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Workshops and maker rooms
The structural bay remains legible from end to end. New work is held away from the masonry, concentrating services in a blackened-steel core and leaving the repaired shell open to future change.
Civic library and reading hall
The empty basin becomes the room’s long reading table. Independent oak stacks stop below the spring line, preserving the volume while providing a flexible public collection.
Neighborhood food hall
Existing loading doors become generous civic thresholds. A compact stainless service spine keeps the trusses uninterrupted and allows every stall to be replaced without altering the historic fabric.
Retain the frame. Consolidate all new services within one reversible insertion.
Keep new shelves below the spring line and preserve the vaulted room as one civic interior.
Turn the loading edge into a public room without erasing its industrial depth.
We begin with the building that is already there: its structure, defects, material memory, and capacity to change.
We remove only what prevents the next life. New work is precise, reversible where possible, and explicit about the joint between old and new.
The result is not a replica of the past. It is durable architecture built from what a place can still become.
| ID | Material | Condition | Decision | Working detail |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| M-01 | Solid brick | Sound / lime joints open | Retain | Rake by hand · lime repoint |
| M-02 | Cast iron | Localized corrosion | Repair | Clean · plate splice · wax finish |
| M-03 | Structural timber | Dry / ends damaged | Retain | Scarf repair at bearing |
| M-04 | Terrazzo | Cracked / stable | Retain | Pin · fill · no color match |
| M-05 | Steel window | Frames reusable | Upgrade | Repair frame · add inner pane |
| M-06 | Glazed tile | Incomplete | Conserve | New field kept visibly distinct |
| M-07 | Concrete slab | Worn / level | Keep | Patch · hone · expose repairs |
| M-08 | New oak | — | Insert | Dry connections · demountable |
Measure the shell, trace alterations, and document every failure before drawing a new line.
Separate what is essential from what is simply old. Find latent capacity in structure and plan.
Take away only the elements that block safety, access, daylight, or the next useful life.
Prioritize local work and compatible material over wholesale replacement.
Concentrate new systems in legible, serviceable, and preferably reversible assemblies.
Issue a maintenance logic so future change remains part of the architecture.