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架构师提供的文本描述。该项目的目标是在加利福尼亚州门洛帕克建立一个清洁技术风险投资公司的办公室总部。由于该网站位于北美一些最昂贵的商业地产上，因此优化该房产的使用是至关重要的。该项目包括12，500 SF的办公室空间，两层楼在一个讲台上，为50辆汽车提供停车位。这整个建筑面积需要有条件的使用许可证。严格的挫折和高度限制意味着在有限的分区范围内工作。

Text description provided by the architects. The project goal was to create an office headquarters for a clean technology venture capital firm in Menlo Park, CA. Because the site is on some of the most expensive commercial real estate in North America, optimizing use of the property was critical. The program includes 12,500 SF of office space in two stories over a podium to provide parking for fifty cars. A conditional use permit was required for this total building area. Strict setbacks and a height limit meant working within a restricted zoning envelope.

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通过创建自己的建筑，公司有机会通过设计来表达他们的文化和价值观。花园、透明和木质装饰创造了一个温暖、亲密的工作环境，让员工感到舒适。浓重的色彩表达了公司在重大、破坏性的清洁技术中大胆冒险的美誉。细，直纹，丝刷木材完成形成温暖，优雅和低调的感觉，以符合该公司复杂的分析新兴市场。

By creating their own building, the firm had the opportunity to express their culture and values through the design. Gardens, transparency and wood finishes create a warm, intimate work environment, comfortable for employees.Strong, accent colors express the company’s reputation for bold risk taking in major, disruptive clean technologies. Fine, straight-grained, wire-brushed wood finishes form a warm, elegant and understated feeling in keeping with the firm’s sophisticated analysis of emerging markets.

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该项目在大部分可用的空地上创建花园。种植的屏蔽和植物屋顶是用来创造一个花园设置，透明的内部可以享受，同时保持隐私，从邻近的物业。

The project creates gardens in most of the available open space. Planted screening and vegetated roofs are used to create a garden setting that the transparent interior can enjoy while maintaining privacy from adjacent properties.

花园的设计是为了包围建筑，从室内空间创造亲密的景观。停车场上方的讲台花园有一个密集的花园，有座位、种植的屏风和格子结构。二楼和屋顶的种植采用了一套有植物的屋顶托盘系统。栽种的二楼露台，透过全高的玻璃，被详细描述为与花园的直接和亲密的联系。

The gardens are designed to envelop the building to create intimate landscaped views from interior spaces. The podium garden above the parking garage features an intensive garden with seating, planted screens and a trellis structure. Plantings on the second floor and roof employ a system of vegetated roof trays. The planted 2nd floor terrace, seen through full height glass, is detailed for an immediate and intimate connection to the garden.

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对于邻居来说，屋顶花园是一种视觉上的财富，因为邻居们离这个项目很近。大比例的绿地在激励邻居批准该项目方面发挥了重要作用。

Roof gardens are a visual asset to the neighbors whose close proximity to the project was a concern. The generous proportion of green spaces played a major role in incentivizing the neighbor's approval for the project.

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另一个项目的目标是尽量减少施工期间的干扰。由于这一原因，而且由于工地没有多少施工场地，所以该建筑是由预制构件组成的，包括在混凝土停机坪上堆放着起重机的结构钢模块。

Set in the tight site closely surrounded by residential neighbors, another project goal was to minimize disturbance during construction. For this reason and because the site had little space for construction staging, the building is made of prefabricated components, including structural steel modules stacked by crane on the concrete parking podium.

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作为一座重量轻的预制建筑，特别需要灵活性，这意味着广阔的屋顶花园必须是特别轻的，才能保持相对透明的内部，而不过分地设置剪力墙和支撑。一个带有光工程土的植被屋顶托盘系统减轻了建筑结构的负荷，从而消除了花园的景观和内部的灵活性。

Being a light weight, prefabricated building with a special need for flexibility meant that the extensive roof gardens had to be particularty light to maintain a relatively transparent interior without overly imposing shear walls and braces. A system of vegetated roof trays with light engineered soil mitigates the loading on the building structure; thus unimpeding garden views and interior flexibility.

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作为一家风险公司的总部，这座建筑需要临时容纳和孵化年轻的公司。因为这些初创企业可以快速发展(或失败)，内部需要适应不断变化的需求。该建筑可以通过内部可拆隔板和玻璃隔板的模块化系统进行重新配置。每个模块空间的建筑服务都是由手持、无线android设备单独编程和控制的.

As the headquarters of a venture firm, the building needs to temporarily house and incubate young companies. Because these start-ups can evolve (or fail) quickly, the interior needs to adapt to changing needs. The building can be reconfigured through a modular system of interior demountable partitions and glass partitions. Building services for each modular space are separately programmed and controlled by hand-held, wireless android devices.