Dekalb Market Food Hall
In the former location of our original Dekalb Market, ORE was hired to turn a basement into a venue for 40 food vendors from around Brooklyn.
Basement before build-out
More an infrastructural design project (the client requested each tenant to be responsible for their own design as a “planned chaos” aesthetic), ORE needed to determine a strategy to bring plumbing, gas, electricity cold storage, fire suppression, and most importantly HVAC and kitchen venting to a basement not originally intended to house a food hall. Over-coming low ceiling heights and existing structure/duct work ORE created multiple schemes for tenant layouts to act as vertical chases, housing the new infrastructure between tenant partitions. ORE specified and designed a custom room for an industrial-sized electrostatic precipitator to increase the design load venting capacity.
Client: Washington Square Development Group
Program: Food Hall
Location: Downtown Brooklyn, NY
Area: 40,000 sf
Status: Complete 2017
