Sweeping ribbed roof forms curving against the sky
Coconut Grove, FL · Completed

Dinner Key Sailing Center

A public sailing hall that breathes like a sail loft and closes like a hangar.

year
2025
area
11,200 SF
program
Community sailing center
01Concept
The brief

The city wanted the youth sailing program out of its trailers and into a building that could survive a hurricane season and a thousand teenagers.

The site

The Dinner Key basin, between the mooring field and the bike path, where every afternoon the sea breeze arrives on schedule.

The climate move

One long roof, curved like a set sail, carries the whole program: its underside is a continuous ventilated plenum that pulls bay air through the boat hall without a single duct.

02Blueprint
Plan study
Section: shaded strata
Detail: the meridian datum
Materials, as drawn

Glulam arches · Standing-seam aluminum · Polycarbonate clerestory · Sealed concrete

03Manifest
The response, built

A single curved roof spans boat hall, classrooms, and rigging yard. The hall's bay face is one hangar door; open, the building is a shaded outdoor room with a fleet in it.

The detail that proves it

The clerestory reads the breeze: polycarbonate flaps trim themselves like telltales, and the kids learn the building the way they learn the boats.

Set to solar time.