PROJECT

Design-Build Office Expansion & Renovation

The owner of a Midwestern manufacturing facility and office space incorporated our vision of an innovation hub designed to attract thinkers, tinkerers and innovators from across the country. We provided integrated design-build services for the 20,700-square-foot office expansion and renovation. The LEED Silver-certified project is a spatial facilitator for the collaborative development of breakthrough ideas, technologies and capabilities for next-generation consumer projects.

The project — conceived and executed by our integrated design-build team as part renovation, part expansion and part new front door — included a 7,000-square-foot addition featuring a new front entry, security guard station, huddle and conference rooms, a large premium conference room, open office seating for 60-plus people, and multipurpose space. The project also included 13,700 square feet of renovated to include multipurpose space, small conference and huddle rooms, booth seating, a break room and storage.

The new and updated spaces are centrally located between existing production wings, administration offices, primary circulation corridors, surface parking, and a renovated cafe. The resulting nexus is the focal point where all sectors of the company are encouraged to reinvent every aspect of how they do business. 

Client

Confidential

Location

Midwest

Region

Midwest

Services

Architecture

Workplace

Commercial Buildings

Office Buildings

Construction

Industry

Commercial, Retail & Institutional

The architectural design intentionally disrupts the plant’s multistory, heavy industrial-looking structures with a sleek, elegant glass-and-metal wedge form that extends from the plant into a low, grassy knoll adjacent to the main parking area. The wedge features tall, slender glass panels lining rich, open work environments visually connected to outdoor green space. The transparent facades are framed by corrugated metal panels and a dynamic metal brow that bends at its midpoint and slopes upward toward a blackened metal entry portal. Shaping the wedge in this manner heightens its visual contrast and creates a grand entrance lobby.

The renovated interior work environments are intentionally open and fluid, consistent with a culture predicated on change, innovation and shared ideas. Spaces are organized along the back end of the facility, allowing the tall glass perimeter to provide natural daylight to work areas. A wood-clad zipper ceiling visually unifies varied work environments in the wedge and renovation area.

This challenging and innovative design-build project met an aggressive delivery schedule, a difficult site, and a tight project budget on time and under budget, without disrupting a fully functioning manufacturing plant.

Building information models and augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR) technology helped convey aspects of the design that may have been considered abstract, allowing the client to make timely decisions and preventing schedule disruption.