Alder Commons: An Uncommon Project

Becoming household builders, we at Hammer & Hand invest a large amount of our time carrying out remodels, new homes, and the occasional commercial TI in Portland and Seattle. While we delight ourselves on remaining top-notch builders and good members of our communities, it is not typically that we get to be associated in a venture that is built all over the idea of neighborhood making by itself. Functioning on the Alder Commons neighborhood kitchen area develop-out was a scarce handle for us, and a single that intended a large amount to many customers of our crew.

For the uninitiated, Alder Commons is a nonprofit room built to aid multigenerational, multicultural local community creating and private expansion. They offer a area for self-directed learning in classes and workshops on a vast variety of topics and for a various array of peoples. From cooking classes to bookshelf building, artwork courses to homeschool hangouts for children in the LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC communities, Alder Commons serves as a neighborhood crossroad for intersectional cultural appreciation and self-advancement.

“Our mission is to cultivate an equitable, all-ages neighborhood of self-directed learners. We aim to lower boundaries involving youth and grown ups of varied backgrounds by providing an obtainable and inclusive room for them to share awareness and methods.” (supply: Alder Commons | Philosophy)

When the Alder Commons crew approached Hammer & Hand about setting up their local community kitchen house, we have been thrilled for the option to bring their dream to lifestyle. The project was developed by Communitecture, a local architecture agency with an eye for inventive local community areas and a mission for social justice. As conventional builders with a aim in the two design-driven tasks and progressing variety, fairness, and inclusion inside of our personal industry, it was a best healthy for Hammer & Hand. We convey our heartfelt gratitude to Alder Commons for deciding upon Hammer & Hand to construct a area that is now a commissary kitchen serving as residence base for 16 little, majority-QTBIPOC food stuff and herbalism organizations.

Discover additional about the mission of Alder Commons and check out their calendar of functions at aldercommons.org

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