Thirty75 Tech Office Building by Courtenay Bauer |
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| DESIGN NAME: Thirty75 Tech PRIMARY FUNCTION: Office Building INSPIRATION: A permeable layer, the performative result, which refracts rays of light, sounds, and heat. Providing ideal yet dynamic interior working environment, achieving desirable floor to ceiling glass, reduced solar glare and gains. The façade is animated with time and light shifting throughout the day and as the viewer moves, changing their vantage point; the memory erased and re-written by the hour. The design intensions become the definition of Architecture that is both performative and expressive. UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Embodying the relationship between performance and expression, the most notable feature of the project is an array of fixed aluminum louvers that synthesize multiple competing requirements – performance, aesthetic, and constructional. This approach re-couples the façade strategically with both the performative and the practical, indexing the needs of the building against its performative requirements while acknowledging its place in both the tradition of architecture and the urban environment. OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: The program outlined by the developer only included office space and parking. Through close collaboration with the client, we proposed a redefined and reprogrammed vision, advocating for the inclusion of a civic space that fosters community engagement and blurs the site's boundaries to extend the surrounding urban fabric. The result is a project that opens itself up to the community, physically and perceptively. PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: We led this project from entitlements and concept designs in 2015 to completion in 2022, in Santa Clara, California. While the global COVID-19 pandemic caused delays, it also inspired innovative approaches to project delivery, including remote coordination of the facade’s erection with a single project manager on site and multiple consultants participating virtually. FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Architecture, Building and Structure Design |
PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: The sunshade façade was closely developed with subcontractors and consultants in effort to establish the most efficient systems and details optimize assembly sequencing, structural demands, and design intent. Frames of louvers, pre-assembled off-site are hung from the building roof, supported by outriggers at the top and cross braced for lateral stability. Structure and frame are detailed to be obscured from view facilitating louver continuity. SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: The sunshade louver system consists of 4.5-feet-wide modules, which contain multiple strands of eye-shaped louvers, extending the full height of the building aligning with the curtain wall bay spacing. Louver lengths range from 2-feet long to 38-feet and overlap the floor plates. Ultimately, fabricated with 28 typical modules including slight adjustments accommodating the curve and corners. TAGS: Louver, office, sustainable, community, performative, expressive, shade, façade, modulation RESEARCH ABSTRACT: With a goal to optimize the facade's effectiveness in providing an optimal visual expression and technical performance, the primary design control was identified to be in the reduction of shading coefficient. The design research was performed using parametric modeling software. The final geometry was generated with real-time simulation data that is then fed back to the energy model to find and confirm the most energy-efficient combination of louver variations. CHALLENGE: The split contract for curtain wall, catwalk and louver system delivery made it challenging to coordinate between the various contractors and trade partners. The whole team, although remote, was motivated to work together for an iterative and collaborative process and to anticipate and solve problems up front rather than costly revisions late in the game. Early testing and modeling allowed the consultant and fabricator to resolve vibration issues prior to fabrication and construction. ADDED DATE: 2023-07-29 20:41:56 TEAM MEMBERS (10) : Principal: Paul Reling Tang, Architect of Record, RA (CA) , Principal: Courtenay Bauer, AIA, RA (CA, DE) , Senior Associate: Yi-Hsiu Yeh, Senior Associate: Mariliana Ramos, Senior Technical Consultant: Robert Shepherd, Senior Designer: Ryan McGriff, Associate: Jeffrey Shen, Senior Designer: Jiani Song, Designer: Hao Wu and IMAGE CREDITS: Main Image #1: Photographer Tim Griffith Photography Image #1: Photographer Tim Griffith Photography Image #2: Photographer Tim Griffith Photography Image #3: Photographer Tim Griffith Photography Image #4: Photographer Tim Griffith Photography |
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| Visit the following page to learn more: https://www.vdla.co/project/thirty75-tec |
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NAME: Verse Design Los Angeles PROFILE: We are a progressive firm that is committed to the creation of quality architecture and sensible design. Verse Design LA’s research-based design process drives spatial innovation that seeks design solutions from the origin of the design problem. We seek uncommon solutions within the common. Employing a multi-disciplinary approach to the making of architecture, our work is grounded in active social, environmental, and economic issues while aesthetically exploring the ideas of beauty, sustainability, cultural convention, and place. We are committed to enduring architecture and responsible development, keystones to neighborhood growth and improvement. It is with this conviction; we fuel our practice |
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Thirty75 Tech Office Building by Courtenay Bauer is Winner in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Category, 2023 - 2024.· Read the interview with designer Courtenay Bauer for design Thirty75 Tech here.· Press Members: Login or Register to request an exclusive interview with Courtenay Bauer. · Click here to register inorder to view the profile and other works by Courtenay Bauer. |
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