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Proposal for a teaching brewery in San Diego with arches guiding the building form. The brewery is positioned against a cliff face, with the arches emerging from the slope.
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The arches both support the shell roof and suspend lower floors, eliminating the need for columns and creating flexible programmatic space.
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Arch windows superimposed on the building shell reveal interior program. The arch is both structure and aperture.
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The second floor entertainment space was selected for a climate, daylight, and thermal analysis, with the shell apertures optimized for the desired useful daylight illuminance of 100-2000 lux.
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The apertures in the concrete shell superimpose arches of light on the entertainment floor: a dichotomy of the monolithic and the ephemeral.
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