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    This document provides details about the Amber Waves of Grain agricultural research center in Fairfield, Montana. The building is designed to have a sense of belonging in the surrounding fields by emerging from the ground like barley bending in the wind. It has arched trusses spanning the entire building that become canopies, and public spaces underground that lead to more private areas at ground level. The facility was designed at a smaller scale than typical to fit in with the rural town of only 616 people.

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    This document provides details about the Amber Waves of Grain agricultural research center in Fairfield, Montana. The building is designed to have a sense of belonging in the surrounding fields by emerging from the ground like barley bending in the wind. It has arched trusses spanning the entire building that become canopies, and public spaces underground that lead to more private areas at ground level. The facility was designed at a smaller scale than typical to fit in with the rural town of only 616 people.

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    This document provides details about the Amber Waves of Grain agricultural research center in Fairfield, Montana. The building is designed to have a sense of belonging in the surrounding fields by emerging from the ground like barley bending in the wind. It has arched trusses spanning the entire building that become canopies, and public spaces underground that lead to more private areas at ground level. The facility was designed at a smaller scale than typical to fit in with the rural town of only 616 people.

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    This document provides details about the Amber Waves of Grain agricultural research center in Fairfield, Montana. The building is designed to have a sense of belonging in the surrounding fields by emerging from the ground like barley bending in the wind. It has arched trusses spanning the entire building that become canopies, and public spaces underground that lead to more private areas at ground level. The facility was designed at a smaller scale than typical to fit in with the rural town of only 616 people.

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    Amber

    “Growing from the fields,” gives the building a real sense of belonging

    Waves
    of
    Grain
    BY: MElissa Brown
    and Jerimiah Simones

    Amber waves of grain is an agricultural research center


    for the crop of barley. The concept grew from the way
    in which barley embraces and moves along with the wind
    creating a sense of belonging. The roof system is made out
    of arched delta truesses, that come out of the ground,
    span the entire building, and become cantiliver canopies
    on the other side. A person enters underground in the
    more public spaces that are a little more expressive, and as
    they work through the building they end up on grade lev-
    el where it is more private and structured. Since the town
    of Farifield, Montana, has a population of 616 people we did
    not want this facility to be too over whelming and want-
    ^
    N ed it to fit into the surrounding of the field. giving the
    illusion that this structure is coming out of the ground
    1” = 300’ and bending like barley in the wind.
    Main entrance hall ramps up towards ground level with lighting running along the walls

    Wall detail
    SCALE: 1/4” = 1’

    ^
    N
    1” = 30’
    ^
    N

    1. Gallery
    2. Library
    3. Conference Room
    4. Marketing offices
    6. Bathroom
    7. Promotional Offices
    8. bathroom
    9. greenhouse
    10. labratory
    11. Staff lounge
    12. BRewery
    Greenhouse for research, cross pollination, and other studies and experiments
    13.Seed Progration
    14. Warehouse and
    Distibution

    Floor PLan
    scale: 1:40

    ^
    N
    1” = 30’
    Market-
    ing and
    offic-
    es are
    glazed
    for
    maximum
    utiliza-
    tion of
    natural
    light

    Entrance
    brings
    you down
    nto
    the earth
    and into
    the
    gallery

    The large curved space trusses are derived from the barley
    blowing in the southeastern winds of Fairfield

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