The falling water is known for a masterpiece. This building is voted by The American institute of architect " the most significant building in the last one hundred twenty five years. The style of the building is Organic architecture.
This building is found in laurel highland western Pennsylvania. Its surrounded by nature. The falling water building is known for the best private house build by
Frank Lloyd Wright.
The story begins when the Edgar Kaufmann family needed a new weekend retreat in the mountains woods they loved. His design was magnificent. He placed the waterfall under the building. By the help of the Brocken edges, rocks it helps the waterfall easily and they created interesting visual features.
If you can see the falling water was thought really well in terms of the sighting. Normally architects thing in terms of putting the house facing the waterfall but that wasn't how Wright thought because he didn't care only how the building looks but also had to function well. He put the house on the waterfall because every room emits sunlight and it's something unique to view a waterfall.
The workers that worked on the constructed building was Wesley Peters a structural engineer, First on site the apprentice was Bob Mosier who begin the construction and took it to the second floor, and to the finish work on site, apprentice was Edgar Tafel.
When Franck Lloyd Wright designed the falling water he was almost 70 years old. He was known for his brilliance ideas and even he was rejected for his wild ideas. This building has various ideas, various emotions and various materials. The thing that I really like is every season it has different aspects of the house.
This building was built for the Edgar Kaufmann family to get away from the everyday city life and enjoy a relaxing, quiet nature house. the house is surrounded by these windows that create a panorama of plants. They are in a precise lined after each other. With the help of the framing it's giving a certain rhymed.
The construction began in spring 1936. Falling water was to make architecture history.
The stones were cut from North Korea just wast Falls. All work was done by local workers and contractor crew had to be trained by Wright ways. Many engineers when they saw the blueprint of the house they were extremely doubtful about the structure this is because they saw it impossible to place a heavy structure on the pieces of rock. But Wright has thought this well. So this was his technique he first builds a foundation and on top of the foundation, he placed another beam that stuck out above and over the foundation and on top of that beam more structure rested on it. This became the main support system for the entire building.
The material used where four type, stone which was coordinated on the corner of the site, concrete for the organic material, steel showing in the reinforcing of the concrete and included in the frames of the windows and glass. He designed the casement windows.
Frank Lloyd Wright designed as the interior furniture in a way to echo the house. All furniture has edges longer than normal furniture to give the feeling of balconies. The colours inside the house are warm earth colours to match the exterior view. Wright liked the colour Cherokee red and infect many pieces are that colour includes all the metalwork that was surrounded with the entire house.
The stonewalls Wright tried to match the surrounding natural stones. The floor of the interior is stone covered with waxed.
The living room is the most beautiful part of the house. He set the layout of the house really well. The living room open the steam below to a staircase that leads to the waterfall. From the living room, you can hear the sound of the waterfall.
Over one million people have visited this site. Falling water changes people thoughts towards Frank Lloyd Wright. He made a change to architecture.
Reference:
Noy Washington, 2013. The Falling Water House. [video online] Available at: < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvQZbC1OOZc > [Accessed 17 Aug 2013].
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