Roof water feeds a pond to draw birds and animals for... More