星巴克储备烘焙厂芝加哥|胡椒建筑公司
Chicago
地区：ENR中西新利18备用部
所有者/领先设计公司：Starbucks Corp.
总承包商：胡椒建筑公司
结构工程师：CS Associates
MEP Engineer:Ove Arup Chicago USA
Architect of Record:珀金斯和威尔
Industrial Process Engineering & Installation:丹尼斯集团
Where coffee meets Willy Wonka is what Starbucks fans will find at its Chicago Reserve Roastery on Michigan Avenue, in a renovation that turned the 43,000-sq-ft space into a retail experience as much as a coffee outlet and cafe.
总承包商Pepper Construction和由咖啡巨头内部设计师领导的设计团队的任务是将一家前板条箱和桶装店变成星巴克店。现有的四层楼建筑有一个玻璃圆形大厅，里面装满了纵横交错的自动扶梯。
During six-months of core-and-shell work, the escalators were removed and the outer edges of the circular rotunda were partially infilled. Within the rotunda’s open center, crews led by the Dennis Group installed the roastery’s signature element—a 56-ft-tall steel and aluminum coffee cask with a bronze finish that spans all four floors.
“Symphony piping” allows visitors to watch fresh beans travel from roasters to the facility’s three coffee bars, says the submitter. To muffle the sound of thousands of beans flowing through multiple pipes, most of the millwork is acoustically treated and includes an arrayed wood ceiling that integrates thousands of pieces with lights, speakers and vents.
The roastery has the Midwest’s first curved Mitsubishi escalator. It required 18 months of fabrication in Japan, one month to ship and six months of assembly on site.
As other roasteries opened, Starbucks tweaked the design. Third-floor production areas were converted to retail, requiring MEP system reconfiguration. That threatened the schedule, but 20-hour shifts in the project’s final three months met the deadline. “It was a phenomenal partnership with Starbucks—we talked to them every day,” says Brian Healy, Pepper vice president. “We worked through the redesign process and they were right there. It was a collective push.”
