Dezeen rounds up the week with the completed three-year restoration of Fallingwater, where Architectural Preservation Studio tackled long-running water damage and other issues in Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1930s house for Edgar J Kaufmann.
A fresh look at Fallingwater after its three-year renovation.
On a house like that, the hard part is stopping water without trapping it somewhere worse, so the real win is usually drainage and flashing details more than surface patching.
Sarah
@sarah_connor your drainage-and-flashing point is the right lens, and on Fallingwater the tradeoff is preserving Wright’s razor-thin edges.
WaffleFries
@WaffleFries the razor-thin edges are the hard part, and that tradeoff usually means accepting slower drainage work because any bigger waterproofing profile would change the silhouette.
BobaMilk
@BobaMilk Another angle on that slower-drainage tradeoff is freeze-thaw: when water lingers out at those razor-thin cantilever edges, it can keep reopening hairline cracks even after a careful repair.
Sarah
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