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Corporate Offices (Over 10,000 sqm)

Skylab design The Serena Williams Building, the largest structure at Nike World Headquarters

Located in Beaverton, Oregon, the workplace for 2,750 occupants covers more than 1 million sq ft

by Nav Pal 22 August 2022

Skylab led all aspects of the design for the complex building and program, including its core and shell, interior design and furniture selection, and branding integration. Beyond its scale, the project presented three principle challenges: how to create a new prototype for a design-focused workspace; how to leverage regenerative principles to design for both the site and the building occupants through a partnership with nature; and how to capture the ethos of sport, Nike’s heritage, and the spirit of Serena Williams.

The building consists of an underground parking garage and loading dock, a merchandising centre for prototype retail spaces, integrated design studios for multiple product categories, and a 12 storey tower with shared amenities for the whole campus. Integral to the design is the concept of flow, a fluid state design strategy that is both efficient and enlightened. Flow facilitates unexpected connections and possibilities, both among designers and between parts of the business. Skylab created a variety of scales of gathering spaces to foster identity and connectivity, both indoors and outdoors. The building is organised around a principle that all designers for each brand within the business occupy a single level, while the services stack vertically between levels. In a first for Nike, products can move from sketch to prototype to final design to retail fixture all under one roof.

The building site formerly contained a parking lot and an access road to an adjacent building, all next to a wetland that the campus had turned away from. The design team’s regenerative approach involves working with nature as an active partner towards both respectful site design and intelligent construction with responsible systems and materials. To better connect to the natural landscape, they buried the existing access road along with all parking and loading to minimise the visual presence of cars and trucks. In terms of massing, each of the building’s distinct bars, or wings, cascade to the south and feature inhabitable, interlacing green roof terraces that overlook the wetland. A 260 kW photovoltaic array screens rooftop mechanical units from view. Stormwater is collected and returned to the wetland.

The negative spaces created by the branching bars are treated with the same sensitivity as the interior spaces. Courtyards, gardens, plazas and a sunken tennis court break down the scale of the building and provide informal outdoor spaces for work, recreation and relaxation. Natural light floods the workspaces along each bar from glazing on two sides and skylights above communicating stairs. Exposed concrete on the interior provides a raw, open palette in the design studios and expresses the building’s structure in key moments. Energy efficient mechanical systems include displacement ventilation and radiant sails.

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