BUILD build-out
It has taken us 17 months to finally finish our own office here at the Park Modern, but that gave us a little time to focus our industrious nature on the task. Through our good buddy Chris, we were able to obtain some unused perforated metal material that was going to be scrapped from a local project. Keeping this in mind, we employed the same tricks we use to keep our client’s budgets reasonable on our own space- finding reusable or discounted materials and finding a way to turn them into elegant compositions (in our humble opinion).
Here’s the material breakdown:
1. Homasote display board attached to vertical slats
2. 1½” x 2” vertical cedar slats at varying lengths
3. Track lights concealed above cedar slats: Juno T12W Trac-Master w/ T359W w/ basic mini universal heads
4. 1 1/4” x 8” cedar slats @ 6”oc (composed of laminating (2) 5/8” slats).
5. 4” deep x 1 ¼” metal flashing “champagne” to match corrugated steel soffit
6. Corrugated, perforated steel panels (off-cuts provided from nearby large project).
7. 4’ long fluorescent lights, boxed out with flashing to match soffit
8. Conference table by SPD; solid laminated Anigre top with steel base
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9. Concrete slab floor with clear sealer
10. Maple plywood cabinets with exposed edges and clear sealed
11. 4’ long fluorescent light boxed out with cedar trim
12. 6062 “Boeing” aluminum alloy, steel plate wall hanging
13. Track lights: Juno T12W Trac-Master w/ T359W w/ basic mini universal heads
14. Orange acrylic panel mounted to wall
15. Corten steel sheet panel mounted to wall
16. Cork panel wall mounted
17. 3-Form Drift Green panel wall mounted
18. Solid fir plank, clear sealed and wall mounted
19. Chalk board panel wall mounted with inset Mockett pull for chalk holder
The construction process vid
The quick cost summary looks like this (in round numbers):
free perforated metal panels (salvaged and reused)
$350 210 lineal feet of matching edge metal (fabricated)
$225 improperly milled clear cedar material (mill unable to sell conventionally)
$1150 additional lumber, cedar, hardware and materials for ceiling assembly
$1200 additional track lighting, heads and lamps
$1250 conference table base; top was salvaged anigre laid-up by our shop, SPD
$75 homasote panels
free 6062 plate (salvaged from Boeing Surplus many years ago)
$35 acrylic panel, cut to size
$95 corten steel panel
$35 cork panel on multiply base
free 3-Form panel (salvaged)
$295 fir plank (bought from reclaimed supplier)
$85 chalk board panel
$300 general consumables
$5,095 project total
Now granted, the labor was our own. If you factor the labor in at our normal billing rates, the $5,095 balloons up to $14,000. This makes our office improvements a tidy $22/ square foot, everything included. An industrious budget by an industrious group in times that call for industrious solutions.
Designed by: Kevin Eckert, Andrew van Leeuwen, Duff Bangs of BUILD LLC
Constructed by: Bart Gibson of BUILD LLC
Cheers from your friends at BUILD
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By mike, February 27, 2009 @ 1:54 pm
nice build-out.
(2) # 15’s on the material palette, should the left one be the cork(16)?
also, the juno lights are meandering – intentional?
By buildllc, February 27, 2009 @ 2:26 pm
Eagle-eye Mike – indeed, good catch. Yes, the lights are meandering on purpose -we can move them around in the bays depending on the lighting conditions we need.
By Brendan, March 3, 2009 @ 10:02 pm
Guys, love the blog and the aesthetic you are after. Just one criticism: you’ve got to get away from this number coding of graphics/pics. Read Tufte’s books (which I’m sure you have), you’ve got to direct label. It makes the reading experience so much better and understandable. No one’s going to go back and forth from your huge number list to the pics, and on and on, in an effort to understand all your materials. So the best way to get your content read is to direct label. Even though there seems like too much text in your materials to direct label, it can be done.
By BUILD LLC, March 4, 2009 @ 11:07 am
Brendan – fair enough, we’ll give it a go on the next one and see how it works. Thanks for the comment.
By John, March 4, 2009 @ 5:09 pm
Two columns might be a happy medium, where a column of descriptions sits beside the keyed photos. Though I’m not sure you have the width to accomplish that. I can’t help but think of construction drawings, and my tendency for text labeling is being slowly tested by numbered coding I’ve seen that is done well. Being done well is the operative word, obviously. Maybe think of these posts as you would a drawing set and the right solution will come to the fore.
By Build LLC, March 5, 2009 @ 2:41 pm
John – I like where you’re going. The new format is snapping into place and will allow us an extra 100 pixels of width, which may allow your idea of 2 columns. We’ll give this a whirl on the next one and see how it goes.