IEZ A+D - H3K Office

h3k Office

Los Angeles, CA | 2023

In this project, we used steel and mass timber hybrid systems, along with GFRC, and castellated beams for longer spans. The facade aggregation became about the experience between the user and the space, and moments where the facade would reflect light into the space. Stell, mass timber, and panelized facades constitute a strategy to be fabricated off-site.

Ground floor becomes about user and public access where people are able to walk through the building to experience the connection of the metro-office-park space. This is crucial in the project becomes L.A becomes about a city where people are able to walk off the metro and engage with Pershing Square. Our tenants include having a food court and stand center where the on the weekends it turns into a food drive where people are able to come and enjoy a meal across the park. There’s opportunity for other tenants on the first floor across the main food court, where there is temporary bookstore.

Office space consist of desking, meeting/conference, and socializing/longues. Water and ecosystem work together to provide daylight to native plants and working spaces in the building. This methodology permits the project to better understand and define a building’s function in its broader ecosystem.

Hemi-cube: abstract geometry, that contains half the faces of a cube. The project becomes about the orientation to Pershing Square the surfaces missing as a volume. Dominant surfaces become about office, amenity, and retail spaces. Later studied the relationship between the user and facade configurations including size, direction, and scale. The mockup became an effective module where I used the facade to create opportunities for sunlight and programming spaces. In this final configuration the curtain wall and facade come together as a full system and enhances users experience to the end of the floor plates. This module involved the input of consultants with expertise couched in enclosure design.