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Austin, TX, United States
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Torchy's Office
Austin, TX, United States
This project is a complete renovation of a 13,400 square foot pre-fabricated steel building into the corporate headquarters of a rapidly growing Austin-based restaurant chain. The goal was to maintain the building’s overall simplicity while creating several distinct, small-scale workspaces illuminated by natural light from multiple locations and sources. Completed in May 2014, the cost was $112 per square foot including furnishings.
Torchy's Tacos first opened in a now-iconic South Austin food truck in 2006. Its wildly popular menu and unique atmosphere have enabled its expansion to twenty-seven locations throughout Texas. Plans for out-of-state locations are underway. The company had outgrown its existing corporate offices by 2013, with many employees forced to work off-site. Chioco Design, which had previously worked with Torchy’s to develop a consistent aesthetic identity for several of its recently opened locations, was charged with designing its formal headquarters. The client’s corporate structure is relatively standard, with separate departments for accounting, human resources, public relations, development, and executive operations. The desire was to provide distinct spaces for each while fostering a communal atmosphere and multiple spaces for interaction.
Simple exterior interventions greatly enhance natural light throughout the interior. Most important of these is a shaded walkway along the building’s east façade, where the steel skin was folded outwards to form an awning and replaced by glazing beneath. This allows a large amount of daylight to enter the reception area, staff lounge, and open workspace. Eight skylights were installed to provide additional light as well.
Chioco Design incorporated key materials from its designs for recent Torchy’s restaurants into the headquarters’ interior. These include road reflectors in the reception area and staff lounge, as well as outdated menu boards repurposed to create a wall mosaic in the open workspace area. The company’s three-dimensional mascot is suspended over the guest lounge, and its “Damn Good” signage – also visible from the guest lounge – is the conference room centerpiece. All reinforce the company’s robust corporate culture.
These elements were combined with a more refined materials palette to portray an appropriately formal atmosphere. Douglas fir and walnut plywood, used for ceilings, walls, and custom shelving and desk spaces, were a crucial part of the materials strategy to counter the prefabricated steel structure and skin. Translucent partitions maximize the transmission of daylight throughout the space. Open workspaces are oriented along the building’s longitudinal axis and separated by required meeting spaces. Each was given its own identity through varying materials and lighting. The common dining and lounge spaces are also oriented along this axis, and all furniture selections for these open public spaces enable easy interaction between various departments.
Torchy's Tacos first opened in a now-iconic South Austin food truck in 2006. Its wildly popular menu and unique atmosphere have enabled its expansion to twenty-seven locations throughout Texas. Plans for out-of-state locations are underway. The company had outgrown its existing corporate offices by 2013, with many employees forced to work off-site. Chioco Design, which had previously worked with Torchy’s to develop a consistent aesthetic identity for several of its recently opened locations, was charged with designing its formal headquarters. The client’s corporate structure is relatively standard, with separate departments for accounting, human resources, public relations, development, and executive operations. The desire was to provide distinct spaces for each while fostering a communal atmosphere and multiple spaces for interaction.
Simple exterior interventions greatly enhance natural light throughout the interior. Most important of these is a shaded walkway along the building’s east façade, where the steel skin was folded outwards to form an awning and replaced by glazing beneath. This allows a large amount of daylight to enter the reception area, staff lounge, and open workspace. Eight skylights were installed to provide additional light as well.
Chioco Design incorporated key materials from its designs for recent Torchy’s restaurants into the headquarters’ interior. These include road reflectors in the reception area and staff lounge, as well as outdated menu boards repurposed to create a wall mosaic in the open workspace area. The company’s three-dimensional mascot is suspended over the guest lounge, and its “Damn Good” signage – also visible from the guest lounge – is the conference room centerpiece. All reinforce the company’s robust corporate culture.
These elements were combined with a more refined materials palette to portray an appropriately formal atmosphere. Douglas fir and walnut plywood, used for ceilings, walls, and custom shelving and desk spaces, were a crucial part of the materials strategy to counter the prefabricated steel structure and skin. Translucent partitions maximize the transmission of daylight throughout the space. Open workspaces are oriented along the building’s longitudinal axis and separated by required meeting spaces. Each was given its own identity through varying materials and lighting. The common dining and lounge spaces are also oriented along this axis, and all furniture selections for these open public spaces enable easy interaction between various departments.
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