Awards — Mitchell Eley Gould Architects
Bath, UK
An interior precedent showcasing heavy round-log timber trusses and a central glazed roof lantern, useful for studying rustic large-span open structures.
- What we like about this project
- The central skylight opening is integrated asymmetrically into the complex multi-directional truss geometry.
Materials
- round-logs
- corrugated-metal
- timber-planks
- glass
Visual identifiers
- log-trusses
- corrugated-roof
- central-lantern
- timber-framing
- rustic-pavilion
Style tags
- rustic
- vernacular
- timber-tectonics
Visual tags
- timber-structure
- rustic
- daylight-lantern
- open-span
- rural-architecture
- Geometry
- Complex angular timber truss network spanning a broad open floor, featuring an offset pyramidal roof lantern providing central daylight.
- Facade system
- Open timber-clad walls and large translucent side panels framing landscape views.
- Structural guess
- Heavy round-timber space-frame trusses supported by vertical log columns
- Spatial scale
- Large open-span pavilion, accommodating substantial interior volume beneath a high pitched ceiling.
- Lighting
- Bright ambient daylight entering through the central glazed lantern and low perimeter openings, casting soft shadows across the log framework.
- Atmosphere
- Earthy, textured, and open, filled with the organic warmth of raw round logs and filtered daylight.
- Environmental context
- Interior of a rural or semi-rural community structure with views of green landscape outside through the side openings.
- Spatial experience
- The space feels expansive yet grounded by heavy unworked timber framing that creates a rustic shelter open to light and surrounding nature.
- Composition rhythm
- Dynamic web of diagonal and radial timber struts radiating toward the central skylight opening.
- Style reading
- Rustic contemporary timber vernacular
- Program
- Community hall or rural pavilion
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- round-logs, corrugated-metal, timber-planks, glass
- Visual identifiers
- log-trusses, corrugated-roof, central-lantern, timber-framing, rustic-pavilion
- Style tags
- rustic, vernacular, timber-tectonics
- Visual tags
- timber-structure, rustic, daylight-lantern, open-span, rural-architecture
- Geometry
- Complex angular timber truss network spanning a broad open floor, featuring an offset pyramidal roof lantern providing central daylight.
- Facade system
- Open timber-clad walls and large translucent side panels framing landscape views.
- Structural guess
- Heavy round-timber space-frame trusses supported by vertical log columns
- Spatial scale
- Large open-span pavilion, accommodating substantial interior volume beneath a high pitched ceiling.
- Lighting
- Bright ambient daylight entering through the central glazed lantern and low perimeter openings, casting soft shadows across the log framework.
- Atmosphere
- Earthy, textured, and open, filled with the organic warmth of raw round logs and filtered daylight.
- Environmental context
- Interior of a rural or semi-rural community structure with views of green landscape outside through the side openings.
- Spatial experience
- The space feels expansive yet grounded by heavy unworked timber framing that creates a rustic shelter open to light and surrounding nature.
- Composition rhythm
- Dynamic web of diagonal and radial timber struts radiating toward the central skylight opening.
- Style reading
- Rustic contemporary timber vernacular
- Program
- Community hall or rural pavilion
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- architecture