WSU EUNOIA Volume IV

POST FALLS AGRICULTURE SCHOOL
RUBEN ESTRADA | BEN FLEISS | NAEEM SHOOK | ARCH GRADUATE STUDIO | FALL 2022
Tucked in between the rolling hills of the Palouse and the Spokane river, Re-Gen Falls is a project located in Post Falls, Idaho
and is an adaptive reuse of what once was Idaho Veneer Company. Although Post Falls is home to nearly 43,000 people, it
acts primarily as a “bedroom community” to the nearby city of Spokane, Washington. Post Falls must find ways to bring the
surrounding community in. Now, the city is working to find ways to draw in more residents, create jobs, and cultivate a general
interest around Post Falls with hopes to make progress towards future development. Re-Gen Falls proudly maintains 100% of the
existing inhabitable structure. The structure itself is celebrated across the development, acting as a guiding “grid-like” framework
that can be pushed, pulled, retracted, and expanded upon. As the structural form is extended, broad strokes through the site
are marked by the form of a scaffolding system that binds the buildings, programs, and overall plan together. The scaffolding
structures become a “living grid” that serve a variety of purposes as they extend through the development. In some places, the
grid acts as a cardiovascular system for distributing resources such as water for farming on the southwestern-most part of the site
and as a conduit of energy in educational areas. Not only that, but the grid also serves the purpose of hosting space to harvest
solar power, inhibit spatial convertibility using movable walls, as well as shading for farming and overall well-being.
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