Portfolio: Elevations

The treatment of the rear elevation is an attempt to maintain the buffer concept between the site and the turnpike while meeting the necessary functional requirements. As strips of transom windows provide some indirect northern light to the interior of the core building, the Ivy screen serves as a filter cleansing the air, and the light, and the noise prior to its entrance into the building. It also serves to inform those commuters as to some of the things this building stands for, namely its green principles. The evolution from the large screen on the west end to the narrower screens closer to the main vertical stair and elevator tower provides for a more gradual transition from complete opacity to the transparency of the beacon at the intersection.