EPIC
Location: 5901 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood
Developer: Hudson Pacific Properties
Contractor: Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Company
Architect: Gensler
Architecturally, EPIC seeks to reshape the urban office building archetype. Rather than focusing on vertical stature, the design team created a terraced mass that is driven by a new paradigm of indoor-outdoor creative workplace. Philosophically driven from the inside and out, the architecture marries the best attributes of modern-era industrial structures with large, repetitive concrete bays that are tall and wide with a sustainability-driven, high performance facade of concrete and glass. The rigorous, pleated concrete grid is a foil to the terraces and balcony cut-outs around the building and also serves as a framework for the BIPV (building integrated photovoltaic system) curtain wall. With a LEED Gold Certification, EPIC is the first project in the City of Los Angeles to implement a building facade integrated with solar photovoltaic technology to offset electricity consumption.
