old and new

The Map Chocolate Shop project on Main Street Springfield, OR, merges the old and the new, giving a modern chic edge to a comfortable traditional style. The art of chocolate making has an old history, but the business of craft chocolate is new and budding! The space supports chocolate production, workshop teaching, retail & chocolate tasting, and packaging & storing.

Every element in the Map space design conceptualizes the pattern of segmentation from the classic divisions of a chocolate bar; the window divisions, the ceiling tiling, the built out frame walls, the layers of spatial zoning, the divisions of the custom casework, the lighting spacing, and it doesn’t stop there.

The flavor of the space guiding the material palette is derived from one of Map Chocolate’s delicious flavors, Lemon Poppyseed Donut White Chocolate. The materials together create a mood of decadence but simple accessibility, because chocolate is for everyone. The palette features a tin ceiling, lemon glass tiles, white countertops with poppyseed speckling, black hex tile floor and white chocolate terrazzo floor, neutral ash wood in custom pieces, fluted glass, and rich velvety upholstery.

To fit in with the Main Street facade language and appeal to a classic “chocolate shop” look, the Map storefront exhibits tall elegant windows with elaborate carved ash wood mullions, and fluted glass at the base of the storefront.

This project focused on the understanding and creation of accurate construction documentation in the form of permit sets and thorough detailing. For full construction documents, email me a request!

What I love about this project: creating a “flavor” of the space, designing custom pieces and detailing their construction, and creating something that is timeless but modern enough to appeal to all ages!