American Physical Society Headquarters
Connecting APS editorial departments and the building to the landscape fosters both community and environmental harmony.
By spanning the new space across the existing we were able to expand APS’s offices with only a minor increase in lot coverage and minimal disruption to their operations. Reworking the parking with permeable paving and rain gardens allowed us to reduce the impervious surfaces. The renovated ground floor and new addition are brought together around a new atrium ringed with common spaces large and small. This creates an active core where staff can come together for planned meetings and chance encounters.
The central section of the building was demolished to provide a landing point for the structure and to allow for double-height spaces and vertical circulation. The new space was designed to encourage intersections between editors and other staff members now that work-flow between them is electronic.
The atrium is animated by the structural expression of diagonal bracing contrasted with the soft curves of the skylight. Wood and existing brick walls as well as interior plantings give the space warmth and artwork generated by Marvel from physics journal illustrations provides a focal point for discussion.
The scale of the double height atrium is complemented by the intimate scale and color of the cafe and meeting room mezzanine.
The overlook from the top of the stairs provides a vantage point to meeting rooms, informal gathering areas and the courtyard garden beyond.
A mezzanine hung from the 2nd level provides a stopping point half-way up the stairs with a cafe, library and small meeting room.
Because the Pine Barrens did not allow American Physical Society to expand their building footprint, Marvel strategized to demolish the small central section of the building and build up from there and over the adjacent building with long-span steel.
Connecting APS editorial departments and the building to the landscape fosters both community and environmental harmony.
The expansion of the American Physical Society (APS) building, located in the Pine Barrens required an approach that was sensitive to both environment around the building and inside it. By spanning the new space across the existing we were able to expand APS’s offices with only a minor increase in lot coverage and minimal disruption to their operations. Reworking the parking with permeable paving and rain gardens allowed us to reduce the impervious surfaces. The renovated ground floor and new addition are brought together around a new atrium ringed with common spaces large and small. This creates an active core where staff can come together for planned meetings and chance encounters. Daylight and vegetation permeate the design from an interior courtyard to skylights an

The building’s exterior highlights APS’s original building with new stainless steel cladding and softens the larger two story mass which encompasses the new addition with a screen of native vines.

Virginia Creeper vine climbs on the screen envelope, softening the structure and further connecting it to its surroundings. The shading screen here shows vines after 2 years growth.

Innovative structural solutions allowed for the construction of a new level over the active lower floor, integrating the old and new sections of the building.

The central section of the building was demolished to provide a landing point for the structure and to allow for double-height spaces and vertical circulation. The new space was designed to encourage intersections between editors and other staff members now that work-flow between them is electronic.

The atrium is animated by the structural expression of diagonal bracing contrasted with the soft curves of the skylight. Wood and existing brick walls as well as interior plantings give the space warmth and artwork generated by Marvel from physics journal illustrations provides a focal point for discussion.

A mezzanine hung from the 2nd level provides a stopping point half-way up the stairs with a cafe, library and small meeting room.


APS’s interior layout had previously been designed around the challenge of moving paper manuscripts through the building. In the former layout, multiple equal paths minimize congestion and collisions when moving printed documents. Now, the paperless office requires a hierarchy of paths and a clear center maximizes chance meetings and intellectual collisions.

The overlook from the top of the stairs provides a vantage point to meeting rooms, informal gathering areas and the courtyard garden beyond.

The scale of the double height atrium is complemented by the intimate scale and color of the cafe and meeting room mezzanine.

All programmatic connections are complemented by natural elements: an inner courtyard to the south brings in the earth and the overhead light monitors bathe the atrium in natural illumination.

Because the Pine Barrens did not allow American Physical Society to expand their building footprint, Marvel strategized to demolish the small central section of the building and build up from there and over the adjacent building with long-span steel.
American Physical Society Headquarters
Connecting APS editorial departments and the building to the landscape fosters both community and environmental harmony.
By spanning the new space across the existing we were able to expand APS’s offices with only a minor increase in lot coverage and minimal disruption to their operations. Reworking the parking with permeable paving and rain gardens allowed us to reduce the impervious surfaces. The renovated ground floor and new addition are brought together around a new atrium ringed with common spaces large and small. This creates an active core where staff can come together for planned meetings and chance encounters.
The central section of the building was demolished to provide a landing point for the structure and to allow for double-height spaces and vertical circulation. The new space was designed to encourage intersections between editors and other staff members now that work-flow between them is electronic.
The atrium is animated by the structural expression of diagonal bracing contrasted with the soft curves of the skylight. Wood and existing brick walls as well as interior plantings give the space warmth and artwork generated by Marvel from physics journal illustrations provides a focal point for discussion.
The scale of the double height atrium is complemented by the intimate scale and color of the cafe and meeting room mezzanine.
The overlook from the top of the stairs provides a vantage point to meeting rooms, informal gathering areas and the courtyard garden beyond.
A mezzanine hung from the 2nd level provides a stopping point half-way up the stairs with a cafe, library and small meeting room.
Because the Pine Barrens did not allow American Physical Society to expand their building footprint, Marvel strategized to demolish the small central section of the building and build up from there and over the adjacent building with long-span steel.
Connecting APS editorial departments and the building to the landscape fosters both community and environmental harmony.
The expansion of the American Physical Society (APS) building, located in the Pine Barrens required an approach that was sensitive to both environment around the building and inside it. By spanning the new space across the existing we were able to expand APS’s offices with only a minor increase in lot coverage and minimal disruption to their operations. Reworking the parking with permeable paving and rain gardens allowed us to reduce the impervious surfaces. The renovated ground floor and new addition are brought together around a new atrium ringed with common spaces large and small. This creates an active core where staff can come together for planned meetings and chance encounters. Daylight and vegetation permeate the design from an interior courtyard to skylights an

The building’s exterior highlights APS’s original building with new stainless steel cladding and softens the larger two story mass which encompasses the new addition with a screen of native vines.

