Arktura Solutions Lookbook by Arktura

ARKTURA SOLUTIONS

CUSTOM MANUFACTURING & STANDARD PRODUCTS LOOKBOOK

CONCORD, CALIFORNIA, USA

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, USA

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, USA

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, USA

DENVER, COLORADO, USA

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA

LOS

CULVER CITY, CALIFORNIA, USA

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, USA

LOS

CALIFORNIA, USA

WORKPLACE

PHILADELPHIA, PA & LOS ANGELES, CA, USA

IRVINE, CALIFORNIA, USA

AUSTIN, TEXAS, USA

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA

TIMBERLAND

STRATHAM, NEW HAMPSHIRE, USA

RECEPTION & LOBBIES

JACOBS

KIRKWOOD, MISSOURI, USA

KPAC

Kirkwood’s new Performing Arts Center is a 5,000 sqft community space, intended to host art galleries, theater performances, festivals, and other events. Inspired by Kirkwood’s certification as a Tree City USA , the space incorporates nature through a wall installation that spans two floors depicting an image of a tree canopy through backlit Vapor® Graphic Perf® panels. Upon its grand opening, KPAC will be a home for artistic endeavors and the community.

© Thomas McConnell LLC

VAPOR ® GRAPHIC PERF

CAPTURE IMAGES IN GREAT DETAIL

ATMOSPHERA® ANALOG

FACETED TEXTURE

© Jasper Sanidad

RIOS CLEMENTI HALE STUDIOS CONCORD, CALIFORNIA, USA

1111 BROADWAY

The reimagined lobby of 1111 Broadway by RIOS engaged visitors and tenants by providing seating, a private patio, and landscaping and increasing access to retail. The materials used add warmth and create a welcoming environment. A custom Atmosphera® Analog 3D adds a geometric, faceted texture to the space.

POST BROTHERS CRE PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, USA

GOLDTEX LOBBY

Goldtex is a luxury apartment building in Philadelphia by developer Post Brothers featuring amenities such as a rooftop pool, fitness center, skyline views, as well as modern and fresh residences with wall-to-wall windows and tall ceilings, setting a new standard of living in the Loft District. Vapor® Cluster Dense in black adds texture and visual interest to the lobby, the first thing tenants see.

© Studio Basel

CASELLA INTERIORS

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, USA

1200 BROADWAY

Casella Interiors worked with developers, architects, and contractors to curate and design the amenities of this mixed-use building of luxury apartments, office space, and retail. The lobby to the building evokes a luxurious and welcoming atmosphere with the warm wood tones, natural lighting, and clean black details. The soft curves of the Atmosphera® Ripple module that Casella Interiors selected add an organic element to the space.

© McGinn Photography

BKL ARCHITECTURE CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, USA

WOLF POINT

Wolf Point West is a 48 story residential project located on the banks of the converging branches of the Chicago River, giving residents incredible views of the city, river, and lakefront. BKL Architecture worked with Arktura’s Solutions Studio® to design a custom metal screen for the windows of their lobby, adding visual privacy from the outside as well as texture to the space.

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CREATE PRIVACY WITH TEXTURE

MACKENZIE ARCHITECTURE

PORTLAND, OREGON, USA

KOIN LOBBY

Mackenzie Architecture worked with the new owners of iconic Portland’s landmark, KOIN tower, to renovate the lobby, modernizing it and bringing a sense of place to the lobby. A focal point and point of engagement for the community of the space is a large interactive wall featuring custom content and social media. The brand motif drawn from the logo of the newly rebranded KOIN tower by Think Joule became a pattern used across the custom Graphic Perf® screen by Arktura that extends across the lobby. The cohesive and distinctive design brings the new KOIN Tower lobby a sense of place for tenants and the public.

© Christian Columbres

BORA ARCHITECTS

REDMOND, WASHINGTON, USA

MICROSOFT PORTAL

This custom canopy was designed and manufactured by Arktura in collaboration with the Portland Oregon based Bora Architects, as part of their massive reimagining of Microsoft’s Redmond, Washington 313,790 square-foot collaborative work place. This unique entry portal welcomes employees and visitors, and sets the tone for the rest of the space.

