Foundry Commercial by Mohamed Shabana is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Competition Category.

IronArchitecture· 2020

Foundry Commercial

by Mohamed Shabana

Client: Sapa Investment Group

A' Design Award Winner in Architecture Category

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The Design

About Foundry Commercial

Foundry is a mixed-use commercial building designed for a community near a downtown area. The exterior combines original historic brick with a metal frame glass greenhouse of geometric shapes. The interior includes a multi-purpose event hall, restaurants, coffee shops, meeting rooms and an art space. Reused and recycled materials are applied, including reclaimed wood, bricks and copper plates on the facades. Interior finishes include stucco, reused metal panels, wood floors and local interlocking stone. The design repurposes an established property and links past and present.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award

Foundry Commercial is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Foundry Commercial is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Foundry Commercial is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.

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Color Temperature: WarmSymmetry: VerticalBackground: Top and Bottom

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: The main concept of the exterior is a complete contrast from the ethereal dreamlike state of the interior. The exterior merges the history of the building and modernism. The original historic brick and the geometrical shapes used in the glass greenhouse to adds modernism to this historic design.
And the interior design is a community space that blends the needs of all under one roof. The building consists of a multi-purpose event hall, a greenhouse, restaurants, outdoor space, coffee shops, meeting rooms, and art space. However, the possibilities that this space could evolve into are endless.
Dimensions & Packaging: Total property area 32,626.77 Sq.ft and construction area 21,073.78 Sq.ft
Tags: Architecture, multi-inspiration, Restaurant, Interior, Contemporary, Architectural design, Art
Production Technology: Reused and recycled materials, such as the use of reclaimed wood, bricks and copper plates on facades as well as geometric shapes used in the metal frame glass greenhouse. Also, the interior finishes are stucco and reused metal panels, then repainted, wood floors, natural concrete texture and local interlocking stone.
CMU used to be the whole restaurant structure system according to the existing case and be renovated.
Design Challenge: The challenge was to create a piece of art and present it to the world while retention and respect, on the current situation and the zone history with achieving the designer vision.
Research: The research on this concept design focused on merging between several concepts in one space under one roof from the Art vision and Architecture perspective.
Inspiration: The combines history and modernism to repurpose an established property near the downtown area and to be sustainability is a theme throughout the design by using reused and recycled materials. Also, the contrast is another theme used throughout the project from inside. Multiple designs and concepts merge seamlessly throughout the design. So, this dreamlike state is the main concept throughout the interior’s design like moving from one space to the next introduces a new concept.
Project Duration: Design Date: March / 2019 - August / 2019. Project expected to be finished by the first quarter of 2021.
Location: State Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Operation Flow: Foundry emphasizes the strong relationship between the past and present. through the sharp geometry added to the old elements and textures. When you step inside, enjoy different kinds of environments and traditional materials escorted a different kind of music to promotes the psychological comfort of various spirituality under one roof. Also, opening doors takes you to more doors and completely new spaces with a new experience.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Mohamed Shabana, 2019 For (SAPA Investment Group)
Team Members: Mohamed Shabana, Mai Nguyen
Image Credits: Image #1: Mohamed Shabana, 2019
Image #2: Mohamed Shabana, 2019
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