McKinstry approached NBBJ to design 26,000 SF of office space located above a parking structure that would house a green technology incubator. We presented them with a design for a flexible and collaborative space, which included "operable office boxes" using residential glass garage doors as flexible translucent walls that doubled as whiteboards, and could open out to the shared amenity spaces along the main axis of the space. At the rear of the boxes, matching garage doors opened up to the perimeter to expand the office spaces as the businesses grow.
The design made a cultural reference to the idea of startups and garages, and provided collaborative common spaces where there could be cross-pollenation of ideas between the cutting edge green technology startups working there.
Work was done while working at NBBJ.
Team: Brent Rogers, Ann Cuningham (principals); Amy Williams (project manager), Samuel Sze (project architect / designer), Kathleen Monda (finishes and furniture), Jan Ralkowski (senior technical)
Photography by Seah Airhart
