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Oakland Roaster

“I know.” She sighed. “We’ll all say that. We’ll all go on and make the place safe. Roads, cities. New sky, new soil. Until it’s all some kind of Siberia or Northwest Territories, and Mars will be gone and we’ll be here, and we’ll wonder why we feel so empty. Why when we look at the land we can never see anything but our own faces.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars

The goal was to stay out of the way of this lovely building and the great machinery it was to house. Smart layout and some custom light fixtures set this space off.

This project was originally designed for Four Barrel Coffee and is now the production facility of Tartine's Coffee Manufactory. Seth Boor was the design lead and architect of record for this project from concept through construction.

Location
Oakland, CA
Size
10,000 sqft
Completion
July 2017
Contractor
Echo Summit
Photography
Cesar Rubio
Team
Seth Boor, Stephanie Griffith
Category
All, Featured, Workplace
~While Principal at Boor Bridges Architecture 1
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