[Cob] Fallingwater's foundation

[Amanda Peck]

Thanks Charmaine--I didn't look too hard (be glad you're not near me, I may 
be contagious) but mostly found recruitment posters for the Taliesin 
architecture school.
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Charmaine answered my questions (snipped a bit):

It is a stacked stone pier on both sides of the house, with cast cement 
arches that  all sit on a huge stone shelf outcrop to support the front of 
the house.  the floors in the house are laid stone, so I am guessing a 
cement slab with rebar  was used to span the  piers.   The lower  outcrops 
of stone in the stream  are like steps leading down the hill. It is a small 
falls  called Bear  Run Falls.    the most amazing thin is to see the water 
falls frozen!


  I adore this place,  but many architects refer to not as Falling Water, 
but as Rising Damp, so it does not have a good reputation in the building 
community

It was an overly ambitious project that shot up in cost enormously...it was 
a clever idea to straddle the stream with the house..but has been a constant 
problem ever since.