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ABOUT THE CLASS Degree Project is the final studio before graduation. As a follow up to Design Thinking, this project is the comprehensive manifestation of a thesis. Under an advisor, a proposal is taken from concept through schematic design before a series of structural and building systems review. FOLLOWING DESIGN THINKING Place occurs at the intersection of ACTIVITY, FORM, and IMAGE. Through these conditions, this thesis acknowledges the need of placemaking by engaging less than ideal space in Saint Louis. Vandeventer Avenue is an unmemorable corridor. It is loud, fast, and vacant. It is not a place; people experience it for, at most, fifteen to twenty seconds. It has an industrial and inter-modal quality that belies its existence of the city surrounding; the street has lost its understanding of the human. The objective is to leverage the space using public social [ACTIVITY] with the industrial [FORM] of the site, encouraging opportunity for end users (both car and pedestrian) to create personal experiences [IMAGE] of
Beer becomes alcoholic as yeast ferments it over a several week period. Finally, it is packaged before being shipped out or consumed.
the space. A brewery connects the culture of the city to the space as an ideal candidate for such a concept. DESIGN STRATEGY Vandeventer is compared to the process of brewing. The road median is reconfigured to compress and expand, creating wide spaces for private industrial and public park to occupy. Adjusting the road this way naturally slows the car by creating curves, while road widths are reduced making it easier for pedestrians to cross. Pedestrian and vehicular modes of traffic, as well as industrial production, are guided by shifting frames and canopies, pipelines, and landscape elements.
4 [SOCIAL - BIERGARTEN] The journey concludes at the meeting point of beer and the public, after moving through a final look at the intensities of making the beverage.
3 [INDUSTRIAL - BREWING] A hopyard to the east brings a new ingredient to the process as the wort is further boiled into beer. 3 [SOCIAL - LEARNING CENTER] Moving between the hop fields and brew houses, class rooms take advantage of their proximity to both farm and brew processes.
At the northernmost point of the project, the process of brewing finalizes with fermentation and bottling. It is at this moment where the industrial process becomes directly connected to the public. Social space here is focused on the celebration of drinking as much as it is focused on viewing the activities surrounding the final stages of the process.
2 [INDUSTRIAL - MIXTURE] Refined materials combine and are boiled into an aromatic tea-like mixture called wort. 2 [SOCIAL - PLAZA] Pedestrian space expands into a flexible multipurpose plaza. Using the sloping surfaces of the project, they are raised above the ground for improved vantage points. 1 [INDUSTRIAL - COLLECTION] Raw materials enter from truck and on freight train. Dry goods [barley] move into malting and water is treated on site. 1 [SOCIAL - THRESHOLD]
Master Plan: Stretching more than a half mile, the park and brewery split the road and allow for the experience of brewing to be put on display.
Pedestrians [and vehicles] from this point begin the experience by moving between the collection of raw goods.
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Pedestrian Corridor Fermentation Tanks
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Pedestrian Corridor Central Plant and Pump House
Central Plant | Pump House
Plan and Sections: Where the brewing process terminates, the social and industrial progams combine to create an indoor and outdoor biergarten. Physical Models: A wide variety of models, from concept, to tectonic, to master planning were created to maintain a logic at all scales.
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Site & Major Infrastructure | 1:600
Street and Brewing: A Linear Process | 1:600
Site & Major Infrastructure | 1:600
Street and Brewing: A Linear Process | 1:600
Schematic Physical Model
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Splitting Road by Process | 1:600
Spaces for Programming | 1:600
Splitting Road by Process | 1:600
Design| 1:600 Diagrams Spaces forEarly Programming
Concept Sketch for Rendering
View From Ikea Way
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Enjoying Beverages Produced on Site
Within the Biergarten
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Industrial Meets Social: In the northernmost spaces of the building, the process of brewing becomes publicly interactive.
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Walking North Towards Biergarten
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Pedestrian Corridor through Industry: With industrial activity below ground level, pedestrians can enjoy the view from above as they travel through a sheltered public corridor.
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Sectional Physical Model: Displaying the level of detail considered at a quarter inch scale, the final model was a mixture of concrete, plastic, and wood materials. It’s south edge correlates with one of the primary drawn sections. Final model dimensions are roughly 50”x 18”x 18”.