The siting of the building was configured to optimize solar orientation and to showcase SEMSWA’s stormwater control project.

The entry is a high volume space, identifiable as an inviting human scaled entrance.  Each building has identifiable elevations (rooftop monitors, window fenestration patterns and recesses, angled walls, patterned tall glass window walls, sloped roofs, and contrasting materials, colors, and textures) which contribute to the overall building composition.  The muted color palette was selected to complement the native, high plains environment and landscape.  The buildings are low, one story profiles.

Denver AIA Jury comments: Southeast Metropolitan Storm Water Authority: Storm water agency headquarters are a building type rarely invested with the type of care that this project exhibits.  It combines thoughtful formal gestures to the landscape with spatial inventiveness that makes it an enviable place to work.  Materials and details are deftly and sparingly handled, forming a coherent ensemble of what other hands might have been a series of unrelated buildings.