HAVER & BOECKER

"The focus was on functionality, safety, compatibility with the existing Chesapeake Energy campus architecture, and reinvention of the typical parking garage image while making it fun for the daily users of this garage."
Elliott + Associates Architects

To achieve this goal the architect's team created a concept, that followed certain guidelines:

1. We will “store” 791 cars with 4 levels. 
2. The exterior skin must be a minimum of 20% open by code.
3. Make the building unrecognizable as a parking garage.  At first glance it will appear as an office building.
4. Devise a way so that the cars are not visible from the outside during daytime or nighttime.
5. Make the exterior respond to the constantly changing light and color of the Oklahoma sky.
6. The structure will “connect” to campus and not duplicate.
7. Think “Brick Shadow” and soft / sky reflections.
8. Make the architectural mass “dissolve” into the sky.

To achieve a homogenous surface with only 25% open area, Haver & Boecker designed a new mesh specification using slightly crimped flat wires: LARGO-PLENUS 2022 made from Stainless Steel T316.
Small gaps between panels provide minimal interference for the integrity of the mesh facade.

Photos:
Scott McDonald © Hedrich Blessing
Courtesy of Elliott + Associates Architects