Concept design · Commercial

Zero Carbon Brewery

Zero Carbon Brewery

Zero Carbon Brewery

Concept

A zero carbon brewery and event space. The smallest project here, and the one where the building is not the problem.

A zero carbon brewery and event space. The smallest project here, and the one where the building is not the problem.

Zero Carbon Brewery · Ontario · 8,000 sf · concept

Location

Ontario

Area

8,000 sf

Sector

Concept design · Commercial

Scope

Mechanical design, sustainable strategy, carbon strategy

Architect

Enform Architects

Delivery

Concept study

Client

Confidential

01 · The project

Integrating and sharing the load between building and process.

Integrating and sharing the load between building and process.

Integrating and sharing the load between building and process.

Brief

A concept study for a zero carbon brewery. At 8,000 sf the envelope barely matters. Brewing is a heat process, and decarbonising it means dealing with the process rather than the building around it.

Approach

We looked at where the heat is needed and where it goes after it has done its job, and whether recovering it can carry the space heating load outright.

02 · Gallery

Long timber clad brewery volume in an open landscape

Concept exterior

Dark timber clad elevation with the gabled roof

Exterior, gable end

Brewhouse interior with stainless fermentation tanks under a timber roof

Brewhouse, the load the study is about

Event space under an exposed timber roof set for dining

Event space

Axonometric diagram of the building with systems annotated

Systems diagram

Images: Enform Architects

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