76×60 Monitor Shop — Clackamas County, Oregon

A 76-foot-by-60-foot county-permitted monitor-style building on rural acreage near Wilsonville, in Clackamas County, southwest of Portland. The raised center holds the main shop — vehicle maintenance, RV storage, and workspace — with finished living space worked into the plan, all under one roof.

Monitor style means a tall raised center with lower wings on either side. Here the center runs an 18-foot eave with two 20-foot-wide wings stepping down beside it, which gives the building both the door clearance a Class A motorhome needs and the lower, sheltered eave lines that make it sit right on the property. The footprint is roughly twice the size of a typical personal shop.

The project went through full county permit review — engineered structural plans and inspections during construction — the right path given the building’s size and its residential-occupancy half. The concrete slab was poured and finished by a subcontractor we coordinated; insulation runs through the walls and roof; sections are roughed in for electrical and air.

Overhead doors are spread across the center and the wings, sized for vehicles, the RV, and equipment. Light-gauge steel cladding in a dark, low-maintenance black, with skylights and electrical lighting keeping the interior usable through Pacific Northwest winters.

A monitor layout is a lot of building to detail, and this one carried a long finish list. It is the kind of project where building to stamped engineering — with the structure refined through review — is what keeps a complex roofline square and right.