Firm: pod a+d. this project completed in 2018 was an adaptive-reuse of a former tire company. the 55,000 sq ft project which I, as an associate, was on the design team, document production, as well as the project manager.
"We didn’t come to the table with any set notions about form, floorplan, stylistic quality, or building materials. For this unique facility, we embraced the design strategy “form follows process,” allowing the building to take shape in response to the bourbon production process it houses. The result: a unique and responsive building that shares its design and purpose equally with the building’s capacious copper and steel equipment. That utilitarian yet distinctly beautiful equipment, the sinuous flow of the “juice” along the path from grain to bottle – the process itself became our inspiration as we developed multiple sketch-and-model studies."
