New tribal Hatchery & Beach Shelter
At the beach at Point Julia on land occupied by the tribe since time immemorial, the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe’s Hatchery and Beach Shelter combines pragmatic uses with symbolic content. Salmon fishing is central to the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe’s traditional identity and its contemporary outlook. The new 1,800 SF two-story building accommodates both office and utility space for the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe’s salmon hatchery program, along with a separate open-air structure used by the Tribe’s commercial fishing operations. This project recognizes the cultural importance of both the place—a focal point of their history—and the program, while providing solutions to allow these activities to flourish in the 21st century.
The lower level of the Hatchery houses a garage, maintenance shop, and egg-incubation room with equipment that is both durable and moveable. The upper floor contains offices, water-quality testing, and filtration equipment. The conference room on the southwest corner can be entered separately, accessible to the wider community.
The new hatchery forms a gateway to the beach from the landward side, and the beach shelter is the Tribe’s front door on the sea. It will provide a work area for fishermen who pull their boats onto the beach and will also provide recreation space for the community. On the beach between the two structures, the native landscape is being restored, along with traditional edible and medicinal plants, and salt-tolerant erosion control plantings.
See more here.
TEAM
Owner: Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe
Architecture: CAST architecture
Photography: Lara Swimmer
Contractor: Pacific Civil & Infrastructure
Geo-tech: Robinson Noble
Structural: Swenson Say Faget
MEP: Glumac
Civil: Cannon
Landscape Architect: Pacific Landscape Architecture
Windows: Jeld-Wen
Archeologist: Willamette Cultural Resources
Survey: AES Consultants
Intake System Engineer: Kleinschmidt Group
Specifications: Applied Building Information
Art/light installation: S’Klallam artist Jimmy Price
Conference table / Entry bench: Craig Kohring