Architecture students build community hall in Utah desert using repurposed materials
A large white canopy helps shade this building clad in hot-rolled steel, which was created by university students in a Colorado design-build programme that is known for its work in rugged settings.
The project, called Confluence Hall, was designed and built in 19 weeks by a team of 27 graduate students from the Colorado Building Workshop.
The design-build programme, which is housed within the University of Colorado Denver's College of Architecture and Planning, has completed a number of distinctive projects in remote locations, including forest micro cabins clad in hot-rolled steel, and a pair of dwellings on the Navajo Reservation made of weathering metal and barn wood.
The group's latest project is situated on a desert site just outside of Moab, Utah, and is bordered by the Wingate Cliffs to the west and the La Salle Mountains to the east. The building serves as a community venue for the Colorado Outward Bound School, a nonprofit focused on wilderness education. Training sessions, course briefings and community meals all take place in the new structure, which was designed to be highly flexible and contextually appropriate.
"The students worked with the staff and instructors of Colorado Outward Bound to create a successful structure that would best serve the organisation," said the Colorado Building Workshop. "The team concluded that Confluence Hall should become a communal space that allows programmatic flexibility, mitigates the sun and wind, provides s...
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