Metreon is a mixed-use development on West Flamingo Road near I-215. The project consists of four retail structures that accommodate a variety of shopping and dining venues, two of which have business office suites above and two residential mid-rises showcasing loft-style condominiums. Each mid-rise is made up of live-work units, two-story lofts, and a penthouse which overlook the Las Vegas skyline and Red Rock Canyon. This development was designed to integrate with the existing office buildings we previously designed on the north side of the property.
LEED Gold Certification
Desert Sage school is a preschool through 4th grade academy dedicated to providing a unique, affordable, and "green" learning environment for children ages six weeks through 10 years old. Students are provided an eco-friendly curriculum to assist them in becoming interdependent learners by motivating natural curiosities and engaging them in intellectual pursuits transferable to the real world. The objective is to get LEED© Gold certification or better.
Improvements were made to a 2,765-square-foot grey shell office space for Canyon Creative, a boutique graphic design studio. It was important that the space visually express the clients' artistic sensibilities while being extremely functional, tactile, and comfortable. Individual designers' workspaces are located adjacent to a "creative zone" allowing for open collaboration. The main organizing element is a large, centrally located wall that serves multiple functions. It's utilized as display space on the more public side of the space and also serves as storage space on the private side of the office. The display side is crafted of reclaimed wood. The layered arrangement of each slab gives texture which naturally creates display shelving and provides a warm, tactile experience as one enters the office. The other side of the wall faces the kitchen and accommodates the client's storage needs. A portion of the wall "erodes" exposing a wine and coffee bar. Other natural materials used around the office contribute to the warmth of the space. Stained MDF is used for storage shelving throughout the space well as for baseboards. Stained concrete is used throughout the entire office. The wood and steel structure of the shell building was left exposed as much as possible and a custom-rusted metal sliding door was created for the conference room.
The four one-story, shell office buildings are located on the Durango Warm Springs Campus. Each shell building contains 10,398 square feet and is designed to house up to four tenants. Between the buildings are courtyards with integrated seating and desert landscaping. Additional seating is also integrated into the entrances at the corners of each building creating an exterior waiting room. The exterior of the buildings are clad in materials such as quartzite, sandstone, stucco, and steel. These buildings are part of a campus that includes three more shell office buildings, a parking structure, and a specialty rehab hospital.
LEED Gold certification
APTUS Architecture work with representatives from Nye Country, Nevada and the Amargoas Valley Senior Center to determine the suitability of constructing a new facility on their current parcel. We also assisted Nye Country staff in identifying environmental alternatives and researched potential grants and rebates for teh new center, building systems, and materials used in the facility's design adn construction. While exploring multiple site configuration options and potential locations for the new structures, the team continuously worked to develop and refine the right combination of function, sustainability and budget. This included the new senior center and surrounding activity areas, remodel of the existing structure, addition of future senior housing, an RV park and appropriate circulation between these areas.