During yet another blazing hot summer, I had the pleasure to work again with Studio 8 Architects on a couple projects, including the Alterman Corporate Campus in San Antonio (technically Live Oak but whatever) across the highway from IKEA. I also finally got to work along with the wonderful folks at Alterman. Other involved parties included Whiting-Turner Contracting, Dunaway, Cleary Zimmermann, and Project Control & PC Sports.
The campus involves an office building and logistics/manufacturing facility, both with an architectural language of unpainted tilt-wall concrete panels and generous fenestration in contrast. Between the two structures is landscaping, pavillion, and cylindrical tower.
I love how the company logo sits atop and on an even plane with the logistics building.
The office building has a three-story curtain wall and structural columns that support the canopy above. There’s plenty of natural landscaping and grass, with formal pedestrian axis connecting the two buildings.
Stepping up towards the second floor balcony overlooking the pavillion, and directly adjacent to exterior concrete stairs, is a consecutive series of planters.
Once inside the lobby, visitors are greeted with wood paneling, concrete floors, and graphic walls reflecting the history of Alterman. Building programming, including the second-story executive meeting room, cantilevers over the front desk.
Facing southeast, daylight filters into the lobby each morning. 
The group training room is given life with wood ceiling and a series of swinging doors, which is totally Studio 8’s kind of thing. 
Those doors filter into a corridor that’s empties out into the pedestrian axis. 
The pedestrian axis dives directly into the logistics building, with event pavillion sited north.
Office building breakrooms, located on each floor, are stacked on top of each other. Materials reflect an industrial vernacular with heavy-appearing materials and colors, highlighted with LED lighting and colorful cables that start from the ground floor. Below is the first floor break area.
This is the second floor break area that empties onto the balcony.
With the intense heat, it was a challenge navigating extended fog and thunderstorms, but sometimes the clouds chased away just enough for catching morning light.
A series of colorful cables visually ties the stairwell between the open staircase and various office programming. 
The cables terminate on the third floor onto the smallest break area.
The building includes open office, private offices, and bullpen areas. Below illustrates how the open office overlooks the lobby, with second floor meeting room ahead hovering over.
Above the second floor plate are various rooms and meeting areas including the board room.
I had some great summer skies on soot this year. This is how the colors reflect off the monotone palette of the logistics building. 
Inside the logistics building lobby carries a wood panel wall and staircase with similar design language to the office. 
I’ve always had an affinity towards industrial vernacular and found the steel framed manufacturing hangar of the logistics facility pretty darn cool. 
At the rear of logistics is a metal canopy that accepts pickups and deliveries and a window opening allows a sliver of natural light into the building.
Some of the photography focus involved visually tying the inside to out, and elements of the campus together with each other. Here you can see the office and logo off the tower from the logistic’s break room.
Did I mention we had some great skies?
Upon evaluating the site, I immediately knew the overall image I wanted to capture of the campus and am glad we had enough weather cooperation to successfully pull it off. 
That’s it for this shoot!
