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122: Prefabricated Shipping Containers | Wonderlove
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In this episode, Cherise is joined by Eric Wenzel, Project Architect/Senior Associate at Scott Edwards Architecture in Portland, Oregon. They discuss Wonderlove, a food, beverage, and entertainment destination also in Portland, OR.
Nestled in Portland’s Central Eastside, where industry meets imagination, Wonderlove stands as a hub of creativity, culinary excellence, and community engagement. Wonderlove comes to life utilizing pre-fabricated shipping containers and offers an immersive experience where design, music, and storytelling merge to captivate the senses.
Nestled in Portland’s Central Eastside, where industry meets imagination, Wonderlove stands as a hub of creativity, culinary excellence, and community engagement. Wonderlove comes to life utilizing pre-fabricated shipping containers and offers an immersive experience where design, music, and storytelling merge to captivate the senses.
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Photo Credit: Casey Braunger
Eric Wenzel approaches hospitality architecture with an openness to possibility and innovation and the desire to craft a unique experience.
He understands the powerful role that historical, neighborhood, and community context plays in design, and how embracing it elevates placemaking in the community.
Eric enjoys partnering with clients to discover their vision and develop unexpected methods to achieve it—from centerpiece design moments like a shipping container sports bar to crafting new stories through adaptive reuse experiences.
Wonderlove is a food, beverage, and entertainment destination that uses experiential design to immerse visitors in the moment.
At the start of the project, Scott Edwards Architecture understood that the client expected this place to be unlike any other.
With this mandate in mind, SEA pulled from the location’s Central Eastside industrial context and fantastical stories and imagery to develop a multi-sensory vision inclusive of cuisine, music, art, expression, and creation.
Spaces supporting 12 beloved local food carts, a main and secondary stage for concerts and music festivals, and a central two-story shipping container sports bar all contribute to an unparalleled “choose your own adventure.”
At Wonderlove’s center is a two-story, with roof deck, sports bar comprising four decommissioned shipping containers.
The containers maintain their original industrial texture, authentic to the Central Eastside neighborhood, but have a Wonderlove twist—the upper container’s exterior is glittering gold.
A cocktail bar occupies the ground level. An expansive wall of glass and a walk-up window blur the interior and exterior, connecting the bar with the activity outside.
Upstairs, the second-level sports lounge buzzes with socialization and dining, and a large barstool-lined window opens up to the sounds, aromas, and activity below.
Ascending further, you reach the roof deck. From this vantage point, you can see sunsets over Portland’s cityscape and see and hear the live music on the stage.
The highly orchestrated installation of the Wonderlove sports bar, which was manufactured and transported from Northern California, was a steady unveiling of SEA’s tailored design.
As each piece was lifted off the truck, stacked, and welded together, the complete picture took shape.
The installation of the four shipping containers, roof deck, and stairs took place over three days, and immediately following, the interior build-out began.
Photo Credit: Casey Braunger
Eric Wenzel, Project Architect/Senior Associate, Scott Edwards Architecture
Eric Wenzel approaches hospitality architecture with an openness to possibility and innovation and the desire to craft a unique experience.
He understands the powerful role that historical, neighborhood, and community context plays in design, and how embracing it elevates placemaking in the community.
Eric enjoys partnering with clients to discover their vision and develop unexpected methods to achieve it—from centerpiece design moments like a shipping container sports bar to crafting new stories through adaptive reuse experiences.
Project Name and Location: Wonderlove, Portland, Oregon
Wonderlove is a food, beverage, and entertainment destination that uses experiential design to immerse visitors in the moment.
At the start of the project, Scott Edwards Architecture understood that the client expected this place to be unlike any other.
With this mandate in mind, SEA pulled from the location’s Central Eastside industrial context and fantastical stories and imagery to develop a multi-sensory vision inclusive of cuisine, music, art, expression, and creation.
Spaces supporting 12 beloved local food carts, a main and secondary stage for concerts and music festivals, and a central two-story shipping container sports bar all contribute to an unparalleled “choose your own adventure.”
At Wonderlove’s center is a two-story, with roof deck, sports bar comprising four decommissioned shipping containers.
The containers maintain their original industrial texture, authentic to the Central Eastside neighborhood, but have a Wonderlove twist—the upper container’s exterior is glittering gold.
A cocktail bar occupies the ground level. An expansive wall of glass and a walk-up window blur the interior and exterior, connecting the bar with the activity outside.
Upstairs, the second-level sports lounge buzzes with socialization and dining, and a large barstool-lined window opens up to the sounds, aromas, and activity below.
Ascending further, you reach the roof deck. From this vantage point, you can see sunsets over Portland’s cityscape and see and hear the live music on the stage.
The highly orchestrated installation of the Wonderlove sports bar, which was manufactured and transported from Northern California, was a steady unveiling of SEA’s tailored design.
As each piece was lifted off the truck, stacked, and welded together, the complete picture took shape.
The installation of the four shipping containers, roof deck, and stairs took place over three days, and immediately following, the interior build-out began.
Project Team List:
- Owner/Client: Wonderlove
- Architecture: Scott Edwards Architecture
- General Contractor: GSI Builders
- Civil Engineer: DOWL Engineering
- Structural Engineer: PSE Engineering
- Shipping Container Consultant: ConexWest
Unique Products:
- Shipping Containers, ConexWest
- Prefabricated Roof Deck and Stairs, ConexWest
- Sliding Glass Walls and Storefront System, PRL
