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Off Cut Hut (Work In Progress)

New York, The United States of America / MABU

This pavilion is a structure made of leftover timber parts.  It is part of a larger site design that organizes three structures into an integrated, restorative site plan. These accessory structures are intended as fragments of the site’s larger built ecologies. The site design creates a range of sensory experiences that amplify the sense of place and connect the buildings through a network of low-impact pathways and gardens. Located Ulster County in New York State, the site is on a residential property that is not beautiful in a traditional sense, but rather unique as a rugged leftover landscape, altered by the interplay of geological and human forces. The new structure celebrates this “as found” site condition as the setting for outdoor leisure and recreational activity. The structure is a long, linear form conceived of as spatial threshold along a forest edge, with a permeable boundary between forest and garden areas. It is constructed an a hybrid of heavy timber columns and mass timber (CLT panels and a glue laminated beam). The structure's geometric organization is set up as a series of angular fragments, all of built out of leftover parts. There are three material sources for these components: the roof assembly uses recycled ‘offcuts’ from the fabrication of its primary CLT panels fabrication, the heavy timber columns are salvaged from local barns, and rubble masonry for the ‘cyclopean’ garden wall and paving comes directly from the site. All timber components are stained a deep ‘venetian red.’  

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