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The objective for this project was to create a boathouse from
which visitors could rent and launch boats. The site assigned was
located in Bald Eagle State Park, a park local to State College,
which consists of a large lake surrounded by miles of forests. The
boathouse was to be built on a small strip of land on the edge of
the lake, accompanied by a dock and/or boat launch. As this may
imply, one of the challenges we were faced with when designing
was having to find a way to incorporate the essence of the lake
into our building through the form of our structure.
I looked to approach this challenge in my design by creating a
structural system that would allow me to cantilever large CLT
members on top of the two buildings, in hopes of creating the
illusion that the buildings were hovering above the water's
surface, similar to a Bald Eagle hovering above the surface of a
lake.