Archive for the ‘Design’ Category

Mike Morrone, Megan Moynihan, Mike Morrone

The shell is complete.   Most of the big equipment (cranes, well drillers, lulls, and lifts) is gone.   We are back working on the site and beginning the exterior of the building.  We are committed to handling all of the water on site through careful grading to channel the run off and the use of permeable paving stones.   Mike Morrone, Megan Moynihan, & Mike Morrone meet to go over the grades while Joe Morrone loads the dumptruck with fill we are taking off site.

Kerianne and Ginny Garston

………………………… Earlier in the day Kerianne’s parents visited and we took them for a tour of the site.  Kerianne Garston, from Pratt Institute, is working with us as an interior design intern and is doing wonderful work on the look of the new store.

Family resemblance?   We didn’t see it at first.   But, after we offered Kerianne an internship position, we found out that Mike Morrone is Uncle Mike – Kerianne’s mom and Mike are sister and brother.

Uncle Mike was gone so Kerianne and Ginny decided to climb up on the Big Cat.

Kerianne Garston

While work continues outside – we have finished the three geothermal wells and are installing the last of the Climate-Block panels – we are finalizing the interior design. We are very fortunate to have Kerianne Garston, a Senior in the Interior Design Department at Pratt Institute, working with us as a summer intern.

Check-Out Counter

Kerianne has been working closely with Oyster Works’ Megan Moynihan, meeting with the owners, Jon Maldon and Jane Gross, and sketching the interiors. To the left is a drawing showing what the check-out counter may look like and below is a sketch of the wine room.

These are by no means final drawings and the end result may be quite a bit different.   But you get the idea – It’s going to be beautiful!  CHEERS!!!

Wine Room

This morning we are working from the top to the bottom and pretty much everywhere in between.  In the big picture below the first of the upper roof panels is being set into place while the concrete truck pours the basement slab.

Meanwhile, on the lower part of the roof we are running the electrical wires and wires for the security and alarm systems.  We don’t want any exposed wiremold or electrical conduit so all ceiling mounted fixtures are being wired from the outside. This requires careful planning and skilled hands. To the left Sam Joslin, of Century Electric, confers with Dave Vinick, of Home Electronics.  To the right Len Capizanno locates the overhead fixtures.

And, while all this is going on up above, Ca-Gin Concrete pours the basement slab.  The blue foam blocks mark the location of the footings for the steel columns that will support the floor and roof structure.  Once the floor hardens the foam will be removed. And after the columns are set the diamond shapes will be patched and the concrete will secure the base of the columns.

For a quick history of the project scroll down to go back through Older Entries.

The new store is located at 4625 Old Post Road (right next to the existing store).

After months of planning and preparation we are raising the timber frame for the Charlestown Package Store.   South County Post and Beam cut the frame and is raising the structure.  The mortise and tenon frame is made from Douglas Fir and is held together by oak splines and pegs.   The structure is about 1/3 complete and we are scheduled to finish the timber frame by the end of the week.

With a timber frame building and Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) walls we have to be thoughtful about how and where we are going to run the wires and mount the fixtures.  Our design includes dramatic lighting, fire and security alarms, audio and visual systems, a cash register and inventory system, wiring for the geothermal heating and cooling system, and the usual array of outlets and switches.

We called everyone together – Tom, Tom, Ed, Traves, Ryan from Delta H; Meggin from Bay State Audio; Evelyn from Evelyn Audet Lighting; Sam and Lenny from Century Electric – to discuss the challenges and develop a plan.

We decided to build two horizontal chases into all of the wall panels and run all of the wires for overhead and ceiling mounted alarms through the roof.   This will require close coordination as Delta H will leave off the roof sheathing until Century Electric and the alarm company run their wires on top of the foam insulation.