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Milwaukee, WI
Roast Coffee Company with Adriana
Arteaga
Chad Bloedel
Ali Carlucci
Therese Hassett
Blake Villwock
The daily rhythms of the coffee shop inspired this ceiling installation and lighting fixture at a small independently owned cafe in Milwaukee. The client called for a delineation of the employee and customer areas, specifically to minimize the overhead volume behind the counter. After securing donated material (salvaged wood, hollow and solid steel tube and frosted acrylic,) material experimentation and prototyping proceeded to the final design. A serpentine plan and undulating elevation, along with patterning derived from capillary systems, draw from daily rituals around coffee consumption. Waking, resting, activation and repose are drawn in the fluid and ratcheted form. Responding to the aesthetic of salvaged material and industrial fabrication existing in the space, this new entity reflects and refines the culture of this young, urban, university cafe.
photo credit: chad bloedel photo credit: adriana arteaga
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photo credit: chad bloedel
salvaged-wood treated wall
points of interaction
wood
23 boards planed
1180 pieces cut
58 white pine
78 1/4” plywood
87 white oak
88 salvaged yellow pine
116 salvaged wood
96 miscellaneous wood
851 routes
523 pieces stained
373 pieces cut steel
168 pieces of solid tube
205 pieces of hollow tube
168 bends
653 drill holes
all pieces sealed
all cuts and drill holes sanded acrylic
4 4x8 sheets 1/4” frosted acrylic hundreds of score lines on surface
440 pieces cut
EXHIBITIONS
Super Jury Invitee Selected to present at biennial design symposium. Milwaukee. Finalist Bright Ideas Design Competition Sponsored by Philips Electronics and Inhabitat Magazine. New York. Finalist 2011 Mayor’s Design Awards Milwaukee.
Grit Patterns BYO Studio private gallery. Milwaukee. Super Jury Gallery of Architecture and Urbanism. Milwaukee.
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District Heat Plant + Spa
Milwaukee, WI
The designer is challenged in this project to identify systems and operations inherent to the building site that will drive the development of ideas in detailing and structure. An array of practices were undertaken to meet such broad goals. Early maquette studies focused on the relationship between the earth berm and retaining wall as they relate to the railtrack tracks that run across the western edge of the site. A series of operations involving a massive, passive sytem and a linear, travelling system were defined. An exaggerated thick masonry wall meets a thin wood spanning and cladding system. This simple relationship becomes the benchmark for decisions made in the wall section and building detail.
embed bypass hold lodge travel edge skim
a vocabulary of operations is defined after observation of the railroad track and the berm + wall system that accomdate it
the same vocabulary is applied to structural studies
embed bypass hold lodge travel edge skim
previous study culminated in a set of drawings, translating earlier ideas into the tectonic language of building assembly and construction detailing
In certain neighborhoods a vibrant culture of the front yard exists. Neighborhood identity, community involvement and social bonds are made in this public realm, that of the stoop, the porch, the patio. The vibrant use of the street contrasts with the insipid space that serves it. In the particular stretch investigated here, no planting is present at all to frame the activity of the sidewalk. Commercial districts have learned to coopt parking spaces in order to introduce small plazas, cafe seating, etc. Using this same strategy in residential areas, we can beautify the street, enhance the lives of the city’s inhabitants and implement strategies for growth and development in new ways to under served areas.
Material Study
