Seven Island Wildlife Refuge

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Project Phase One Seven Islands Wildlife Refuge Observatory Entry Gajczak+Montgomery+Yue_McCown+Wall_Spring 2012

This project is located at Seven Island Wildlife Refuge in Knox County, East Tennessee. The design aims to create an interpretive entry building and site for the Seven Island Wildlife Refuge. This design incorporated the sun and wind by loading the building on the northwest side of the site, and water management by harvesting rainwater for use inside the building in both functional and aesthetic ways. The building and other structure attached operate as a ‘gateway’ to the site by leading people from the entry of the interpretive center, through the building, to the landscape field.


Sun and Wind

The design allows cross ventilation through nearly the entire building through the use of a light wooden screen around the entire structure. This same screen also acts to filter the sunlight into the building rather than allowing direct rays from the sun. 1

Spring Wind Pattern

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Summer Wind Pattern

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Fall Wind Pattern

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Winter Wind Pattern

Spring Morning

Summer Morning

Fall Morning

Winter Morning

Spring Evening

Summer Evening

Fall Evening

Winter Evening


HILL RUNOFF TO GUTTER TO RAIN GARDEN

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Water Collection Diagram— Plan

ROOF RUNOFF (gal per year) 110000

Water Collection Diagram— Section

Water One of the objectives for our design was creative ways to take care of water collection and runoff. To achieve this there is collection from the roof that drops down through an opening and drips down a stone wall into a trough-like cistern. This not only creates a water collection system, but allows people to experience the process. The collection for the runoff is similar. Water that runs off the hill is collected into a gutter built into the stone wall and from there runs around the building and down an exterior stone wall and eventually into a rain garden. The water also attracts birds to the area and helps create a bird viewing area near the parking. Section of Cistern Catchment

Section of Rain Wall


Parking Lot Section

Northeast Section

Construction Detail


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First Floor Plan

Yellow Coneflower Ratibida pinnata

Bird of Paradise Strelitzia reginae

Boston Fern Nephrolepis exaltata ‘Bostoniensis’

Crab Apple Trees Malus baccata ‘Sentinel’

Indian Grass Sorghastrum nutans


Southeast Elevation

Southeast Section


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