JEFFREY POLICICCHIO
This one-story, 4,500 square foot building is located off of 10 Mile Road in Novi, Michigan and is currently used as a wine and liquor store. The walls were constructed with concrete blocks and an additional brick wall layer was added during recent renovations to the North and East sides of the building.
The interior space is a simple open floor plan layout. Two small enclosed portions consist of a bathroom and extruded cut-out for a coffee bar that is no longer in use. The roof is supported by three steel I-beams running east-west and steel tresses that the lighting fixtures hang from.
This diagram shows the building as a kit-of-parts including various doors and frames, bricks types, I-beams, steel truss, awning, window, and light fixtures.
The landscape and automobile stuff map both highlight the lifecycle of a specific product from inception to final use and thereafter. The landscape stuff focuses on the lifecycle, and widespread use, of plastic pots including a background on their rapid use growth. The automobile stuff focuses on a car lifecyle from idea to recycling including an emphasis on factors determing what drives creation.
My design includes landscape stuff and automobile use assembled by a staged display in a spliced organization. There are four main rooms being the customer entry/kitchen space and three dine-in rooms that are all staged and displayed to be viewed from the exterior of building by customers in automobiles.
Inside the kitchen is a display for edible herbs and plants such as wheatgrass. The “Rose Room” has roses and flowers on display on the 1-4 person tables. The “Cactus Room” displays various cacti amongst a communal seating picnic table. The “House Plant Room” has various house plants on display among the 1-2 person high-top tables and also on window ledges extruding the building.
The West, South, and Eastside exteriors of buildings are visually experienced by drive-thru customers through three plant-themed displays as they navigate thru their experience. The westside, as seen in video above, is the “House Plant Stage” and also ordering window. The south side display is the “Cactus Stage,” and the eastside display is the “Rose Stage” and payment/order pick-up window. Drive-thru food customers can also select and purchase plants if they desire.
The spatial experience from the a customer standpoint first begins by opening the front door into a small corridor that opens into a large main room for placing order. The customer will then locate a seat in one of the 3 unique plant themed rooms and pick-up their order when ready.