Work | True HQ
This 18,000 SF headquarters for a beverage lifestyle accessories designer and distributor located in an existing concrete warehoue in central Seattle. While providing high ceilings and an uninterrupted open plan, the warehouse was a cold concrete shell partially submerged in the terrain that provided no views or natural light. The goal of this project required the transformation of industrial concrete space in central Seattle in to a thriving, people-centered workplace,
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LOC set out to achieve these goals via the introduction light, via large skylights, views, via large glass doors, and warmth, through the expression of all of the new elements in wood.
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The space is entered at the foot of a bridge spanning two mezzanines and overlooking the main work floor.
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The bridge leads to a bank of glass enclosed meeting rooms…
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The meeting rooms in use.
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… which overlook the level below and look out to the street through large glass roll-up doors,
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Looking back across the space to the transparent monumental stair leading to the lower level.
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The diagrams show the sequence of repurposing the existing warehouse into a light-filled open office.
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Looking up at the hovering meeting rooms from below.
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A series of privacy booths tucked underneath the mezzanine.
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Floor Plans
Looking towards the front towards a brightly lit meeting room.
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The break area on the upper mezzanine.
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A series of workstations opening to the street to allow cool exterior breezes to enter the project.
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PROJECT: True Brands Headquarters
LOCATION: Seattle, WA
CLIENT: True Brands, Inc.
YEAR: 2018
SIZE: 18,000 sf
COLLABORATORS:Structural: Swenson Say Faget
Construction: Northway Construction
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TEAM: Ali Jeevanjee, Naif Altouri
PHOTOGRAPHY: Steve Hanson
PUBLICATIONS:
2018 Archinect - LOC Architects Talks About Their Recent Warehouse Conversion and Growing a Practice
AWARDS:
2019 Design Award - AIA|LA
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AS FEATURED IN:ArchDaily
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