The development of our boat house began with a mediation of the two main site grains—the ridge line to the south and the shore line to the north. From this, two strands were formed as reciprocations of the site grains.

The site itself has been altered over time out of convenience for the site’s programmatic requirements. The strands continue that logic by considering the temporal existing condition of the site lines and inflecting them out of convenience for the site’s new program as a boat house.

The two strands are differentiated programmatically—one for training, the other for support—as a bifurcation of the site graining. The strands then explore the three-dimensional upheavals of the grains, lifting out of the ground and floating above where the boats and vehicles move in and out of the building and site. 

The roof continues the bifurcation, and begins a logic of hybridization between external and internal influences. Grains of the roof are lifted, exposing them to the south for light and stack-effect ventilation, but lifted strategically based on interior program. 

The façade follows the sectional grains of the site and building. The particular conditions of the façade are created again as reactions to both internal structure or program and external site conditions.

Two minor interventions in the strands carve openings to create sectional interchanges. A courtyard carved over the boat shed reveals the kinetic representation of grains created by the movements of the boats from shed to water.