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Osler Bluff Ski Club
Discipline : Interior Design
Categories : Special Awards / Acoustic : Platinum Winner
Categories : Special Awards / Wood Featured in an Interior Design Project : Gold Certification
The Osler Bluff Ski Club is a renovation of and addition onto a 1979 heavy-timber structure for a private ski club. A new façade creates a modern Clubhouse linked to the Club's history. It contains a lunchroom, support spaces, and a new child-minding space.
The design resolution focused on tying together the old and new structures with an intent to capture the historic and beloved spirit of the existing heavy timber spaces while creating a modern and sustainable expression that speaks to the Club’s future.
Carrying through an ethos of craft and timber construction, new Y-Columns reinterpret the existing heavy timbers and are CNC-milled to mimic the soft profiles discovered through the history of hand-carved wood skis. The figural character of these new columns marks one of many wood details throughout the clubhouse, establishing a site-specific language of solid and veneer-based construction techniques and presenting the members with tactile moments throughout the Club.
A new Douglas Fir acoustic ceiling runs through the entire project, acting as a primary surface in the spaces. The new ceiling aligns with the lower face of the existing timber frames, allowing the new sprinkler system and lighting to be concealed and giving the Clubhouse the feeling of a wooden tent. The dramatically reduced decibel level has made for a space that is warm acoustically, which complements the warmth of the interior finishes.
Collaboration
Architect : Williamson Williamson
Engineering : Blackwell Structural Engineers
