King Enterprise Group

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King Enterprise Group

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King Enterprise Group (KEG from here on out) approached us requesting a new headquarters building that represented where they have come from along with where they are heading. KEG has a strong history in central Kansas in concrete work. They are a company that wants to hold onto this past while acknowledging their growth into the general construction area. The site was a piece of farm land adjacent to a creek. The plan was to convert the tilled soil back to natural prairie grass and bring that habitat up to the edge of the building. As you arrive at the site you would take a slightly curving road up to the building where the building would appear to grow out of the prairie. The concrete walls will jut up from the landscape supporting the structure above. The concrete wall separating the public parking from the yard would begin to turn down and convert into the striping for the front row of parking, helping to reinforce the notion of the walls coming out of and being tied to the ground. This same wall will also represent the history of the King family and its tie to the concrete industry. Excerpts from the owner's great grandfather's diary would be integrated into the wall and greet the visitors as they park and make their way to the front entrance. The quotes would be sequential with the earliest being the furthest away from the entrance. Once in the entrance the wall would continue into the waiting area and into the conference room where the quotes would change to current quotes from the owner representing the present. The wall then continues out the back of the building through the mix and mingle area and back patio which is used by employees, into the site where at this time would be blank representing the future of KEG and how it is yet to be written implying that the employees are in control of writing the future of KEG.
Materials were to be left raw yet finished. Concrete panels were left exposed with a light sand blast finish maintaining the board formed form work marks. Floors were to be polished concrete. Counter tops were concrete. The reception desk was a variety of concrete, mill finished waxed steel and wood veneer. The interior steel structure was to be left exposed with a mill finish that was waxed. The interior steel columns at the higher open office area were slanted to be perpendicular to roof structure. The main concrete spine wall represents the companies heritage while the office building represents their expanded area of work. Concrete was to be used a little more sparingly in this section of the building to hi-light the fit and finish quality of the company. Material colors (Tan, orange and green) were selected to blend and pay reverence to the re-established prairie grass lands now surrounding the facility.

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