Musconetcong River Resource Center

Asbury, New Jersey

Adaptive-reuse of a graphite mill into a community building for the Musconetcong Watershed Association

Three big ideas:

Adaptive-Reuse,
Community Build,
Resilience

The River Resource Center in Asbury, NJ transformed a graphite mill ruin into a thriving home for Musconetcong Watershed Association (MWA). The River Resource Center takes full advantage of its perch above the Musconetcong River with thoughtful viewpoints from MWA offices and community meeting spaces, exterior viewing platforms, and ground level kayak storage for watershed members.

In keeping with MWA’s mission to preserve the Musconetcong River Watershed, restorative site design was a must for this waterside project. After Hurricane Sandy, the Center proved to be one of the most resilient buildings in the area and served as a community outpost for showering/working/cooking/pet shelter.

The project included native plant restoration on the bank of the Musconetcong River.

Across the road from the River Resource Center, is a historic Graphite Mill acquired by Musconetcong, which is being renovated next.

Fast Facts

Riparian buffer restoration

Composting toilets

Geothermal heat pump HVAC system

Trellis mounted bi-facal solar PV panels

Design for passive ventilation

LEED NC Platinum Certified

Design Award of Excellence, PA Council Society of American Registered Architects

“ReVision is the architecture firm a non-profit organization like ours dreams to work with. They integrate sustainability, operational cost, and building comfort in all of their design work and have helped us repurpose two historic mill structures in a historic district in accordance with Secretary of Interior Restoration Standards - one of which is LEED platinum. ”

– Alan Hunt, Director of Policy & Grants, Musconetcong Watershed Association

The building interior is composed of flexible-use space with movable wood slat walls.

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MRRC.SECT.Solar Angles _ Passive Ventilation Strategies

The main entrance is off of a covered porch that is made of recycled polymer decking and shaded by a wood trellis covered in bi-facial solar panels.

The project included native plant restoration on the bank of the Musconetcong River.

Across the road from the River Resource Center, is a historic Graphite Mill acquired by Musconetcong, which is being renovated next.

The building interior is composed of flexible-use space with movable wood slat walls.

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