The building is a gateway to the Discovery Park District, an innovative, purpose-driven development on the western edge of Purdue University’s campus.
The Convergence Center provides a resource hub for innovation, technology, commercialization and entrepreneurial activities. It will enable Purdue faculty and students to interact with industry leaders for collaborative research, licensing, and startup creation.
Convergence will also serve as the home of Purdue Foundry, a program that helps Purdue students, faculty, and alumni start their own businesses along with other tech transfer and entrepreneurial activities such as the Purdue Office of Technology Commercialization and the Purdue Office of Corporate and Global Partnerships.
The building configuration includes Class-A office space, retail space, meeting and event space, co-working space, common spaces, and a large atrium.
CSO also provided design services for Carr Workplaces Convergence, which occupies space on the first and second floor of the Center. Carr Workplaces offers users over 20,000 s.f. of flexible drop-in workspace, virtual offices, business services, and event space all within walking distance to Purdue University.
The River North office building is strategically located on the scenic 25-acre lake of Keystone at the Crossing. The east face of the building embraces the morning sunrise and capitalizes on serene water views. Simple forms frame the glass openings and pay respect to the nearby existing architecture. The multi-tenant building further leverages the site by incorporating small retreat terraces overlooking the lake and centrally positioning the vertical circulation adjacent to the large two-story gathering hub, while enhanced exterior spaces lure tenants to the outdoors to work, relax and play.
Upon entering the 116,836 square foot, 5-story building, visitors are immediately drawn to the pass-through views to the lake. The interior design is intentionally subtle, but sophisticated. This design philosophy encourages the eye to continue outward to reinforce the connection to nature. Biophilic patterns can be found throughout the interior design, which is a unique concept for a multi-tenant development. The views to the water and connection to nature were leveraged, and to further the biophilic story the design team incorporated biomorphic patterns within the interior wood cladding, utilized simple-natural materials, and honed in on the human desire for an identifiable but safe risk situation at the glass railing overlook. The natural beauty of the walnut wood is observed from the main floor on the underside of the stairs and is intended to symbolize the complexity and order found in nature.
The River North office building at its core incorporates a simplistic design approach. However, digging deeper, the design is extremely complex and unique to the market. The design provides a piece of serenity within a continually evolving and very desirable area of Indianapolis. Visitors and tenants enjoy, within walking distance, many of the City’s most highly regarded restaurants and retail shops. This building is part of a holistic redevelopment of Keystone at the Crossing, including a five-story, 198-unit apartment building and parking garage, and a 129-room Hampton Inn & Suites Hotel.
