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In the fall of 2012 Cooper Carry was approached by our long standing structural engineering partner, Uzun & Case, to design their new corporate office space.Situated mid-way up the Promenade II building, in midtown Atlanta, the firm’s new home consists of 13,500 sf of the twenty-fifth floor with unobstructed southern views of the Atlanta skyline. A careful analy-sis of their existing furniture inventory and desired pro-gram requirements revealed a difficult space planning challenge, but an insightful solution was discovered which allowed their personnel goals to be metdespite the tight constraints of the building footprint and column grid. Structural steel rebar columns flank the main entrance while a powerfully, colored featurewall draws you in. Once inside, the wedge shaped form of the reception lobby, and borrowed natural daylight from the sixteen foot wide opening in the wall draw you toward the reception and conferencing area. This feature wall is revealed across the entire floor plan and provides hints and peeks of the wall from every corner of the office, serving to unify and link the studios on both sides of the floor plan. With openoffice space, low collaborative workstations, and the inclusion of clear glass sidelights in all of the corner office, the space is bathed in natural light and provides for an enhanced new work environment for the Uzun & Case staff.
UZUN & CASE
Atlanta, Georgia
Cooper CarryConnecting people to place
Focused on the innovative design of exceptional spaces and places, Cooper Carry is one of the nation’s most dynamic, context-driven design firms. Our projects are crafted to enrich the experience of the people who interact with them for a day or a lifetime.
An internationally recognized team of design professionals, with vast experience in a variety of project types, collaborate in the pursuit of excellence through the practice of connective design. Since our founding in 1960, we have steadily built a reputation for our attention to detail, thoughtful design and client service. Each project is a composition of imaginative connections amongst buildings and their components. But it doesn’t stop there as we strive to incorporate our projects’ interaction with surrounding buildings, communities and the environment . . . all of which are impacted by the other. Connecting people to place is the cornerstone of our design philosophy and it is that connectivity which anchors our architectural, planning and urban design approach. As an example, our design process treats landscape with equal in importance to buildings and we pursue excellence in landscape design just as carefully as we do the design of the building itself. The net result then is that we combine architecture and landscape design into a rich composition of functional, thoroughly connected spaces, formed to enhance and join the experience of the inhabitant, thus celebrating not only the interior, but exterior environment as well.
Almost since our founding, sustainability has served as the foundation of our connective design philosophy. The result is that our team is inspired by the interconnections amongst natural systems which support our lives—plants, animals and the physical world they inhabit. Consequently, we collaboratively pursue creative design solutions using nature as our model with the result being a more holistic project.
The connective design process simply assesses the sustainability of materials, the suitability of assembly methods, and the options for organizing buildings and landscapes into com-positions which tend to maximize the advantages of solar orientation, weather, natural light, building conditioning, and other variables which affect the building’s environmental perfor-mance. In essence, we seek ways to optimize the human experience, thereby elevating the quality of life for all who come to live, work or play within the spaces and places we design.
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