Fellowshop

Workplace

  • Project Name
    Fellowshop
  • Location
    Chicago, IL
  • Industry
    Workplace
  • Square Footage
    4000 ft²
  • Year
    2023
  • Architect
    En Masse Architecture & Design
  • Photographer
    Wazny Visual

PROJECT CONTEXT

Fellowshop is a shared coworking space built for the design community — a place where creative professionals come to work alongside one another in an environment that reflects the values they bring to their own work. The space inherited something rare: a bowtruss wood ceiling structure of genuine architectural character, exposed brick walls, and the kind of bones that most renovations bury.

The challenge was to honor all of it. To design lighting that activated the space without competing with it — functional, warm, and completely at ease with what was already there.

APPROACH & PROCESS

Exploring multiple solutions before committing allowed the team to land on an approach that was nimble to coordinate, straightforward to install, and genuinely beautiful in execution. Ambition and economy, held in balance.

OUTCOME & IMPACT

Fellowshop has become exactly what its founders intended: a destination for design professionals who recognize quality when they’re inside it. The space feels special and singular — not despite its constraints, but because of how honestly they were met.

The bowtruss reads. The brick breathes. The light does its job without demanding focus.

This project proves that lighting can be on a budget and not be boring.

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