Friday, March 28, 2014

Buildings for boat

Source: construction.com
Community Rowing Boathouse, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 2008 designed by Anmahian Winton Architects
For inspiration for the wood Community Rowing Boathouse, the architects looked to regional vernacular linear buildings, such as covered bridges and tobacco sheds. Tobacco sheds provided a particularly compelling model because sculls and shells, like tobacco leaves, need proper ventilation. This observation led the architects to the idea of a kinetic building. -- Architectural Record

Source: Jorge Allende archdaily.com
Sports Technification Centre For Rowing And Canoeing, Orio, Basque Country, Spain, 2012 designed by U.T.E. Atristain Begiristain
The new steel columns hold the light plane corresponding to the cover. Thanks to these supports the cover can be a thin sheet giving a light character to the cover. The ceiling lights created from different glass folds on the cover sheet, add natural lighting to the building. -- ArchDaily

Source: Steve Hall Hedrich Blessing archdaily.com
WMS Boathouse at Clark Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2013 designed by Studio Gang Architects
The boathouse’s design translates the time-lapse motion of rowing into an architectural roof form, providing visual interest while also offering spatial and environmental advantages that allow the boathouse to adapt to Chicago’s distinctive seasonal changes. With structural truss shapes alternating between an inverted “V” and an “M,” the roof achieves a rhythmic modulation that lets in southern light through the building’s upper clerestory. -- ArchDaily

Source: James Ewing archdaily.com
Hudson River Education Center And Pavilion, Beacon, New York, USA designed by Architecture Research Office
While the Education Center is an iconic destination, the boat pavilion is conceived as a threshold in deference to the expansive Hudson River. The roof is a horizontal plane of corrugated steel that parallels a large wood deck from which boats launch. The painted steel structure is economical and sturdy. Secure storage for up to sixty-four kayaks or canoes, a changing room and storage area are enclosed by aluminum bar grating panels. The textures, patterns, orientation and details of the corrugated steel, wood deck and bar grating bring these ordinary elements into an elegant composition.  -- ArchDaily

Source: Montse Zamorano archdaily.com
Sotogrande’s Sailing School, Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain, 2013 designed by Héctor Fernández Elorza/HFE Arch + Carlos García Fernández
The pergola, constructed in front of the school, unifies all the project elements while also creating a shaded threshold, covering the exterior from direct sun exposure, stretching towards the southern end of the building. Seen from a distance, the school becomes a landmark near the port entrance. -- ArchDaily

Source: Nigel Young | Foster + Partners, archdaily.com
Yacht Club de Monaco, Monte Carlo, Monaco, 2014 designed by Foster + Partners
The yacht club is the symbolic centrepiece of the Monaco’s remodelled harbour front. It celebrates the principality’s spectacular coastline and its nautical heritage, creating a series of deck-like terraces that step up along the harbour to offer unrivalled views out to races at sea or inland over the course of the renowned Formula 1 Grand Prix circuit. --  ArchDaily

Source: Arnaud Marthouret archdaily.com
A Modern Boathouse in a Canadian Landscape, Parry Sound District, ON, Canada, 2014 designed by Weiss Architecture & Urbanism Limited
Through careful form-making and the use of rustic materials, the project responds gently both to the natural and cultural context of the area, where historically built-form yields to the power of the landscape with its exposed and glacially carved granite and wind swept jack pines. -- ArchDaily

Source: Nigel Rigden archdaily.com
Portsoy Boatshed, Portsoy, Aberdeenshire, UK, 2015 designed by Brown + Brown Architects
The job essentially comprises a modern timber building, which has been slipped inside a reconstructed stone skin. Due to the setting of an historic harbour, no new openings were permitted in the stone walls, resulting in most of the natural light coming via a ridge rooflight, which runs the length of the building. -- ArchDaily

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