SET 4 by joperez8

TEAM 1

DESIGN PHILOSOPHY

Our interdisciplinary team combines the skills of landscape architecture and product design. We lead a design process that is both conceptual and contextual, visionary but pragmatic. Our team demonstrates experience using both strong bold vision and keenness for fine detail that determines the quality of the userâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experience. We aim to produce unique open spaces, installations, and products. Our strength is to create overall design strategies based in local context. These strategies enable us to maintain the initial design approach throughout the whole process. Based in Berlin, Germany, we use the creative background of the city to enrich our vision and ideas on a daily basis. The Wynwood Gateway Park competition is a great opportunity to reveal and make visible the vast expanse of culturally - and environmentally - rich treasure of Miami Dawntown. Our conceptual approach for this project will further enhance prospects of representative image, environmental stewardship, cultural integration, and community engagment. All with the goal to make the Gateway Park a physically, socially, accessible and connected location. We strongly believe the district needs an iconic project, an innovative installation that will create a unique sense of place, enhancing the experiential and aesthetic impact of the area. Committed to a transformative solution of quality experience to give to Wynwood a prominent Gateway, we hope to be given the opportunity to engage in this exciting metropolitan park adventure.

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REFERENCES Porte Jeune Typology : Intervention / Urban scenography Location : Mulhouse, France Year : 2013 Client : City of Mulhouse Surface area : 500 m2 / 5400 sq ft Budget : 50.000 euros / 70.000 USD

Mulhouse’s economy of the 19th century was led by textile industry, which is resembled in the world’s largest textile patterns collection in the printing museum. The intervention organizes the space of the square by putting extracted patterns from the museum on the ground for everybody to see.

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REFERENCES Amazing Courtyard Typology : Courtyard Location : Amsterdam, the Netherlands Year : 2012 Client : University of social science of Amsterdam Award : Nominated for the Dutch Design Awards 2014 Surface area : 1.000 m2 / 10.800 sq ft Budget : 120.000 euros / 165.000 USD

Within the public space of the University Campus, the Amazing Courtyard makes for a silent oasis. The intertwining pathways not only invite the user in visually but also to take a walk quietly, meditating, thinking or simply talking. The plant selection within the courtyard is dynamic, with seasonal evergreen plants and stunning flowers all year round.

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REFERENCES Punctuation Gardens Typology : Roof gardens Location : Belval, Luxemburg Year : 2013 Client : Fonds Belval Award : Competition 2nd Price, awarded by Michel Desvignes Surface area : 500 m2 / 5400 sq ft Budget : 200.000 euros / 275 000 USD

The Punctuation Gardens are composed of 3 roof gardens created for the university library of Belval, Luxemburg. Inspired by nature and literature, they offer a break from the restless atmosphere of the university centre. Each of them symbolize an iconic punctuation sign: the star (*) , the slash (/), and the coma (,).

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REFERENCES Invisible gardeners Typology : Installation Location : Lausanne, Switzerland Year : 2014 Client : Lausanne Jardins 2014 Award : Prize-winner project Lausanne Jardins 2014 contest Surface area : 175 m2 / 1.900 sq ft Budget : 15.000 euros / 20.000 USD

The earthworm’s inexhaustible work is indispensable for the equilibrium of the soil. The design of the «wormcomposter», acts as a rejuvenation device. Its inhabitants process organic matter nurturing the flower meadow above, therefore the earthworms role in the ecosystem can be perceived by the visitor through the gain in biodiversity.

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REFERENCES Pissenlits Typology : Sculpture Location : Lille, France Year : 2010 Client : Oxylane Art Foundation Award : Btwin Art of the Move Competition Surface area : 400 m2 / 4300 sq ft Budget : 100.000 euros / 136.000 USD

The sculpture takes place on the freeway, in front of a bicycle company who commissioned there a strong and symbolic installation. The idea to transform real bicycle wheels into giant dandelions cames in the research for lightness, simplicity and clarity, notably because of the specificity of the context.

