Hayes Group awarded Palo Alto sustainable mixed-use venture

The Metropolis of Palo Alto in California has chosen a design by Hayes Group Architects for a sustainable mixed-use improvement out of a collection of over 100 tasks for its design awards for 611 Cowper Avenue. The venture design acquired an Award for Architectural Excellence for the regionally centered plan commissioned by actual property improvement and funding firm R&M Properties.

“Palo Alto’s entitlement course of is rigorous; the design neighborhood is held to the best requirements,” mentioned Hayes Group Architects founder, Ken Hayes, AIA. “Being acknowledged by the ARB, understanding what number of tasks they evaluation in a five-year interval, makes the award that rather more particular.”

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At 611 Cowper Avenue, the constructing is 35,000 sq. toes and has 4 tales. Moreover, it features a two-story, below-grade storage with automotive stackers and three flooring of economic area with a full-floor residence above. The constructing was designed and accomplished in 2016 to CalGreen Tier 2 and LEED Silver requirements. Hayes says the constructing is positioned mid-block subsequent to a 12-story residential complicated and down the road from a red-tiled roof Spanish colonial constructing. Furthermore, the constructing’s design was created in response to this context in type, coloration and supplies. Consequently, 611 Cowper Avenue used glass, concrete, steel and terra cotta.

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In the meantime, R&M co-founder Stephen Reller says that the design award could be very rewarding, as he’s a neighborhood and is happy with the way it turned out after being so thoughtfully designed.

Hayes has designed and constructed greater than 200 industrial tasks in Palo Alto and close by Menlo Park. He additionally says that in these cities, downtowns are for residing, working and taking part in. Moreover, post-pandemic cities might be taking a look at extra mixed-use buildings that permit for brief commutes and vibrant no-commute downtown residing.

With a mixture of colours, supplies and facades that body completely different components of the constructing from the skin and body views of the encircling metropolis from the porch and indoors, 611 Cowper Avenue does come throughout as a constructing that was thoughtfully designed. Lined balconies and enormous glass home windows, coupled with slatted exterior shades on taller home windows create quite a lot of makes use of for inside areas that allow in pure gentle whereas shading from the daytime warmth and permit occupants to place the area to make use of in numerous methods.

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Pictures by way of Patrick Argast