STATUS
COMPLETED
CLIENT
Liberty Property Trust
TYPOLOGY
Work
SIZE M2/FT2
9,244 / 99,501
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1200 Intrepid is a LEED Gold certified office building in Philadelphia’s Navy Yard neighborhood, shaped by the encounter between Robert Stern’s masterplan of rectangular city blocks and James Corner’s iconic, circular Central Green Park.
The building’s double curved, precast concrete façade bows inwards to create a generous urban canopy that responds to the ‘shock wave’ of the park’s circular running track, activity pods and planting vignettes – rippling outwards like rings in water to invade the building’s footprint. Visitors and employees can admire the mothballed ships sitting in the adjacent docks while embracing the Central Green Park.
Site
— The site is bounded by Central Green Park and Navy Yard basin.
Context
— The form responds to the adjacent Central Green, flexing inwards along its curvature to strengthen the connection between building and park.
Navy Yard Basin Views
— Referencing the Navy Yard's maritime history, a periscope penetrates the core of the building. The periscope brings natural light to each floor while projecting images from the Navy Yard basin into the center of the lobby.
“The ‘shock wave’ of the public space spreads like rings in the water, invading the footprint of the building to create a generous urban canopy at the entrance. The resultant double-curved façade echoes the complex yet rational geometries of maritime architecture. Inside, the elevator lobby forms an actual periscope, allowing people to admire the mothballed ships at the adjacent docks.”
1200 Intrepid’s front façade is created by the strategic stacking of High Concrete’s precast panels of varying sizes, figured in a basket-weave pattern to realize the top of the building’s straight edge. As the panels reach upward they also tilt outward, creating an inviting, cave-like canopy over the building’s front sidewalk. Each of the building’s other three sides stand straight up, maintaining the structure’s signature paneling.
Referencing the Navy Yard’s maritime history while providing much needed natural light, a functioning periscope penetrates the core of the building, projecting views of the Navy Yard basin into the center of the elevator lobby.
Aran Coakley Beat Schenk Bjarke Ingels Douglass Alligood Kai-Uwe Bergmann Michelle Stromsta Sören Grünert Thomas Christoffersen Annette Miller Armen Menendian Brandon Cook David Brown Deb Campbell Janice Rim Natalie Kwee Ming Yie Peter Lee Taylor Hewett Terrence Lallak Thea Gasseholm Thomas Fagan
AWARDS
PCI Harry H. Edwards Industry Advancement Award, 2016
PCI Best Office Building Award, 2016
Philadelphia Business Journal Best Real Estate Deal, 2016
COLLABORATORS
Environetics
In-Posse
LRSLA Studio
Pennoni
Re:Vision
