The glulam members were shipped from Priest River to Yakima. The grooves were machine cut and then refined and finished by hand. Owner Mike MacAlevy says creating fully square columns and then notching the corners was simpler and more cost-effective than centering pre-cut 2x8s on the column faces. Selkirk Timberwrights, a timber frame company based in Priest River, Idaho, fabricated the glulam columns before gluing on the lumber finish. Delicately crossing each other before tying into twin steel posts, the columns anchor into concrete piers. The scissor columns comprise two Douglas fir glulam members angled at different directions-one lists inward toward building and the other stands perpendicular to the roof slope. The duo-rafters continue outside, past expansive glass curtainwalls, to sandwich an array of approximately 18-foot-tall “scissor” columns, transferring their structural load to the columns via two steel angles.
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Double glulam rafters form the top chords of a series of hybrid wood-and-steel girder trusses. The barn inspired the exposed structure Graham Baba ultimately designed for Washington Fruit’s headquarters. “You could really see how the forces were taken care of through these pieces of wood.” Behind the rotten wood and decay, an interior structure of heavy timber posts, beams, and diagonal struts, “or knee braces,” was left exposed, he says. “The only thing did was drive us out of town to this barn,” says Brett Baba, co-founder and principal of Seattle-based Graham Baba Architects.
Initial meetings between the designers and the client were light on architectural direction. The voids, however, are intentional, inspired by the raw beauty of a nearby abandoned barn, and serve to create a central courtyard and intersecting walkways in the large building volume.Ĭompleted in 2016 for the family-owned company, which grows, packages, and ships fruit from its 90-acre production facility in central Washington, the 16,500-square-foot building takes the form of a long, low-slung barn, its pitched roof spanning some 68 feet.
The new headquarters of the Washington Fruit & Produce Co. Kevin Scott Washington Fruit & Produce Co.