Beverly Hills, California
New Pacific Realty Corporate Offices is located at the prominent intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Canon Drive in Beverly Hills. The original mid-20th century infill structure has an irregular plan as a result of the obtuse angle of intersecting streets.
The existing building façade and interior plan have been renovated through a sustainable, adaptive reuse, designed to take advantage of the long, curved south and southwest orientation to daylight the Ground Level retail and Second Floor office space.
Small window openings have been replaced with full-height glass storefront at the street level and much larger windows at the second level. To manage direct south and west sun, the original thin horizontal canopy at the street level was retained and refurbished. At the second level, a scrim of horizontal aluminum dowels follow the curve of the façade to control direct sunlight and reflect indirect daylight to office and retail interiors.
The entry vestibule is a three-story vertical space daylit from skylights and features an open steel and wood stair to the second floor office suite which is planned to reinforce the curved south building elevation and to reconcile the irregular building geometry.
A skylit conference room at the heart of the plan provides the focus and point of rotation for radial planning of offices. An interior translucent glass-plank partition reflects the curved south façade and distributes daylight to the entire workplace.
A generous lobby anchors the building to the streetscape. The structure rises 7 floors above ground for a total height of 25 meters. The building’s refined formal vocabulary reflects a commitment to sustainability while also delivering efficiency and flexibility. The west façade is recessed from the street front and masked with a carefully composed set of louvers designed to maximize both sun shading and privacy. On the east, the structure has been pulled away from its neighbors to create internal courtyards and provide natural day lighting for all the interior office spaces. These voids house generous vertical gardens that tie back into the striking exposed architectural concrete core that services the building. The project masterfully combines the refined with the raw, with materials ranging from the precise aluminum and glass facade to the rough concrete core and lush courtyard vegetation.
The physical and conceptual heart of the building is the interior vertical garden. Its striking green wall creates a sense of open landscape unusual in an urban infill office building, while also subverting expectations about the typical relationship between indoor and outdoor spaces.
New Pacific Realty总部位于比佛利山庄的威尔希尔大道和卡农大道交界处。建筑外观和内部平面图通过可持续的适应性重用进行了翻新，以利用长曲线的南部和西南部朝向，为一楼的零售空间和二楼的办公空间日光照明。一楼的小窗口被全高玻璃门面所取代，二楼的窗户也更大。为了控制直接的南部和西部阳光，一楼原来的薄水平遮阳篷得以保留并翻新，而二楼则使用水平铝杆的幕布来控制直接阳光，并将间接阳光反射到办公和零售内部。入口门厅是一个三层高的垂直空间，有天窗采光，并设有开放式钢木楼梯通往二楼的办公套房，以加强南部建筑立面的曲线，并协调不规则的建筑几何形状。平面图中心的天窗会议室提供了办公室径向规划的焦点和旋转点。内部的半透明玻璃板隔断反射了南立面的曲线，并将日光分配到整个工作场所。该建筑的结构高出地面7层，总高度为25米。西立面从街道前退缩，并用精心组合的百叶窗掩盖，旨在最大化遮阳和隐私。在东边，结构已经从其邻居中拉开，形成了内部庭院，并为所有室内办公空间提供自然采光。这些空隙有着慷慨的垂直花园，将建筑的引人注目的裸露的建筑混凝土核心与精致的铝和玻璃幕墙相结合。建筑的物理和概念核心是内部的垂直花园。它引人注目的绿色墙壁在城市填充式办公大楼中创造了一种非常开阔的景观感，同时也颠覆了室内和室外空间之间典型关系的期望。