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REFERENCES Motus Typology : Urban furniture Location : Lille, France Year : 2012 Client : Futurotextiles awards Award : Lille 3000 and Lille design prizes Surface area : 2,5 m2 / 24 sq ft Budget : 15.000 euros / 20.500 USD

From the outside, Motus shelter appear like strange-looking bushes. Inside, the user finds himself cut off from surrounding noise. Made from sound-absorbing technical textiles, they arouse the curiosity of city dwellers. If you need to give an important call or take refuge from the rain, Motus shelters create islands of calm in the urban effervescence.

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TEAM 2

Design Philosophy My vision of design is based on the conjunction of the different components that not only define design as an art, but also demonstrates the harmonious relationship between the built and natural worlds. It is my goal to create synergy between the individuals that conceive my art, and all its expressions, as form of living. Design for me is a dynamic art that inevitably sculpts our environment, community and lives. I am often struck by the feeling that urban design chose me to be its adherent learner. I have vivid memories as a young girl of carrying bricks and bringing water to mix the concrete for the foundation and columns for the home that my family and I built together. My grandmother thought me gardening and how to care for living nature growing on our back yard. Little they know that they were also teaching me the nature of community. It is this sense of community and the gift of creativity that inspires me to passionately continue pursuing a career in urban design and to find the balance between sustainable design spaces in the realm of human experience. My work focus includes investigating context-driven concept solutions fostering community and environment embracing built, civic and natural realms.

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RE: Imagine I-70 Corridor

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Re-stitching Communities Colorado Blvd

Washington St

A bold vision for the future of North Denver is realized through the re-routing of I-70 along the current I-76 and highway 270 alignment. A vibrant at-grade

Broadway

Denver Blvd

Federal Blvd

Re-connecting networks

Sheridan Blvd

64th Ave

38th Ave

Master Plan

Wadsworth Blvd

What is today a major deterrent to development can become...

experience Denver boulevard

...an urban center that beautifully balances human scale with the high density surrounding a primary transit hub...

and showcases the blending of clean industrial development with mixed-use and residential areas.

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I-76 I-70

I-270

I-76

I-270 I-70

Proposed Denver Blvd

I-25

create a gateway to Denver To Downtown: Denver Blvd and Brighton Blvd I-70 I-25

Downtown Denver

I-70

Existing Condition: arterial at Brighton Blvd

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I-70

I-270

I-25

I-76

Proposed Denver Blvd

I-270 I-70

capitalize development around transit

TOD: 44th Avenue and Fox Street Downtown Denver

I-70

Existing Condition: railyard

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I-70

I-270

I-76 I-70

I-25

I-76

Proposed Denver Blvd

I-270 I-70

rediscover Denverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s underused natural resources Riverfront Redevelopment: South Platte River Downtown Denver

I-70

Existing Condition: forgotten South Platte river

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I-70

I-270

I-76 I-70

I-25

I-76

Proposed Denver Blvd

I-270 I-70

pedestrian scale multimodal boulevard

Mixed Use: Denver Blvd and Federal Avenue Downtown Denver

I-70

Existing Condition: limited access highway at Federal Avenue

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TEAM 3

PHILOSOPHY: I believe that a disciplined design process will lead to an authentic design solution. The desire to create a unique, personalized experience is the driving force behind all of my work. Communicating a story through design is a challenging puzzle that can have many answers. My process includes using free-association thinking to identify and solve complex problems, and the use of trends in materials and technology to engage and educate the end user. Designing an exceptional experience begins by understanding the clientâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s desired reaction of itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s audience or end-user and working backwards to find the right solution. This information is used to craft a series of touch points that are staged throughout a journey that becomes the experience. Storytelling becomes an important design element that connects each of the touch points, creating a unified message. Communicating this to a wide audience requires the use of various design elements that can speak at different volumes. An effective experience creates a special bond between the participant and the host that will encourage loyalty, appreciation, and good publicity. I always hope that my work will engage the senses, make people smile, laugh, and realize that there is always another person behind any creation.

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ELECTROLUX design competition CHALLENGE: Re-imagine a kitchen using Electrolux appliances SOLUTION: Breakthrough Entertaining A 64 sq.ft. glass-enclosed, multi-purpose cantilevered addition will improve the experience of entertaining in the kitchen by streamlining and organizing the space while it suspends guests over the backyard oasis.

