High-rise office building with sustainable design features

Project

Project Detail's

Drying pole barn

High-rise office building with sustainable design features

Project

Project Detail's

Drying pole barn

ABOUT THE PROJECT

Tan Oak Park needed a place to store freshly cut wood while it dries before moving to the processing barn. The building had to be large enough to handle that volume with open space up front for log drop-off and a working office in the back.

SQUARE FEET

2500

DESIGN

A Timber Drying Facility

ARCHITECTURAL STYLE

ARCHITECTURAL
STYLE

COSTAL MODERN

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ARCHITECTURAL
STYLE

Tan oak park, ca

LOCATION

The site is Tan Oak Park in Northern California. The park harvests its own timber, so the barn needs to use what is local.

THE INFLUENCE

The park already has that classic cabin feel nothing out of the ordinary. The goal was to keep that familiarity but push it somewhere different. Using the same oak in two tones, cut at different widths and run vertically, gave the building its own identity without feeling out of place on the site.

THE FORM

The barn is divided into two parts the front is open and accessible for vehicles to pull in and drop off timber, and the back is enclosed as office space. The vertical logs wraps the whole building, alternating between tan and darker oak to create a two-tone pattern . The roof is built from logs stacked in an alternating pattern, borrowing from the dougong bracket logic to create a curved profile that holds itself together through the stacking sequence alone.

THE FORM

The barn is divided into two parts the front is open and accessible for vehicles to pull in and drop off timber, and the back is enclosed as office space. The vertical logs wraps the whole building, alternating between tan and darker oak to create a two-tone pattern . The roof is built from logs stacked in an alternating pattern, borrowing from the dougong bracket logic to create a curved profile that holds itself together through the stacking sequence alone.

FINAL ENVIRONMENT

Everything on the exterior is oak its a two tones pattern. A lighter tan oak and a darker stained oak that alternate across the facade, also using alternating wood sizes that the park produces. The roof structure is fully wood, following the dougong logic of interlocking members that carry the load.