Chesapeake Building One in Oklahoma City, OK by Elliott + Associates Architects

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Campus Context:

• As the Chesapeake Campus has developed, we created the concept of jewels. These are unique works of architecture that complement the red brick buildings and add energy to the campus plan.
• All the buildings find inspiration from beautiful scale and proportion.
• They fit together and the spaces between buildings are as important as the structures themselves.
• The bay windows that act as lanterns of energy.

Image Courtesy © Scott McDonald, Hedrich Blessing

• Architects: Elliott + Associates Architects
• Project: Chesapeake Building One
• Location: Oklahoma City, OK, U.S.A
• Photography: Scott McDonald, Hedrich Blessing
• Client: Chesapeake Energy Corporation
• Completed: Jan 2014
• Scope: 59,000 SF
• Cost: Withheld at Client Request

Image Courtesy © Scott McDonald, Hedrich Blessing

Architectural Concept for Chesapeake Building One: 

• A 21st century solution…
• Beautiful scale and proportion.
• The lantern is a rooftop edge.
• The open perimeter atrium also allows light into the lower level.
• The question is “How can you make natural gas visible?”
• My goal is to create a sense that you are surrounded by CH4 in an almost vaporous condition…
• Imagine living with the molecule…
• MCF (million cubic feet) as in a measure of natural gas volume.
• The building form emerges from the earth below the surface. This detail represents the idea of exploration.
• The exposed stone wall in atrium reinforces the connection to geology.

Image Courtesy © Scott McDonald, Hedrich Blessing

Image Courtesy © Scott McDonald, Hedrich Blessing

Image Courtesy © Scott McDonald, Hedrich Blessing

Image Courtesy © Scott McDonald, Hedrich Blessing

Image Courtesy © Scott McDonald, Hedrich Blessing

Image Courtesy © Scott McDonald, Hedrich Blessing

Image Courtesy © Scott McDonald, Hedrich Blessing

Image Courtesy © Scott McDonald, Hedrich Blessing

Image Courtesy © Scott McDonald, Hedrich Blessing

Image Courtesy © Scott McDonald, Hedrich Blessing

Image Courtesy © Scott McDonald, Hedrich Blessing

Image Courtesy © Scott McDonald, Hedrich Blessing

Image Courtesy © Scott McDonald, Hedrich Blessing

Image Courtesy © Scott McDonald, Hedrich Blessing

Image Courtesy © Scott McDonald, Hedrich Blessing

Image Courtesy © Scott McDonald, Hedrich Blessing

Image Courtesy © Elliott + Associates Architects

Image Courtesy © Elliott + Associates Architects

Image Courtesy © Elliott + Associates Architects

Image Courtesy © Elliott + Associates Architects

Tags: OK, Oklahoma City, U.S.A.

Categories: Building, Campus

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