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FUJIFILM trade show exhibit CHALLENGE: Marketing environment with a maverick personality SOLUTION: Features include a central oasis/lounge with water feature, large fabric surfaces animated with dynamic video and lighting, marketing zone for new products, multiple demonstration areas, and second level for hospitality and private meetings.

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BIKE PARK design competition - one of nine winning entries CHALLENGE: Bike rack as public art for the city of Philadelphia SOLUTION: Bright green powder coated steel grass blades growing from urban sidewalks creating mini bike parks.

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SIEMENS MEDICAL trade show exhibit CHALLENGE: Unify multiple business units under one brand SOLUTION: Bold architectural elements define the space while individual brand boutiques are organized around the perimeter. A central innovation zone features new product launches.

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ROTATE HOUSE design competition - 3rd place winner CHALLENGE: DWELL Magazine and Lincoln Motor Company Re-imagine a Mid Century Modern home for today SOLUTION: Adjustable prefabricated living modules with views of a central garden. The sloping green roof allows more light into each space, framing a beautiful view, and bringing nature indoors.

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SPRINGFIELD MALL grand opening eventCHALLENGE: Transform a mall interior for a gala event SOLUTION: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Diamonds and Pearlsâ&#x20AC;? theme is realized with facetted mirrored stages, overhead projection surfaces, internally illuminated pearl chandelier and catwalk lighting. Vertical video towers feature fashion footage activating the space.

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TEAM 4

DESIGN TEAM PHILOSOPHY

The firm insists on the importance of architecture and the design of the city as a singular investigation where inquiry and realization, poetry and practicality, history and invention are inextricably linked. A typological, historical, contextual, and climatological understanding informs the work. Projects engage contemporary building practices while maintaining an interest in what is culturally resonant about a specific place and how each project can reflect this. As such, the work of the practice is eclectic, exploring a range of languages and building types informed by the particulars of each setting. Finally, there is a pre-occupation with a range of incidental themes such as the importance of perspective and the â&#x20AC;&#x153;visualâ&#x20AC;? in the choreography of space; thus the transfiguration of the commonplace through architecturally staged phenomena has been a consistent goal of the work. REGISTRATION #

MDO MIAMI, FLORIDA

The project is a 5,000 quare foot retail showroom for a Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Suit Company. Located along Tamiami Trail, the building houses a principal showroom and offices for the comapny.

Photo by Steven Brooke Project completed in 2012. AIA Merit Award of Excellence, 2013 REGISTRATION #

OAK PLAZA MIAMI, FLORIDA

The project is composed of a a new street, two infill retail buildings and a public open space. The plaza, was developed under a stand of existing mature white oaks and was intended to act as a central gathering space for the Design District.

Photos by Steven Brooke & Simon Ware AIA Merit Award of Excellence, ,2007. REGISTRATION #

OAK PLAZA MIAMI, FLORIDA

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CAPE DUTCH HOUSE CORAL GABLES, FLORIDA

The project involved the complete restoration of a historic house designed in 1925 by Marion Syms Wyeth within the Dutch South African Village in Coral Gables, Florida. The project was completed in 2009 and has received numerous awards including an AIA Merit Award of Excellence and a State of Florida Historic Preservation Award,, 2010.

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IMSA GUATEMALA CITY, GUATEMALA

The project is a 90,000 square foot corporate headquaters for a Sugar Mill located in Southern Guatemala.. The principal room of the building is a large cummunal office space capable of seating 400 people. The prvoject is currently under construction and is scheduled to be completed in November, 2014.

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COLEGIO INTERAMERICANO GUATEMALA CITY, GUATEMALA

The masterplan includes the expansion of an existing elementary school located in Guatemala City, Guatemala. The new project includes 24 classrooms, gymnasium, cafeteria, administrative offices, science labs, Media Center and a variety of recreational spaces for outdoor sports including soccer, basketball and track and field.

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TEAM 6

Our firm is founded on the precept of collaborative creation. A finely tuned collaborative studio of distinct talents, academic interests and professional strengths launched on the shared strength of over 50 years of professional accomplishment in the fields of urban design, architectural design, planning, development and project management.

