PROJECT OVERVIEW
2500 League Island Boulevard is a state-of-the-art flex production building centrally located in the heart of the Philadelphia Navy Yard, at the burgeoning district ’s office and industrial sectors. This new structure will provide a highly flexible work and production environment to cater to the expanding technology and cell therapy industry. The project is poised to expand on the resurgence of The Navy Yard as a significant place of industry and innovation.
Planning for the possibility of a variety of uses, the building utilizes a 30’ clear interior defined by a column grid that provides the ability to support office, manufacturing, and warehousing functions. Potential areas of loading are incorporated into the façade via knock out panels in the precast panels on multiple locations and the structure has the ability to support a future mezzanine. The large open floor and two building entries provide for use by a single or multiple tenants and a variety of uses.
The redevelopment of the Philadelphia Navy Yard marks its transition from the burly yet precise industry of military shipbuilding, to the exacting new cGMP industry of gene therapy pharmaceuticals.
The new cGMP structure adopts the “dna” of the Navy Yard’s powerfully built ships and buildings - and its equally technical and precise nature - to create a structure that fits its context, as i t speaks confidently to the future of its new economy & technologies.
PRECAST PANELIZATION
Working in close coordination with the fabricator, the precast panels were designed to optimize reuse and simple form adaptability to create a variety of panel subtypes stemming from eight panel families. The process of reusing the form layout panel to panel and allowing for simple modifications presented advantages in production time and limited material waste.
Each panel has a composition of texture and tones, opacity, and transparency. Together the components create a play with light and shadow and present a playful sense of randomness through a highly orchestrated and efficient use of the panel types. |