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Riedel Research Global Headquarters and Guest House
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Riedel Research Group is an equity research and analysis firm
focusing on Asian, Latin American and Emerging European markets. The
Marin County headquarters manages 31 analysts in 15 countries covering
320 stocks and issuing about 600 reports per year. It is a unique
business model and has gotten much recognition within the financial
sector. When approached to design the headquarters
office space located just outside San Francisco, we were immediately
interested in the similarities in dynamics between this hyper-connected
business which exchanges information all over the world regarding
constantly fluctuating financial markets (in seconds) and the volatile
geologic activity within the ground the headquarters building will sit
on (moving in millions of years.) Because these two systems are
operating at contrary scales the building focuses on single moments on
the site. Capturing a single moment in time is one way to equalize
processes happening at different speeds. Furthermore, moments can be
thought of as ‘section cuts’ or snap shots of time. Section cuts can
show us in an instant a diagram of a long history. Such can be seen in
tree rings or road cuts through mountains. A snap shot freezes a
moment in time which is like a single point along a graphed line…making
it a piece of the overall timeline.
There
are three moments on site that are specific to the place that the
building focuses on. 1. The Grove: the site is covered with the
canopies of heritage oak trees creating a very sheltered, and
interestingly proportioned space at the base. 2. The Tree: one of these
oak trees is deciduous acting as a constant marker of time on the site.
3. The Mountain: Mount Tamalpais, a fixture of Marin County, is
clearly visible to the west of the site. Once these moments were
identified, the buildable area on the site was extruded and perspective
cone vectors from these three moments were allowed to slice through the
block resulting in the building mass. The voids become perspective
directing elements towards these three single moments, the solids
become two story furniture fixtures housing all the program elements
for the building.
This cutting of solid and void creates a series of discoveries for the
observer as he transverses through layers of experiential strata.
focusing on Asian, Latin American and Emerging European markets. The
Marin County headquarters manages 31 analysts in 15 countries covering
320 stocks and issuing about 600 reports per year. It is a unique
business model and has gotten much recognition within the financial
sector. When approached to design the headquarters
office space located just outside San Francisco, we were immediately
interested in the similarities in dynamics between this hyper-connected
business which exchanges information all over the world regarding
constantly fluctuating financial markets (in seconds) and the volatile
geologic activity within the ground the headquarters building will sit
on (moving in millions of years.) Because these two systems are
operating at contrary scales the building focuses on single moments on
the site. Capturing a single moment in time is one way to equalize
processes happening at different speeds. Furthermore, moments can be
thought of as ‘section cuts’ or snap shots of time. Section cuts can
show us in an instant a diagram of a long history. Such can be seen in
tree rings or road cuts through mountains. A snap shot freezes a
moment in time which is like a single point along a graphed line…making
it a piece of the overall timeline.
There
are three moments on site that are specific to the place that the
building focuses on. 1. The Grove: the site is covered with the
canopies of heritage oak trees creating a very sheltered, and
interestingly proportioned space at the base. 2. The Tree: one of these
oak trees is deciduous acting as a constant marker of time on the site.
3. The Mountain: Mount Tamalpais, a fixture of Marin County, is
clearly visible to the west of the site. Once these moments were
identified, the buildable area on the site was extruded and perspective
cone vectors from these three moments were allowed to slice through the
block resulting in the building mass. The voids become perspective
directing elements towards these three single moments, the solids
become two story furniture fixtures housing all the program elements
for the building.
This cutting of solid and void creates a series of discoveries for the
observer as he transverses through layers of experiential strata.
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