Our passion is design. Our goal is to create places with lasting value for the communities they serve.

Design is the creative focus of our process - a participatory process in which we bring together all stakeholders and specialists (citizens, economists, engineers, architects, developers, policy makers, government officials, and builders) to a complete and wellrounded understanding of the projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attributes. Our designs build on the unique character and positive qualities inherited by each place in which we are privileged to work. By working at many scales, we find ways of coordinating the design of individual buildings; the public spaces they help create; the neighborhoods, cities and urban spaces of which they are a part; and the regional culture they celebrate into a viable and vital urban tapestry. We see that as our mission. As individuals and as a team, we have that sense of purpose in common, and we apply it diligently and passionately to help guide us in identifying appropriate projects. Along with our alliance partners, we offer a wide range of design services within four primary categories: urban design; architectural design; interior design; and master planning. Our goal is to create urban space of the highest quality, our approach is comprehensive, and while our core competency is urban design it is informed by a full understanding of the role that architectural form, building details, and streetscape character play in creating and reflecting the values of diverse, economically successful, human-scale, and ecologically respectful communities.

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RELEVANT EXPERIENCE P or t sid e m ia m i Miami, FL, USA | Planned

Port Side Miami is endowed with a privileged location that affords its buildings with outstanding views of Miami, Key Biscayne and South Beach. This project becomes the ideal upscale destination for residents and visitors alike; retail, office and hotels provide round the clock activity that transforms Port Miami into an anchor for South Florida as well as setting a new standard for new waterfront development. Connectivity to mainland is crucial to the district’s success; providing a range of transportation options, Port Side will seem as an immediate extension of downtown while maintaining its identifiable urban island look. Including one of the city’s longest public promenades - Port Side will become a destination by simply its physical attributes, engaging the water’s edge at every level and in a variety of manners supported by shops, boutiques, cafes and restaurants on the water.

a l k h u wa ir c en ter Muscat, Oman | Planned

This project has a distinctive Middle eastern character with the creation of four different buildings connected on the top floors to create a courtyard. The mixed use complex has a movie theatre, high end stores, offices, apartments and an a 5 star hotel with rooftop amenities for the residents and hotel guests such as spa, pool & sun deck, clubhouses, gyms and lounge areas.

K la k svik City Cen ter Klaksvic, Faroe Islands | Planned

Klaksvik has grown from a small fishing village to the 2nd biggest town in the Islands in recent years, with the economic & population burst the city decided a new town center was needed. The design for the Master Plan derives from their close relationship to the water, their fishing culture and respect to nature and a series of ancient building techniques used by their ancestors, the Vikings.

weston c en tr e S tr ategic pla n Downtown San Antonio, TX, USA | Planned

Weston Centre Strategic Plan grandfathers San Antonio’s most successful and defining elements - the Riverwalk - for inspiration and precedent. The concept of the loop is replicated and circuits laid out and inter-linked at strategic points throughout the intervention.

Qin gd a o

Qingdao, China | Planned

The new arts district has been proposed to serve as the city’s primary creative arts center and a hosting ground for Qingdao’s most significant cultural activities, including live music festivals, film festivals, art walks and design expositions. The heart of the proposal focuses on the construction of simple concrete and glass shells similar to existing warehouses in the area to provide spaces for local artists, drawng to large open spaces, high ceiling and abundant natural light. The simplicity of the project’s architecture becomes the stage around which “life happens,” providing artists with inspirational work spaces where they can give performances and simply create art, showcasing sculpture and street installations, leaving their distinctive mark on the structures themselves in the form of murals and other installations that will become an integral part of the district’s public spaces.

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L u j ia o - An tler Town ChongQing, China | Planned

Hinging on the increasingly Chinese senior-housing deficit, Lujiao is designed as one of the first ‘age-in-place’ communities in China that incudes a hospital, clinics and nursing homes as well as commercial nodes and a regional commercial center at walking distance and served by a regional public transportation system.

