Sustainable
A coastal landscape precedent featuring a diagonal line of timber pilings that establishes a strong rhythmic axis between sand and surf.
- What we like about this project
- The irregularity in height and weathering of each individual piling introduces organic variance into the rigid linear array.
Materials
- weathered-timber
- sand
- seawater
Visual identifiers
- timber-pilings
- diagonal-line
- beach-groin
- coastal-landscape
Style tags
- coastal
- natural-materials
- minimal
Visual tags
- coastal
- linear-rhythm
- weathered-timber
- public-realm
- erosion-control
- Geometry
- A single diagonal line of vertical timber elements cuts across the horizontal planes of sand, surf, and sky.
- Structural guess
- Driven timber piles acting as a coastal groin
- Spatial scale
- Human-scale timber elements set across a wide coastal landscape.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight with hazy overcast sky; soft shadows cast on the sand by the pilings.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and atmospheric coastal expanse softened by marine haze.
- Environmental context
- Coastal beach environment with sandy shore and open ocean surf under an expansive sky.
- Spatial experience
- The eye is drawn along the diagonal array from foreground sand out toward the breaking waves and horizon.
- Composition rhythm
- A steady, receding diagonal repetition of vertical timber posts against horizontal bands of beach and water.
- Style reading
- Natural coastal infrastructure
- Program
- Coastal erosion protection / coastal landscape installation
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- landscape
- Materials
- weathered-timber, sand, seawater
- Visual identifiers
- timber-pilings, diagonal-line, beach-groin, coastal-landscape
- Style tags
- coastal, natural-materials, minimal
- Visual tags
- coastal, linear-rhythm, weathered-timber, public-realm, erosion-control
- Geometry
- A single diagonal line of vertical timber elements cuts across the horizontal planes of sand, surf, and sky.
- Structural guess
- Driven timber piles acting as a coastal groin
- Spatial scale
- Human-scale timber elements set across a wide coastal landscape.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight with hazy overcast sky; soft shadows cast on the sand by the pilings.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and atmospheric coastal expanse softened by marine haze.
- Environmental context
- Coastal beach environment with sandy shore and open ocean surf under an expansive sky.
- Spatial experience
- The eye is drawn along the diagonal array from foreground sand out toward the breaking waves and horizon.
- Composition rhythm
- A steady, receding diagonal repetition of vertical timber posts against horizontal bands of beach and water.
- Style reading
- Natural coastal infrastructure
- Program
- Coastal erosion protection / coastal landscape installation
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- landscape