Lusk Auto Body Shop and Ironwood Studios represent the local light industrial activities
currently alive in the neighborhood.
A wide, quiet pedestrian street accommodates on-street parking.
NEIGHBORHOOD BUSINESSES
Entry desk storage
Interior partitions and shelving for
materials, tools and work surfaces
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the workshop
JENNINGS AVENUE
New glazing marks the historical footprint overlaps and allows new visual
access to the salvage program
A new bridge [inspired by
existing conditions] connects
Knox Heritage buildings
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cutaway
Corten frame insertion
marks lower level salvage
room
Freight elevator
A variety of public and
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private zones are created in the clerestory mezzanine
separated from the entry desk by frosted glass
opens up to the new corner entry and outdoor work space.
Open work tables and power tools
Ample storage spaces for tools, materials and mechanical equipment
New Glazed frame creates a display case for salvage
storage, opening up to the sunken garden beyond
COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE WORKSHOP
Existing connector is rebuilt to bridge salvage
areas, also acting as a gateway through the
interior of the block
STORAGE SHOWCASE
Existing loading ramp is kept to and a freight elevator is added to facilitate the moving
of large salvage items.
Additional salvage storage and market venues at the basement level
A new open vertical circulation core brings all functions of Knox
Heritage together.
KNOX HERITAGE
Sidewalk arcade encourages public engagement
with functions and activities at Knox Heritage
N. BROADWAY
SECTION AA
1/8” = 1’
A new layer of transparencies
mark the entry from Broadway
Cafe extends into alley space with outdoor
decks which terrace down toward the ruin
garden
NEIGHBORING BUSINESSES ON BROADWAY
SLOPED ALLEY ENTRY
A cafe and bar neighbor Knox Heritage, enlivening the block both day
and night, street and alley
CAFE AND BAR
Service elements are pushed to the south party wall,
including bathrooms, kitchen, and mechanical spaces
SERVICE
Here the private functions of Knox Heritage merge with its public funcoverlooks the large multi-purpose event space, taking
tions and begin to engage with the new public exterior spaces through
full advantage of the industrial formal arrangement
the insertion of new architectural elements
PUBLIC EVENT SPACE AND OFFICE MEZZANINE
ARCHIVE AND MARKET STALLS
A multi purpose space which serves Knox Heritage while also providing a public function. Covered in a
patchwork of reclaimed cobbled semi-permeable surfaces, the courtyard has great potential for staging
market days, concerts, and other various events, as well as informal daily retreats from the street.
PUBLIC COURTYARD
terraced amphitheater, the difference in street and block levels are merged and mediated, engaging the corner, while
also being set apart through topographical differentiation.
PARK ENTRY
SECTION D
KNOX HERITAGE 1/8” = 1’