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West Ruskin Street Beach Pavilion
West Ruskin Street Beach Pavilion
Seaside, FL, United States
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West Ruskin Street Beach Pavilion
Seaside, FL, United States
STATUS
Built
YEAR
1992
SIZE
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft
BUDGET
Undisclosed
When Robert Davis asked me to design a beach pavilion, much like Seaside itself, I pulled ideas from Southern culture, these ranging from Neoclassical to Folk and Native American culture. Notable elements of Southern culture — quilting, lumber yards and a celebration of the American Flag — played a part in the design. The screens — sailboat patterns on the street side and windmills facing the water are based-on quilt patterns. It’s all pretty much humble lumber yard materials: off-the-shelf connectors and standing seam metal roofing. The original faded red, white and blue colors were a tribute to the American Flag. (They have been toned down a bit of late.) Structurally, the project presents a bit of a puzzle. While it appears that the large decorative screens support the roof, they don't. They are designed to break away in a storm in one piece; and that actually happened once as the result of a waterspout. The roadside screen is built to highway scale so it can be seen clearly from East County Rt. 30-A. On beach side, the screen is a more constrained, "beach stroller" scale. The roof design encourage cool breezes, and the "up and over" stairs and "Dark Skies Initiative" lighting are to avoid disturbing the sea turtles. The Beach Pavilions were completed early in the life of the Seaside project, and set aside as places for unique, individual expression. They say you are only as good as your client, and Robert Davis was an exemplary client. The project can be viewed at The Seaside Research Portal at the Library at University of Notre Dame. It was also featured in the book Seaside: Making a Town in America by David Mohoney, Keller Easterling (Princeton Architectural Press, 1991) and in the 1998 film The Truman Show.
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