What Cheer Flower Farm is a nonprofit based in the Olneyville neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island. The organization grows, donates,  and recycles over 100,000 flowers annually. The flowers are donated via a network of local nonprofits, community groups, and organizations serving Rhode Islanders at risk including hospitals, senior services, recovery centers, shelters, hospices and food pantries.

This design proposal for the farm’s expansion emphasizes balancing the ever changing life cycle of a mix-use building. Challenges include integrating technical systems, adhering to codes, and expressing a tectonic language. The project navigates the articulation of architectural concepts while adhering to passive house standards and addressing life safety regulations, ecological trade-offs, and the practical constructibility of materials.