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INSPIRE CREATIVITY

CBRE

DENVER, COLORADO, USA

METROPOINTE

AECOM worked closely with Arktura to design a creative office space in the tech center of Denver, Colorado, leveraging Arktura’s proprietary technology to array modules coordinate to dimensions needed to coordinate sprinkler integration as well as configuring complex span across glazing. Arktura created the Secare® pattern as a dimensional, modular screen, customized for the three story atrium space and lobby. With the lobby on the third floor above the atrium, allowing visitors to look down into the atrium from above. The verticality of the pattern was designed to mimic the vertical movement of the fountain in the center of the atrium and verticality of the custom teardrop-like light fixtures.

EXTERIOR FEATURES & FACADES

LULULEMON ATHLETICA +

QUADRANGLE ARCHITECTS

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA

LULULEMON

This Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood Lululemon location prominently features a Solutions Studio® custom exterior facade, designed and manufactured by Arktura, in collaboration with Lululemon. This unique shell wraps around the storefront and incorporates both hard geometric lines and a subtle organic mountainscape silhouette. Entering the store’s 2,700-squarefoot Quadrangle Architects designed shopping space, you’ll find Arktura Atmosphera® Pulse ceiling modules suspended above areas, including the cashier counter, which are seamlessly integrated with lighting elements of the space. The realized design affords a clear exterior brand identity and acoustic attentuation of the interior.

FOLONIS ARCHITECTURE

SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA, USA

TESLA

At the crossroad of the Third Street Promenade and Santa Monica Place, with Michael W. Folonis Architects and Arktura’s Solutions Studio®’s guidance, Tesla developed a facade inspired by the namesake of the company, Nikola Tesla, and magnetic flux diagrams to wrap the exterior facade of their flagship auto showroom. Translating the inspired brief, Arktura utilized proprietary software to develop the complex curved custom exterior Graphic Perf® system into a synergetic graphic form to capture the relationship between magnetic flux and electron decay. The resulting facade visually impacts and filters heat and sunlight, and serves as a rain shield while representing the electric propulsion’s linear energy release.

© Art Gray

GRAPHIC PERF®

ROLLED CURVE PERFORATED PANELING

RDC COLLABORATIVE

MANHATTAN BEACH, CALIFORNIA, USA

2171 ROSECRANS

Retail Design Collaborative (RDC) worked with Arktura to develop an exterior stainless steel rain-screen facade for 2171 Rosecrans. Starting with Arktura’s existing modular exterior system - Secare® - the modules were rotated 90 degrees to create horizontal movement instead of vertical. Each module was designed to accommodate the facades’ unique conditions. Secare gave texture and dimensional impact to the facade and was used here to add to the textural palette of exterior finishes mixed-use development project.

“It’s about understanding the city at a larger scale and seeing a way for that urban logic to fit into a building. I’ve lived in this neighborhood for 20 years. Maybe it just seeped in.

- WARREN TECHENTIN (METROPOLIS)

WARREN TECHENTIN ARCHITECTURE INC

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA

1313 SUNSET

Los Angeles-based firm Warren Techentin Architecture enlisted Arktura to design and manufacture its Elysian Fields exterior feature facade. The cladding comprised of Exterior Graphic Perf® designed in tandem with Arktura’s Solutions Studio® to pay homage to nearby automotive body shops. The perforated and formed aluminum panels gently curve along Sunset Boulevard providing protection against the harsh sun. It supports flared voids to allow the inclusion of expansive sliding windows for the residences within. In keeping up with the everchanging eclectic character of Los Angeles, this project provides a parametric poem of perforations to the neighborhood it graciously nests within.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA

KILROY

The Sunset Media Center in Los Angeles is a mixed-use development combining multiple levels of program. It acts as destination in the busy Sunset Corridor but also a familiar hub in the daily lives of the people who work there. As part of the building’s recent renovation, Arktura created a custom louvered facade that transitions down three levels of parking and melds with exterior ceiling system baffles from our Atmosphera® family of products.

