Doyle Reservation

IUCN Category V - Protected Landscape / Seascape

View of the Doyle Community Park

As Doyle Community Park & Center is designated a 157 acre ( 0.6 km ²) of great popular garden in the city of Leominster, Massachusetts in the United States. The addition refers to the integrated in the park Doyle Center. The park and the center are managed by the organization The Trustees of Reservations.

• 2.1 history
• 2.2 Materials utilized 2.2.1 work surfaces
• 2.2.2 photovoltaic
• 2.2.3 sink
• 2.2.4 bamboo floors
• 2.2.5 cork
• 2.2.6 carpets
• 2.2.7 wallcoverings
• 2.2.8 insulation boards

Park

The Doyle Community Park is between the towns of Leominster and Fitchburg, with its wooded areas, open meadows and baroque park is a green oasis. In particular, the 10 acres ( 4 ha) measured free surface Pierce Meadow is a popular attraction. Built in 2004, Doyle Center provides an area of ​​14,000 square feet ( 1300 m²) and has been certified in the LEED classification for its ecological design with the classification of gold. The building is one of three main administrative offices of the Trustees in Massachusetts.

Doyle Estate

The former residence of the Doyle family, ( 50.6 ha) included a total of approximately 125 acres, is now part of the daily open parks. The approximately 10 acres ( 4 ha) large center consists of the former family house, artfully designed grounds and various outbuildings, which include among others, a historic gymnasium with attached garage, unused for maintenance sheds, dog kennels, a garden shed and the Cape House.

Bernie Doyle bought the house in 1908, which was not much more than a farmhouse in Victorian style at this time. In the coming years, he rebuilt it twice, later, another conversion followed by his daughter Louise. As she was interested in architecture and history, she spent many years with landscape architects, interior designers and other artisans to make the building an elegant as well as comfortable living house. Louise Dolye lived there until her death in 2007.

The three-storey towering house is made of wood and has a full basement. Due to the careful maintenance and repair, it is in excellent condition. The house has 7450 square feet (about 690 meters) of living space, six bedrooms and five and a half bathrooms. In front of the house on the ground floor reception rooms like the living room, the reception room, dining room or even the formally designed entrance hall, while more private spaces such as the kitchen and the laundry facilities are located in the rear of the building. This separation is made in the floor continued it. The attic and the basement are designed expansive and open.

The gym was built in the 1920s by Bernie Doyle to the garage and was due to the spirit of the times, to keep themselves physically fit. The establishment of well-equipped hall is well preserved. The 1936 procured kennels, whose construction was also used by Richard Evelyn Byrd on his expeditions, is completely prefabricated. It is designed with one storey, made ​​of wood and has a wooden roof shingles. Louise Doyle used the 380 square feet ( 35 m² ) measured building for keeping their dogs.

Although Louise Doyle lived in retirement 95 years long as a Buddhist in her house alone and rather, they demonstrated their commitment to the city of Leominster and its inhabitants, by their entire plot them ( including 120 acres ( 48.6 ha) after her death in 2007) handed into the care of the Trustees of Reservation. Already during her lifetime she was a very bountiful philanthropist, a wide variety of projects - supported - from Little League through the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston through to the work of Mother Teresa.

Pierce Meadow

The now known as Pierce Meadow open space was originally part of the estate of Harry L. Pierce, a well-known businessman from Leominster. In the center of the property, the Pierce Estate, which was built in the style of Mission Revival architecture and 21 rooms had two and a half storeys stood. The property also included a greenhouse, stables, barns and other agricultural facilities, but also a tennis court and a swimming pool. Many of the original plants are still standing and give the park its simple elegance. 1914 Pierce sold the Grayling Hall at Frank Ewing, who owned it until 1930 and then resold to the School Sisters of Notre Dame. The School Sisters also acquired 17 acres ( 6.9 ha ) of surrounding land and used the area as a recreational facility for nuns with tuberculosis. In 1941, she opened in the former stables Julie Country Day School and built this gradually from. 1999 sold the Order of the Grayling Hall to the Trustees, after she had stood empty for several years. In 2000, the Trustees tore down the building and began the restoration of the former estate of Pierce. Already in the following year, the 10 acres ( 4 ha) comprehensive Pierce Park was opened, which is part of the Doyle Community Park today. After the school of the Sisters was closed in 2006, Louise Doyle bought the building for the Trustees, which resold it in 2010 to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America.

