Commercial

9 Pembroke Cobden - 417 West Convenience

This multi-faceted renovation and addition to an existing restaurant / convenience store / gas station and franchise hub involved the following :

1 - New SITE design to accomodate added lands for parking, semi-truck loading bay and drive-thru. These requirements needed to meet strict Minsitry of Transport regulations plus municipal commercial zoning rules.

2 - Building addition to add 2 separate units for Subway and Tim Hortons, improve the existing convenience store, improve the 2nd Floor offices and maintian existing washrooms.

3 - Replace window and door openings, improve exterior thermal envelope to NECB standards and refresh exterior cladding.

As this project developed, the building grew in size from a Part 9 project (under 600m2) to a Part 3 project (over 600m2). This necessitated hand-off to a firm with the regulatory credentials to certify the building. The team at Jim Bell Architectural completed the project.

Children's consignment - Boomerang Kids

In order to improve the business, owner's of Boomerang required 3 things:

1) some custom interior displays for their unique needs.

2) an intake area for staff to quickly process customers dropping off consignment items.

3) a separate Sales area located to improve customer flow. 

Funktional Design was able to provide solutions for all three, improving the business.  The client was able to carry these solutions forward to the opening of 2 more stores.

7 Bayview - Bayview Yards MakerSpace

This conversion of the former Ottawa Municipal works building to an Innovation Centre, Digital Lab and fabrication centre required technical ijput and Architectural plans to complete the renovation of the garage portion of the building. This portion of the building formed the new fabrication centre and Digital Lab.

9 Antares - STEGA Networks

The expansion of Stega’s IT and data recovery business required new larger office space for their growing and office requirements. Funktional Desing worked with the Interior Designers at KODA Interiors to meet Stega’s needs and create the required Architectural drawings for Permit and Construction

Canada Post (CPC) Retail Stores

Pictured here is Stn K, Canada Post's award winning Corporate Flagship (2002 Retail Council's Excellence in Retailing Award) in Toronto. Working with Retail Design, CPC's in-house team, Renzo assisted in the layout, fixture and display design, merchandising and project implementation of this effort to advance Canada Post's ability to capitalize on potential new opportunities for its Retail Stores. The intention was to consolidate the "Leverage the Network" strategy and five new and disctinct prototype products/services into a strong physical solution. Renzo had a particular emphasis on the Philatelic (stamp collectables) section, Business Services and Impulse/Information (concentrated in to the POS area) of the store. 

Atelier Restaurant - 540 Rochester St Ottawa

More customers than room! The client purchased the building in which the restaurant operated and needed to create a rear addition to expand the kitchen. The dining room needed to expand to the 2nd floor of the building to accommodate the growing popularity of the restaurant.

Heidi Helm from Urbanomics Interiors created a dramatic new interior design and Funktional Design specified the structural changes and Exterior Design, then created the Construction / Permit drawings for the project.