The Overlake School Whitten Math and Science Center - Mithun
An educational campus precedent by Mithun showcasing a heavy timber covered colonnade and metal-roofed volumes integrated with native landscaping.
- What we like about this project
- Steel bracket connections detail the base of the substantial timber columns resting on concrete plinths.
Materials
- timber
- metal
- concrete
- glass
Visual identifiers
- timber-colonnade
- standing-seam-roof
- covered-walkway
- signage-wall
Style tags
- contemporary
- regionalism
- mass-timber
Visual tags
- educational
- campus
- timber-structure
- outdoor-circulation
- metal-roof
- Geometry
- Low-slung massing with a prominent gable-roofed building and a deep timber-framed covered walkway extending along the foreground.
- Facade system
- Vertical metal or fiber-cement siding with punched windows and exterior timber framing.
- Structural guess
- Heavy timber post-and-beam canopy supporting a light-gauge or wood roof structure.
- Spatial scale
- Human scale with a single-story covered walkway and standard pedestrian pathways.
- Lighting
- Bright late-afternoon sunlight casting sharp shadows across concrete paving and highlighting timber columns.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, sunlit campus atmosphere blending natural timber tones with lush greenery.
- Environmental context
- Campus setting bordered by dense evergreen trees and native landscaping.
- Spatial experience
- The deep porch frames an outdoor circulation path that bridges the landscaped campus and the building interior.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating rhythm of heavy timber columns paired with the vertical joints of the siding and standing seams.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regional modernist educational architecture
- Program
- Educational / Science Center
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- timber, metal, concrete, glass
- Visual identifiers
- timber-colonnade, standing-seam-roof, covered-walkway, signage-wall
- Style tags
- contemporary, regionalism, mass-timber
- Visual tags
- educational, campus, timber-structure, outdoor-circulation, metal-roof
- Geometry
- Low-slung massing with a prominent gable-roofed building and a deep timber-framed covered walkway extending along the foreground.
- Facade system
- Vertical metal or fiber-cement siding with punched windows and exterior timber framing.
- Structural guess
- Heavy timber post-and-beam canopy supporting a light-gauge or wood roof structure.
- Spatial scale
- Human scale with a single-story covered walkway and standard pedestrian pathways.
- Lighting
- Bright late-afternoon sunlight casting sharp shadows across concrete paving and highlighting timber columns.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, sunlit campus atmosphere blending natural timber tones with lush greenery.
- Environmental context
- Campus setting bordered by dense evergreen trees and native landscaping.
- Spatial experience
- The deep porch frames an outdoor circulation path that bridges the landscaped campus and the building interior.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating rhythm of heavy timber columns paired with the vertical joints of the siding and standing seams.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regional modernist educational architecture
- Program
- Educational / Science Center
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture