Tokyo-based design firm Jun Mitsui & Associates works in collaboration with American studio Pelli Clarke & Partners to create the new Dassai Brewery. The location was once an abandoned grocery store and it has since been transformed into a sake brewery right in Upstate New York's Hyde Park. The structure has space for rice washing, drying, steaming, and fermenting.
Fred Clarke, partner at Pelli Clarke & Partners speaks about the design project, stating "Dassai Brewery is designed to harmonize beauty and functionality. Visitors are invited to observe the brewing process in an environment that blends modern and traditional aesthetics as well as the built and natural world." There are three buildings on site including the brewery followed by the small rice polishing building, and finally the wastewater treatment facility.
Grocery Store-Converted Breweries
A Collaborative Effort Joins to Create the Dassai Brewery
Trend Themes
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Industry Implications
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