Gee Street

55 Gee Street is a long thin office building coupled with 6 apartments to achieve mixed use. The facade concept is for horizontal continuity to emphasize the length with vertical discontinuity to reduce the appearance of height in the historic Clerkenwell warehouse area. Perforated facade bricks allow additional natural cross ventilation. The office building has an experimental air mixing oversized ventilation system with exposed concrete soffit for thermal mass. This should need neither cooling nor heating whilst the outside temperature is between 0 and 28 degrees expected during 11 months of the year.