At Thrive, we focus on your vision and the specific needs of your business or institution, bringing a fresh design sensibility that integrates your brand with functional solutions to the challenges you face every day.
We understand the evolving contemporary workplace and bring you dynamic places for seamless collaboration balanced with quiet spaces that enable privacy, concentration, and focus. What’s in it for you? Efficient workflow. And happy employees!
At Thrive, we focus on your vision and the specific needs of your business or institution, bringing a fresh design sensibility that integrates your brand with functional solutions to the challenges you face every day.
We understand the evolving contemporary workplace and bring you dynamic places for seamless collaboration balanced with quiet spaces that enable privacy, concentration, and focus. What’s in it for you? Efficient workflow. And happy employees!
City of Charlottesville
Image Courtesy of Scott Smith Photography and VMDO Architects
Image Courtesy of Scott Smith Photography and VMDO Architects
Image Courtesy of Scott Smith Photography and VMDO Architects
Image Courtesy of Scott Smith Photography and VMDO Architects
Image Courtesy of Scott Smith Photography and VMDO Architects
Image Courtesy of Scott Smith Photography and VMDO Architects
Image Courtesy of Scott Smith Photography and VMDO Architects
Image Courtesy of Scott Smith Photography and VMDO Architects
The CAT Operations Center includes offices, maintenance, fueling, washing, and parking facilities for Charlottesville’s growing transit fleet.
The LEED Gold-certified facility features rainwater harvesting, graywater re-use, and stormwater infiltration strategies that emphasize the critical need for water conservation.
The facility also utilizes a first-in-Virginia standing column well ground-source heat pump design that has helped the city reduce the facility’s energy use significantly compared to the smaller but more inefficient building the division previously occupied.
Architect of Record VMDO Architects | Steve Davis, Lead Designer
““Buildings are a prime example of how human systems integrate with natural systems. The CAT Operations Center project efficiently uses our natural resources and makes an immediate, positive impact on our planet, which will tremendously benefit future generations to come.””
University of Virginia
Image Courtesy of Virginia Hamrick and VMDO Architects
Image Courtesy of Virginia Hamrick and VMDO Architects
Image Courtesy of Virginia Hamrick and VMDO Architects
Image Courtesy of Virginia Hamrick and VMDO Architects
Image Courtesy of Virginia Hamrick and VMDO Architects
Image Courtesy of Virginia Hamrick and VMDO Architects
Image Courtesy of Virginia Hamrick and VMDO Architects
Image Courtesy of Virginia Hamrick and VMDO Architects
Image Courtesy of VMDO Architects
UVa’s Massie Road Plant, located behind John Paul Jones Arena, will serve the heating and cooling needs for much of the projected build-out of the athletic precinct and North Grounds.
This machine-in-the-garden is conceived as a simple container, with mechanical openings piercing the container as needed. A playfully detailed mechanical screen wraps the upper portion of the “container” concealing nearly all of the various intakes and exhaust. An artful logic establishes the pattern of slats in the louvered mechanical screen, sometimes concealing and sometimes revealing the nature of the surface behind the screen.
Architect of Record VMDO Architects | Steve Davis, Lead Designer
City of Harrisonburg
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Image Courtesy of VMDO Architects
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The City of Harrisonburg planned to develop a transit operations center for its growing bus fleet. This design-build proposal was located and conceived to reduce operational travel miles and increase the efficiency of the cleaning, fueling and maintenance regimes. The site plan was arranged to incorporate and extend a planned city bike trail and to restore a degraded stream and wildlife corridor along the site’s eastern edge.
The project consisted of four buildings arrayed around the primary bus parking lot. The office building is situated in a native-planted meadow-scape that would promote on-site biodiversity and provide visual continuity with the agrarian Shenandoah Valley landscape.
Architect of Record VMDO Architects | Steve Davis, Lead Designer
