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chose a building with a rich and complicated architectural story for its new headquarters in downtown Eugene. By the end of this year, the firm will move into a newly renovated space in the Broadway Commerce Center, a building designed by architect A.E. Doyle in 1927.

鈥淚t’s an exquisite building of his,鈥� said PIVOT partner Tobias Barwood.

Barwood is the project architect on PIVOT’s renovation of its new 8,500-square-foot space. He said the firm was impressed by the work done by Beam Development and . That team recently renovated the building, undoing some damage done by an 鈥渦ngentle鈥� addition in the 1950s.

PIVOT selected the third floor for its space because that floor has the highest ceilings.

To accommodate its project and team-based working styles, PIVOT decided to keep the floor plan completely open with the exception of one feature that the firm calls the 鈥渟hell.鈥�

鈥淭he shell will hold our meeting rooms, lobby, copy rooms and all those things an office needs,鈥� Barwood said. 鈥淭he intention is for that space to be a contemporary piece in contrast with the historic bones of the building.鈥�

The most complicated feature of the renovation has been creating the 鈥渟hell,鈥� which will be enclosed by medium-density fiberboard panels that the team has used to form an art piece. The MDF panels will have holes drawn through to create an impressionistic interpretation of a line-drawing of the Willamette Valley. The original drawing, drawn by PIVOT founding partner Eric Gunderson in 1982, has hung in PIVOT’s current office for years. The firm decided it wanted to create an artistic interpretation on the MDF panels, and the line drawing was 鈥減erfect鈥� for the task, Barwood said.

鈥淚t talks about the future and what we aspire to be, but it also talks about where we’ve been and what our practice is,鈥� Barwood said.

PIVOT took on the MDF project on its own, designing the interpretation, creating shop drawings and working with a local fabricator to route the holes.

鈥淭hen we’ll give the panels to the contractor to install,鈥� Barwood said. 鈥淲e’re hoping they fit.鈥�

The PIVOT team says the project is on track to achieve LEED platinum certification for commercial interiors, and will use low-water plumbing fixtures and locally sourced materials to assist in that goal.

John Hyland Construction of Springfield is the contractor on the renovation project.

Members of the PIVOT project team include Scott Clarke, project manager; Scott Bishop, intern; and Theresa Maurer and Liza Lewellen, interior designers. Other firms involved in design include Hohbach-Lewin Inc, structural engineers; Balzhiser & Hubbard Engineers Inc, electrical engineers; and commissioning agent Systems West Engineers.

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