Tivoli, New York, USA
Lasting Joy Brewery designed by aims to connect with the community and attract visitors by combining high-quality craft beer with architectural excellence.
Lasting Joy is a farm brewery and tasting room located on a large rural property in upstate New York.
The brewery’s name reflects its mission: to create joy for the community and its patrons
For its design, the Lasting Joy Brewery has been awarded a 2024 International Architecture Award by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
The project site is a 31 acre parcel of former farmland, which included an existing agricultural storage barn.
The goal was to create a welcoming, inclusive, hospitable brewery and tasting room which would cater to all types of people, beyond just serious beer drinkers.
The architects endeavored to take full advantage of the expansive surrounding landscape through site planning and architectural design, and firmly root the project in its Hudson Valley location.
The program includes brewing facilities with staff offices, a tasting room, and a retail shop.
The architectural team repurposed the existing barn as the brewery portion of the program, and constructed a new, purpose-built tasting room space.
The tasting room is composed of a glulam structural frame and CLT (cross-laminated timber) roof.
The space is defined by its structural system, along with a fully glazed enclosure and exterior weathering-steel cladding.
Though the enclosure is entirely glass, the interior has the character of a room made of wood as the trusses are very tightly spaced, and the CLT roof deck is left exposed. The inversely raised roof floods the space with natural light.
The bar is designed to float in the center of the space in order to keep the exterior glass walls unobstructed and provide a more social way for guests to interact and taste the beers on tap.
The material palette was chosen to reflect the natural tones of the project’s Hudson Valley location.
The parking lot is located away from the building, hidden just over a hill closer to the road.
As visitors approach along a winding path up and over the hill, the building gradually reveals itself, adding intrigue to arrival.
From inside the tasting room, the views are solely of the open property.
Project: Lasting Joy Brewery
Architects: Auver Architecture DPC.
Lead Architect: Aron Himmelfarb
General Contractor: Rondack Construction
Client: Lasting Joy Brewery
Photographers: Eric Petschek
