Client: James Jarred

Project: 60,000 sf office building for Lakeshore Drive, Tallahassee

Cost: $18 million

Status: Conceptual design

Delivery: Bid

Description: The developer wants a 'signature' building and asked me to develop some non-traditional solutions to the program which consisted of leased space and office condos.

The organic forms on the left are constructed using punched metal screen or wire lattice over a light-metal frame matrix. In additional to the visual effect, the screen also acts to filter the intense solar gain at this latitude. Each of these schemes was conceived of, modeled and rendered in 30 minutes to an hour.

The scheme below is a more traditional interpretation and uses exterior articulating louvers to throttle the amount of sunlight. It's tripartite structure is comprehensible and unlike many of the schemes to the left, announces an overall hierarchy. This scheme was designed, modeled and rendered in 4 hours. Click to enlarge.