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Acme Building
This compact office
building utilizes a small remnant urban parcel adjacent to the Pacific Coast
Highway in the Los Angeles suburb of Lomita. The design strives to use minimal
means to maximize the utilization of its constrained site.Ordinance dictating the
quantity and sizes of automobile parking and their maneuvering areas result in
automobiles taking up the vast majority of the property and drastically limit
the size of the office space to be provided. Working within these onerous planning
restrictions the design creates a secure, landscaped, courtyard for the office
inhabitants.
Property line walls
enclose and secure the site. Within this a detached carpet of permeable paving
provides for the automobiles while still allowing space for a perimeter of
landscaping. Freestanding concrete masonry walls within this enclosure form a
minimal base from which the simple office building cantilevers out from above.
Entry through steel and
glass pedestrian gates provides access to open stairs up to an exterior exit
balcony and the offices. The upper office structure is a basic rectangle whose
modest size is limited by the quantity of parking provided below. Fenestration
placement responds to orientation to the sun – recessed toward the south, flush
at the north and screened by vertical fin walls at the east and west. The day
lighted interior may be subdivided into four separate tenant spaces about a
central utility core. This upper mass is clad in varying patterns of fiber
cement siding that contrast with the heavy masonry base below.
building utilizes a small remnant urban parcel adjacent to the Pacific Coast
Highway in the Los Angeles suburb of Lomita. The design strives to use minimal
means to maximize the utilization of its constrained site.Ordinance dictating the
quantity and sizes of automobile parking and their maneuvering areas result in
automobiles taking up the vast majority of the property and drastically limit
the size of the office space to be provided. Working within these onerous planning
restrictions the design creates a secure, landscaped, courtyard for the office
inhabitants.
Property line walls
enclose and secure the site. Within this a detached carpet of permeable paving
provides for the automobiles while still allowing space for a perimeter of
landscaping. Freestanding concrete masonry walls within this enclosure form a
minimal base from which the simple office building cantilevers out from above.
Entry through steel and
glass pedestrian gates provides access to open stairs up to an exterior exit
balcony and the offices. The upper office structure is a basic rectangle whose
modest size is limited by the quantity of parking provided below. Fenestration
placement responds to orientation to the sun – recessed toward the south, flush
at the north and screened by vertical fin walls at the east and west. The day
lighted interior may be subdivided into four separate tenant spaces about a
central utility core. This upper mass is clad in varying patterns of fiber
cement siding that contrast with the heavy masonry base below.
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