Moe’s Concrete

The project is situated in the middle of an industrial zone and is in close proximity to an international airport, interstate highways, and rail transportation systems. The urban landscape is filled with large warehouses, parking lots and security walls and fences.

The objective of the design was to create a complex of two offices, a warehouse, and areas for storage and fabrication of materials for a thriving concrete contractor operation. It is imperative that the design performs well, creates habitable and healthy spaces, and demonstrates the highquality craft of the client’s work.

The design begins by following suit with its context, implementing a secured perimeter. Buildings are then organized around an inner courtyard, leaving a communal area of nature, recreation, and a prospective desert-riparian environment sustained by a rain and gray water harvesting system. By organizing the building around a central courtyard, a ground/figure immerges that begins to resemble ancestral built forms such as those of a walled garden. These forms are a place to celebrate the flora, fauna, shade, light, and the sky of a place, or is used as a sacred space for ceremonies. It was crucial for the design to establish a more vibrant natural environment amongst its stale and inhospitable context. The ancestral precedence served as an effective mechanism to address and overcome these impediments. As a result, the space provides employees with the benefit of working amidst nature, offering a refreshing and accessible experience in an otherwise unsuspecting setting.