Shelby’s Trio
Lyle Cook Martin Architects
Shelby’s Trio
Lyle Cook Martin Architects
Awards Category : : Small Project (25,000 sf or less)
A new restaurant in a redeveloping urban area to include two differing restaurant venues and a rooftop social bar within the same building.
Following the announcement of a Multi-Purpose Event Center (MPEC) to be built on one corner of an under-used urban intersection, a husband-wife partnership acquired a former gas station property on the adjacent corner with great potential. This intersection is a key point within the city, linking vehicular access between a State University, an Historic Downtown, the Cumberland River, and the third largest Military Installation in the country.
The owners, being serious car collectors and owners of a Top Fuel Racing Team, programmed the ground level restaurant with an automotive-garage theme. The idea that a 1940s Gulf Gas Station used to sit on this corner, gave a perfect opportunity to fulfill the owners dreams. A key requirement includes a display area for rotating classic cars. As a life-long dream, the partnership programmed an Italian restaurant at the second floor for luxury style dining. The third floor offers an open-plan bar/lounge with operable by-folding doors/windows and garage roll-ups with a rooftop open-air patio offering views of the new adjacent MPEC, other developments, the Historic Downtown and the Cumberland River.
Since the purchase of this property, multiple new entertainment and mixed-use developments have been announced in the immediate vicinity including the University’s new Visitors Center. This is creating a shift in the focus of this downtown toward this particular intersection.
Architectural form and aesthetic of the structure orients toward the new MPEC and other developments while creating its unique vocabulary taking advantage of sun angles, consistent breezes from the river basin and framing spectacular views in all directions.
Date of Completion: February 2023
Client: JCM Management (Joe Maynard)
General Contractor: B.R Miller & Company
Consultants:
Danley Culinary Design
Dwight Danley
(615) 391-0762
Millwork and Fabrication:
CraftPoint Concepts
(717) 283-4325
Photography Credits:
1. Night image illustrating proximity to the new Multi-Purpose Event Center (immediate left) built by the local County Government, an upcoming redevelopment of an existing Hotel with new Outparcel Pedestrian style Entertainment Venues (upper left) and the Cumberland River basin (upper right). Classic Cars on display in the lower left portion of the building with 2nd floor Italian restaurant and 3rd Floor Bar/lounge at top.
Photo by Jon Duncan Photography
2. Site plan and surrounding downtown area context slide.
Photo by Seth Parker Photography, site plan by Project Team
3. Building modeling and section indicating cantilevered roof profile, outdoor patio awning, operable window units and materials.
Photo by Project Team
4. Upper cantilevered monoslope roof form orients toward the new MPEC (left) while the lower classic car display garage roof form projects toward the redeveloping vehicular intersection.
Photo by Seth Parker Photography.
5. Material includes painted round steel columns, fixed and operable aluminum and glass storefronts, bi-folding windows, garage doors, brick veneer, aluminum rainscreen system cladding, and aluminum composite wall panels.
Photo by Jon Duncan Photography
6. Cantilevered rainscreen clad wall sections, protruding roof forms and metal canopies control western sun exposure for dining and socializing. Note the Cumberland River view (left).
Photo by Seth Parker Photography.
7. The roof top patio lounge level offers distant views of the Cumberland River basin and other upcoming entertainment type developments.
Photo by Jon Duncan Photography.
8. The raised elevation of the building captures consistent slight breezes from the river basin along lower-level outdoor sheltered patio dining area.
Photo by Seth Parker Photography.
9. The automotive garage themed lower-level restaurant interior displays rotating classic cars, with Authentic Shelby Cobra Mustangs highlighting the room. Circular “Wheel Aesthetic” light fixtures, ceiling clouds, etc. reinforce the theme.
Photo by Seth Parker Photography.
10. The 2nd Floor Italian Restaurant interior offers warm natural detailing to establish a comfortable fine dining atmosphere.
Photos by Eugene Elikh Photography and Seth Parker Photography.
11. The 3rd Floor interior and exterior offers an open plan interior bar-lounge and a rooftop open air patio accessed through bi-folding glass doors and roll up garage doors. Note the view of the river basin and existing Hotel to be renovated very soon.
Photos by Eugene Elikh Photography, Seth Parker Photography, and Jon Duncan Photography.
12. Black and white aerial imagery of third floor rooftop patio. This is the first rooftop patio to be building in Clarksville, Tennessee.
Photo by Jon Duncan Photography.
13. Design Solutions Magazine Summer 2023 edition, published as Award of Excellence for AWI certified interior woodwork.
Photos by Eugene Elikh Photography and Jon Duncan Photography.
14. Aerial sunset view with the Cumberland River in the background.
Photo by Jon Duncan Photography.