Hayden Home
An interior architectural precedent highlighting expressive heavy timber trusswork and large multi-pane windows suited for community halls or gathering spaces in natural settings.
- What we like about this project
- Fine steel tie-rods integrated delicately into the massive wood truss network to handle lateral loads.
Materials
- timber
- glass
- steel-tension-rods
Visual identifiers
- timber-trusses
- round-timber-columns
- multi-pane-windows
- gable-roof
Style tags
- timber-framing
- rustic-contemporary
- natural-materials
Visual tags
- timber-structure
- community-hall
- daylit
- exposed-structure
- rural-context
- Geometry
- Wide gable-roofed interior volume structured by heavy timber trusses and large central round posts, punctuated by a rhythmic sequence of mullioned windows along the lower perimeter wall.
- Facade system
- Multi-pane glazed window walls framed with timber posts and transoms.
- Structural guess
- Heavy timber post-and-beam construction with custom timber roof trusses and diagonal steel tension rods.
- Spatial scale
- Large assembly scale; double-height or higher volume with substantial heavy timber structural members.
- Lighting
- Natural daylight streaming through large perimeter windows, supplemented by overhead artificial fixtures casting soft glows across the pale timber ceiling.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, luminous, and structurally expressive, blending interior craft with exterior forest scenery.
- Environmental context
- Rural or wooded site; dense deciduous trees are visible directly through the perimeter glazing.
- Spatial experience
- A soaring, open-plan hall feel with rhythmic framing that pulls the eye across the expanse and out toward the surrounding tree canopy.
- Composition rhythm
- Rhythmic repetition of timber trusses overhead matching the vertical mullion spacing of the windows below.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regional timber architecture
- Program
- Community gathering hall or assembly space
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- timber, glass, steel-tension-rods
- Visual identifiers
- timber-trusses, round-timber-columns, multi-pane-windows, gable-roof
- Style tags
- timber-framing, rustic-contemporary, natural-materials
- Visual tags
- timber-structure, community-hall, daylit, exposed-structure, rural-context
- Geometry
- Wide gable-roofed interior volume structured by heavy timber trusses and large central round posts, punctuated by a rhythmic sequence of mullioned windows along the lower perimeter wall.
- Facade system
- Multi-pane glazed window walls framed with timber posts and transoms.
- Structural guess
- Heavy timber post-and-beam construction with custom timber roof trusses and diagonal steel tension rods.
- Spatial scale
- Large assembly scale; double-height or higher volume with substantial heavy timber structural members.
- Lighting
- Natural daylight streaming through large perimeter windows, supplemented by overhead artificial fixtures casting soft glows across the pale timber ceiling.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, luminous, and structurally expressive, blending interior craft with exterior forest scenery.
- Environmental context
- Rural or wooded site; dense deciduous trees are visible directly through the perimeter glazing.
- Spatial experience
- A soaring, open-plan hall feel with rhythmic framing that pulls the eye across the expanse and out toward the surrounding tree canopy.
- Composition rhythm
- Rhythmic repetition of timber trusses overhead matching the vertical mullion spacing of the windows below.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regional timber architecture
- Program
- Community gathering hall or assembly space
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- architecture