Patkau Architects’ winning design for six small, efficient and sustainable cottages will serve as the basis of a final design, to be implemented following regulatory approval and fundraising.
The six houses will be submerged in the landscape of 5,000-acre Bear Run Nature Reserve and provide accommodation for visitors involved in the Fallingwater Institute’s educational programs.
The Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, which preserves and maintains Fallingwater, will build these cottages. The design competition is the first that Fallingwater has sponsored for the construction of new buildings on-site.
The second-place winner of the competition is Arizona-based Wendell Burnette Architects, while the third place was secured by Olson Kundig Architects of Seattle, Washington.
