This wine room was designed for a private club in Portland, OR. The space was a storage room prior to the renovation.
The most difficult challenge was to make a room with chilled wine storage as well as a comfortable dining space. A purpose-built chiller distributes cooled air across a plenum above the cases, with returns built into the bases of the cabinetry. Each door has a gasket to maintain the desired temperature.
The ceiling uses fiberglass insulation to absorb excess reverberation reflected from the hard surfaces. The insulation is covered with an acoustically transparent fabric.
A fire strobe is mounted on an automatic release door to disappear into the solid walnut paneling.
This renovation required making a 1925 building with decades of modifications feel like a unified whole.
By transforming a side door into a grand entrance and a some circulation changes the club took on a new life. I was delighted to be told by patrons that the new design felt “like it was always supposed to be this way”.
These are a small selection of residences I drafted at my first architecture position in New York State.
These carpets were designed for the elevator lobbies in an Art Deco tower in San Francisco.