Doyle Center

The Doyle Center offers a floor space of 18,000 square feet (approx. 1,672 m²) space for 38 workstations and conference rooms for up to 125 people. On the roof a 2000 square feet (approx. 186 m²) has been installed photovoltaic system, and two geothermal wells ranging 1,500 ft ( 457.2 m) in depth.

The building is designed to save energy. The solar panels on the roof supplies 25 % of electricity demand, and so-called smart lights automatically adjust their brightness to ambient conditions in order to ensure a constant brightness. Window can be opened automatically, and can be completely dispensed with fossil fuels by the geothermal links. Through the use of composting toilets is at this point no wasted water because the flushing is done with a thin film of foam. There is also a gray water recycling system that allows the flower beds are irrigated. The landscape around the building was designed exclusively with there naturally occurring plants and it has been waived lawns that need to be irrigated. 90 % of the interior spaces receive daylight and have a view to the outside.

History

1981 gave Ms. Doyle the first 4 acres ( 1.6 ha) and one of their homes to the Trustees and began in this way so that to realize their dream of preserving their family seat. Over the years, followed by little further transfers, and in 2004 was the construction of the LEED-certified Doyle Center on 50 acres ( 20.2 ha) of their country a major climax. In 2007, she left the Trustees after her death, the remaining 120 acres ( 48.6 ha ) with all buildings upon. To make the order of Louise Doyle to the organization, " something significant " from their heritage, led to the establishment of today's Doyle Community Park and Center.

The center was completed in 2004, Doyle with an anonymous donation of 5 million U.S. dollars (today about $ 6.41 million ) funded and certified in the LEED classification for its ecological design with the classification of gold.

Materials utilized

As building various recycled materials were utilized.

Work surfaces

The working surfaces (eg desktops ) in the Doyle Center were manufactured by a local company from a mixture of sunflower seed shells and other by-products of agricultural production. The material mixture is bound with wheat and natural resins and pressed to Dakota Burl. This composite looks similar to naturally grown burls and behaves like real wood. The working surfaces were covered with Douglas fir finally, the wood of which was used for the internal structures of the building, so that there is a coherent overall picture.

Photovoltaic

The solar panels on the roof provides about 25 % of the electricity demand of the Doyle Center. Excess energy is not stored, but sold to the electricity grid to the local utility. In practice, this has been resolved by the electricity meter of the building running backwards when the solar system produces more energy than is currently needed for the building.

Sink

The plates in the sink are embedded, consisting of Avonit made ​​entirely from recycled materials. Also in production is no waste because the only by-product is polyester powder that is sold to other companies that need this raw material for their products. In this way, each year 136 fewer tons of waste that would have to be landfilled.

Bamboo floors

All " hardwood" floors in the Doyle Center are made of bamboo, which has similar properties to conventional hardwood, but is much more environmentally friendly. Since bamboo is a grass plant, it can be harvested at sustainable use up to five times per year. It is abrasion resistant and has a greater fiber density than wood. The bamboo used for the Doyle Center comes from the Chinese province of Hunan, where the plant is grown sustainably for centuries.

Cork

As another ground cork material was used, which is obtained from the bark of the cork oak. The tree can be harvested for the first time at the age of 25 years and then every nine years until the tree is about 200 years old. An 80 -year-old cork oak can provide at a harvest of up to 225 kg cork. The cork floors are made from the waste products in the production of wine corks and are fire resistant and thermally and acoustically insulating.

Carpeting

The carpets were made to 25 % recycled fibers and can be completely recycled. The manufacturer has set itself the goal of long term fully to produce the carpets made ​​of recycled material and return it to the circulation after the end of their life again, so that a Cradle to Cradle cycle can occur.

Wall coverings

For wall cladding came laminated densified wood ( werzalit ) for use as, unlike Fibreboard does not warp, bulge, forms bubbles, flaking or peeling, but looks like real wood. It is made ​​of hardwood chips or sawdust, which is obtained as a waste product in the production of furniture. In contrast to medium density fiberboard werzalit also contains no urea formaldehyde or other toxic substances, and requires ten to 15 years, no new paint.

Insulation boards

The built- in suspended ceilings in the building insulation boards were completely out of recycled materials - in this case a blend of recycled polyester - made ​​.