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Daylight is maximized in the interiors by using sliding glass barn doors, creating a
transparent connection to the outside and eliminating door swings, and allowing for
a narrower building. The final design came in at 56,000 square feet (5,200 sq m),
reducing the footprint for maximal efficiency.
requirements, but also considered cost savings
in utilities through life-cycle analysis.
During the early massing and site study,
the design team ran annual daylighting
and energy analysis for different building
iterations to understand the impact of the
building location and size on energy use.
These were further used to find opportunities
to bring more daylight inside the building
and provide better views for the occupants.
Four options were studied, two each
on the east and west side of the existing
building. Massing models were developed
with building areas varying from 60,000 to
70,000 square feet (5,600 to 6,500 sq m)
over five floors with 15-foot (4.6 m) floorto-floor
heights and a 40 percent wall-towindow
ratio.
The different iterations were modeled
with light-reflective colored surfaces. The
interior offices eliminated high-partition
cubicles that would restrict the distribution
of light through the spaces. The interiors
with sliding glass barn doors maximized
daylight, creating a transparent connection
to the outdoors, and eliminated door
swings, allowing for a narrower building.
The final integrated design came in at
56,000 square feet (5,200 sq m), further
reducing the footprint and floor-to-floor
dimension for maximal efficiency.
Intensified Design Process
The integrated design process shifted the
production sequence and tasked the engineering
team to deliver 90 percent complete
design documents during the design
development phase to cut the footprint
down to its bare minimum. This gave
the design team exact equipment dimensions
rather than an estimated space
allowance. While mechanical space
typically estimates 6 to 8 percent of total
building square footage, this early push in
design reduced the mechanical footprint
to 4 percent of the building, saving 2,200
square feet (200 sq m) and about $80,000
in construction costs.
Additional savings and reductions in
building size were realized by reducing
building height 14 percent by compressing
floor-to-floor space to 14.5 feet (4.4 m),
which, in turn, reduced the size and cost of
the facade by 18 percent. With individual
office space reduced to standard county
office specifications, volume also was
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