Bamfield Marine Centre Bamfield, British Columbia
| Completion: | 2004 |
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| General Contractor: | Windley Contracting |
| Architect: | de Hoog & Keirulf Architects Ltd |
| Services Supplied: | Structural design-build, shop drawings, shop fabrication, erection |
The award-winning scallop-shell roof structure is designed using 12 arched, stressed-skin shells roughly 12 feet wide and up to 50 feet long. The Parallam timber bottom chords of the shell, each laminated into a 110 foot radius, are supported on elliptically shaped façade columns. The 20 foot tall façade complete with shaped timber muntins and custom aluminium castings affords a spectacular unobstructed view of the Pacific Ocean.