Sweet Sea beach pavilion

These beach-aspect park pavilions are an initiative by the Sarasota County Parks and Recreation Department to provide iconic seashore park restroom pavilions for the County that journeying beach-goers can without difficulty pick out. Design proposal changed into discovered within the coastal flowers on this gulf-the front network. An summary version of sea-oats turned into used as a non-stop layout topic in each of the Beach Park Pavilions as facade remedy. Due to Hurricane regulations, these shape are improved above the storm surge elevation requiring park buyers to go beyond a ramp to an elevation of 10’-zero” above the existing grade. The mission became a way to offer aesthetic vertical accessibility thru ramp which, at times, changed into 120’-0” in duration.

The abstract use of ‘sea-oats’ as a screen detail become used to unite the ramp with the building. The wood ramp machine is suspended from the cast-in place concrete roof slab above with stainless steel rods. Each of the pavilions are sited to offer views toward Nature Preserves, the Bay and the Gulf that are significantly greater with these multiplied structures. Simplified roof paperwork had been utilized in every of the pavilions to incorporate and support the ramp. These roofs capture rainwater, directing it to cisterns and ultimately used for irrigation and rest room flushing. These pavilions have sustainable layout features that encompass clerestory louvers for passive air flow and skylights for daytime harvesting. Cement-fiber siding, cast-in-region concrete and aluminum tubes ‘sea-oats’ are the exterior substances decided on for his or her capacity to face up to the waterfront surroundings and seasonal climate.