T Bailey Office
The project explores the idea of using the client’s product in the construction of their headquarters.
This 12,860 sf office addition adjoins the existing heavy industrial manufacturing plant of T Bailey — best known for their fabrication of pipes used in wind turbine towers.
Visitors enter the building and climb to the main office space via a horizontal 14’ and vertical 22’ diameter pipes.
Located within the vertical pipe, a skylight and large fan ventilate the main office floor. The skylight and fan are powered by solar energy. Warm air is sucked from the office space through the stairway pipe and evacuated out of the building, significantly reducing the cooling load.
Materials are raw, and left to weather naturally.
All steel fabrication and erection takes place in the plant adjoining the project.
The roof’s slope directs runoff into a rain garden and adjoining landscape.
