Los Angeles, California, USA
The Thirty75 Tech project, recently completed by Verse Design and SWA Group, is situated at a bustling crossroads in Santa Clara, California, integrating seamlessly into the urban environment, carving out a new public space amidst the backdrop of Silicon Valley’s office parks and freeways.
With the intent to seek an architectural response to the market demand of a Class A office building typically defined by “glazed/transparent façades” and an architectural narrative that embodies the technical agenda to increase energy efficiency by reducing heat gain, reduction of glare from direct sunlight, and reduction of artificial lighting in the provision of even daylight for a working environment.
For its conceptual design , the project has been awarded a 2023 Good Design Award by The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
The most notable outcome is an array of fixed aluminum louvers, generated through the synthesis of multiple competing requirements such as performative, aesthetic, formal, and physical.
This approach re-couples the façade strategically with both the performative and the practical, indexing the needs of the building against its performative requirements while acknowledging its place in both the tradition of architecture and the urban environment.
The realized animated façade is activated with time and light shifting throughout the day and as the viewer moves, changing their vantage point; the memory is erased and rewritten by the hour.
The design intentions become the definition of Architecture that is both performative and expressive.
This state-of-the-art Class A office building also implemented other innovative yet straightforward, quiet yet practical solutions to target LEED Silver rating.
Several sustainable strategies were implemented and supported by the architectural, landscape, and building system designs, including the design of floor plans and depth of space to allow flexibility and efficiency of occupancy and reduction of reliance on artificial lighting.
Noise and air pollution mitigation with siting and building envelope design.
Vegetated screens around the parking structure reduce heat gain and improve air quality.
Utilization of native and drought-tolerant plants with efficient drip irrigation programming
Flexible environmental control strategy via mechanical system design that can adopt both a radiant and traditional air HVAC system.
Verse Design carried out the project from its inception to physical realization, from conceptual design to construction and contract administration, coordinating and delivering the permit, bidding, and construction package.
Project: Thirty75 Tech
Designers: Verse Design
Lead Architect: Paul Reling Tang
Landscape Architects: SWA Group
Civil Engineers: MacLeod & Associates
Senior Associate: Mariliana Ramos
Senior Associate: Yi-Hsiu Yeh
Senior Technical: Consultant Ryan McGriff
Manufacturer: MDY Properties, Inc.
Photographers: Tim Griffith Photography
