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400 West Georgia Street
Urban Design Panel
Design Concept
Design Concept
The project site is located in a transitioning, evolving and re-emerging district along West Georgia Street (a key ceremonial street) and also serves as part of a “gateway” to downtown Vancouver’s Central Business District when approaching from False Creek to the east.
The building is conceived as playful aggregation of “reflective” yet transparent stacked boxes. Each box contains 4 floors and its width is roughly equivalent to its height. The multiple orientations of the stacked boxes capture the sweeping views of the surrounding city while the spaces in between the cubes are filled with greenery whose vertical orientation binds the otherwise scattered massing.
From the interiors, the 3-dimensionality of the greenery is a striking presence that closes the distance with the mountainous backdrop. The character of the work space is designed to be open, fluid, flexible, but also diverse. Unlike the first corporate towers with curtain walls and open plans in the 1950s, the new, tech-oriented work environment elicits collaboration, creativity, and spontaneity. Here, the boxes create natural compartments within a continuous floorplate, allowing offices to be variously partitioned while also staying close to the façade. The floors and ceilings of the cantilevering portions are glazed to visually link the garden, the offices, and the street below. The resulting diversity of spaces is complimented by the diversity of views, whose orientation is not only horizontal, but also vertical.
West Georgia Street is rapidly developing into a ceremonial street aligned with many significant buildings. Within walking distance of the site, the street hosts large-scale athletic, institutional, commercial, and cultural facilities, all of which are representative projects of their periods. The location of 400 West Georgia Street is privileged for being in the center of this transformation, and for this reason seeks to respond to the wealth of architecture and contribute to the pedestrian scale through combining dynamic massing with dense greenery.
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Warehouse Typology
Industry - Art- Workplace
YaletownVancouver, 1887
Centre PompidouParis, 1971
FacebookMenlo Park, 2016
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WAREHOUSE TYPOLOGY
industry - art - workplace
FACEBOOK, MENLO PARK, 2016CENTRE POMPIDOU, PARIS, 1971YALETOWN, VANCOUVER, 1887
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WAREHOUSE TYPOLOGY
industry - art - workplace
FACEBOOK, MENLO PARK, 2016CENTRE POMPIDOU, PARIS, 1971YALETOWN, VANCOUVER, 1887
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WAREHOUSE TYPOLOGY
industry - art - workplace
FACEBOOK, MENLO PARK, 2016CENTRE POMPIDOU, PARIS, 1971YALETOWN, VANCOUVER, 1887
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Design Concept
Blurred Icons
Tamed Nature
Andy Goldsworthy Jeff Koons
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BLURRED ICONS
tamed nature
JEFF KOONSANDY GOLDSWORTHY
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BLURRED ICONS
tamed nature
JEFF KOONSANDY GOLDSWORTHY
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Architectural Façade
Texture
Transparency
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Vegetation
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Architectural Façade
Texture
Planked Roof Deck
Example of expanded mesh to be used at exterior and interior ceiling
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Architectural Façade
Visual Transparency
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Architectural Façade
Vegetation - Living Wall
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Architectural Façade
Vegetation - Tree Planters
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Concept Façade
1. Elevation diagram: consistent floor heights 2. Elevation diagram: constant glazing units
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Glass Wall
Elevation (Front) Elevation (Side) Section
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Balcony Concept
Vegetated niches with interior presence
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PLAN
vegetal niches
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Wet Moss Wall
Trickling water and reflecting pool frames serene urban plaza
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STREET VIEW
wet moss wall
Building entry at corner of West Georgia and Homer Streets
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Living Wall
1. Solid wall
Punch windows 1200x1600
Mechanical louvers 350x1850
2.
Hydroponic wall (openings where required)
3.
Organic expanded mesh design
Expanded mesh façade to allow growth of living wall Living wall growing on expanded mesh façade
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Elevation Section
Living Wall Section
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Stacked Campus Concept
Co-existance of Intimacy and Openess
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STACKED CAMPUS CONCEPT
intimacy and openness
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Interior Concept
Compartmentalized and Continuous
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Interior Concept Views
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INTERIOR VIEW
reflecting pool
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INTERIOR VIEW
panoramic loungeView to exterior from office
Glass floor
Panoramic lounge
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INTERIOR VIEW
glass ceiling & glass floor
Glass ceiling and glass floor
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Formal Strategy
Aggregation of boxes to reduce building scale
Multi-directional boxes - Library side
Reference Telus cantilever
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TELUS SIDE
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LIBRARY SIDE
multi-directional boxes
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Urban Strategy
Multi-directionality enhances centrality of West Georgia Street
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Structural Concept: stacked box frames
Structural Bracing: pragmatic and "arbitrary"
Structural Diagram: circular core and cogwheel
Structural Concept
Cantilevering steel boxes off circular core
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STRUCTURAL CONCEPT
stacked box frames
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STRUCTURAL DIAGRAM
circular core and cogwheel
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STRUCTURAL BRACING
pragmatic and “arbitrary”
The proposed building will be utilizing a concrete core with structural steel beams and steel decking c/w concrete topping. The steel construction seemed better suited to the architectural design and provides the desirable aesthetic of seeing the buildings structure visible through the transparent exterior glazing. The “truss” elements are cantilevering from 6 large column supports extending up through the entire building resulting in large open / column free interior spaces allowing flexible internal office planning configurations.
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Homer Street view looking upwards
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Nature as Artefact
Lush greenery binds abstract boxes
Day
Noguchi Lamp
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NATURE & ARTIFACT
vegetated niches
Night
Noguchi Lamp