This unique project, in Missoula, Montana, at the riverfront Silver Park, consisted of a design competition for three shelters with benches. Each is in a very different style.
Reclaiming and re-use of sunken timber from the Blackfoot River. Design competition: winners are Jeremy Bonin (high funk factor: outward-canted posts supporting four valleys); Joseph Scarpa and Benjamin Nia (Japanese-inspired, with benches built in); Jeffrey Stahlecker (round logs; fabricated by our colleagues in the International Log Builders Association). Three raisings in one project. Compound joinery, square rule layout, shop production, round-to-square, onsite safety.
Repeated bouts of graffiti required park personnel to fence off the three pavilions. Jennifer Anthony partnered with community organizations, enlisting the help of at-risk middle school students at the C.S. Porter Flaghip Youth Program, to clean and coat the pavilions with Ecological Coatings' EC 180 anti-graffitti coating. The pavilions have remained open.
Project photo montage, with voiceovers (Krista Miller Larson). Click
TFG leaders
Curtis Milton, Mark Gannat, Caleb Larson, Rocco Bellebuono, Alicia, Isaac McCoy-Sulentic, Dave Kaplan
In-kind donors
Northcott Woodturning, GRK Fasteners, TimberLinx, Hilti Group, LandArk, Dennis Hambruch of Mafell NA, Suzie Orr, Colleen Rudio (food, housing); Ellen Buchanon, Geoff Badenoch (logistics, fundraising)
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Photographers
Krista Miller Larson, Geoff Badenoch
Narrative
Scantlings 135, 136, 142, 154, 170