A total of 23,000 square feet of 4mm ALUCOBOND® naturAL ACM in the Brushed finish was installed as building cladding. Royalton Architectural Fabrication, Inc., of North Royalton, Ohio, fabricated 2,800 Alucobond panels – 95 percent of which were non-repetitively sized. The Alucobond panels were installed by Celina Glass Co., Inc., of Celina, Ohio, with the Royalton 3000 Series dry-joint rainscreen pressure-equalized system.
Moody Nolan worked closely with executives at The Connor Group to create this innovative design as well as incorporated ideas from students at the Charter High School for Architecture and Design in Philadelphia – several of whom participated in design charrettes.
“The basic design parameter for this building was to provide every office with access to natural light,” according to Pickett, who said virtually all employees at The Connor Group work in private offices.
Lighting is abundant in the building’s two-story 3,495 square-foot atrium. The building features a total of 5,741 square feet of windows as well as a 2,740 square-foot skylight and includes the installation of approximately 5,000 square feet of electrochromic glass, which switches from clear to several tint levels.
Pickett said development of the building’s unique design started with a fairly simple diagram of offices arranged around a central atrium. The diagram was then altered dramatically.
“We looked at different ways to manipulate this shape diagonally to create very unique spaces,” said Pickett. “We pulled it apart, twisted it and split it.”
