Pocono Environmental Education and Visitor Center, Dingmans Ferry, Pennsylvania

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Pocono Environmental Education and Visitor Center
Designer Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA
Location Dingmans Ferry, Pennsylvania, USA
Date to October 2005
Building Type Exhibition and Exposition
Construction System engineered lumber, steel, glass
Climate Cold Temperate
Context Rural
Architectural Style High Tech
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Client Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry, Pennsylvania, USA
Area 7,750 square feet (720 square meters)
Stories 2
Site 100,000 square feet (9,300 square meters)
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"The Pocono Environmental Education and Visitor Center is designed to reinforce the organization's mission of environmental stewardship and education.

"The building is a flexible, multipurpose gathering space for dining, meetings, lectures, and other environmental learning activities. The building is designed to serve as a teaching tool for environmental education. Arriving at the site, visitors pass through a forest, cross a wetland, enter the building through an opening in the dark north wall, and cross through a bar of service spaces into the bright, daylit main room. The south-facing shed is designed to take full advantage of the warmth of the sun, cool mountain breezes, abundant natural light, and views of the forest." – AIA/COTE


"The Visitor Activity Center was designed to reflect its non-profit and governmental sponsor's commitment to the ideals of environmental stewardship. Through careful siting and orientation, thorough research, selection of materials, analysis and design of building systems, the Visitor Activity Center is focused on sustainable design.

"The Visitor Activity Center was designed to function as a gathering space for dining, meetings, lectures and other environmental learning activities. The design is a layered solution in which visitors pass through the forest, cross a wetland, enter the building through an opening in the dark north wall and cross through a bar of service spaces into the bright, sun-lit main room. This main gathering space has been designed to take advantage of all the natural world has to offer: the warmth of the sun, prevailing breezes, natural light and views of the forest to the south.

"A cast-in-place concrete frame separates the main gathering space from the entrance and support spaces and supports the combination glue-laminated timber and steel trusses. This concrete frame is infilled with block etched with animal tracks, leaf outlines and other images from nature drawn by children, further integrating the mission of environmental education into the building." —BCJ

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