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The
Capital Holding Management Center, at the time of its creation,
was the largest, the most complex and technologically advanced
of any work that we had completed in our first 10 years of MG
Taylor projects. It was the closest to THERE we were capable
of at the time within an under $100 a square foot budget (turn
key, equipped and furnished) and a four month design-build window.
The
drawings shown here are the second iteration of the design. They
are detailed preliminary drawings that I completed. I used these
to provide proof of concept of the project for the
owner/user and to recruit my design-build
team. The pictures are the result of that teams work
lead by Donnie Weber, architect, of Weber and Weber - a design-build
firm. Langdon Morris and Bill Blackburn headed the AI team and
Tom Weber directed the construction.
There
are differences, of course, between the the drawings and the final
built work. The final work meets the intent of the design. We
had a little more than $900,000 to build and equip the 11,000
square foot space. The owner/user (Capital Holding) approved the
design and then gave us license to make any modifications and
design adjustments necessary as we built. The budget was the non-variable.
The goal was to get as much of the design as possible within that
budget and the four months of time we had to deliver the work
from access to the site to first use.
This
project is the first in which we were able to introduce the Armature
design strategy both as an architectural and technical systems
principle.
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