Here are some photos of the process of creating our front porch for the Old Mill Tasty Shop with my daughter Sarah. This "Front Porch Project" is a placemaking project founded by Downtown Wichita. It was inspired by the midwestern front porch where people meet and hang out. This idea of the front porch has been brought out to the downtown Wichita with an emphasis on creating safe spaces and bringing visitors to the downtown. The project has been funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Knight Foundation Fund at the Wichita Community Foundation. Here is the link to this project. Sarah and I are so excited to be chosen as one of the six creatives to create a porch.
These photos were mostly taken by me unless otherwise mentioned.
Working on the design
We planned our design according to the Old Mill Tasty Shop's request and needs. They requested us to create a deck on the parking lot in front of the restaurant as their front porch for the purpose of extending their seating and eating space. After several brainstorming meetings with Old Mill's staff, we landed to an overall design as below. The design was inspired by their 90th anniversary, and celebration of the city of Wichita as a good "home." The front porch is designed to stay there for one year.
Created the cutting plywood plan
We got help from Nam Le with CNC machine cutting.
Bob helped us with constructing the top disc.
Sealing
Priming
The planned design
Painting
Tina helping us with painting.
To be continued
