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Cool barn board shelves available in any length, 4-5” deep Article source: http://www.metalwoodcommongood.com/post/47640806907 Custom art table for client with full length pull out drawers, reclaimed oak table top with refurbished metal legs Article source: http://www.metalwoodcommongood.com/post/47640967578 Sideboard built entirely out f reclaimed chestnut for a client, with wine rack and extra long pull out drawer Article source: http://www.metalwoodcommongood.com/post/47641104406 Very cool project for a client, metal frame in between reclaimed table legs and a custom two part table top. Top opens to hidden storage and closes for a full size work station. Fitting perfectly underneath is a 4 drawer bank for additional storage. Article source: http://www.metalwoodcommongood.com/post/47642254378 Lots or trunks available!! Most 18x18x36”, this one features a metal and glass inlay on the top, with mixed types of reclaimed wood, pine body construction Article source: http://www.metalwoodcommongood.com/post/47643382559 Gardens and Pizza11/16/2012 0 Comments I started New Growth Gardens to address a common problem – children graduate from high school with few skills and concepts for leading healthy and sustainable lives. New Growth Gardens uses gardens to introduce urban children to skills and concepts about health and sustainability. More on Earth to Pizza in the next post. Be well! Leave a Reply
Article source: http://www.newgrowthgardens.com/3/post/2012/11/gardens-and-pizza.html ← Making An Appearance Gearing up for the Grand Opening → If you’ve driven down Armory Street in recent weeks, you’ll notice that much about our landscape has changed. The chain link fence surrounding our property has been removed and replaced, with a lot of the brush cleaned up in the process. Our construction site is now very visible from the sidewalk and while driving by! Our parking lot is being slowly transformed with landscaping. The hill that connects the sidewalk to our parking lot will soon have lush green grass that has been planted through a process called hydroseeding, which grows grass quickly and is ideal for sloped areas. We kept an original rock retainer wall and will add a great variety of plants including Sweetfern, Red Twig Dogwood, Witchhazel and Northern Bayberry. Each of these plants requires minimal watering (per LEED requirements) and low maintenance, but will add a nice splash of many different colors including green, yellow and red.
This area that has been hydroseeded will soon be lush, green grass.
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In anticipation of the store’s Grand Opening Celebration, we thought we’d share some of the design decisions behind what you’ll see when you come for your visit. If you’ve been reading this blog, you’ve read about some of the energy efficiency upgrades, including high performance insulation, heating and lighting, that will make this a national model for what you can do with an older, inefficient building. SITELAB Architecture + Design has been working with the EcoBuilding Bargains team for the past fifteen months to make sure that your experience of the store is consistent with the non-profit’s innovative goals: to reuse valuable building materials, to make home improvement more affordable, and to create local jobs and provide job training. In the coming weeks, I’ll be guest blogging to tell you the story of the building expansion. I hope to meet you at the Grand Opening! Caryn Brause, Principal SITELAB Architecture + Design
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If the new EcoBuilding Bargains’ exterior grabs your attention as you whiz down Armory Street – that’s what we’re intending. This is a high traffic corridor and not all the traffic will be coming to the store. They may be curious about the new construction on Warwick Street. We’d like them to know what’s up and be curious enough to stop by for a visit. For returning customers used to finding the store on Albany Street, the arresting green and white exterior will orient them to the new location. But the building’s design is not just about bringing in customers, it’s also about showing how you can give new life to an older inefficient building. We definitely aim to show that repurposing older commercial buildings can be exciting! This year, EcoBuilding Bargains, formerly known as the ReStore, changed its look. A new logo, a new name, and a new tagline – “recycled stuff from floors to doors” – were developed so that people would have a better sense of what the store offers. Many design decisions — from the super-sized logo to the insulated metal panel colors to the recycled and repurposed materials in the vestibule — reinforce these exciting changes.
The exterior facade design highlights the most dramatic change in the building: the use of 3” thick insulated metal panels to wrap the old brick warehouse. Although insulated metal panels are not uncommon on commercial buildings, you may be more familiar with them as the exterior cladding used for cold storage buildings and food processing plants. Here they were combined with 7 ½” of repurposed roof insulation to economically create a new “envelope” for the older building. From a design standpoint, the panels extend up at the corner and are wrapped by CET’s logos to increase visibility from the nearby intersection. Working with the standard color choices, panel colors are varied to break down the scale of the building and to demonstrate a complete transformation into a modern, recognizable retail environment.
A guiding principle in all of my work is that every design move has to do double-duty. In this case, we located the single “peek-a-boo” window for maximum impact. Due to structural and economic constraints, we were only allowed one window. The location at the corner permits approaching visitors to see what’s happening inside. Customers on the inside get a welcome view out to the newly-planted, colorful, and low-maintenance hillside. At the same time, the thickness of the opening around the window reveals the layering of the new metal panels onto the old brick building. The design goal was to have the envelope not only improve the building’s performance, but also convey the non-profit’s goals to customers and passersby.
Be sure to come by and check out the view!
Caryn Brause, Principal SITELAB Architecture + Design
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