Louisville Magazine

JUL 2013

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Top left and above: The hay barn, made with a prefabricated metal barn kit, features inexpensive materials such as Homasote fberboard and locally sourced bamboo. Top right and above: A second building for offces and equipment includes long windows, calling to mind old tobacco barns, and foors heated by a boiler system that uses farm debris as a fuel source. Hey,what'sTHAT? The 'green thing' on Shelby If you go by the De Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop at 117 S. Shelby St., you'll see a large green structure smack dab in front of the building, set there as if it's waiting on something, and you may ask yourself, "Hey, what's that?" We put the question to Louisville's award-winning architects, Roberto de Leon and Ross Primmer, and this is what they wrote back: We built the structure as a tongue-in-cheek contribution to "Park(ing) Day" — an annual one-day event where urban parking spots are repurposed as public green spaces. At the time, a bright "green" public speakeasy seemed like a friendly gesture to the community and a good use of a parking spot. To house the speakeasy we constructed a pocket-sized "rick house" — named after the wooden framework used to store barrels of bourbon. After its oneday use as a speakeasy, the community co-opted the rick house for diverse, sometimes unexpected, uses. It's frequently used as a designated meeting point and as a marker for directions. It's also had more random uses — like housing a seemingly secret collection of knickknacks. On any given day we can look out and see people using the rick house in new and novel ways. — Roberto de Leon and Ross Primmer So, that's what that is. — JLC 7.13 LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 89

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