Helping Fallingwater Live On | Justin Gunther and Scott Perkins

How do you restore the only bridge to a World Heritage site that thousands of visitors cross each week? And as we look to the future, what repairs are needed to sustain Fallingwater for the next generation?
Join Justin Gunther, Conservancy vice president and director of Fallingwater, and Scott Perkins, director of preservation and collections, as they share the story behind major preservation projects accomplished in 2021 and the plans to care for Fallingwater into the coming years.
ABOUT FALLINGWATER:
Fallingwater is hailed internationally as a masterpiece of 20th century architecture and is Frank Lloyd Wright’s most recognized example of the harmonious union of art, architecture and nature. Entrusted to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy in 1963, this dramatically cantilevered house over a waterfall was designed in 1935 for its natural setting and inscribed to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2019.
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TIMESTAMPS:
Introduction Begins - 1:37
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Question and Answer Begins - 1:06:55

[@bim-age]

23:40 The fact this cracks appear just vertically from where the post tensioning repair (from +/-2000) is transferring its load to the beams/bolsters doesn't look like a coincidence...

[@johnhillside9105]

Hydrolic Cement! This mortar is the one that expands as it changes from liquid to solid phase,... much like water does,...a liquid phase to the solid phase, ice, and having 9% more volumn.

[@johnhillside9105]

Hi, how are you doing today. I'm watching this,... This is a great, great model home, and I will bring a thought or two. Well, concerning weight and the cantilever design,.... Less weight is the certain, best schema for the foundation and floor joists. This is out there some,... The perimeter wall of the floor of the cantilever designed room,... bring the wall to less heft by replacement of the perimeter wall from concrete to a graphite or,... fiberglass! How about the recycling of the wind generator propellers into a rebar like mesh and fill with a fiberglass resin,... for the loss of half the existing weight, sprung outbound and at the perimeter. Less weight and less bend!!!

[@stephenritchings8135]

There's no doubt that other means to the same aesthetic ends were available to Wright when he designed Fallingwater---much less with today's materials and technologies. It might surprise some, as it does me, that no one has ever questioned in print (at least, to my knowledge) why steel wasn't used for the main cantilevers. The only answer I have is that Mr Wright's philosophy, one we might call a tendency toward a "mono-material" approach, would have dictated, to him anyway, that concrete in all its forms was the material to be employed in this instance.