Town of
Hempstead
Two shade shelters for a public ballfield: a gable canopy and an octagon pavilion, engineered to survive a coastal site.
Gable canopy: 20' x 10' fabric roof on four steel columns, installed at the field's edge.
This job sits outside the usual storefront scope. The client is a municipality, the site is an open ballfield a few hundred feet from the water, and the deliverable isn't a sign — it's shade, engineered to hold up.
Two structures, same construction logic. A rectangular gable canopy over one seating area, an octagon pavilion over another. Both use Sunbrella fabric over a welded 1" square pipe frame, on 4"x4" black steel columns painted Lazy Gray. Fabric color and pole finish are identical across both, so from across the field they read as one family of structures, not two unrelated builds.
The part that doesn't show once it's built is the part that mattered most: each column lands on a 24"-diameter concrete pier, reinforced with vertical rebar at every corner and horizontal stirrups every 6", tied into a steel base plate anchored below grade. A shade structure a few hundred feet from open water has to take wind load seriously — that spec is what keeps a fabric roof from becoming a sail.
Octagon pavilion: 30' span, same fabric and footing spec, human figure shown for scale in the section.