Hammond Asian Market

The owner walked in with three things: a commercial site in Hammond, a specific store he wanted to run, and a number. The number was the hard part. He needed a building that would hold refrigeration, produce, dry goods, and a stockroom, carry itself on a busy highway corridor, and cost what he had. Usually those requirements do not survive contact with each other. Somebody draws a nice building, the bids come in high, and the owner spends six weeks watching his project get over-engineered into something he never wanted. We went a different direction, cost savvy design from the jump.

Lamp Design Build is the architect and the general contractor here, so we were pricing the building while we were still drawing it. Frame spacing, wall assemblies, where the glass goes and where it does not, all of it got tested against real money before it went on paper. When the metal building package came back priced higher than the design actually required, we did not absorb it and we did not pass it through. We went back out, shopped it, and brought the number down without giving up anything the owner cared about.

None of that shows up where the customer is standing. Vertical silver corrugated metal wraps the building and gives it a clean industrial base. Then the storefront breaks the pattern: a black panel with horizontal ribbing runs the full height of the wall, roof edge straight to the ground, carrying the illuminated sign. A teak canopy crosses the full width of the facade, warm wood against cold metal, downlit so the entry reads from the road at dusk. Three materials, one move, and a building that looks designed rather than ordered out of a catalog.

The project is in development. Design is complete and the building is moving toward construction.

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