Evelyn Avenue Workplace, Mountain View, Silicon Valley California, Bay Area Building, Architect
Evelyn Avenue Workplace, City of Mountain View
March 2, 2022
Architects: WRNS Studio ; Landscape Design: SWA Group
Adaptive Re-use of 1980?s Corporate Campus in Silicon Valley by WRNS Studio and SWA Group Injects Urban Energy into Heart of Suburbia
Refresh of an existing campus makes it suitable for innovation sector tenants, modeling adaptive re-use of aging corporate campuses

Images courtesy of SWA Group
Evelyn Avenue Workplace, City of Mountain View, CA
Mountain View, CA (March 2nd, 2022) – Located on a seventeen-acre campus one mile from the City of Mountain View?s downtown core and one mile from public transit, Evelyn Avenue Workplace needed not only a facelift, but a systemic re-think of its campus plan that addressed both existing structures and the need for new buildings to support growth.
Rockwood Capital commissioned WRNS Studio and SWA Group to lead the adaptive re-use of a typical 1980?s concrete tilt-up campus in Mountain View, consisting of five hermetically-sealed, ziggurat-shaped buildings hemmed in by decorative landscape and parking lots. WRNS Studio together with landscape architecture firm SWA Group responded with a master plan of adaptive re-use, and new construction that takes cues from the City?s urban grid while weaving in a fine grain of materials, site circulation, social spaces, and thoughtful landscape. The result is a walkable, authentic sens...