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Taking stock of the Ecoregion, its plant communities, and challenges.
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Nathan Izard’s Lower Education and Experience Pavilion is along the Illinois River as it moves through the Lake Frances site. This exploded axonometric drawing reveals assembly strategies for lightweight, flood-resilient construction.
Taking stock of species of concern and an inventory of the ‘new forest.’
Looking at the living community in the Lake Frances bottomlands.
This nature education center can be used as a pavilion for varying sizes of events. The architecture facilitates indoor and outdoor use.
The program diagrams of the building and its site reveal a direct relationship between activities, their needs, and their relationships. An outdoor shelter unites the programs under and occupiable green roof that lets people see the landscape.
An atrium is a core feature of the educational spaces in the nature center.
The materials of construction follow Living Building Challenge standards by being Just and Red List free.