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Indigenous Peoples Experience at Fort Edmonton Park – ULI Americas Awards for Excellence Winner
Learn more about 2022 ULI Americas Awards for Excellence Finalist, Indigenous Peoples Experience at Ft. Edmonton Park (Edmonton, Canada).
Location: Hollywood, California, USA
Developer: Hudson Pacific Properties
Designer: Gensler
Site Size: 2.04 Acres
EPIC is a new model of creative office located in the heart of Hollywood that is streaming giant Netflix’s newest campus. Architecturally, the project seeks to reshape the urban office building archetype. Rather than focusing on vertical stature, the design team created an inter-connected terraced mass driven by a new paradigm of the indoor-outdoor creative workplace on all floors. EPIC forms part of the revitalization of Sunset Boulevard, providing an innovative workspace that ushers the creative cultural identity of Hollywood into the 21st century.
Inspired by the terraced homes that dot the hills, EPIC’s own topography reflects the formal and domestic attributes of trellises, decks, and interconnecting stairways, creating a serene and productive setting that makes the most out of the local climate. Philosophically driven from the inside and out, the architecture marries the best attributes of modern-era industrial structures with large, repetitive concrete bays that are tall and wide with a sustainability-driven, high-performance façade of concrete and glass. The rigorous, pleated concrete grid is a foil to the terraces and balcony cut-outs around the building and also serves as a framework for the building’s BIPV (building integrated photovoltaic system) curtain wall. With a LEED Gold Certification, EPIC is the first project in the city of Los Angeles to implement a building façade integrated with solar photovoltaic technology to offset electricity consumption.
The roughly 300,000-square-foot office building features elevated office floors, with each having 15-foot ceiling heights, expansive floor plates, and direct access to the terraces. The terraces are developed as planted, flexible working and amenity spaces that appeal to a creative workforce that sees the office as a landing place for work, live and play in a 24/7 environment. With over 25,000 square feet of elevated outdoor space, this first-of-its-kind project provides more usable outdoor space than any other high-rise building in Los Angeles. The mostly north-facing terraces provide commanding views of the Hollywood Hills and a shaded environment that is both climate and media-screen friendly.
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