METAL WRAPS AN OUTDOOR PORCH IN A PLAY, FUNCTIONAL DESIGN FOR A FLORIDA SPORTS COMPLEX FACILITY

For the Field House at Pompano Beach's Youth Sports Complex in Florida, Brooks+Scarpa was seeking a flexible, durable and cost-effective material to craft the underside of the building’s front porch.

Constructed as a sloped concrete shell, the architects selected a metal lattice to wrap around the porch of the building. Painted yellow, the covered area connects the glass curtainwall entrance and the exterior concrete shell. Daylighting filters through the porch and the natural breeze is enhanced by fans hanging from the yellow ceiling.

The porch helps shade the building, mitigating solar heat gain and reducing HVAC costs.

The design as made from Pac-Clad Precision Series aluminum box rib panels and a steel composite deck with aluminum tubes and plates.

The yellow theme continues inside, on the ceiling of the porch overhang and some of the interior structure's facades, which are both clad in corrugated metal panels. The yellow metal lattice and corrugated metal panels combine to create what’s been described as a “playful and sculptural” design.