© Ryan Gobuty

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ARTISTIC EXPRESSION

REFIK ANADOL CULVER CITY, CALIFORNIA, USA

CULVER CITY GARAGE

Arktura designed and fabricated this dynamic, dichroic-glass, fin-based sculptural wall in collaboration with media artist Refik Anadol. It brings character to the parking structure at Culver City’s C3 development, complementing and enhancing the connected Gensler designed space, with colorful, Southern California sun-fueled projected refractions that evolve throughout the day.

PUBLIC FEATURES & COMMUNITY

CBT ARCHITECTS

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, USA

PRIVATE CLIENT

A synthesis of form, pattern, and light generated from local data inputs and mapping overlays throughout a city’s rich history. The topographic construction represents the growth of a dynamic city as it has been shaped by changing waterways, population change, and the resulting landscapes. The undulating shapes were achieved by curating overlays and intersections from the mapped geological and civic features of the city’s harbor region over time. The result was a intricate pattern of nodes and connections depicting the urban fabric as it relates to the human landscape. The fabricated aluminum structure was created with sophisticated digital tools and assembly methods associated with aerospace standards - while the industrial bronze finish was intended to generate warmth and echo the rich history of this northeast coastal region.

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TOPOGRAPHIC CANOPY

MONTALBA ARCHITECTS

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA

LAX TERMINAL 6

Montalba Architects & Corgan Associates requested that Arktura’s Solutions Studio® capture the bustling vibrancy of L.A.’s iconic Sunset Boulevard in a lighting system, as part of LAX’s T-6’s “swanky” $70.5-million makeover. The illumination drives the terminal’s experience and is organized by interconnected pathways that lead passengers on their journey. Arktura proposed, designed, and directed a simple install of the terminal’s innovative lighting system consisting of a winding steel structure and a powder-coated stainless steel mesh diffuser masking the LED illumination. This project solution by Arktura afforded Westfield the facility to debut its latest transport hub before the deadline and under-budget.

CUSTOM LIGHT FEATURE

© Victor Muschetto

GENSLER

BELLEVUE, WASHINGTON, USA

FINTECH CLIENT

Inspired by double curved surfaces, this corporate cafe lighting feature mimics wave-like movement, using credit cards and LED lights. Built for a Confidential Financial Company, the lighting feature has over 1,400 hanging points with unique rod lengths supporting 496 LED lights and 960 credit cards. The feature’s credit card-sized LED lights were engineered with seamless acrylic box enclosures, to disperse light evenly, creating a consistent glow. Its unique rods were made to ensure a double curved appearance was achieved while simultaneously hiding all wiring from view. The entire feature came together as a gradient of credit cards moving across the ceiling. This unique lighting feature pushed the limits on ceiling fixtures, lighting capabilities, and panel design.

© Ryan Gobuty

SOLUTIONS STUDIO ®

CUSTOM LIGHT SOLUTION

SOLUTIONS STUDIO ®

DYNAMIC VISUAL EXPERIENCE

HH INSTALLATION

Nembi (Italian for “clouds”) is a permanent public installation commissioned by Los Angeles County and produced in a collaboration between the Solutions Studio® and artist and architect Elena Manferdini. The installation’s playful composition and striking colors enter into dialog with the iconic green bands of the Hubert Humphrey Health Center’s facade. Made entirely of powder-coated aluminum, each panel is saturated in durable color that can withstand tactile interaction while providing a dynamic visual experience at the threshold of the building.

ATELIER MANFERDINI

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA

SEAVIEW

For the outdoor site renovation of Seaview Amenities, Ware Malcomb needed a firm with proven outdoor canopy experience who understood the site conditions of a coastal location with wind load considerations, had structural engineering experience, and could work in partnership with their design team. Ware Malcomb worked with Arktura’s Solutions Studio® to customize canopy structures that fit their specific design vision, inspired by Arktura’s Cora pattern.

