Mulberry Farms is an on-going project that includes a state-of-the-art wellness retreat located in the blue ridge mountains just outside Asheville, NC. The campus sits on 350+ acres of land. Phase 1 of the project includes core amenity spaces including a 150 guest dining hall, a 3,000 SF events center, and a meeting hall that will accommodate 150 guests. The following phases will include a WWTP, luxury spa, reception building and parking, a large solar array, and extensive restorative landscaping to rewild many of the pastures and fields from the sites previous heritage of farm land. Once complete, this retreat space will be the largest overnight accommodation provider in Madison County, and have approximately 75 guest cabins.
This project has several complexities, including dramatic elevation changes on site, and its rural location that required the planning and construction of a private mountain pass road. The entire project infrastructure will be self-contained and an energy goal of net-zero has been a directive of the client since day one. This project will require extensive coordination of the cabins – which will be assembled offsite and later moved onto the property and set into the mountainside. The onsite ecofriendly wastewater treatment facility will use plants as a medium to improve the water quality before it infiltrates the ground.
For the WWTP, our BIM team modeled the plant in 3D from schemat design to PFD drawings and generated process mechanical, plumbing, and hvac shop drawings. They also laser scanned PT cables in post tension concrete roof and did layout and QC with the robotic total station.
