{"id":702,"date":"2025-07-30T15:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/?p=702"},"modified":"2025-08-01T15:08:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T15:08:49","slug":"range-design-architecture-hides-chicago-furniture-showroom-behind-brick-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/2025\/07\/30\/range-design-architecture-hides-chicago-furniture-showroom-behind-brick-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Range Design & Architecture hides Chicago furniture showroom behind brick screen"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Brick-clad<\/div>\n

Local studio Range Design & Architecture has wrapped a furniture studio<\/a> and showroom<\/a> in a brick<\/a> screen that responds to the building’s Chicago<\/a> context.<\/span><\/p>\n

The headquarters for Nothing Design Co is tucked into a narrow, infill lot, expanding a vintage structure into a 3,500-square-foot (325-square metre) workshop, office and event space.<\/p>\n

\"Nothing
The headquarters for Nothing Design Co is tucked into a narrow, infill lot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Chicago-based Range Design & Architecture<\/a>, drew on the city’s history of masonry, using both new and reclaimed brick to provide structure, respond to the streetscape, filter light and drive the building’s identity.<\/p>\n

“The brick screen, the primary gesture of the design, nurtures an identity for the studio and provides a pragmatic solution to address privacy, scale and solar shading,” the studio told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

\"Showroom
Brick and white oak provide the canvas for the activities of the studio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“Taking cues from Chicago’s historical pattern of face-brick fronts and common brick sides, terra-cotta colored paver bricks were employed as a brick screen on the street,” it continued.<\/p>\n

“This creates a distinct and contextual facade that filters natural light thereby reducing the cooling load from the direct southern exposure.”<\/p>\n

\"Brick
The facade fills a gap in the street<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The brick facade fills a gap in the street, while reducing the scale to a person, whose hand could be seen as the block module to understand the tectonics of the structure, the team explained.<\/p>\n

The team extended the load-bearing brick walls on the ground floor to carry the building up two more floors.<\/p>\n

However, due to the proximity to the property line, no openings were cut in the longitudinal walls, and the building draws light in only from the north and south ends.<\/p>\n

\"Staircase
Light filters through the brick<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Preserving the original foundation, the team designated a lobby and workshop on the ground level and an office and event space on the level above.<\/p>\n

The screen appears a second time along the second-floor patio at the north end of the building, defining the usable edge of the terrace accessed through a rear stair and a bi-folding glazed door. A small mezzanine floats above the event space.<\/p>\n

\"Kitchen
Range Design & Architecture preserved the original foundations<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Inside, brick, white oak and weathering steel provide the canvas for the activities of the studio.<\/p>\n

Originally, the team intended to expose heavy timber beams as a roof structure, but due to cost, elected to use parallel chord roof trusses and opted to emphasise the building’s various volumes.<\/p>\n