J in g A o

Tianjin, China | Built

Jing Ao International Commercial plaza is embedded at the intersection of two major vehicular arteries in the city of Tianjin, China. This small scale intervention is the commercial component to a larger residential project by the same client. It incorporates learned systems that provide a variety of experiences to visitors while integrating the intervention to its surroundings. The hotel and offices become a strong destination that feed the commercial spaces intertwined along a coherent and carefully choreographed circuitous sequence of courtyards, corridors and plazas in a woonerf-type spacial composition. The interventions creates a wholesome experience of seamless transitions that collate a variety of retail tenants enhancing the standing of the project to a full-fleshed destination enclave on a key location of the city.

DALIAN Ha iga n g C h en g - Ha r b ou r C ity Dalian, China | Built

Located within a planned research triangle, HC provides housing largely marketed for scientists faculty and students along the Dalian-Jilin corridor. The project is organized by a canal system that serves to de-regularize the stringent planning codes by providing a secondary network of amenities throughout the design.

COMPREHENSIVE PLAN O F CURRIDABAT Curridabat, Costa Rica | Implemented

This report is the base for a Form-Based-Code for the municipality of Curridabat (it will be the 1st implemented comprehensive plan in Central America) intended to structure future development ensuring healthy growth and the provision of a safe and forwardlooking environment for the municipality’s citizens. 2014 CNU22 Charter Award - “Best City Plan”

ESM

Modular Growth

Throughout the universe: we find common expressions of elements that are the building blocks to larger and more sophisticated compositions. ESM applies this natural order to architecture and urbanism. In order to understand and solve these complex systems the first attempt must be to simplify them by finding commonalities and defining their modules. Modules can be sometimes combined, to create other sequences that make up the structures to larger systems. Modules are applied to single family and multi-family design; the modular single house may be placed on different lot types to become detached, semi-detached or attached (town-house).ESM has been designed to grow organically over time. Both the housing stock and the planning evolves with the needs of the community by the addition of modules and the consolidation of parcels systematically.

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E a st BAY HARBOR Tianjin, China | Planned

On newly sea-reclaimed land, Tianjin East Bay Harbor is one of the few locations that has direct access to the Bohai Sea in Tianjin. Adjacent to the new cruise terminal, the project seeks to establish the memory of the port by utilizing structures and materials found in functioning ports, such as shipping containers, while creating a new marine ecosystem and wetlands. The port is therefore reused in an artistic manner within the architecture of the project both in its units and as monuments at key points. They become gateways into nature and finally part of nature itself, an economical and environmental way to construct both architecture and the landscape - two very important aspects of any project these days.

Fen gh u a n g X in Ch en g - Ph oen ix Tow n Tangshan, China | Under Construction

Locating a commercial core within the project, this project establishes itself as a retail destination for the greater Tangshan area. PNT re-invents the modern chinese-privacy-clasifications introducing new security systems that allow greater mobility and permeability to access amenities while maintaining overall privacy.

n ew town ph oen ix

Tangshan, China | Under Construction

New Town Phoenix, strives to serve as a model for high quality of life; responsible and environmentally conscious urbanism and above all, a new precedent for sustainable development in Tangshan. It capitalizes on the city’s cultural resources in order to complement the existing urban fabric and add to the already numerous city resources.

TIANJIN H a iga n g Ch en g - H a r b ou r C ity Tianjin, China | Built

A proclaimed ‘exemplar precedent’ for new development in Binhai Area, HC offers an unprecedented opportunity to address an intriguing confluence of challenges in a most urban and prominent location. Designed to attract a young demographic the project employes stylish and fresh amenities and architecture. Beyond the distinctive urban design and masterplanning approach, the expressive aesthetic of its architectural design speaks of texture and elegance, with a highly variegated façade phrasing which adjusts according to position, orientation and scale. The aim of HC was to offer a novel yet highly integrated expression of urban dwelling adapted to the site’s context while benefiting from its unique attributes; an urban expression that blends-in with and learns from its surroundings while evolving beyond to generate building design of the highest quality.

H u xin d a o - 8 8 G a r d en s Xiamen, China | Planned

A vision to develop an existing under-utilized city park, 88G is an intervention that maintains the open-space while maximizing the site’s FAR introducing high-end residential in an enviable peninsula that provides unobstructed water views.

