Chapel at Rio Roca Ranch / Maurice Jennings + Walter Jennings Architects

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Architect of Record: Maurice Jennings + Walter Jennings Architects
Project Location: Palo Pinto County, Texas, USA
Project Team: Maurice Jennings, Walter Jennings, Lori Yazwinski Santa-Rita, David Pullium
Consultants: HP Engineering (MEP), Myers-Beatty Engineering (Structural)
Project Area: 1,080 square feet
Project Year: 2010
Photographs:  Walter Jennings
  
Owner/Client: Rio Roca Ranch
Landscape Architect: Dan Sauerwein
General Contractor: English Heritage Homes (Michael Taylor Supervisor)
Products:  Lock-Deck Laminated Decking, Pine lumber, Lueders limestone
The Rio Roca Chapel is a carefully articulated wooden structure which is coupled with opulent textures and set against an awe-inspiring landscape. Its lightweight wood structure is braced elegantly with tension bars and turnbuckles, providing support for the walls and copper roof. The chapel’s configuration is essentially an intricate weaving of steel and wood flitch systems with tongue and groove decking above.