PRI - LED manufacturing | Domaen

An existing 9000sf industrial warehouse in the outskirts of Corona, CA is converted into a high-tech manufacturing facility and office for the fim Adura LED. The program includes offices, testing labs, showroom/meeting rooms, a manufacturing hall and a distribution warehouse. As part of a series of proposals that engage volumetric mass and datum in various forms, this project contemplates the ceiling as a rigid mass that compliments a pragmatic floorplan. The plan-section contrast allows maximum flexibility in programming and defines a volumetric narrative that is non-intrusive to the spatial needs of the client. The dual program of an office space and a manufacturing hall is visually linked through a continuous articulated ceiling. This ceiling mass changes its vertical datum strategically to create zones of different occupation throughout the project, to articulate daylight light wells, and to serve as a vertical enclosure of the centralized showroom meeting area. This allows for the central positioned space to serve as a hub for the entire building and remain visually open. Materially minimal, the rigid mass overhead engages the program playfully, in large scale in the manufacturing area and in detail by forming a volumetric entrance desk and a presentation wall in the conference room. The business identity is visually articulated through colored glazing and linear graphics that serve either as wayfinding or at times assume textural qualities.