The design team was tasked by the owner to simplify and reinvent their existing split-level facility and consolidate several redundant program elements into one seamless experience. The owner’s new concept proposed the demolition of the older multi-story clubhouse and required the preservation of an aesthetically disliked and more-recent addition volume, containing locker rooms and other expensive-to-replace amenities. The design team’s challenge was to integrate the existing architecture, including a long asymmetrical gable and a lone octagonal turret, into a new coherent design that expressed the owner’s collective position in the community and resolved the functional issues facing their operations.
The proposed solution adds several new roof gables to the architectural composition, that rise and fall in response to formal and programmatic inputs, and that culminate in a feature wall that itself results from folding the materiality of the roof gablesdown to the ground plane. The abundance of glazed surfaces on the façade maximize interior daylighting and highlight views of the club’s extensive and beautiful grounds. The glazing is offset by using masonry and local Missouri stone, highlighting the desire to design with local resources, working to create a modern, yet timeless language through elongated brick. Groundscape materials were chosen to usher interior programs to the outdoors, complimenting the views of the golf course beyond.
The dynamic design pushes this private club forward in its traditional community with a competitive edge against similar facilities, as the ideal place to unwind and build social connections.