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SUSTAINABLE DESIGNCASE STUDY
IN GENUINE STONE - Willow School in New Jersey
- Jefferson Hall West Point Library in New York
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Project Type: Independent K-8 Day School Location: Gladstone, New Jersey, USA Architect: Ford Farewell Mills & Gatsch, Architects, LLC
Construction: Phase I – 2003 Rating: LEED Gold
The Willow School
Front entrance of The Willow School
The Willow School
Foundation and Goals for the School
> Sustainability
> Whole Systems Integration
> Energy savings was important, as well as the creation of a healthy indoor environment that feels good to students and faculty
> A firm belief among the project team: “The building should resonate with our human biology, evolutionary experience and reflect an understanding of ecological process and teach us that we are connected to the larger community of life.”
3 Top: Recycled stone and wood beams;Bottom: Native planting
The Willow School
Foundation and Goals for the School
•Establishing a Sense of Place-the history of the local area included
stone quarryng
•Defining a 150-year Life Cycle
4The surrounding site and its connection to
place
The Willow School
Foundation and Goals for the School
• Regional Vernacular Response to the Environment
• Integrated Curriculum
• Regenerative Approach – a process where humans participate with nature so that both human and natural systems can grow and co-evolve together
• Highly Collaborative Process – including all stakeholders who may affect or be effected by the project and ensuring that they are involved early in the process
5 Top: Recycled metal roofingBottom: Salvaged timber framing
The Willow School
A Process that Supported the Use of Local, Recycled Stone
> Experience in salvaging old barns
> A good barn may yield 400-500
tons of stone
> Stone supplier, Wood Natural
Restoration
> Worked closely with local building
officials since much of this was new to
the officials
> Local Amish mason from Gladstone,
New Jersey, provided the stone
construction
6Constructing with recycled stone
The Willow School
Stone Details
Classrooms used the remains of two barns and a house from Eastern Pennsylvania dating to the 19th century.
• 75% hand-cut limestone
Old Stone originally not mortared together; cracks were filled with mix of clay and lime. Wood framing could be removed, walls toppled over, and stone simply washed with water.
Other recycled stonework included: • Bluestone flagstones disturbed from their
original site by Boston’s Big Dig• Granite curbing from an interstate
exchange in Connecticut
7 Stone transitions easily and naturally from the building’s interior to exterior
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