Architectural Design studio site plan and building proposal for a youth camp in Florence, OR along Cleawox lake just north of the sand dunes at Honeyman Memorial State Park.
Studio work benefitted a nonprofit called the Melinda Foundation located in Florence, OR, and their project requirements called for a camp house, an administration cabin, stables, a recreation center, a main lodge, a boat house, and several large and small cabins.
After a site visit and analysis to get a feel for the terrain and environmental conditions, I laid out curved roadways, parking and meadows along contours, placed buildings for the best year-round indoor/outdoor microclimates and preserved mature stands of Douglasfir, Red Alder and Oregon Oak trees.
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Given the site's exposure to coastal winds and rain, I connected most buildings with covered walkways.
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Building designs used stone, timber, precast concrete and metal roofing recalling the public park structures built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s and 40s.
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I prepared two building sytle options:
Option A - proposed precast concrete tile base walls made from local sand and sea shells; smooth, colored concrete porch flooring; 4:12 roof pitches.
Option B - closely followed a Civilian Conservation Corps style with stone base walls; stone porch flooring; 1:1 roof pitches.
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