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Ortlieb's Bottling House
Project Type:
Interior Workplace, Adaptive Reuse, Historic Building
Project Location:
829 N American Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19123
USA
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Adaptive Reuse, Daylight Havesting, LED Lighting, Displacement Ventilation, Raised Access Flooring
Project Summary:
This project is a retrofit of a historic bottling plant in a dense residential and commercial neighborhood in Philadelphia. Built in 1948, the industrial building was transformed into an open plan office for 100+ people with conference rooms, fabrication shops, and breakout spaces. The goal for the renovation was to achieve a comfortable, energy-efficient, and flexible working environment and retain the building’s original International Style characteristics. After the renovation, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The building is a two-story red brick structure with large bands of windows on the west and north sides. The second floor is an expansive open space with glazed brick walls and exposed roof trusses, illuminated with daylight from the windows and a glazed clerestory on the roof. The architects took advantage of these features to employ environmentally responsible systems for conditioning the space and to minimize lighting and power loads. Natural light and ventilation, together with the thermal mass of the concrete structure, provided an ideal test bed to experiment with various combinations of passive and active ventilation and dehumidification for heating and cooling. The experimentation was scrupulously tracked with 400 data sensors and daily occupant surveys to arrive at a new model for energy-efficient thermal comfort. The renovation highlights and preserves the best attributes of a mid-century building, while incorporating novel approaches to office design to create a flexible, collaborative space that enhances creative pursuits. The vast open space and exposed steel trusses are a treasure rarely experienced in typical office buildings. Furthermore, the project preserves an important part of Philadelphia’s architectural heritage and maintains the character of a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood, highlighting the great potential of the region’s mid-century building stock to provide innovative, productive, and sustainable work spaces that support a growing creative economy.
(Source: AIA COTE 2018)
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2018-11-28 00:42:06
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119.27
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Design and Construction Team:
KieranTimberlake
Architect / Owner
AJ Lewis
General Contractor
Fisher Marantz Stone
Lighting Consultant
Elliott-Lewis
MEP/Fire Protection Engineer
SSM
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