30 Commerce Street

1988 Williston, VT
19,200 SF, commercial incubator building. $700K
Principal: Michael Wisniewski

Design a speculative, preengineered metal building configured for office and industrial use. The developer would use a portion of the structure for his own HVAC and development business and so wanted some features to indicate the structure was a cut above the standard steel, developer box.

The site plan puts screened parking to the side rather than in front of the building. Instead of tacking on stereotypical masonry for curb appeal we actually pulled it off the structure to create a brick pergola topped with metallic flake, electric blue steel trellis to humanize the scale and tie the building into the landscape. An eroded corner on second floor expresses the owner's office and a recessed, custom stain glass window graces the conference room over the entry.