Bend Science Station (BSS), a non-profit primarily based in Bend, Ore., has a brand new house designed by way of Hennebery Eddy Architects, within the type of a light-flooded finding out laboratory at the Oregon State College-Cascades (OSU) campus.
The construction’s design fuses experiential finding out and structure, noticed within the demonstration tower, outside school room, and visual sustainable design options. The construction soffits and secure external partitions are clad with cedar siding. A status seam steel shell is extruded down the outermost partitions, reinforcing the straightforward massing whilst protective the recessed cedar from weathering on the west, south, and east construction frontages.
The 348 m2 (3,750 sf) shed-roofed construction is sited at the campus’ public threshold. Its south orientation and the ramp-like shape slopes up from the neighborhood towards the college. The north facade is scaled to narrate to the bigger campus constructions. A planar picket ceiling spans to the outside, whilst glazing and top ceilings replicate the construction shape.
