Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice

🌿The Ford Foundation originally occupied 11 floors of a traditional office building, with floors relatively isolated from each other. To create a sense of community, Roche arranged the new offices in a C-shape. All users can see each other in the garden and enjoy natural light from the glass curtain walls and skylights. 🌿 The lower floors are set back to create terraces overlooking the garden, accessible from each office via sliding glass doors. 🌇🌿 The design employs several scales ranging from small to large. 🏙️🌟 The first is the human scale related to the size of the offices, window heights, and ceiling heights. 🌿 The second scale takes into account the characteristics of the residential area on 43rd Street. The last is the grand scale connecting to the 42nd Street street level. 🏙️🌟 In some ways, this grand scale was influenced by the construction of large highway bridges—massive buildings with an incredible, vibrant scale. 🚗🌟 #AllAboutArt #OfficeBuildingDesign 🏙️🌟