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Bayou Ball

Bayou Ball

Trahan clad the exterior of the museum in planks of sinker cypress, which comes from logs that have been submerged for years in the soft muddy bottoms of swamps and bayous. (Courtesy Trahan Architects)

Construction began last month in Natchitoches, Louisiana, on the Louisana State Sports Hall of Fame and Regional History Museum. “What do sports and regional history have in common?” you might ask.Trahan Architectscertainly had to ponder this question when figuring out an elegant way to combine the disparate program elements under one roof. In the end they took inspiration from Louisiana’s geomorphology, basing their layout of interior spaces on “the fluid shapes of the braided corridors of river channels separated by interstitial masses of land.” See exactly what is meant by this in the images after the jump.

Trahan based the museum's internal circulation corridors on the shapes of river channels. (Courtesy Trahan Architects)

A central atrium serves as the interior's main organizing element and creates space for events. (Courtesy Trahan Architects)

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