Pio Nono Plaza

Pio Nono Plaza Center (2016)
South Macon, Georgia, U.S.A.
Mixed-Use, Media, Conference, Office etc.

Pio Nono Plaza Center is a huge redesign that is done in a 15-story tower. The original building is just your average everyday lower-class shopping center, which has a Pawn shop, small markets, beauty shops, and things of that nature. If this were a real plan, I would hope that the current tenants occupy the space in the new building because it would be interesting to still have the same businesses but in a different environment. Inside this building are commercial businesses, studio apartments, a media center, office space, and conference space.
If this were a real project, This would be one of Macon's tallest buildings, as a matter of fact, this would be the largest building in it's neighborhood. The green metal cladding makes the building stand out.  The building is alongside a five store parking deck, which could vary due to inconvenient issues. The style of the building would be pretty foreign to the neighborhood, which is why I chose the location. 
Personal Touch: My childhood came up in this part of town and being in the metro-Atlanta environment, I wanted to bring something back with me, but somewhere one wouldn't guess. Rocky Creek/Pio Nono location is not really known for any glory, and some cases was in pretty bad shape, especially after Mothers Day Tornado in 2008. My goal is to 'Perimeter Center-ize' the neighborhood, or for a formal term, Update.
 

This is just a simple skyscraper. I used the round tactic that I did with Sierra, one of the earlier designs. I am fan of the curve horizontal faces style, and the last statement is just an opinion.

These are just regular images I did right off of SketchUp. I made a few adjustments so they would look more decent. The top left is the front entrance where the possible anchor would be located, the top right is the top view of the roof all the way down towards Rocky Creek (I also added the antenna later on), the bottom left is just the rear of the building all the way down to the parking deck (somewhere around here could be the garbage dump), and the bottom right is just the logo. 

 I'm trying to make this clear as possible to locals. For those familiar, or who want to be familiar, with how this building would look, I took Birds-Eye camera shots like from the Sierra project. The small formal bank, north of the building, was ignored and untouched.

 As I mentioned earlier, The building is composed of commercial, residential, media center, conference rooms, and offices. There is also the parking deck. The image is facing West.

The directory goes from the first to the fifteenth floor(top left to bottom right). Some floors origins are structured alike so some of the floors have the same floor plan, so I did one plan for those floors. Few notes; The anchor is not publicly conjoined with the tenant spaces via inside. You would have to go back and forth into the shaders to go from anchor to tenants. There is an escalator from the first to the second floor. The elevator only goes to certain floors, for example one may only go to floors 1-6, while others can go to floors 1 and 7-12. Therefore use of the elevator can be fair and limited. There are five public elevators in the commercial zone, in the residential zone upward to the top, there are only four public elevators. My idea would be to follow a similar protocol that North Atlanta High School goes by with their elevators; They have a row of elevators and their's a pad of numbers you press on the outside that opens the elevators, however in NAHS, no buttons are in the elevators, but in this project the open/close would be an optional button in the elevator. The 15th floor has roof doors to the top of the roof like normal houses have to their attic, this could vary however. The stairway between the 6th and 7th floor shift directions.

A 360 degree view of the building. This is to show as much of the exterior as possible.

The Pio Nono Plaza Center wouldn't be the first idea on the block. Just up the road, I designed Seed of South Center from last year (2015). That year, I also designed one of those unique Dairy Queen buildings just across Pio Nono Avenue. Years ago, I designed a Publix right across Rocky Creek Road, and a Einstein Bagel Bros right nearby. So, K. Ammons Renderings and this area go way back!
The current shopping center on the lot is where Pio Nono Plaza got it's name from.