A private development exclusive for GE Plastic's worldwide data operations, this project is a high security facility hidden deep in the extensive Western Massachusetts woods.
The complex consists of an administrative buidling and a data center, complete with fully independent power backup and high capacity satelitte communication abilities.
The buildings are skillfully set into the topography, and are connected with a light filled lobby adorned with articulated stonework.
Even as a fast track commercial development using standard insulated metal panels, the design expands the material's formal language possiblities with articulations around window openings, on the corners, and on the contact edges with the ground and with the sky.