Moorelands Camp Dining Hall | Blackwell Structural Engineers

Program

Built on a peninsula jutting into Lake Kawagama in the Haliburton Highlands, this dining hall and kitchen facility serves 260 campers. The structure features sawn lumber rafters and beams supported by moment-resisting glulam frames that are trussed with light steel tension rods to resist gravity loads. Twelve glulam trusses combine with small scale dimensioned lumber and light steel elements to create a simple “wooden tent.” The compression members of the truss are created with a continuous line of 2 x 4s to form a structural truss “lantern.” Wind loads are resisted by frame action, allowing window openings around the full perimeter of the building.

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