Nestled along the vibrant Atlanta Belt Line, BreakerBreaker is a unique indoor-outdoor restaurant that blends a laid-back seafood-centric vibe with the neighborhood’s industrial heritage. Embracing the project’s former use as a steel fabrication yard, one of the existing steel sheds were disassembled and re-fabricated as a super-roof pavilion that offers shade and shelter to much of the site. The restaurant program was distributed linearly between two existing rail-lines, the remnants of an industrial gantry crane, which still stands as a threshold to the long, narrow site. New and reclaimed materials are reintroduced to the existing remnants of concrete footings, steel plate, and rail lines as patches and layers. Pockets of soil are strategically distributed throughout the ground to encourage pioneer species to continue to overtake the structure. Enormous leaves of big-leaf magnolias trees have already begun to lift their otherworldly canopies towards the massive roof.
Collaboration with Square Feet Studio, Architect
Kimley-Horn, Civil
