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Seattle, WA, United States
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Amazon in the Regrade
Seattle, WA, United States
The typical corporate campus is walled off, separated from the community. But Amazon was born in Seattle and draws much of its energy from its city location. So, we designed the 3.3-million-square-foot campus as a neighborhood of buildings, plazas and public spaces that connect seamlessly with Seattle’s existing metropolitan fabric.
By integrating into downtown Seattle, Amazon’s headquarters improves both its employees’ workday and the city and community at large. The site, which spans three city blocks, is designed to maximize views and daylighting. It also minimizes solar loads and welcomes employees and the public with plazas, gardens, and communal amenities from a marketplace and dining to a tech support bar and maker space.
The centerpiece of the Amazon headquarters is The Spheres: a multi-story, glass-enclosed workplace containing tens of thousands of plants and trees from around the world. As exposure to nature is proven to put people at ease and help them think more creatively, The Spheres are designed to help Amazon employees feel and work their best, and are open to the public on weekends.
Design computation helped to generate The Spheres, each a pentagonal hexecontahedron formed by tessellating a pentagon across its surface. Algorithms enabled the team to quickly generate a steel-and-glass structure that could be constructed efficiently and cost-effectively. Three fabricators across the Pacific Northwest collaborated to create the structure. The primary steel components were fabricated in a warehouse for greater ease and safety, as well as to maintain strict quality control. The structural steel was then shipped to the site and assembled by the ironworkers crew.
By integrating into downtown Seattle, Amazon’s headquarters improves both its employees’ workday and the city and community at large. The site, which spans three city blocks, is designed to maximize views and daylighting. It also minimizes solar loads and welcomes employees and the public with plazas, gardens, and communal amenities from a marketplace and dining to a tech support bar and maker space.
The centerpiece of the Amazon headquarters is The Spheres: a multi-story, glass-enclosed workplace containing tens of thousands of plants and trees from around the world. As exposure to nature is proven to put people at ease and help them think more creatively, The Spheres are designed to help Amazon employees feel and work their best, and are open to the public on weekends.
Design computation helped to generate The Spheres, each a pentagonal hexecontahedron formed by tessellating a pentagon across its surface. Algorithms enabled the team to quickly generate a steel-and-glass structure that could be constructed efficiently and cost-effectively. Three fabricators across the Pacific Northwest collaborated to create the structure. The primary steel components were fabricated in a warehouse for greater ease and safety, as well as to maintain strict quality control. The structural steel was then shipped to the site and assembled by the ironworkers crew.
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