Mood board: building core + shell

Inspired by aspects of Native American adobe building techniques, the building design looks to indigenous architecture, native materials, and earthy tones hybridized with the advent of the South West's tech boom for a uniquely contemporary, luxury-mission style mood. The exterior façade features a steel superstructure with high performance textured glass infill interposed between the modern interpretation of the battered wall. Reimagined in more economical materials in order to address the developer's fiscal objectives for not only construction but also post occupancy maintenance, the originally proposed Corten Steel superstructure (a nod to the areas richness in copper, in both element and color) is realized in painted aluminum cladding whilst custom molded precast concrete panels recall the proposed “battered walls” of local split-face stone. The copper-colored beamed superstructure partitions the glass façade on floors 1 and 2 into seven equal bays whilst providing a shade structure for the 3 floor terrace and a large plantable canopy defining the building entry.

Exterior: metal, glass, cast-concrete

Exterior facade + rooftop terrace with metal awning

View from Grand Entry

Massing render