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DongJiangGang

Tianjin, China

DongJiangGang, located on newly reclaimed land on the waterfront of the Bohai Bay, in Tianjin China, creates a new paradigm for a regional community in harmony with its environment. The design utilizes sustainable and inherent site elements to blend the built and natural environments. Project Status: Site Area:

Planned 17.3 Acres

The desire to create safe and prosperous communities that evolve into resident-oriented and environment-friendly master plans, which are the culmination the seamless blending of commercial centers, residential units and waterfronts while providing open water views to all residents and visitors from both public and private locations. The waterfront, becomes a superb setting for this utopian idea of shared spaces, where people can enjoy ocean views from indoors and varied outdoor areas. The master plan promotes this notion by maximizing â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;sharedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; views to the water by willing the buildings into v-shapes that, enhanced with height, hierarchy, and variation of residential typologies, create a homogeneous array of unit types that encourage social interaction. Careful attention has been given to the design of the shoreline, which becomes the main amenity of the community. This continuous linear open space makes a unique recreational space for residents and visitors alike.

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Bakehouse Art Complex

Miami, Florida

Our project vision is the creation of a space that will enhance the experiential access to the Bakehouse Art Complex. Project Status: Site Area:

Planned 3,200 sf

Originally built in the early 1920â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as the American Bakeries Company, The Bakehouse Art Complex (BAC) purchased the property and retrofitted the facility into working studios for artists and exhibition galleries. This project attempts to redefine and upgrade their primary exterior event space and lobby, improving the circulation and visibility to both the gallery and the studios. For the exterior event space we conceived an intervention that is endowed with a considerable level of autonomy. By clearly defining the space and providing a compatible, yet distinct language, the intrinsic characteristics of both existing and proposed are redefined in a new choreographed space. This strategy provides a location for out-door venues as well as a welcoming entrance to the BACâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s facility. The design provides a well defined three-dimensional space that becomes the heart of the new BAC. The objective for the lobby is the creation of a space that captures the essence of the former bakehouse while incorporating contemporary elements such as industrial lighting, a stainless steel table and repurposed wood. This ensemble results in a nostalgic and elegant atmosphere.

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Nuevo Palermo

Buenos Aires, Argentina

An ecological-cultural piece integrated to the surroundings, blurring the frontiers between dichotomies like natural and built, public and private environments, all in a coherent vision that addresses the needs of one of the most desirable areas of Buenos Aires. Project Status: Site Area:

Planned 107 Acres

Located along the Palermo Railway tracks in Buenos Aires, the site of Nuevo Palermo is bisected by an active railroad and flanked by two socially and typologically dissimilar neighborhoods, Palermo Hollywood and Palermo Soho, whose only shared characteristic is a lack of green space. This proposal for the Palermo Railway Tracks Development Master Plan Competition is an ecologically and culturally aimed project that will create a destination Park, occupying 65 percent of the land, and commercial space on the remaining expanse that will employ green roofs and other open spaces that add to nearly 90 percent of the site as a green space. Inspired by the Humid Pampa ecosystem, the Parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s landscape would feature prairies, retaining ponds, grass meadows and isolated forests strategically arranged for social use, and aiming to buffer the the train line. while strategically allowing for open views to buildings and the adjacent neighborhoods.

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DESIGN PHILOSOPHY We believe in architecture's capacity to attend society's everyday problems and its ability to project the world we want to live in. At the same time, architecture has to address issues of adaptation and transformation in a constantly evolving society where people's lifestyles are continuously changing. As a manifestation of human aspirations, architecture should also be grounded in a conscious effort to preserve our limited resources. We believe that both good design and profitability should go by the hand. Good architecture is inherently ecological and can also be a tool for social change and economic growth. Our passion for what we do is greatly derived from architecture's ability to positively affect people's quality of life. We aim to design spaces and environments in which people live and interact with one another, while at the same time promoting every user's discovery process of their surroundings. We develop abstract ideas and transform them into spatial formations. During this transformation process many considerations, like site, cultural and economic environment, client's programmatic needs and budget constraints, among others, have a baring effect in the form and the space. We aspire to create environments, buildings, or cities where design, technology, and finance work in unison, enabling an environment for innovation. We design in a non-linear process, were problem and solution can emerge together with no definite direction of flow. We understand architecture also as a visual art where buildings and spaces should speak for themselves, and with the hope that they may also serve and inspire their communities.

