PROJECT  Blue Ocean Headquarters

LOCATION  baltimore, Maryland, 

PROJECT COMPLETION DATE  6/30/2013

ARCHITECT  Kroiz Architecture LLC

ASSOCIATED ARCHITECT  PI.KL

OWNER/CLIENT  Blue Ocean Realty

CONTRACTOR  Blue Ocean Realty

PHOTOGRAPHER  Alain Jaramillo

DESIGN TEAM  Gabriel Kroiz

SUMMARY DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT:

The project involves a range of exterior and interior improvements to a 1960’s former bank located in an area where original businesses departed long ago and subsequent building and streetscape improvements have ranged from fresh signage, to the commercial vernacular of EIFS and carpet. Adhering to $40/sf budget, the project set its sights on the region’s best commercial developments as both the standard of amenity, and its future competition. The project’s identity and the financial strategy involve reasserting the building’s existing Modernism through a combination of low-cost preservation and strategic innovation intended to signal the reoccupation of the building and enhance performance on all fronts. Existing Exterior. The ‘skin treatment’ is presented as a sensitive approach to one of Modern Architecture’s common ailments not only with regards to improved comfort and performance, but also sensitive to what it doesn’t require including the need to dispose of an existing system or purchase a new one. Internal Operations aimed to restore primary spatial qualities of the building through the removal of excess partition and ceiling, and the considered arrangement of the company’s operational organs within the curtain wall and below a new pendant lit ceiling.

IMAGE CAPTIONS & CREDITS

IMAGE 1  Blue Ocean-ext panels.jpg, Exterior Rain Screen on Existing Curtain Wall, Alain Jaramillo

IMAGE 2  Blu Ocean-high res ext.jpg, Building Facade, Mark Moyer

IMAGE 3  Blue ocean-High res int.jpg, Interior Leasing Showroom, Alain Jaramilo

IMAGE 4  Blue Ocean 02.jpg, Interior Leasing gallery, Alain Jaramillo

IMAGE 5  Blue ocean -03.jpg, Internal Organization, PI:KL

IMAGE 6  Blue ocean-01.jpg, Rain Screen details, PI:KL

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