Kroger Bakery Redevelopment — REALM Collaborative
An aerial master plan precedent demonstrating how large industrial brick structures can be adaptively reused with integrated central park spaces and pedestrian connections.
- What we like about this project
- An elevated glass skybridge links separate brick structures across an internal courtyard.
Materials
- brick
- glass
- steel
- paving
- planting
Visual identifiers
- industrial-brick
- central-courtyard
- elevated-walkway
- adaptive-reuse
- landscaped-park
Style tags
- industrial
- adaptive-reuse
- contemporary-masterplan
Visual tags
- master-plan
- adaptive-reuse
- urban-renewal
- mixed-use
- landscape-led
- Geometry
- An urban campus composed of multi-story rectangular brick volumes arranged around a central planted courtyard and connected by elevated walkways.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing red brick masonry with repetitive grid-aligned industrial multi-pane windows.
- Structural guess
- Heavy timber or steel frame with masonry exterior bearing walls.
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-block master plan scale with four- to five-story industrial buildings surrounding human-scaled pocket parks and pathways.
- Lighting
- Bright daytime overhead lighting casting soft shadows from buildings and trees across the central landscape.
- Atmosphere
- Active, green urban transformation merging industrial heritage with modern landscape design.
- Environmental context
- Urban infill site bounded by an elevated highway infrastructure on one side and residential/commercial context beyond.
- Spatial experience
- The aerial view reveals a dense industrial fabric re-knit with winding paths, green lawns, and active courtyards set against a major highway edge.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating punched window bays on heavy brick facades contrasted by organic curving paths in the central park.
- Style reading
- Contemporary industrial adaptive reuse master plan
- Program
- Mixed-use commercial and residential campus
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- urban
- Materials
- brick, glass, steel, paving, planting
- Visual identifiers
- industrial-brick, central-courtyard, elevated-walkway, adaptive-reuse, landscaped-park
- Style tags
- industrial, adaptive-reuse, contemporary-masterplan
- Visual tags
- master-plan, adaptive-reuse, urban-renewal, mixed-use, landscape-led
- Geometry
- An urban campus composed of multi-story rectangular brick volumes arranged around a central planted courtyard and connected by elevated walkways.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing red brick masonry with repetitive grid-aligned industrial multi-pane windows.
- Structural guess
- Heavy timber or steel frame with masonry exterior bearing walls.
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-block master plan scale with four- to five-story industrial buildings surrounding human-scaled pocket parks and pathways.
- Lighting
- Bright daytime overhead lighting casting soft shadows from buildings and trees across the central landscape.
- Atmosphere
- Active, green urban transformation merging industrial heritage with modern landscape design.
- Environmental context
- Urban infill site bounded by an elevated highway infrastructure on one side and residential/commercial context beyond.
- Spatial experience
- The aerial view reveals a dense industrial fabric re-knit with winding paths, green lawns, and active courtyards set against a major highway edge.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating punched window bays on heavy brick facades contrasted by organic curving paths in the central park.
- Style reading
- Contemporary industrial adaptive reuse master plan
- Program
- Mixed-use commercial and residential campus
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- urban