Coronado Club Room and Boathouse 1985 Strand Way Coronado, CA 92118
Through careful site planning strategies, The City of Coronado Boathouse and Clubroom provides direct access to Glorietta Bay for non-motor powered water craft users, and has done so with minimal intrusion into the well-used park in which it is sited. This Boathouse provides for storage of rowing shells, kayaks, paddle boards, etc., both public and private, directly adjacent to the bay, where no such facilities were previously available.
The park hosts daily camps in the summer for hundreds of children, whose experience is also enhanced by this project through the inclusion of a multi-purpose clubroom, classroom and kitchen facilities to support youth programs. The Club Room has become a local teen “hot spot” with special events for middle and high school aged teens.
The design incorporates extensive use of clerestory windows to maximize natural daylight and provides operable windows at occupied spaces as part of an overall natural ventilation strategy. The windows accentuate the innovative, expressive structural system that utilizes a combination of structural steel and glu-laminated timbers; working together in an efficient structure that tectonically expresses the forms and methods of boat making. This system allowed for a substantial roof overhang from the club room, essentially creating an “outdoor room” and “perceived” square footage, without the costs of actual added square footage.
This relatively small (5,000s.f.) facility makes a very large positive impact on its community by facilitating coastal access for personal, non-motorized watercraft users; by providing multi-use space adjacent to the waterfront; that enhances youth programs; by providing delightful architecture for the community.
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