Fish. Brew. Minneapolis. An Argument for Integrated Industry

Fish. Brew. Minneapolis. is an inland salt-water fish farm, a micro-beer brewery,
and a locally sourced eatery on the edge of the Mississippi River in Northeast
Minneapolis. Through this speculative program, the project challenges the current
separation between production and consumption in industrial processes.

Seemingly unrelated, beer brewing and fish farming have potential synergies using
heat, waste and water in their respective production processes. Additionally, beer
and fish, as consumable products, can and are being paired together as
consumable products. At the scale of site and building, and at the scale of human
touch, the project is an exploration of how architecture mediates two distinct
industrial processes in a spatially integrated manner, a manner that both heightens
the experience of production for workers and engages the public from
production through consumption.