Article source: Mithun

The Sustainability Treehouse, an interactive interpretive and gathering facility in the forest, was conceived and created as a unique icon of outdoor adventure, environmental stewardship and high performance building design. It provides dynamic educational and gathering spaces for exploring and understanding the site and ecosystem at the levels of ground, tree canopy, and sky. It captures the wonder of childhood adventure and places environmental education at the forefront of meaningful and immersive outdoor experiences for thousands of annual visitors.

Immersive exhibit volumes connected through dynamic circulation experiences.,Image Courtesy © Joe Fletcher

• Architects: Mithun
• Project: Sustainability Treehouse
• Location: West Virginia, U.S.A
• Photography: Joe Fletcher
• Software used: Revit
  
• Executive Architect/Architect Of Record: BNIM
• Project Completion Date: July, 2013
• Landscape Architect: Nelson Byrd Woltz
• Structural Engineering: Tipping Mar
• Mep Engineer: Integral Group
• Exhibit Design: Volume, Inc./ Studio Terpeluk
• Lighting Design: Dave Nelson & Associates
• Geotechnical: S&ME
• Code Consultant: FP&C Consultants
• Contractor: Swope Construction
• Client: Boy Scouts of America / Trinity Works
• Site Area: 10,000 acres

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