ORIGINAL PLUMBING


Sarah Kantrowitz is a process architect supporting design and strategy for ecological industrial infrastructure, integrating operations planning for facilities projects with social, cultural, and environmental relationships.  

Past work includes delivering process architecture for a 30,000 sqm clean-room blood fractionation plant, managing design strategy for an industrial fermentation real estate platform, re-commissioning bathing facilities in a Weimar-era German Stadtbad built to heat-share process water from an adjacent brown coal power plant, and hosting a sad dinner party on a dredging barge in the middle of Boston’s Mystic River, overlooking ExxonMobil’s leaking 95-acre oil terminal. 






sectors served
+ industrial fermentation
+ biorefining
+ geothermal energy
+ carbon capture, utilization & storage
+ waste managment 
+ regional food processing
+ carbon storage


core services 
+ development of BOD & design standards 
+ design visualization to support external & internal team allignment 
+ equipment layouts
+ material and personnel flows + building massing & interior space planning 
+ coordination between process & building architecture
+ coordination between process & building engineering (MEP, FP, Structural, Civil) 
+ design for visitor experience & public engagement
+ design for place-based metabolism
+ regenerative design strategy




sarah kantrowitz
lobeckstraße 30-35
10969 berlin de
sarah@original-plumbing.com
(+1) 914 523 0757
bathing at the industrial/ecological nexus ©MMXXVI