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The Site Operations Center (SOC) at BMW is the first new executive building nestled into a beautiful 78-acre wooded preserve on the grounds of BMW Plant 10 in Spartanburg, South Carolina. This artfully systematic 65,000 square feet office building and site design embody the client?s reputation for performance, innovative design, and quality. Perkins+Will?s architects, landscape architects, interior designers, brand and workplace experts, designed a modern, innovative new workplace for over 300 BMW employees.
Courtesy of Perkins+Will – Site plan
The BMW Plant 10 property is in the Piedmont region, a plateau located in the eastern United States, which is characterized by mixed hardwood and pine forest, rolling foothills,and an intricate system of streams, rivers, and lakes. As with most sites in the Piedmont region, vegetation and watershed patterns are of utmost importance. While the site has been cleared and graded for the Site Operations Center, significant drainage ways have been preserved, with native planting, to ensure watershed health downstream. Drainage patterns yielded an ideal parking orientation in order to intercept and treat stormwater moving down the existing slope. This strategy helps alleviate any additional stress of the stormwater system by keeping runoff from the Site Operations Center on site. Courtesy of Perkins+Will
Existing forest canopy was also taken into consideration in order to ma...