Henkai Architekti clads mountain visitor centre in wooden shingles

Local studio Henkai Architekti has created Pustevny Gateway, a wood-clad visitor centre with a matching bell tower on the Beskydy Mountains ridge in the Czech Republic.
Designed to replace an existing service building, the visitor centre and viewpoint are built on micro-piles and topped by a green roof with a diagonal ridge.
Henkai Architekti has designed Pustevny Gateway in the Czech Republic
The structure is made from glued laminated timber (glulam), with the sides of the centre clad in timber shingles in a nod to local construction techniques.
"Our desire was to sensitively complement an architecturally significant place within its local context," Henkai Architekti co-founder Daniel Baro? told Dezeen.
The visitor centre is clad in timber shingles "Therefore, we drew inspiration primarily from the valued buildings already standing here," Baro? added.
"I have in mind especially the hermitages by architect Du?an Jurkovi? from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and the high-quality upper cable car station by Kamil Mrva."
It is located on the Beskydy Mountains ridge
Henkai Architekti chose to work with wood as it is a traditional and local material that can also be used in a variety of ways.
"Traditionally, it has historically been used in the landscape for building all elements of the above-ground parts of buildings," Baro? said.
"It allows for a minimalist material aesthetic. Shingles have historically been used for roofs an...
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