Project
Centers
of Energy
Amazon in the Regrade
Seattle, WA, USA
Everything Outdoors
Flexible work areas and roll-up doors offer seamless indoor-outdoor connections with access to fresh air and natural light.
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The workplace prioritizes a connection to nature, team collaboration and staff fitness through amenities that enable employees to leave healthier than when they arrived.
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The campus creates an inviting and welcoming atmosphere for staff and visitors alike, with expansive windows, daylight and views — while industrial-like materials draw connections to the Spring District’s roots as a destination for light industry.
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The project supports flexibility and customization indoors and outdoors via an “80/20” concept, in which the building is designed with all critical infrastructure in place, but leaves room for employees to further customize spaces to their liking.
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A focus on community connection and exercise are integrated throughout the campus in the form of public walkways, a marketplace and close proximity to light rail station and parks.
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The workplace offers employees opportunities to choose how and where they work, while maximizing their exposure to the restorative benefits of nature.
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The Wellness Workplace blurs boundaries between indoors and out, connecting employees to nature, each other and the community.
Located in Bellevue, the Wellness Workplace anchors the Spring District — a former industrial zone, now reclaimed as an active mixed-use neighborhood — with a five-story office building featuring retail and a café, two smaller buildings containing a public market, a fitness and conference center, and extensive landscaping.
The design principle, “everything outdoors,” shapes the workplace to enable work to move seamlessly from indoors to outdoors and back again. This includes multiple stairwells, both inside and outside to encourage movement for exercise and greater collaboration. The main building encircles two outdoor courtyards, one open to public view and the other for employee use, while setbacks create a series of roof gardens that flow into the open workplaces on upper floors. All three buildings define active street edges, plazas and gardens that bring life to the district. The design also includes a pedestrian path through the campus, which will simplify access to a future light rail station.
The façade was designed for solar shading, views and access to the outdoors, with up to 50 percent glazing facing north and east, and areas of greater opacity facing south and west. The resulting building exemplifies a commitment to stewardship — of resources, of community, and of the planet.