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BEFORE

GELM ANNEX - 2012 The challenges of proposing adaptive reuse as a model of redevelopment merged with those of designing and building under extremely limited budget and timeframe. A perforated corten skin with a pattern allusive to surrounding bamboo hedges establishes a dialogue with the natural context while attending issues of harmony, sustainability, longevity, and light-filtering.

RECYCLED STRUCTURE

VOLUMETRIC ADDITION

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2,543 ft 2 - 76 ft 2 Facade Area 1

Honor Award of Excellence for Renovations- AIA Florida/Caribbean Honor Awards - 2014 Honor Award for Built Project- XIII Puerto Rico's Architecture Biennale - 2013 Merit Award for Built Project-- AIA Honor Awards PR Chapter - 2013

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Color Light Filters

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+ 511ft 2 = 24% Perforated

Transparency

E-LODGE - 2010 An ecological boutique lodge aspires to establish a connection between architecture and its context, where culture and climate intermingle, becoming a sensory experience marked by the sea as a place and destination, but primarily as image. The project provides graphic reference to that which drives the ludic and leisure culture in Condado, and ultimately, its economy.

Honor Award for Unbuilt Design- AIA Florida/Caribbean Honor Awards - 2014 Honor Award for Unbuilt Project- XIII Puerto Rico's Architecture Biennale - 2013 People's Choice Award Winners Edition- AIA Honor Awards PR Chapter - 2012 Merit Award for Unbuilt Project- AIA Honor Awards PR Chapter - 2011

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GUARDERIA ECOLOGICA LA MINA - 2012 Existing structures abandoned for over 30 years were rescued from total collapse and integrated into this pre-school project. The experience of public and private space at multiple scales was conveyed by incorporating natural light and a playful composition of forms and materials. BEFORE

Merit Award for Built Project- AIA Honor Awards PR Chapter - 2012

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JOSE GANDARA PARK - 2010 The project proposes the transformation of an existing public space into a vibrant, sustainable urban park by adapting and fully integrating it to the recently developed subway system “Tren Urbano” station. A body of water is the primary organizing element, serving also as a contemplative and refreshing tool for the hot urban tropical climate.

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EAST CONNECTOR- 2013 This linear, urban plaza intervention intends to connect two historical buildings from dissimilar architectural periods; physically and visually establish pedestrian circulation; and convey a sense of place between the Atlantic Ocean and the Bay. Key elements employed are a glass canopy, the linear plaza, the soft landscape, and custom-designed urban furniture. N

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DISTRITO CAPITOLINO 1. Edificio Medicina Tropical 2. Anexo del Senado 3. Capitolio 4. Anexo de Representantes 5. Monumentos 6. Bahía Urbana 7. Capitol Plaza 8. Casa Olímpica Límites del Distrito Capitolino Límites de la intervención

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Merit Award for Urban Design- AIA Honor Awards PR Chapter - 2013

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General Project Plan

VALLE ESCONDIDO #30 - 2000 The project establishes a dialogue between the interior and exterior, with ample visual fields, the use of natural illumination and ventilation, and the use of water as design elements. The modern tropical condition of the design is strongly emphasized by maintaining the spatial continuity and openness between spaces.

Merit Award for Built Project- AIA Honor Awards PR Chapter - 2004

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PHILOSOPHY Whether retail, residential, commercial, or installation, as small as a door handle as large as an 8 story facade, we approach design with youthful energy, exploration, and enthusiasm for innovative tailored solutions. We have an artistic interest in the craft and juxtaposition of timeless, unconventional, and cutting edge materials. Listening is a guiding principle. Each project considers physical constraints and possibilities, collective and individual image, technology, sustainability, communication, perception, and form, seeking to find the opportunity to invent, to solve, and to play.

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PRADA Levanella Levanella, Italy

Completed as a designer at Herzog and De Meuron Architects.

PRADA Store Tokyo, Japan

Completed as a designer at Herzog and De Meuron Architects.

