Tillamook Forest Center, Tillamook, Oregon
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| Tillamook Forest Center | |
| Location | near TIllamook, Oregon, USA |
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| Building Type | Government Building, Environmental Education Center |
| Construction System | wood timber and glass |
| Climate | Mild Temperate |
| Context | Riverside |
| Architectural Style | Environmental Modern |
| Street Address | Highway 6, 22 miles east of Tillamook, Oregon |
| Notes | Meeting room walls made of glass garage doors allow space to fully open up to nature. |
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"The Center is the region’s largest forest-based learning center and outdoor classroom facility." — Tillamook Forest Center
"From the beginning, the Tillamook Forest Center was envisioned as a place where visitors could learn how their lives are connected to the natural environment. The project successfully delivers on that promise, serving as a living example of sustainable building design, construction, and operating practices with minimal environmental impact on its surroundings. This consideration for creating a “green” building ties together the environmental and interpretive missions of the Tillamook Forest Center." — Tillamook Forest Center
"The classrooms at the Tillamook Forest Center are dividable into two separate meeting spaces or can function as one large room. The full space will comfortably hold about 70 people. The room features a working fireplace, deck overlooking the Wilson River, sinks, a projection screen, and direct access to the trail system just outside the door." — Tillamook Forest Center
- Natural daylight is used to meet 50 percent of the building’s average lighting needs for day lit spaces.
- Natural ventilation is used, including 100 percent outside air wherever possible in the building.* All of the wood and wood products used on the site are from sustainabley managed forests. This includes lumber harvested on site or elsewhere in the Tillamook Forest or timber salvaged or recycled from other sites.
- All of the building framing material (2x4’s through 2x12’s) was grown, harvested and milled less than 30 miles from the Center.
| Building Details | |
| Client | Oregon Department of Forestry |
| Area | 13,500 square feet |
| Height | 40-foot tall lookout tower |
| Length | 250-foot long suspension bridge over the Wilson River |
| Awards | 2000 Award of Excellence for Landscape Planning and Analysis from the Oregon Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) for the project Master Plan |
