Santa Clara Square in California by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects LLP

Article source: Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects LLP

Santa Clara Square embodies a design vision unique for a commercial development, featuring an array of carefully developed components: pedestrian-friendly open space throughout; a variety of neighborhoods, ranging in character from formal to meandering; buildings that frame space, with arcades that weave the structure into the environment; lively amenity buildings that punctuate the landscape; and parking for 8,000 vehicles, sited so as not to diminish the cohesiveness of the campus.

Image Courtesy © Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects LLP

• Architects: Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects LLP
• Project: Santa Clara Square
• Location: California

Image Courtesy © Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects LLP

The result is a highly walkable, interactive, and engaging workplace, ideally suited to today’s workforce.

Santa Clara Square office campus is part of a larger development plan that also includes a shopping area and new housing. By bringing these programmatic components closely together, the plan allows residents of Santa Clara to live in a more sustainable way.

Buildings in the west campus are organized around a central dining pavilion flanked by recreational green spaces. Indigenous redwoods, carefully preserved throughout the campus, animate its southern edge and create an integrated buffer with adjacent mixed-use areas, while connecting the campus to the natural landscape of Northern California.

Image Courtesy © Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects LLP

Image Courtesy © Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects LLP

In contrast with its counterpart on the west, the east campus offers a more informal, meandering experience, with pathways that allow for relaxed, spontaneous navigation around clusters of indigenous redwoods.

An array of elegant glass-and-metal-clad buildings frame courtyards where users can enjoy community amenities and beautifully landscaped gathering places. Generous arcades create clear circulation paths and engaging transitions between exterior and interior, while the high-efficiency glazed facades serve as a dynamic backdrop for both the internal workplace and the communal courtyard spaces.

Image Courtesy © Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects LLP

Image Courtesy © Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects LLP

In each office building, tenants and visitors are welcomed by generously scaled front and rear lobbies leading to a central elevator bank, where state-of-the art destination-dispatch lift technology moves people efficiently through the building. Typical office floors are 31,200 square feet with 45- and 60-foot spans of column-free space, allowing for a flexible work environment. Open, column-free corner offices provide expansive views of the campus and beyond.

Campus amenities include three dedicated fitness and café buildings, strategically located to complement the office buildings and further enhance the space-shaping planning strategy fundamental to the organization of the west and east campuses.

Image Courtesy © Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects LLP

Image Courtesy © Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects LLP

Image Courtesy © Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects LLP

Image Courtesy © Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects LLP

Image Courtesy © Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects LLP

Image Courtesy © Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects LLP

Image Courtesy © Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects LLP

Image Courtesy © Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects LLP

Tags: California

Categories: Public Landscapes, public spaces

This entry was posted on Saturday, September 19th, 2020 at 6:45 am. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.