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Originally a concrete block Kmart, the campus was reenvisioned into a world-class facility to attract new talent and fold them into an established community of Wyoming locals. With equal attention paid to the large-scale master planning and the finest material details, the existing 80,000 square-foot building was adaptively reused into a synergized and consolidated state-of-the-art fabrication facility. A scarf-like steel façade, also custom-fabricated and engineered by EMIT, weaves the structure’s additive exterior into a unified whole. Suspended from the surface of the building, this laser-perforated scrim forges a transparent-yet-tactile connection between the campus’s outward appearance, and the materials and methods used in the manufacturing within.
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United by their Wyoming heritage, the architect and EMIT collaborated to craft a campus intimately tied to the Rocky Mountain West, which can continue to serve as a hub for the Sheridan community. A suspended steel facade lifts upward to welcome employees and the general public into a generous lobby. Flex spaces allow the community to utilize the campus for their own classes and events. Employee amenities including a basketball court and gym, locker rooms, barber shop, coffee station, and library space provide activated opportunities to cross-pollinate and exchange ideas across the “no collar” workforce. Embodying the pioneering spirit and redefining notions of “campus,” the new headquarters engages more deeply with the people, place, and raw materials that make EMIT’s work possible.
Shrouded in a scrim of weathered, perforated steel, EMIT’s headquarters outside Sheridan, Wyoming pioneers a new, place-based approach to campus planning. Weaving together cutting-edge technology and a community-focused ethos, the structure is almost entirely self-produced on site and exemplifies the people and raw materials active in the process. The new campus, at nearly 120,000 square-feet, consolidates the operations of four existing metal fabrication facilities and introduces amenities accessible to over 100 employees as well as the general public. The machine floor is accessible from the office headquarters through a shared lobby which reflects this spatial dichotomy in its interior finishes by playing raw, industrial materials against refined and robust surfaces. Many of the furnishings and details were specially fabricated by EMIT, including workstations, chairs, and ceiling panels and screens made from birch plywood and powder coated black steel. Designed to encourage moments of interaction, the building acts like a circulatory system drawing different user groups – newly arrived office employees, long-tenured factory staff, and the general public – to filter and intermingle non-hierarchically through shared spaces and entries.
“The building’s perforated weathered-steel scrim tells a story about what goes on in the building—it’s a high level of craft, displayed very proudly on the outside of the building.” –Eric Logan “[The campus is] a safe place of inspiration to the people that work inside, and has the fabric of our manufacturing facility woven into it.” –Casey Osborn, EMIT CEO
CLB is a cross-disciplinary design firm which pushes the growing edge of contemporary practice. Since their founding in Jackson, Wyoming in 1992, CLB has taken their frontier origins as a guiding ethos, mobilizing a uniquely holistic and place-inspired approach to projects spanning North America. Driven by an innate responsibility to people and place, and a desire to respond authentically to the conditions in which they practice their craft, CLB’s adept team of architecture and interior design professionals work to create environments that can elevate, enrich, and inspire. CLB’s highly-collaborative team includes 60 design professionals, working between studios in Bozeman, Montana and Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA.
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