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Sanjay Gangal is the President of IBSystems, the parent company of AECCafe.com, MCADCafe, EDACafe.Com, GISCafe.Com, and ShareCG.Com. Rabbit hole distillery in Louisville, Kentucky by pod architecture + designOctober 15th, 2020 by Sanjay Gangal
Article source: pod architecture + design “Transparency and Craft – this is Rabbit Hole’s vision.” – Kaveh Zamanian, Founder and CEO of Rabbit Hole The architectural solution responds both directly and indirectly to Zamanian’s vision with a nod to the historic context the structure inhabits.  courtesy pod architecture + design, Rabbit Hole Distillery, and Prodigy Construction
 courtesy pod architecture + design, Rabbit Hole Distillery, and Prodigy Construction For this unique facility, he design team embraced the strategy “form follows process,” allowing the building to take shape in response to the bourbon production process it would house. The result: a unique and responsive building that shares its design and purpose equally with the building’s capacious copper and steel equipment. That utilitarian yet distinctly beautiful equipment, the sinuous flow of the “juice” along the path from grain to bottle – the process itself became the inspiration. Taking a cue from Louis Kahn’s Salt Institute, the overall form is divided into “service” (warehouse) and “served” (atrium and event space) volumes. A public passageway navigates between the two without intruding on either before it ascends, on a meandering path, through the 60-foot-tall, blackened wood and glass Manufacturing Atrium. From there, the path continues, leading over the fermentation tanks, around the copper still, and on to the atrium overlook, the 150-seat event space, and one of two bars.  courtesy pod architecture + design, Rabbit Hole Distillery, and Prodigy Construction  courtesy pod architecture + design, Rabbit Hole Distillery, and Prodigy Construction Throughout the interior journey, the gleaming 48-foot-tall still is always in view, underscoring the notion of the building as an homage not just to bourbon, but to the craft of bourbon making. The facility is also filled with architectural references to Kentucky’s favorite beverage – some obvious, some abstract – waiting for visitors to discover them. The abundance of glass throughout the building satisfies the owner’s vision for transparency – from the inside out and the outside in. Public tours let visitors see each step along the process of creating award-winning Kentucky bourbon. During the day, the transparent/translucent structure provides panoramic views from the inside to Nulu’s historic streetscape, downtown Louisville’s main street, and the barges and bridges along the Ohio River. The transparency also effectively and metaphorically blurs the line between the distillery and the city that makes it possible. When the sun sets, the atrium glows like a welcoming lantern in the Nulu neighborhood.  courtesy pod architecture + design, Rabbit Hole Distillery, and Prodigy Construction  courtesy pod architecture + design, Rabbit Hole Distillery, and Prodigy Construction Contextual artifacts played key roles in the new distillery as the design team incorporated elements of the old Disney Tire building on the property into the new structure. When the owner purchased the ca. 1930 St. Jude’s Baptist Church nearby, 8000 square feet were repurposed into office, storage, shipping and receiving spaces. From the original concept to the final structure, Rabbit Hole Distillery evolved from a 24,000-square-foot structure to an entire campus comprised of the 55,000-square-foot building that includes manufacturing, retail and tour spaces, the events hall, two bars, and the lofty Manufacturing Atrium and executive offices.  courtesy pod architecture + design, Rabbit Hole Distillery, and Prodigy Construction  courtesy pod architecture + design, Rabbit Hole Distillery, and Prodigy Construction  courtesy pod architecture + design, Rabbit Hole Distillery, and Prodigy Construction  courtesy pod architecture + design, Rabbit Hole Distillery, and Prodigy Construction  courtesy pod architecture + design, Rabbit Hole Distillery, and Prodigy Construction  courtesy pod architecture + design, Rabbit Hole Distillery, and Prodigy Construction  courtesy pod architecture + design, Rabbit Hole Distillery, and Prodigy Construction  courtesy pod architecture + design, Rabbit Hole Distillery, and Prodigy Construction
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