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OILTANKING Texas city
OILTANKING Texas city
Loop 197 South, Texas City, TX, United States
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OILTANKING Texas city
Loop 197 South, Texas City, TX, United States
Amidst endless spiky refineries, the new office building addition & renovation for Oiltanking Texas City announces itself as a small yet significant presence. In an environment not often concerned with architectural design, the Architect encouraged the Owner to re-purpose two original buildings rather than replace them with entirely new construction, allowing the restrictive budget to better address functional, aesthetic, environmental, and sustainability concerns. The addition's footprint strategically wraps the older buildings, creating outdoor courtyard spaces between the wings while simultaneously providing the facility with a new architectural identity. Employees can easily navigate a new fluid red core that anchors the clarified circulation path, which is expressed in terrazzo and pierced by skylights. The shell of the building is articulated in an intentionally muscular and weighty manner to honor concrete's material characteristics, avoiding the unsettling "thinness" some tilt-wall buildings demonstrate. Left in its natural state, the concrete finish takes on the traits and texture of the sand slab on which it was poured. The depth of the folded concrete surface provides shading and additional strength on the exterior and is experienced inside through custom fitted millwork. The robust and raw quality of this undulating skin appears visually balanced with the surrounding industrial sites and buffers the building against the harsh environment of the Texas coast. Completed in 2007.
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