WARE MALCOMB SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, USA

SOLUTIONS STUDIO ®

A SOOTHING HEALING ENVIRONMENT

SOLUTIONS STUDIO ®

CREATE COMPLEX CURVES

HOUSTON, TEXAS, USA

FRAMEWORKS KIOSK

This cellular structure invented by Arktura for Frameworks, Dallas, builds on specialized algorithms and new manufacturing strategies developed for earlier Solutions Studio® projects and represents a dynamic leap forward in manufacturing and design capabilities. The kiosk’s complex double curvature was achieved through uniquely formed planar surfaces, laser cut and sculpted on an eighteen-axis metal forming machine, and assembled with a total of 9,500 rivets through 14,000 points of alignment. The cell apertures vary in size, allowing gradations in light to accentuate the display areas, while the tapered form organically defines a point-ofsale location. Arktura’s exceptionally precise execution and comprehensive planning allowed this self-supporting kiosk to be prefabricated off site, shipped as a system and assembled in a matter of days.

COWORKING & AMENITIES

H. HENDY ASSOCIATES

NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA, USA

SAP INNOVATION

SAP, a business software company, is a new occupant at Newport’s historic landmark, Marina Lido Village. Within the 16,000 sqft workspace is the Innovation Center, a research and development center, and HanaHaus, a coworking space that encourages innovation and collaboration by local entrepreneurs and creatives. SAP worked with H. Hendy Associates to develop HanaHaus through a human-centered approach by studying the movement of employees, patrons, and visitors, informing the flow and different workspaces for each user. In a two-story open seating area, the sounds of people working and collaborating are mitigated to more productive and inspiring levels with Atmosphera® Analog 3D acoustic baffles which also add warmth to the space in a natural Soft Sound® wood texture.

GENSLER

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, USA

ADOBE 100 HOOPER

Adobe’s growth in San Francisco necessitated a new campus a few blocks away from their original office location at Adobe Townsend. Gensler worked with Adobe to design a new campus that would complement the warm brick and wood tones of their original building while giving the new campus a fresh and modern feel. The new campus is focused on supporting the varying needs of Adobe’s employees with alternative flexible work spaces, collaborative meeting rooms, and amenities such as a juice bar, full-service cafe, dining hall, all-hands space, VR room, and a wellness center. Arktura provided standard and custom solutions for these spaces. Vapor® Cluster Dense and Graphic Perf® panels customized with the Adobe logo add texture and character to the lobby, the main point of entry for the campus. Atmosphera® Analog 3D in Arktura’s Soft Sound® wood texture adds warmth and motion to the dining hall. SoundEdge® and SoftGrid® Wave add bright pops of color.

GRAPHIC PERF® | VAPOR ® CLUSTER DENSE

ATMOSPHERA® ANALOG 3D | SOUNDEDGE®

SOFTGRID ® WAVE

INNOVATIVE & INSPIRING WORK

ENVIRONMENT

INNOVATING WORK ENVIRONMENTS

GENSLER

PHILADELPHIA, PA & LOS ANGELES, CA, USA

WORKPLACE INNOVATION LABS

Coretrust Capital Partners, a real estate investment firm focused on office properties, developed two Workplace Innovation Labs in Los Angeles and Philadelphia in partnership with Gensler and Haworth. The Workplace Innovation Labs are a showcase of what workforce environments can and could be, showing how potential clients could shape the way the spaces of Coretrust Capital Partners look, feel, sound, and smell through a mix of work and relaxation environments for a balanced workspace. To show that even in a high-rise building, the outdoors could still be integrated, Coretrust cut away a corner of the exterior wall of a floor of the building in Los Angeles, creating a covered terrace that can be opened with fully extended doors, providing the whole floor with fresh air. Gensler worked with Arktura to provide acoustic solutions with SoftGrid® Sine and SoundEdge® and design impact with Atmosphera® Pulse and Vapor® Cluster in Dense and Sparse.

ATMOSPHERA® PULSE GRAPHIC PERF®

TECH FORWARD OFFICE SPACE

IA INTERIOR ARCHITECT

IRVINE, CALIFORNIA, USA

2525 MAIN

J+R Group envisioned 2525 Main as the next hub of finance and tech companies. To carry out this vision, Interior Architects restructured the interiors, creating open floor plans as a solution to the minimal natural lighting available. As a solution to the low ceilings, Interior Architects used Atmosphera® Pulse, a geometric metal cloud, as a ceiling feature for the lobby and shared kitchen space. Atmosphera® Pulse also served to distribute lighting and conceal mechanical systems above it. Arktura also manufactured backlit Graphic Perf® wall panels perforated with floor numbers as a cohesive wayfinding graphic for each floor. Both of Arktura’s products served to help unify Interior Architect’s design of a tech forward office space.