Virginia Creeper vine climbs on the screen envelope, softening the structure and further connecting it to its surroundings. The shading screen here shows vines after 2 years growth.

Innovative structural solutions allowed for the construction of a new level over the active lower floor, integrating the old and new sections of the building.

The central section of the building was demolished to provide a landing point for the structure and to allow for double-height spaces and vertical circulation. The new space was designed to encourage intersections between editors and other staff members now that work-flow between them is electronic.

The atrium is animated by the structural expression of diagonal bracing contrasted with the soft curves of the skylight. Wood and existing brick walls as well as interior plantings give the space warmth and artwork generated by Marvel from physics journal illustrations provides a focal point for discussion.

A mezzanine hung from the 2nd level provides a stopping point half-way up the stairs with a cafe, library and small meeting room.


APS’s interior layout had previously been designed around the challenge of moving paper manuscripts through the building. In the former layout, multiple equal paths minimize congestion and collisions when moving printed documents. Now, the paperless office requires a hierarchy of paths and a clear center maximizes chance meetings and intellectual collisions.

The overlook from the top of the stairs provides a vantage point to meeting rooms, informal gathering areas and the courtyard garden beyond.

The scale of the double height atrium is complemented by the intimate scale and color of the cafe and meeting room mezzanine.

All programmatic connections are complemented by natural elements: an inner courtyard to the south brings in the earth and the overhead light monitors bathe the atrium in natural illumination.

Because the Pine Barrens did not allow American Physical Society to expand their building footprint, Marvel strategized to demolish the small central section of the building and build up from there and over the adjacent building with long-span steel.
American Physical Society Headquarters
Connecting APS editorial departments and the building to the landscape fosters both community and environmental harmony.
By spanning the new space across the existing we were able to expand APS’s offices with only a minor increase in lot coverage and minimal disruption to their operations. Reworking the parking with permeable paving and rain gardens allowed us to reduce the impervious surfaces. The renovated ground floor and new addition are brought together around a new atrium ringed with common spaces large and small. This creates an active core where staff can come together for planned meetings and chance encounters.
The central section of the building was demolished to provide a landing point for the structure and to allow for double-height spaces and vertical circulation. The new space was designed to encourage intersections between editors and other staff members now that work-flow between them is electronic.
The atrium is animated by the structural expression of diagonal bracing contrasted with the soft curves of the skylight. Wood and existing brick walls as well as interior plantings give the space warmth and artwork generated by Marvel from physics journal illustrations provides a focal point for discussion.
The scale of the double height atrium is complemented by the intimate scale and color of the cafe and meeting room mezzanine.
The overlook from the top of the stairs provides a vantage point to meeting rooms, informal gathering areas and the courtyard garden beyond.
A mezzanine hung from the 2nd level provides a stopping point half-way up the stairs with a cafe, library and small meeting room.
Because the Pine Barrens did not allow American Physical Society to expand their building footprint, Marvel strategized to demolish the small central section of the building and build up from there and over the adjacent building with long-span steel.
Connecting APS editorial departments and the building to the landscape fosters both community and environmental harmony.
The expansion of the American Physical Society (APS) building, located in the Pine Barrens required an approach that was sensitive to both environment around the building and inside it. By spanning the new space across the existing we were able to expand APS’s offices with only a minor increase in lot coverage and minimal disruption to their operations. Reworking the parking with permeable paving and rain gardens allowed us to reduce the impervious surfaces. The renovated ground floor and new addition are brought together around a new atrium ringed with common spaces large and small. This creates an active core where staff can come together for planned meetings and chance encounters. Daylight and vegetation permeate the design from an interior courtyard to skylights an

The building’s exterior highlights APS’s original building with new stainless steel cladding and softens the larger two story mass which encompasses the new addition with a screen of native vines.

Virginia Creeper vine climbs on the screen envelope, softening the structure and further connecting it to its surroundings. The shading screen here shows vines after 2 years growth.

Innovative structural solutions allowed for the construction of a new level over the active lower floor, integrating the old and new sections of the building.

The central section of the building was demolished to provide a landing point for the structure and to allow for double-height spaces and vertical circulation. The new space was designed to encourage intersections between editors and other staff members now that work-flow between them is electronic.

The atrium is animated by the structural expression of diagonal bracing contrasted with the soft curves of the skylight. Wood and existing brick walls as well as interior plantings give the space warmth and artwork generated by Marvel from physics journal illustrations provides a focal point for discussion.

A mezzanine hung from the 2nd level provides a stopping point half-way up the stairs with a cafe, library and small meeting room.


APS’s interior layout had previously been designed around the challenge of moving paper manuscripts through the building. In the former layout, multiple equal paths minimize congestion and collisions when moving printed documents. Now, the paperless office requires a hierarchy of paths and a clear center maximizes chance meetings and intellectual collisions.

The overlook from the top of the stairs provides a vantage point to meeting rooms, informal gathering areas and the courtyard garden beyond.

The scale of the double height atrium is complemented by the intimate scale and color of the cafe and meeting room mezzanine.

All programmatic connections are complemented by natural elements: an inner courtyard to the south brings in the earth and the overhead light monitors bathe the atrium in natural illumination.
