Miller Hull

JTM Construction’s headquarters in Georgetown, Seattle’s historic industrial neighborhood, has transformed a former warehouse into a collaborative space highlighting raw construction materials and natural light. This adaptive reuse of a tilt-up concrete warehouse that had been recently added-on to the 1890’s Richardsonian Seattle Malting & Brewing plant. Now a historic landmark, the original Brew House was mostly destroyed by fire in 1988 with a portion of its landmarked façade still standing. The addition was a compromise with developers in 2012 to restore the historic façade at the north while building a cost-effective tilt-up warehouse for chocolate production at the south end of the block.

This two-level tenant improvement organizes open office and large gathering spaces for 40 employees around two stacked office bars and a two-story volume at the heart of the warehouse framing a large skylight introduced to drive ample daylight into JTM’s Innovation Hub, previously at the dark center of the large warehouse space. A new second level floor plate of reclaimed nail-laminated timber spanning across reclaimed steel beams, has been added to take advantage of the full volume of the warehouse for JTM’s office spaces.

A second two-story volume is situated at the perimeter of the warehouse for all-company gatherings with a large sectional door opening onto a new outdoor deck over the old loading dock for company barbeques.  The south-facing “Georgetown Porch” welcomes the neighborhood into the previously opaque warehouse.  Strategic incisions are introduced into the tilt-up panels for a new primary entry and increased daylighting for meeting rooms arranged along the porch.

EMission Zero Offset

In 2021, Miller Hull launched the EMission Zero initiative — a program targeting the elimination of greenhouse gas emissions in the built environment. A major component of EMission Zero is Miller Hull’s commitment to voluntarily purchase Green-E certified carbon offsets to cover the embodied emissions of each built project upon completion.

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