Locomotion 2
An exterior facade precedent for low-profile industrial or community pavilions using timber framing, translucent cladding, and sawtooth roof monitors for passive daylighting.
- What we like about this project
- Sawtooth monitors project cleanly above the flat roofline to scoop northern light directly into the core.
Materials
- timber
- translucent-polycarbonate
- glass
- steel
Visual identifiers
- timber-frame
- sawtooth-roof
- translucent-panels
- horizontal-louvers
Style tags
- contemporary
- sustainable
- timber-minimal
Visual tags
- pavilion
- daylight-control
- sustainable
- timber-structure
- public-realm
- Geometry
- Horizontal single-story pavilion massing featuring a rhythmic timber post-and-beam grid topped by a sawtooth roofline with integrated clerestories.
- Facade system
- Post-and-beam timber skeleton with translucent panel infill and operable horizontal wooden louvers.
- Structural guess
- Exposed timber post-and-beam structural frame with lightweight roof trusses.
- Spatial scale
- Human scale; single-story structure with wide horizontal proportions and broad open ground plane.
- Lighting
- Bright, even daylight casting soft shadows from overhead foliage and roof elements, highlighting the rhythmic facade bays.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, airy, and open, emphasizing natural materials and diffused light.
- Environmental context
- Open suburban or rural fringe site with paved foreground plaza, cyclists, and perimeter landscaping.
- Spatial experience
- Approached across an open public hardscape, the low-profile facade presents a permeable, human-scaled threshold with filtered daylight passing through translucent wall planes.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict vertical wood column rhythm matched to overhead sawtooth roof monitors.
- Style reading
- Contemporary sustainable regionalism
- Program
- Community center, exhibition hall, or light industrial pavilion
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- timber, translucent-polycarbonate, glass, steel
- Visual identifiers
- timber-frame, sawtooth-roof, translucent-panels, horizontal-louvers
- Style tags
- contemporary, sustainable, timber-minimal
- Visual tags
- pavilion, daylight-control, sustainable, timber-structure, public-realm
- Geometry
- Horizontal single-story pavilion massing featuring a rhythmic timber post-and-beam grid topped by a sawtooth roofline with integrated clerestories.
- Facade system
- Post-and-beam timber skeleton with translucent panel infill and operable horizontal wooden louvers.
- Structural guess
- Exposed timber post-and-beam structural frame with lightweight roof trusses.
- Spatial scale
- Human scale; single-story structure with wide horizontal proportions and broad open ground plane.
- Lighting
- Bright, even daylight casting soft shadows from overhead foliage and roof elements, highlighting the rhythmic facade bays.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, airy, and open, emphasizing natural materials and diffused light.
- Environmental context
- Open suburban or rural fringe site with paved foreground plaza, cyclists, and perimeter landscaping.
- Spatial experience
- Approached across an open public hardscape, the low-profile facade presents a permeable, human-scaled threshold with filtered daylight passing through translucent wall planes.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict vertical wood column rhythm matched to overhead sawtooth roof monitors.
- Style reading
- Contemporary sustainable regionalism
- Program
- Community center, exhibition hall, or light industrial pavilion
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture