Rising Sun Workshop

Built in the late 19th Century, this warehouse is now the home to Rising Sun Workshop following its successful six month pop-up in 2014 is now a thriving communal D-I-Y motorcycle workshop and 90 seat café restaurant.

All interventions, both bold and subtle had to ensure it remained consistent with the exiting architecture, highlighting the character of the structural ‘bones’ while detailing for a tight budget and rotating team of volunteered trades. Equally important to the function and aesthetic layout was navigating the business owners through a very complex planning system and leading a team of building industry professionals that would enable the business to function and thrive in its full potential, whilst saving the building from building standards typically designed for large scale new development that has undermined adaptive re-use.

Architecture: Originally built in 1887 for textile manufacture.

Completed: 2016