Orgin East Greenhouse

Winter 2018

Kansas City, MO

The Orgin East Greenhouse is a physical and functional response to the site’s existing conditions, ultimately creating a new entrance to the Orgin East Complex (commercial kitchen, hotel, apartments, speak easy bar). The program being a greenhouse and the site being in the industrial East Bottoms of Kansas City, the materiality was chosen to harmonize with the “industrialness” of the area and opaqueness for optimal daylighting. The building form is a response to the program, creates outdoor space, avoids adjacent building shadows, and creates an interior-exterior connection.