One Week Project

By Jessica Grafton

We kicked off this semester in Studio with a quick one week project for the Pine Ridge Boy Scout Camp on Little Grassy Lake. The objective was to design a picnic pavilion with the idea that the drawings we provided the camp could be used in a fundraising campaign to make it possible for one or more of our ideas to be realized.


Day one of Studio we visited the site, which was truly a gorgeous place. It was a peninsula right on the lake, with coves on either side making the views in every direction spectacular. Surrounding the entire area, were 80’-90’ trees that cascaded down all three inclines of the peninsula. It was truly an inspiring place to design for.

The client asked specifically for a rustic pavilion that would blend with the rest of the camp, yet spark a sort of ominance, as it would be used for many different purposes. One of these being a chapel where religious services could be held. The capacity for the picnic area was to be for about 150 people. Plenty of gathering space and room for tables and chairs were important to the client, as well as a BBQ area and the option to possibly enclose the space in the future if funds for the project could be raised.


This was my solution for pavilion. I wanted stick very closely to what the client asked for in this case, due to the nature of the project, and the means by which it would be built and funded. I feel that it is a design that could be built by the volunteers at the camp and through funding could be done in 3 distinct phases, keeping the cost attainable over time.