The Reserve at Sierra Pines is a three-story office building with a Tilt-Up wall skin. The client wanted a product more suitable for this suburban market with competitive lease rates. Tilt-Up was approved under one provision - the building could not look like a "traditional" Tilt-Up warehouse/distribution center.
Two panel designs disguised the panel joint in a repetitive layout. A 15-foot wide and 1–foot thick 'I' shaped panel was used for a majority of the building.
A vertically formatted window stretches across two panels with the joint hitting the centerline of the head and sill with a punched opening on the lower level centered in the panel with panel 'legs' on either side. The other panel is a four-story tall panel located closer to the entrances. Here the panel joint was widened to create a more interesting shadow line. A mitered corner detail turning the panels to hover over the roof line, gives them a sense of volumetric rather than planar feel.
Layers and depth on the front facade are created entirely of Tilt-Up by adding details such as gaps, fissures, and notches. Sunshades were added by welded connections to embed plates cast directly into the concrete.
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Project Specifics
- Project Wall Area
- 32,417 sq ft
- (3,012 sq m)
- Project Floor Area
- 179,673 sq ft
- (16,692 sq m)
- Project Footprint
- 58,493 sq ft
- (5,434 sq m)
- Tallest Panel
- 55 ft 7 in
- (16.94 m)
- Widest Panel
- 32 ft 6 in
- (9.91 m)
- Largest Panel
- 790 sq ft
- (73.4 sq m)
- Heaviest Panel
- 118,500 lbs
- (53,751 kg)
Participating TCA Members
- E E Reed Construction LP
- General contractor, Tilt-Up contractor
- Powers Brown Architecture
- Architect
- Haynes Whaley Associates, Inc.
- Structural engineer
- Permit Engineering Services Inc
- Engineer
CMC Construction Services- Lifting hardware, Bracing