The owner of the site of the burned Waldo Theater commissioned el dorado
to design a new mixed-use center which could continue to accommodate small local businesses while introducing accessible and sustainable approaches for development at a neighborhood scale. The design for the new building includes complete ADA accessibility egress, natural ventilation, a planted roof and Anne Lindberg’s art installation “Slips and Shifts” which doubles as a sun screening device for the upper level glazing system. This project follows up a previous collaboration with Anne Lindberg in which we fabricated the “Articulating Lindberg Extender” upon which Anne drafts her series of parallel line drawings. The same parallel lines found in her graphite Parallels series enhance the upper panels of glass in the form of dual layer ceramic frit printed on 52 panels.