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FENDI store New York, NY

Completed as a designer at Herzog and De Meuron Architects.

Anthony Lawrence Design Center New York, NY. Completed 2011

MKG Productions Headquarters New York, NY . Completed 2010 REGISTRATION #

Holocaust Memorial Competition Atlantic City, NJ Unbuilt

BOFFO Building Fashion Competition New York, NY Finalist, Unbuilt REGISTRATION #

Mercer Street Residences New York, NY Currently in Design Development

GoGo SqueeZ HeadQuarters New York, NY Completed 2013 REGISTRATION #

Clinton Hill Residences Brooklyn, NY Under construction

Windsor Terrace Residences Brooklyn, NY Under construction REGISTRATION #

FIGMENT’s City of Dreams Pavillion Competition New York, NY Unbuilt

STREETFEST Competition New York, NY Unbuilt REGISTRATION #

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philosophy

Our base philosophy is to provide our clients with Creative concepts, functional architectural environments and experimental solutions, that adjusts to clients budgets. The firm has a fundamental belief that each project offers us the opportunity to develop innovative architectural design solutions that can make a positive and lasting contribution to our built environment. We strongly believe in a rigorous and holistic design process that encourages the direct participation of our clients and specialty consultants in a collaborative work environment. We are fully committed to creating sophisticated contemporary designs that are sensitive to the culture of our individual clients and the specific context of each project, no matter what size it is, or where it is located. It is our responsibility to develop cost effective design solutions to address complex technical and environmental challenges and to fully understand the functional needs of each project.

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key biscayne park Proposal to incorporate a community park in an open lot in key Biscayne, maintaining as much of the green as possible and incorporating to the design paths and walkways that take pedestrian from one side to the other, experiencing the movement of the landscape. The project has taken inspiration from the keyÂ´s surroundings, the SEA.

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container house concept This is part of an ongoing conceptual project that investigates unorthodox construction methods. The idea behind it was to develop a system were containers could be plugged as need in order to expand the dwelling unit. Kitchen and bathrooms are located within standard construction while living, dining and bedrooms within â&#x20AC;&#x153;podsâ&#x20AC;?.

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community market A community market, designed as open as possible in order to maintain a visual communication with the landscape and while keeping a physical connection between the two streets that the lot connects. The inspiration for this design was the movement and dynamism derived from the commercial interaction.

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brickell mixed-use Establishing open/permeable for the public, and solid/enclosed for the private, this project creates different visual languages, between its uses: retail and office. Both of the functional spaces are connected by a roof terrace. Volumetrically, the design responds to a basically design exercise of intercepting FULL vs. EMPTY.

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private residence Private residence for a family in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. The program called for a large house in a small lot. In order to accomplish this, the design had to go up, increasing the density of the project. The use of water and greenery was introduced throughout to soften the bare concrete structure.

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Malawi container clinic

Design for an emergency clinic made out of shipping containers originally design for a competition for Malawi. It was designed to be an economical solution by reusing old containers left behind in ports all over the world. They could be easily carried by boat and deployed by Helicopter into any landscape.

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Teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s design philosophy

The studio was founded with the main objective of carrying out the latest trends of this fast-changing and globalized world with the needs and desires of our clients. Adapting them to the surrounding context of the projects. We believe on following certain key points to achieve successful developments. Creativity responds to one of them, to one of our design criteria. we are constantly looking to innovate with unique concepts that can bring satisfaction both to the client and the community where the project is submerge. Teamwork is a fundamental instrument on giving form to the concerns of every project. That is why we gathered a group of ambitious professionals in which we combine architecture, landscape, engineering and environmental design to reach our goals. Sustainability is a variable involve in the creation of our projects. The idea of long term architecture for the future communities translates in generating spaces sensible to the urban context. We are convinced that the possibility of reusing resources and protecting the environment can support a useful and responsible design. We like to develop ventures where they help society to rise their spirit through architecture and design. In an emerging community, clear ideas are a necessity to integrate society, culture, health and environment. Bring community together in a space created to combine leisure and consciousness is a challenge that we embrace. Generate balance and integration between a design and its context is a must on building a higher commitment with the city.