American firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson has turned a garage close to Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater house into an education centre for summer residency students.

High Meadow Studio will be used as a hub for the Fallingwater Institute's architecture, art and design programmes, which take place at the Pennsylvania landmark each year. The building is located a short walk from the cabins that accommodate participants, which Bohlin Cywinski Jackson completed in 2017.

The firm has now renovated and extended an outbuilding on the estate, which was already used as a studio for the students, to create a more spacious facility.
"The garage's size limited the programme's capacity, while the lack of natural daylight, views, and ventilation disconnected the space from the adjacent meadow," said a project description.
The team doubled the garage's existing footprint, adding spaces for fabrication, reviews, storage and other services. A new outdoor work area is intended to strengthen the connection to the rural setting.
Repurposing the old building as a workshop involved re-skinning its timber frame, and adding translucent double doors to let in diffused light.

The addition on the side deepest into the forest has a fully translucent north wall, and a full-length surface for pinning work to the south. A single window overlooks the porch and the trees beyond.
Between this studio space and the workshop, a pair of red-stained plywood volumes house the ancillary functions.

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