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The Front Porch
The Front Porch
Memphis, TN, United States
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The Front Porch
Memphis, TN, United States
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2025
SIZE
5000 sqft - 10,000 sqft
BUDGET
$0 - 10K
An urban multi-use center carefully inserted into a 16-acre woodland campus is a place of respite and center of hospitality. Conceived as an outreach opportunity by a local church congregation, the newly formed nonprofit foundation tasked with overseeing operations and maintenance envisioned an intentional place for people to gather, grow and strengthen our community. A deep, wraparound porch on three sides welcomes neighbors and visitors alike, extending the building’s program into the landscape with space for rocking chairs, picnic tables, and casual conversation. Its long, low metal canopy is scaled to the surrounding mid-century neighborhood and shelters a mix of public and private uses, from an event space and café to a grief counseling center and coworking offices. Inside, open gathering areas on the west gradually transition to more intimate spaces to the east, with floor-to-ceiling glass framing views of the mature woodland and everyday campus activity.
The porch is designed as both a social and environmental mediator—sized for gathering and outfitted with fans and heaters to extend seasonal comfort and proportioned to shield interiors from the southern and western sun. A locally operated coffee shop anchors the heart of the plan, opening south to a shaded sitting porch and north to an open-sky porch overlooking a soccer field. A cost-effective wood truss structure provides a sustainable, carbon-sequestering framework for the building, while warm wood siding defines the porches with a natural, tactile quality that complements the surrounding homes. Inside, crafted birch plywood millwork brings the same material honesty to a finer scale, adding warmth, durability, and handcrafted detail to gathering spaces and private rooms alike.
The porch is designed as both a social and environmental mediator—sized for gathering and outfitted with fans and heaters to extend seasonal comfort and proportioned to shield interiors from the southern and western sun. A locally operated coffee shop anchors the heart of the plan, opening south to a shaded sitting porch and north to an open-sky porch overlooking a soccer field. A cost-effective wood truss structure provides a sustainable, carbon-sequestering framework for the building, while warm wood siding defines the porches with a natural, tactile quality that complements the surrounding homes. Inside, crafted birch plywood millwork brings the same material honesty to a finer scale, adding warmth, durability, and handcrafted detail to gathering spaces and private rooms alike.
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