Campus 244 is located just north of Atlanta in a burgeoning new business district and is the center piece of a new mixed-use master plan. Originally built in the 1970’s as the headquarters for the Gold Kist Corporation, 244 is a 3-floor, 375,000 SF modernist concrete building organized around two light wells.
S9 Architecture reconfigured the building to allow greater site connectivity while blurring the line between the interior and exterior. Through relocating the core and creating a public 60-foot wide exterior passage daylit through the lightwells, the experience of the site and building is transformed. Additionally, S9 is adding two floors to the building in heavy timber incorporating multiple tenant and amenity terraces. The natural wood materials are continued in details throughout the original concrete structure, adding warmth to the space while staying true to the building’s modernist roots.
In addition to the office building, S9 designed the exterior of both the hotel and restaurant pavilion which define a central events square. The hotel is clad in black brick with an alternating window pattern inspired by a pierced brick garden wall as it is the backdrop to the central lawn. The two-story restaurant pavilion is designed as a frame structure that is adaptable for the future tenants’ design and merged interior and exterior through terraces and operable walls.