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SUMMARY:IIBEC New England Chapter:  Restoring a Frank Lloyd Wright Residence
DESCRIPTION:\n\nRestoring a Frank Lloyd Wright Residence\n\n \n \n“Restoring a Frank Lloyd Wright Residence”\n \nIn the 1950’s, the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright developed a building system\nusing concrete block components that can be assembled into a home, which he described\nas “Usonian Automatic.” He envisioned the system as being used by the “common man”\nto economically construct their own homes. Mr. Wright designed eight residences using\nthis system and seven were built. In 1955, Mr. Wright designed a Usonian Automatic\nhome for Dr. Toufic Kalil and his wife, who built their home in Manchester, New\nHampshire with the assistance of a local contractor.\nWiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc. (WJE) was selected by the heirs of the Toufic\nKalil House to assess the existing conditions in preparation to sell the home. We\nprovided advice and to implement repairs to portions of the concrete walls, windows,\nsite wall and roofing. After our initial meeting, a landscape contractor demolished a site\nwall with his truck.\nBased on our observations of existing conditions and research of historic documents,\nWJE developed repair documents to replicate the severely damaged site wall. We also\ndeveloped roofing repair and replacement documents to replace the leaking roofing\nsystem installed in 2003. Historic documents from the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives\nhoused at the Avery Library of Columbia University supplemented the personal papers\nmaintained by the Kalil Family.\nWhile much is written about Frank Lloyd Wright, his life and his designs, very little\ndetailed information has been written about the Usonian Automatic building system,\ncomponent configuration and its unique assembly. We learned the component design\nfrom the historic drawings of molds and experienced the construction challenges from\n3casting the new blocks and then assembling these components into the rebuilt sitewall.\nThe records also indicate that the Dr. Kalil was frustrated by a leaky roof over the first\ntwo winters in the home. The personal records from the Kalil family revealed names of\nproducts used for the original roofing system which differed from those in the project\nspecifications. This also included repair materials. Little information was found about\nthese products. The challenges of the existing conditions of the concrete roof deck and\nlow flashing heights demanded creative approaches to the roofing replacement\nmaterial and assembly.\n \nLearning Objective 1\nExplain the concept of the Usonian Automatic components and their assembly.\n \nLearning Objective 2\nExplain the challenges of constructing the components into a wall.\n \nLearning Objective 3\nDescribe the roofing and flashing assembly used to address the deck and flashing\ncondition challenges.\n \nLearning Objective 4\nUnderstand how the component approach to design created design challenges to create a\nwatertight roofing assembly.\n \n1 learning credit\n \n\n\n\n \nWILLIAM WATERSTON\nWilliam Waterston is a recently retired Associate Principal at Wiss, Janney, Elstner\nAssociates, Inc. in Boston, Massachusetts. He continues to work as an affiliated\nconsultant. He is both a registered architect and a registered roof consultant focused on\nsolving waterproofing and roofing challenges in new and existing buildings. Mr. Waterston\nis the author of several articles on roofing material choices and roofing practices. He has\npresented at various venues including IIBEC, and Construction Specifications Institute (CSI)\nmeetings, conventions and symposia. Mr. Waterston is an Emeritus Member of IIBEC, AIA\nand CSI.\n\nREGISTER HERE ( https://newengland.iibec.org/events/restoring-a-frank-lloyd-wright-residence/ )\n \n\n
URL:https://iibec.org/iibec-events/iibec-new-england-chapter-restoring-a-frank-lloyd-wright-residence/
CATEGORIES:New England
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