CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL 6
SHIFTING REUSE AND REPAIR
This installation contemplates emerging, quasi-preservation strategies to transform derelict buildings. Unlike developer-driven adaptive reuse targeting venerable, historic edifices, this project addresses the plight of structures without obvious pedigree or value, left to market forces that demand demolition. The Door County Granary is presented as an alternative case study to prevailing preservation paradigms, where conventional financing models bypass unsavory buildings. Built in 1901 to service the remote outpost of Sturgeon Bay, WI, the Granary was decommissioned in the 1960s and, like many agro-industrial counterparts, slated for demolition. Recognizing the value of this vernacular type to regional economic and agricultural heritage, the Sturgeon Bay Historical Society commissioned LA DALLMAN to explore reclamation for civic use by leveraging methods of repair and reuse aimed at projective transformation. This installation presents a scale model depicting the Granary’s transformation, carried by a full-scale immersive fragment of a grain storage bin, made occupiable for the public through strategic extractions and insertions.
Design: LA DALLMAN Architects
INSTALLATION CONSTRUCTION: Mike Nass / SPLINTERHAUS
PROJECT CLIENT: Sturgeon Bay Historical Society Foundation
PROJECT CONSULTANTS:
Structural Engineer: Beane Engineering
MEP Engineer: Landmark Facilities Group
Code Consultant: Chris Rute
Civil Engineer: GEI Consultants
Construction Manager: GREENFIRE Management Services