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M1DTW Architects

M1DTW Architects

Detroit, MI

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Exterior Facade
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One Care Offices

ONE CARE OFFICES is the transformation of an existing, mid-century industrial building into new office and production space for a rapidly growing healthcare company. The existing structure consists of a 16,000 sf high-bay warehouse with a 2,000 sf front office attached to the street facing façade. 

The openness and flexibility of the warehouse space is enabled by a networked ceiling plane that provides lighting, power, and data to the reconfigurable space below. Additionally, a sound deadening, spray-applied insulation was specified for the underside of the metal deck to approve the acoustic performance for the new use. This space is balanced by a series of new fixed elements that are characterized by inflected surfaces and volumes, assembled using standard metal stud and gypsum board construction. These volumes — seemingly carved out of solid block — provide employee and operational support spaces, as well as define a new employee entrance. Apertures within the volumes create lines of sight and visual connection in order to diminish the lengthy corridors.

The front office space provides a pair of large offices and a series of individual private offices made possible by the relocation of the existing central entryway to end of the glass facade. Within the office a glass enclosed conference room at the center of the space is visually separated by a band of privacy film that obscures oblique views in or out of the room, while simultaneously allowing viewings to see in when looking perpendicular to the glass.

 
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Status: Built
Location: Troy, MI, US
Firm Role: Project Designer

 
Conference Room
Conference Room
View obscuring film
View obscuring film
Interior of Conference Room
Interior of Conference Room
Staff Entryway
Staff Entryway
Front Offices
Front Offices
Floor Plan
Floor Plan