PADDOCK / CAR DISPLAY

Typology
Architecture
Program
Commercial
Year
2016
Status
On-Going
Size
11715 SQ.FT
Client
PETES

By not starting with architecture! Unlike the regular car showrooms with air conditioning, artificial lighting, and huge facades in the past years, few of the buildings have been designed mostly the same way. The process starts with us designing a building form that relates to its context and accommodates the client’s program, then progresses through increasingly detailed design phases. In thinking about climate-responsive buildings, we began to question how we could expect different results if we kept doing things the same way. The answer for us was to rethink the traditional design process by not starting with architecture. To move this concept forward, we began approaching our work from a genuinely sustainable perspective, striving to create buildings that respond directly to their unique place.

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