CONSTITUTION SHED wins AIASeattle award!

A small off-grid restored SHED used to support forest restoration on a remote island mountaintop, Constitution SHED layers built reflections of site, ecologies, memory and legacy. The simple, utilitarian SHED, located high on a remote mountaintop on a Pacific Northwest island, had lost its functional purpose as a support structure for a large water tank, and its strong proportions had been slowly decaying for decades. The grandfather of the owner/architect had built the SHED, as a protection against fires high on the then nearly inaccessible mountain. Upon refinding the SHED, decades later, during intense forest restoration efforts of the long-neglected mountain island forest, the owner/architect had the SHED relocated to a island local workshop, to restore the stalwart proportions and the 80 year old Douglas Fir boards that had once been milled on site