In Universal City-and Heimat-Corporate campus by Universal Pictures, the non-production and the theme park HAT The Glever architecture designed two new buildings: the Commons and One Universal. The former, an amazing area for employees, causes early movement technology to result in its circular structure and the lens -shaped shadow screen with thin aluminum pipes. His companion One Universal is a conventional glass office building that navigates the rough hill of the campus by a number of staggered volumes. Together, these additions are part of the larger campus project that strive to modernize the company institutions of Universal Studios and at the same time improve the walk -in, beauty and landscape design of the campus.
In close cooperation with the landscape architect of the project, Field Operations, Hebel separated the two additions with a green lawn. This space creates urgently needed breathing space on campus and functions that are similar to the college quad, and offers a place for relaxation and leisure. Operations also also worked to improve the access of the pedestrian along the Gregory Peck Drive, a once mere inner-campus cross-country road that was now lined with trees and landscape design.
Ultimately, the campus project from years of random development should be useful. Universal Studios was opened by Carl Laemmle in 1915 and was built on a Ranch real estate and today remains a community in Los Angeles County. His character is very much that of a “city city”.
“We were interested in bringing the” city “back to Universal City,” said Thomas Robinson, the founding manager of Lever A. “Over the years, the core of the studio has been renovated to concentrate on cars, similar to a lot of renovation that they saw in other cities in the 1960s and 1970s. Instead of having a mega building, we separated the commissioner and theater programs [from the office]Creation of a central building called Commons, which has its own form and identity. “
The new space of Universal New Employees is a homage to the long history of the studio of filmmaking by its circular shape, which was inspired by a zoetropic, an early movement technology in which the painted interior of a spin -cylinder is created by a series of images by a number of gradually producing images, a technique that “flip -book animation” is similar. Flipbook animation. The building contains a food hall on the first floor, the theater and demonstration rooms in the second and an event room on the roof.
On all sides, open to sunlight and the commons is shaded by a screen of vertically oriented aluminum tube, which wrap the scope of the structure. The individual tubes are white and, according to Robinson, were influenced by the extruded masts of sailing boats. In order to promote the building of the building, Lever worked on creating the illusion of the movement over the surface of the screen. A crescent -shaped cut was applied to each of the extrusions, and a reflective inner lining was used, which creates a lentil -like effect in which the appearance of color, depth and movement is shaped by lighting conditions and the perspective of the viewer in relation to the facade.
On the other hand, one universal offers the office space of the new class A on campus and a 500,000 square meter parking garage. The lever used this opportunity to hide the garage inside the slope to hide the office space into two offset glass volumes. The tiered design of the building is reminiscent of the design of Los Angeles's luxury residences and offers a view of the nearby San Gabriel Mountains. An outdoor deck was also installed at the intersection of the split volumes on the seventh floor. In order to improve the building's CO2 footprint, the western increases of the office are shaded with horizontally oriented blinds, while the structure itself was constructed using a low of carbon concrete.
Despite its large scale, the campus project is only a single goal in the Universal evolution plan, which focuses on capital improvements in Universal City, which has been underway since 2013. Over the next few years, the company is planning to promote 14 new sound stages, additional attractions and haunting “countries” within the Universal Studios themed park, a childcare stages, and the Sheriff Substation.
The interventions carried out by Lever and Field Operations offer exhaustion from the 20th century shopping center and the Urbanism of the Universal City from the 20th century and offer new amenities and outdoor areas that are decisive for employees in the 21st century.