Sanders Pace Work Photos

Marble Slab on Market Square

Client: Allen Grady
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee
Size: 1200 Square Feet
Completion: Spring 2008

Sanders Pace Architecture was contracted to provide design services for the first national tenant in Knoxville's reinvigorated Historic Market Square District.  The tenant typically locates in a suburban setting making this not fit their prototypical project type mold.  This allowed the architect the freedom to present the standard marketing driven equipment and retail layout in a new more modern and sophisticated way fitting and appropriate to this urban setting and clientele.

A concept was developed in which the equipment, production, and retail services zones were contained within a single kiosk-type unit located to one side of the space while the customer area is treated as an open gallery space allowing for temporary art exhibitions typical to this Downtown Arts District to take place.  The "kiosk" unit was then treated as a separate design project within this gallery setting.  The fact that ice cream is made on site daily was celebrated by giving customers a view into this production area through three panels of butt-glazed clear glazing.  The cladding of the kiosk is handled through a series of staggered and layered plastic laminate panels in muted pastel colors fitting with their corporate identity.  These panels are rigorously ordered in such a way that the illusion of a random arrangement is achieved, Their layering providing depth and texture to the space.


AIA East Tennessee Award of Merit