The Dill building is a speculative office
building with multiple tenants. As a speculative venture, the budgetary
requirements were in play from the outset and careful attention had to
be paid as to how and where design elements were executed. A few simple
rules were established which helped guide the project forward: The
Entry space would dominate the movement and transition into lease spaces
as well as service spaces, and the rhythm set up by the fenestration
would dictate the building's DNA. The windows were designed simply as
the absence of a wall so that the windows of the building were allowed
to start at the ground and finish at the parapet, taking no heed to 2nd
floor nor roof. The walls are simple planes of brick, acting as
background to the visual gymnastics of the windows and giving a reading
of verticality and grandeur to a simple 2-story box. The colored glass
elements become playful foils to the simple and muted brick planes.
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