Silver Park Pavilions

3 Park Shelters in Montana

This unique project, in Missoula, Montana, at the riverfront Silver Park, consisted of a design competition for three shelters with benches. Each is in a very different style.

Reclaiming and re-use of sunken timber from the Blackfoot River. Design competition: winners are Jeremy Bonin (high funk factor: outward-canted posts supporting four valleys); Joseph Scarpa and Benjamin Nia (Japanese-inspired, with benches built in); Jeffrey Stahlecker (round logs; fabricated by our colleagues in the International Log Builders Association).  Three raisings in one project.  Compound joinery, square rule layout, shop production, round-to-square, onsite safety.  

Repeated bouts of graffiti required park personnel to fence off the three pavilions.  Jennifer Anthony partnered with community organizations, enlisting the help of at-risk middle school students at the C.S. Porter Flaghip Youth Program, to clean and coat the pavilions with Ecological Coatings' EC 180 anti-graffitti coating.  The pavilions have remained open.

Project photo montage, with voiceovers (Krista Miller Larson). Click 

https://vimeo.com/46770367

 

TFG leaders
Curtis Milton, Mark Gannat, Caleb Larson, Rocco Bellebuono, Alicia, Isaac McCoy-Sulentic, Dave Kaplan

In-kind donors
Northcott Woodturning, GRK Fasteners, TimberLinx, Hilti Group, LandArk, Dennis Hambruch of Mafell NA, Suzie Orr, Colleen Rudio (food, housing); Ellen Buchanon, Geoff Badenoch (logistics, fundraising)

Blogs

• Blog post from Bonin Architects 

News

• Silver Park shelter project prepares to build / Missoulian
• Timber-frame pavilion going up in Missoula's Silver Park / Missoulian

Tube

• Silver Park's timber pavilion / Missoulian video
• Drone flight above Silver Park / Dave Eggert

Photographers
Krista Miller Larson, Geoff Badenoch

Narrative
Scantlings 135, 136, 142, 154, 170