COMMERCIAL WORK

While still in graduate school at The Ohio State University, I was full-time employed at a mid-sized firm in Columbus that had contracts with Arby’s, Starbucks, and Chipotle. While those projects were not always the most designoriented , working on them imparted to me valuable lessons in effecient space design, and benefit of effective project management.

Since graduating, I have had the opportunity to fully lead the design and development of a multi-tenant commercial and retail builing in Castle Rock, CO. The building’s main tenant is a popular local coffee shop which had big ideas for their brand and how they wanted to be seen from the architecture. My experience with the larger clients from my previous employ assured the clients that the recoomendations I made were knowlegable and were for the sake of their business, which was making their first step toward aopening a brick and mortatr.

The design of the Castle Rock Retail Center was to stand out from the nearby architectural language and become a visible monument that attracted customers from nearby I-25 without need for clunky monument signs.

Clad in steel corrugate panels and capped with a tall copper “A”-frame peak the coffee shop stands apart not only from the surroundings, but rises above the nearby tenants.