RIOS AUSTIN, TEXAS, USA

VRBO

Rios designed a 315,000 sqft workspace for Vrbo, a vacation rental company, using a data-driven process to design and organize the nine different levels, optimizing them for collaboration and productivity. Focus groups helped determine how, where, and when people worked and informed proximity and circulation of spaces. The workplace is divided into five areas, organized by ecosystems and their geography with distinct color and furnishings. Arktura’s Solutions Studios® worked with Rios to develop baffle wall and ceilings solutions that curve around corners and smoothly across wall and ceiling. The Topography level of eight and nine, based on forest levels, represent the forest canopy through the curving custom gridded wall and ceiling feature. The Limnology level inspired by lake bodies encompasses the tenth and eleventh floor, features an acoustic baffle wall that embodies the data of the fluid movement of the bodies of water.

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DATA-DRIVEN DESIGN

USC SHOAH FOUNDATION

Belzberg Architects designed the new Global Headquarters of the USC Shoah Foundation - The Institute for Visual History and Education, an immersive educational facility accomodating expansive offices, dedicated exhibitions, formal outreach space, a film studio where survivors may record their stories, and visitors may partake in VRexperiences.

The expansive, open-plan houses a full-time staff, and its flexibility was paramount to the project’s success to aid in transformability. These work areas are collectively lit to accommodate any user sensitivities and demarcated by a faceted and folded, diagrid acoustic ceiling treatment, SoftFold®, and dampens the sometimes stress-inducing sounds. Each ‘neighborhood’ of the office varies in size and geometry but has a central meeting table for collaborative work that elminates the need for more dedicated meeting space elsewhere.

STATE ART STORYTELLING OF THE SOFTFOLD ® | VAPOR ® | SOLUTIONS STUDIO ®

Throughout the wing, ‘neighborhoods’ are arranged to maximize transparency and connectivity within a flexible and efficient framework marked by the graphic implementation of grooved Soft Sound® applied directly to walls in a unique pattern to denote interconnectivity and promote wellness, healing, learning, and comfort.

Vapor® was implemented in the interactive areas’ ceiling plan to create a perforated illumination effect, mirrored in the state-of-the-art interactive displays and multimedia consoles, helping achieve the fundamental mission of storytelling to engage and educate its visitors as they learn of some of the darkest events in modern history. The perforations from Vapor® panels seemingly echo the stories gathered and the light they impart on each visitor. Each detail of the design, from SoftFold® to Vapor®, was designed individually and concerning the entirety of the space and experience to support the Institute’s mission.

ENHANCE NATURAL SPACES

IA INTERIOR ARCHITECTS

STRATHAM, NEW HAMPSHIRE, USA

TIMBERLAND

Iconic outdoor lifestyle brand Timberland transformed its 20,000 sqft headquarters into a collaborative, energetic, and progressive environment that exemplifies the culture of Timberland with the help of IA Interior Architects. Bringing the outside in was a main focus for the space, reinforcing Timberland’s belief that a greener future is a better future and their commitment to create better product, stronger communities, and a greener world. To accomplish this, the architectural language employed throughout the space takes cues from Timberland’s new retail design and uses reflective materials, organic forms, and textured layers to bring nature indoors. The overarching concept informed the layout of the space with a winding “trail” that leads through the office, passing groves of activity along the way. Oversized community tables are nestled in a grove of trees, communicating Timberland’s eco-leadership through materials, commitment to plant 50 million trees by 2025, and manifestations of future thinking relative to product and designs. Delta Drop® 4x4 adds faceted depth to the space while integrating lighting with Arktura’s backlight, creating a sparkling effect. The new design reflects Timberland’s passion for nature and vision for the future. It provides a creative, collaborative, energetic space filled with light, nature-inspired design, and living elements - truly bringing the brand’s values to life.