Matheson Hammock, FL · Completed
A public sundial you can stand inside: the studio's namesake, built.
- year
- 2025
- area
- 1,150 SF
- program
- Park pavilion
- recognition
- AIA Miami Divine Detail, 2025
01Concept
The brief
The county asked for shade near the marina. The studio proposed shade that tells time.
The site
The open lawn between the coral-rock picnic shelters and the water at Matheson Hammock, with a clean southern horizon over the bay.
The climate move
02Blueprint
Materials, as drawn
Cast concrete · Brass inlay · Keystone paving · Still water
03Manifest
The response, built
A single concrete vault, split down its length by a precise slot. The slot's light falls across a brass line set in the keystone floor, marked with the dates of the solstices and the day the county broke ground.
The detail that proves it
At the equinoxes the line of light and the brass line agree for four minutes; the studio publishes the schedule, and people come.
Set to solar time.