Fig.

1-The Falling Water

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Falling water

•Location
1491 Mill Run Rd, Mill Run, PA 15464, United States

•Architect
Frank Lloyd Wright

Project Year- 1939

 SYMBOLISM

Fig.11-The Falling Water

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Falling water is an existing living example of a building in harmony with

nature, people and architecture
What Frank Lloyd Wright achieved in this building was to place its
occupants in a close relationship to the surrounding beauty, the trees, the
foliage and the wild flowers.

The idea of a house being built on water was a curious idea. Wright
realised one thing that most of designers didn’t, “water always wins”
by building around the water and letting it take its natural course, he
was extremely successful with Falling Water both aesthetically and
functionally.
PERCEPTION

Fig.12-The Falling Water

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Fallingwater

•It connects the people and nature, and avoids an imprisoned feeling.
•By providing a visual connection with the environment, both people and
nature are brought together in harmony with each other.
•The location serves as an element that serves as a basis for the design. This is
the sense of the place. In the case of Falling Waters these are the falls, the
river bed, the rocks and the trees.
•People can experience two elements in the design: inside and outside. In
Falling Waters, it is the view and ‘smell’ of the waterfall. It’s movement and
sound. Inside the building, the rocks and the material usage ensures harmony.
Pennsylvania in the Bear Run Nature Reserve where a stream flows at 1298 feet
above sea level and suddenly breaks to fall at 30 feet, Frank Lloyd Wright designed
an extraordinary house known as Falling water that redefined the relationship
between man, architecture, and nature. The house was built as a weekend home for
owners Mr. Edgar Kaufmann, his wife, and their son, whom he developed a
friendship with through their son who was studying at Wright's school, the Taliesin
Fellowship.

Fig.3-Ground Floor Plan

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The waterfall had been the family's retreat for fifteen years and when they
commissioned Wright to design the house they envisioned one across from the
waterfall, so that they could have it in their view. Instead, Wright integrated the
design of the house with the waterfall itself, placing it right on top of it to make
it a part of the Kaufmanns' lives.

Fig.4-First Floor Plan

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Wright's admiration for Japanese architecture was important in his inspiration for
this house, along with most of his work. Just like in Japanese architecture, Wright
wanted to create harmony between man and nature, and his integration of the house
with the waterfall was successful in doing so.

Fig.5 The Ball From Japenese Architecture Fig.6-Outside View Of The Falling Water
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The house was meant to compliment its site while still competing with the drama
of the falls and their endless sounds of crashing water. The power of the falls is
always felt, not visually but through sound, as the breaking water could
constantly be heard throughout the entire house.
Wright revolved the design of the house around the fireplace, the hearth of the home
which he considered to be the gathering place for the family. Here a rock cuts into the
fireplace, physically bringing in the waterfall into the house. He also brings notice to
this concept by dramatically extending the chimney upwards to make it the highest
point on the exterior of the house.

Fig.7-Second Floor Plan

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Fallingwater consists of two parts: The main house of the clients which was built
between 1936-1938, and the guest room which was completed in 1939. The original
house contains simple rooms furnished by Wright himself, with an open living room
and compact kitchen on the first floor, and three small bedrooms located on the
second floor. The third floor was the location of the study and bedroom of Edgar Jr.,
the Kaufmann's son.The rooms all relate towards the house's natural surroundings,
and the living room even has steps that lead directly into the water below.

Fig.8-Part 2,Guest Room Area

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Fig.9 Interior view
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The circulation through the house consists
of dark, narrow passageways, intended this
way so that people experience a feeling of
compression when compared to that of
expansion the closer they get to the
outdoors. The ceilings of the rooms are low,
reaching only up to 6'4" in some places, in
order to direct the eye horizontally to look
outside. The beauty of these spaces is found
in their extensions towards nature, done
with long cantilevered terraces. Shooting
out at a series of right angles, the terraces
add an element of sculpture to the houses
aside from their function.

The terraces form a complex, overriding

horizontal force with their protrusions that
liberated space with their risen planes parallel
to the ground. In order to support them, Wright
worked with engineers Mendel Glickman and
William Wesley Peters. Their solution was in
Fig.10-Exterior view
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the materials.
The house took on "a definite masonry form" that related to the site,
and for the terraces they decided on a reinforced-concrete structure.
It was Wright's first time working with concrete for residences and
though at first he did not have much interest in the material, it had the
flexibility to be cast into any shape, and when reinforced with steel it
gained an extraordinary tensile strength.

The exterior of Falling Water enforces a strong horizontal pattern

with the bricks and long terraces. The windows on the facade have
also have a special condition where they open up at the corners,
breaking the box of the house and opening it to the vast outdoors
 UNIQUE
FEATURES

• ELIMINATE THE SENSE

Fig.13-The Falling Water Sketch
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OF BEING LOCKED UP
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IN A ROOM OR SPACE
• CREATES A
Fig.14,15-The Falling Water
COMPOSITION OUT OF Source-
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PLANES AND SCREENS Fallingwater
 • HORIZONTAL PLANES CONNECT THE ROCKY HILLSIDE
WITH THE RIVER
ANCHORING
THE BUILDING
IN ITS
SURROUNDINGS

• LIFT THE STRUCTURE OUT OF THE RIVERBED BY THE

USE OF CONCRETE SLABS TO CREATE A VIEW OVER
THE RIVER
ESTABLISH A
VISUAL CONNECTION
WITH THE
ENVIRONMENT
 • LET OPENINGS ARISE OUT OF THE COMPOSITION OF
PLANES AND SCREENS

LET OPENINGS FORM ON A

NATURAL WAY

• USE COMBINATIONS OF MATERIALS AND ORNAMENTS

FROM THE SURROUNDINGS
RESPECT THE
IDENTITY OF THE
SITE
 • THE SUNLIGHT REACHES THE BUILDING MAINLY FROM
ABOVE

INCORPORATE
CLIMATE CONTROL
AND FURNITURE IN
THE ARCHITECTURE

• THE BUILDING BECOMES AN OPTICAL PART OF THE CREATE A BUILDING

WATERFALL THAT IS IN
ACCORDANCE WITH
THE SENSE OF THE PLACE