THE WANDERING BREWERY
The Wandering Brewery is a futuristic industrial micro-brewery located in Nottingham's Lace Market. Combining the areas past as an industrial world centre and its future as a trendy area for cocktails, wine bars, and craft beers this micro-brewery beautifully links the two sides of this historic area of Nottingham.
Research and Inspiration
The brief I was given asked me to produce a factory or industrial building within the Lace Market area of Nottingham. I chose to design a micro-brewery with an in-house bar in order to combine the areas past as an industrial word centre, and the areas future as a nightlife hotspot.
Right from the offset I wanted this brewery to have a very industrial aesthetic in order to mirror the sites industrial history. I did extensive research into the brewing process and produced diagrams and sections of each piece of machinery used labelling each individual component (below).
After learning about each stage in the brewing process I went on to focus more heavily on the Fermentation Tank and produced a 1:5 detailed section of the apparatus (right) with a specific focus on elements similar to construction methods and materials used within architectural construction. This drawing then went on to inspire almost every element of my design, from the shape of the module containing each machine, to the construction method of the brewery.
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Sections / Elevation
Since the start of this project it has been all about contrast, as you can see the ground floor of this design is very open, allowing the upper floors to be levitated off the ground and giving the building a more powerful appearance.
Due to the natural landscape of Nottingham and it’s almost cliff like appearance and also due to the close proximity of two church steeples/towers there are lot of vertical elements to the site, I have tried to capture this verticality using tall thin structures such as the three storage towers shown below.
Short Section
Long Section
Front Elevation
Ground Floor
Plans
There is a public house on the ground floor that will serve the ale created in the brewery upstairs. A public through still access remains on this floor of the brewery through the bar, meaning there are two main access points to the ground floor, the main entrance being at the front and a smaller entrance at the back. In order to gain access to the brewery on the upper floors you will need to enter the main reception area in the centre of the site and then be granted access up the stair well.
All floors have three large storage vats at the in order to store the raw materials needed for brewing. As well as three storage towers used for storing barrels of brewed beer for up to 12 days before being either sold downstairs or sent to other local pubs.
When both the brewery and bar are shut a system of folding shutters can be pulled across the front of site as well as the top of the stairs at the back and the area behind the storage vat and the stairs.
First Floor
Second Floor
