Chesapeake Parking Garage
The focus is functionality, safety, compatibility with the existing Chesapeake Energy campus architecture, and reinvention of the typical parking garage image while making it fun for the daily users of this garage. One of the main goals is to make it easier for people to remember where they parked. This is why each level has a different color assigned to it. The assigned color covers a large amount of exposed area within each level of the parking garage. This color creates a fun and unique atmosphere within the garage itself. Security in the garage is achieved by the use of plenty of light to illuminate the structure in order to easily navigate the space. Users can access the garage with a card key at the entry and have security stations throughout.
Program Requirements:
Design and construct an 791 car parking garage to support the campus population.
Architectural Concept:
1. To “store” 791 cars with 4 levels.
2. The exterior skin is 20% open by code in
order for air movement to cycle CO2 out.
3. The goal is to make the building unrecognizable as a
parking garage. At first glance it appears as an office
building.
4. Devise a way so that the cars are not visible from the
outside during daytime or nighttime.
5. The goal is for the parking garage add value to the
campus architecture. It is more than a big static,
stoic, stationary object.
6. The exterior responds to the constantly changing
light and color of the Oklahoma sky.
7. Help to reduce the massive scale . . .
8. The structure is “connected” to campus and not duplicate.
9. The forms directly respond to the adjacent Building 5
and Building 6 and the space between the buildings.
10.Use the center open atrium to bring light into the space,
reinforce the orientation within and provide enhanced
air circulation.
11. Think “Brick Shadow” and soft / sky reflections.
12. In the end the idea is to make the architectural mass
“dissolve” into the sky.
