About The Granary
Come visit and experience the charm and elegance of the original structure, check out restaurants and stores, and enjoy the orchard featuring the heritage fruit trees of the Valley of Heart's Delight.
Located in the Granary District, we preserve a piece of the city's agricultural past at Downtown Morgan Hill's northeast entry.
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A discussion of the works of Weston Miles Architects in Morgan Hill focusing on the redevelopment and re-imagining of The Granary District
Continuity and Space a discussion
How we think
•“fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must also repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it.”
― Christopher W. Alexander, A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
Cal Poly 5th year project to design a Waldorf school on 120 acres of rocky hillside in Morgan Hill. Waldorf embraces organic shapes and the project was designed for connection to the landscape…this was the beginning of the process how to shape organic forms that sit lightly on the landscape but embody the Waldorf/Steiner concept of earth to the sky
Expression of the graphic concept into a small building rising from a root cellar and ceramics studios to café and …
The Granary building when we bought it in 2003
Final developed site 30,000 sq ft in retail, restaurant and office and 34,000 in residential. Spaces allow for physical movement through the orchards, gardens, courtyards and interior spaces and movement of light and shadow through the original building elements
Public spaces to discover…unexpected art
The Silos Bar, the final piece of the puzzle
The Granary is a leading edge Green Building
Committed to sustainability and community, Weston Miles Architects (WMA) has been an active presence in Morgan Hill for over 40 years. Among its many contributions, WMA acted as designer and developer and contractor in the renovation of The Granary—recognized as the 25th LEED Gold building in the world.
Located between the railroad tracks and Monterey or El Camino Real in Downtown Morgan Hill, the old Isaacson Granary business. As populations grew and Santa Clara Valley evolved into Silicon Valley, the agricultural and industrial businesses based around the Granary and the railroad tracks slid into non-use and decay. The Granary became a symbol of a bygone era.
In 2003, Charles Weston AIA, LEED AP and Lesley Miles AIA, LEED AP, Principals at Weston Miles Architects, decided to embark on a challenging project to repurpose the existing derelict Granary. At the time, green building was not a common term, and transit oriented development was not typically constructed in the rail corridors of the Bay Area.
Purchasing the building and site, Weston and Miles developed the project as the developer, architect, contractor, and LEED Consultant. Despite the difficulty of both design and construction, WMA and the team at Weston Construction skillfully renovated the old industrial building. Great care was taken to preserve the building's integrity and character while developing it to meet a number of goals: historic building reuse, LEED Certification, sustainable building, and adherence to a very limited budget.
About The Orchard
The Granary was a derelict building on a dirt road when we decided to convert the property into a welcoming commercial and retail space. At the time, in 2003, there was absolutely no soil and not a tree on site - only asphalt and broken rock. For over 60 years, the property had been driveways for trucks to park to load or unload grain. To create soil, we planted fava beans, mustard, and vetch.
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