SAP AMERICAS Headquarters Expansion

Newtown Square, PA

Completion: 2009
Area: 425,000 sf

FXFOWLE designed the corporate headquarters and interiors for an environmentally-responsible German-based software company. The two-phase complex complements an existing structure by integrating the office campus into the topography while preserving views of the wooded site. Offices focused on the north side of the building capitalize on landscape views, with service and fixed elements grouped together in nodes along an anchoring spine. As a design hallmark, the south-facing laminated wood atrium is shaded by warmly–detailed brise soleil that reduces sun penetration, while framing views of the inner courtyard and facilitating natural air circulation emanating from an underfloor displacement air system. Green roofs further weave the structure into the landscape, serving as part of a calibrated system of sustainable strategies. This is the first LEED Platinum building of its type in the mid-Atlantic region.

Awards:
2010 International Commercial Property Award (Americas)
2010 AIA New York State Award of Merit, Large Commercial
2010 The Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Award
2010 Delaware County Planning Commission Bates Award
2010 Society of American Registered Architects Professional Design Award
2010 Environmental Design + Construction, Best Commercial Building (Finalist)
2010 MIPIM Award, Business Center (Finalist)
2009 The Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Award