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The land of the Yakima Valley in central Washington State allows
its local agriculture industry to thrive, with high-quality volcanic soil
and irrigation from the Yakima River supporting many fruit orchards.
Washington Fruit & Produce Company, which has been family-owned
and operated in Yakima since 1916, grows, packs, and ships premium
fruit. For 30 years, the company's offices had been located in
a tilt-up concrete building that, like many adjacent warehouses,
offered few windows, little ambiance, and virtually no connection
to the landscape.
When Washington Fruit's production facilities moved across
town, owner Rick Plath embraced the opportunity to make the
new workspace a natural oasis. Plath and his team desired an office
that would provide refuge from the seemingly harsh industrial
agribusiness landscape. "We are around a lot of concrete, conduits,
and wires all day in our packing facilities," Plath says. "We wanted
to have that view disappear in the office, and to instead look out
at the valley's natural characteristics: the hills in the distance as they
turn from green to tan as the summer progresses and as they get
topped with snow each winter."
The 16,500-square-foot headquarters, designed by Seattle
firm Graham Baba Architects and led by partner Brett Baba (a former
high school classmate of Plath's), is focused on warm materials that
connect with the landscape, visual protection from a nearby freeway,
and minimized equipment and devices. Graham Baba created
"an inwardly focused building," as Baba explains, that is oriented around
a landscaped courtyard. A grass-covered earthen berm acts as
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