El Dorado

Boulevard Brewing Company Cellar 1 Expansion

Boulevard Brewing Company Cellar 1 Expansion
© Mike Sinclair

BOULEVARD BREWING COMPANY CELLAR 1 EXPANSION 

El Dorado Inc

CATEGORY
Industrial architecture

LOCATION
Kansas city, united states

ARCHITECTS
El Dorado Inc

YEAR
2012

PHOTOGRAPHS
Mike Sinclair

Text description provided by architect.

Boulevard Brewing Company desired a fast-track process for design and construction for an expansion project that would add (8) 40’-0” tall tanks to a 15’-0” tall existing structure.

Boulevard Brewing Company Cellar 1 Expansion
© Mike Sinclair
Boulevard Brewing Company Cellar 1 Expansion
© Mike Sinclair
Boulevard Brewing Company Cellar 1 Expansion
© Mike Sinclair

The tanks, planned for the production of hops beer, needed to be accessed 24 hours a day to regulate the addition of ingredients.

BBC selected a project team assembled by an architect-led design-build delivery process to execute a complex assembly of components within very tight quarters.

From the onset of the design process, the architect-builder had to plan the project to allow all adjacent space to remain open throughout construction.

Boulevard Brewing Company Cellar 1 Expansion
© Mike Sinclair
Boulevard Brewing Company Cellar 1 Expansion
© Mike Sinclair

During Schematic Design, the architect-builder discovered an underground river within a 1920’s culvert running under the north corner of the existing structure.

The architect embraced this constraint, allowing historic infrastructure to shape the new expansion into a dynamic form that directly engages a busy intersection emerging from a nearby train overpass.

Boulevard Brewing Company Cellar 1 Expansion
© Mike Sinclair
Boulevard Brewing Company Cellar 1 Expansion
© Mike Sinclair

The Cellar One Expansion serves dual functions. It provides a functionally sound, naturally illuminated space for the new tanks. The expansion also rises as a celebrated light monitor, providing natural illumination to existing adjacent brewing space below.

Careful placement of perforated screening eliminates unwanted heat gain from the brewing process.

Boulevard Brewing Company Cellar 1 Expansion
© Mike Sinclair
Boulevard Brewing Company Cellar 1 Expansion
© Mike Sinclair
Boulevard Brewing Company Cellar 1 Expansion
© Mike Sinclair
Boulevard Brewing Company Cellar 1 Expansion
© Mike Sinclair
Boulevard Brewing Company Cellar 1 Expansion
© Mike Sinclair
Boulevard Brewing Company Cellar 1 Expansion
© Mike Sinclair


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El Dorado
510 Avenida Cesar E Chavez, Kansas City, MO 64108, United States