Letterpress Coffee Shop and Roastery 

The Letterpress Coffee Shop and Roastery is a mock venture of a restorative project of a 1920s abandoned letterpress in the heart of downtown Baton Rouge.  The goal of the project was to take the vacant structure and turn it into a third place that could be enjoyed by Baton Rouge locals and visitors.   The project  worked through the process of  precedent and ethnographic studies of coffee shops, and finished with a final floorplan and sections created in AutoCAD, as  well as a Photoshop rendering.   For this project, I decided to create a space to relax in the present and work towards the future, while enjoying the beauty of the past.  The history of the building fascinated me, and was not something I desired to abandon, therefore the design of the coffeeshop  was highly inspired by the glitz and glamour of 1920's Art Deco styling.  

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