LEED Certified

 

The new 9-story parking deck, which consolidates all of the company's off-site parking onto its downtown campus, is situated on the site of a previous 125-space surface parking lot.  The deck footprint is virtually identical to the original surface lot, yet provides parking for 1,808 vehicles while also housing the company's maintenance offices, meeting rooms and a fitness facility.   The structure is topped with a vegetated roof, the first in the City and the second largest continuous "green" roof in Michigan, with a 1/10 mile walking path.

 

The design showcases the innovative use of the structural roof double tee system simultaneously as a structural and decorative element.  The double tees are dramatically cantilevered beyond the edges of the supporting roof beams (which are also cleverly cantilevered) and bearing walls where they are accentuated.  The effect is that the parking deck wears a “crown”.  The embedded brick structural precast load bearing walls terminate at the ninth floor to create a tall clerestory above that defines and emphasizes the cantilevered roof above.  The serrated or sawtooth edge of the roof provides a lively detail in an honest response to the modular nature of precast double tees.

 

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