Therese Hanson, lead architect for the Frautschi Center at the UW Lakeshore Nature Preserve, will be the keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the Friends of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve (FLNP) on Tuesday April 14 starting at 6:30 PM at the Unitarian Meeting House, 900 University Bay Drive.
Funded by a lead gift from the late Jerry Frautschi, the Center will be located just outside the Stone Gate entrance at 2000 University Bay Drive next to the entry to Picnic Point.
Hanson’s talk is titled The Lakeshore Nature Preserve Frautschi Center: A Living Building Within A Living Landscape. She’ll cover a range of design & function features that will make the Frautschi Center a welcoming public portal to the Preserve’s 300 acres and 4.3 miles of Lake Mendota shoreline on the campus of Wisconsin’s public land-grant research & extension university.
The new building, set to begin construction later this year, underscores the UW’s commitment to sustainability by being one of the state’s first “Living Buildings” and the campus’s first net-positive energy building (meaning it will produce more energy than it consumes).
Hanson’s talk, together with the featured presentation by Preserve Director Brad Herrick, are open to all.
Friends of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve is a 501c3 not-for-profit organization that works to support the Lakeshore Nature Preserve.
Contact: Tom Zinnen, preservefriends@gmail.com, 571 294 5689, https://friendslakeshorepreserve.org