The Energy Foundation office accommodates 65
employees within a single floor in the historic former San Francisco Federal
Reserve Bank building. The plan is organized to maximize daylight to the center
of the building while allowing occupants views of the urban landscape. Private
offices are located at the perimeter and have large clerestories and borrow
lights to facilitate day lighting, views, and communication between offices and
workstations. Ceilings in open office areas are divided into large floating
planes and are sloped to bounce daylight towards the center of the building while
visually unifying the open spaces. The ceiling panels incorporate dimmable
fluorescent lights with daylight harvesting sensors. New finishes contrast and
compliment the original exposed structure and include exposed concrete, carpet,
gypsum board, aluminum and glass windows, maple veneer plywood, and Tectum
ceiling panels. The Board Room table was locally fabricated from recycled
Douglas fir and decommissioned photovoltaic panels.