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VILLAGE BAKERY
DAVIS,
CALIFORNIA
Photography:
Scott Neeley, Scott Neeley & Associates
Architects
Our client is a baker of artisanal breads for groceries and restaurants in the Sacramento to San Francisco corridor. His previous facility was cramped, hot and windowless. He purchased a lot with the intention of building a new, state-of-the-art bakery: economical to build and maintain, efficiently organized, a light-fi lled and enjoyable work environment.
We also wanted the bakery to help “build a street” in a rapidly developing light industrial area near downtown Davis, California. The mass of the main structure is balanced by a smaller secondary structure and garden wall that hugs the sidewalk. The office, situated at the front corner of the secondary structure, is designed to convert to a bakery cafe with terrace seating as the neighborhood develops.
The simple forms of the building express functional relationships. The production (baking and mixing) structure is a concrete block wedge extruded east-west. The wedge form – low at south, high at north – is an ideal shape to take advantage of southerly night breezes for convective cooling and high north windows for daylighting.
Concrete masonry block is the primary building material – simple and economical, expressed with elegance. The main bakery structure is built of standard block, exposed on both sides: sealed on the exterior, epoxy-painted on the interior. Front garden and terrace walls are groundface block. Interior fl oors are sealed concrete. The secondary structure is wood frame covered with stucco at support spaces and glazed blue brick veneer at the entry office.
ARCHITECTS:
Scott Neeley &
Associates Architecture
808 E. 8th Street
Davis, CA 95616
Scott Neeley
Principal
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER:
Point 2 Structural Engineers
GENERAL CONTRACTOR:
KW Construction
MASONRY CONTRACTOR:
Sierra West Masonry, Inc.
BLOCK PRODUCER:
Basalite Concrete Products, LLC
OWNER:
Aziz Fattahi
