Horiba Instruments
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Project Description:
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Size: 38,700 SF
Office
Challenge:
Solution:
ADG and the Damian Farrell Design Group teamed to design a new office building for Horiba, a Japanese supplier of computer software and hardware to the auto industry. A combination of private offices and flexible arrangements of systems furniture fitted the owner’s needs for ever-changing project teams. |
Scio Twonship Hall
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Project Description:
Location: Scio Township, Michigan
Size: 13,500 SF
City Hall
Challenge:
As a renovation project, our canvas was a faceless 1950’s building with a flat roof and a horizontal fascia. Our challenge was to renovate and add to the existing building, and to create a more civic presence for the facility.
Solution:
The Scio Township Hall project exemplifies the charrette process of design which we champion. We met with the entire staff of Scio township, one group at a time, to document each group’s space requirements as well as their likes and dislikes. After follow up questionnaires were gathered and compiled, we translated all the information into a set of design criteria. This information then became the basis for the building design. The programmatic challenge was to find common ground between common ground between various departments, their needs and agendas, and wrap the old in the new. |
Benefit Options
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Project Description:
Location: Scio Township, Michigan
Size: 8,500 SF
Office
Challenge:
The owner’s desire was to have a building that reflected a sense of stability and tradition which is apparent in the use of brick and traditional punched window openings and hipped, roof forms.
Solution:
The building responds to the desire for an owner occupied space with an attached speculative office space. This was established by creating a common, prominent architectural feature out of a shared, common, lobby area. This lobby provides wide open views of the lake beyond and the required separation between the two suites.
The architecture of the entry way breaks away from some of the traditional elements of the building with a more curved roof that spans a light-filled two storey space; marking the entry to the building in the clearest way possible.
Links:
http://www.twp.scio.mi.us/ |
Great Plains Burger Company
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Project Description:
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Restaurant
Challenge:
A new restaurant in an awkward shaped space. The restaurant has frontage on Plymouth Road, but its main entry is from the parking area behind the building, resulting in a long hallway entry to the actual door of the restaurant.
This is the first of a planned chain of Great Plains Burger Company restaurants. The concept is clean and simple….great burgers, fries cut and prepared right in front of you and great milk shakes!
The design goal was differentiation! We tackled this by identifying a couple of elements that would make visual and imaginary connections to the Great Plains part of the country, without creating a cartoon solution.
Solution:
The primary design elements that we focused on to create the differentiation and match the branding objectives were:
Colors: The sand color of mature wheat, the deep red of the sunsets and the clear blue of the skies. The sunset band of color separates the “wheat” from the “skies’, and has variations in its shape that hint at hills in the distance. This motif is repeated on all the walls of the restaurant.
Metal: The corrugated metal of the silos, water tanks and grain storage building that characterize the landscape are remembered in a couple of subtle ways.
The first is the drum shaped “tank” over the bar which also carries a “nest” of light tracks. This forms a major accent in the space and is planned to be a signature design element of the chain. The other use of the metal is in the simple cladding of the cleaning and server room spaces that bookends the one end of the bar.
Light Fixtures: The main light fixtures are the other major feature of the design branding, intended to be carried through as new restaurants develop. They are “rail road ties” with barn-like fixtures hanging from them. The ties march across the space at an angle to the shape of the space, arranged in a parallel, but random spacing pattern. They are intended to create movement in the space and create a different solution from typical static, grid-like lighting layouts.
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