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I f ar ch ite c t u re is the hardware, w ho is designing t he software? We have grown accustomed to treating as sacred architecture that fits within a certain structural or tectonic criteria; but for us the building defined by structure, spatiality and form is really just the HARDWARE. The values and principles of societies are shown by the programmatic composition. The interrogation set forth in the title aims to be a question about the adaptation of the architectural practice, accustomed to program behaviors, in a society we perceive as non-programmable. The velocity and spontaneity of social behavior and media makes programmatic determination of spaces obsolete. Maybe what concerns architecture in a contemporary context is to design the SOFTWARE, that is, to imagine architectural programs that habilitate primarily the unexpected? In our search, we explore the use of EXPERIENTIAL PLATFORMS -clean of previous meaning or ideological representation- attempting to potentiate an unexpected flow of events and accommodate a more organic behavior while meeting the programmatic requirements set forth by our clients and remaining committed to design excellence. Our work is supported by a constant state of active awareness fueled by mental flexibility, research and continuous creativity. Whether it be an art installation, a public project or a commercial building we always ask the question: what can the project give to the community, the town, the city? Where is the ADDED VALUE of a project?
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Reforma Av., Mexico City, Mexico This site-specific installation for the coffee company NescafĂŠ was conceived as a portal activated by city dwellers and the everyday stimuli of the city. It combines a common every-day-life object, a mug, with a basic common architectural construction material, steel rebar, to create a space for expression and interaction in the public realm.
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RO M A MARK ET
Roma Neignborhood, Mexico City, Mexico An industrial type space was adapted to house expressions of the rich contemporary Mexican gastronomic culture. This reinterpretation of the traditional enclosed market is meant to be a catalyzer and detonator to the community, seeking to integrate local efforts and launch them from a contemporary platform rooted in cultural traditions and the collective history of a nation.
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c i n e te c a n acional Mexico City, Mexico
For the expansion and renovation of Mexico’s National Film Archives complex, that included additional vault space and four more screening rooms, we didn’t want it to feel like you were in the lobby of a commercial cinema, we wanted it to feel more like a university campus, with everything floating in a park.
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fa l c on h ead qu ar ter s 2 Mexico City, Mexico
The new headquarters’ expansion was conceptualized as an extension of the garden that surrounded the previously designed Falcón yellow box. A transparent rectangular structure with a sunscreen layer composed of offset linear planters effectively disappears as part of the landscape preserving the main building’s green views and cooling the structure in a passive solar way.
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ch e dra u i s up er mar ket Mexico City, Mexico
A rooftop farm and market square where added to the requested retail and parking program giving a green space back to the community in a neighborhood with deficient urban planning and lack of public space. The space is design as a platform to strengthen the bond with local producers, enhance local economies and promote food, nutrition and environmental awareness..
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L i ve r p oo l de par tment stor e Insurgentes Ave., Mexico City, Mexico
This façade project challenges the notion of the “blind box” department store and gives it an animated envelope where inside activity can be showcased and interact with urban activity. A variety of temporary programs and/or experiences can be housed within the deep habitable façade that becomes a mediator between the busy surrounding urban condition and the department store’s traditionally programmed interiors.
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MISSION STATEMENT At the office we are committed to implementing a multi-disciplinary approach to architecture and landscape urbanism. Our design process is to integrate innovative design with special attention and consideration for the publics’ everyday activities. Engaging with the users from the early design stages is one of the main principles of our work. When we start a new project, we spend time figuring out the existing culture, who are the neighboring players and what will be the twist that could push the site from the present the future. We don’t believe in flattening the existing condition and starting a new. Bulldozing is never the right tool for dealing with existing urban regeneration. Our work is always site specific, no project is similar in scale, typology or materials but it always deal with engaging the public. In the years 2000 to 2004 we have co-founded a collaborative group of artists, architects and landscape architect, to research the urban changes happening in downtown Los Angeles. The group was challenged by existing urban conditions rather than by idealized visions. We believe that the complexity that such visions generally gloss over is the source of urban interest, vitality and future growth. Innovation comes from within convoluted situations, which generally characterize the urban condition and is achieved through careful observation and thoughtful intervention. The group took a broad-minded approach to the city and was committed to bridging the gap between the professional players and residents, workers and visitors.
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A new typology of an urban park is designed at the end of a wide modernist street that brutally terminates by a high concrete acoustic barrier for the crossing freeway. This kind of “junk� space is quite common along freeways that cross dense urban fabrics. The project tries to find the potential in this space by creating a new permeable wall with an opening to an uplifting experience for the individuals.
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Educational Recycling Center. A complex which is 2,500 sqm designed based on the principles
of separating waste to organic/DRY and unorganic/WET. The Dry area is built from recycled and reuse materials such as rubber tires, construction waste and recycled plastic boards. The Wet area is built as a big crater to absorb rain water with an outdoor class covered with live plants.
Legend A. WET outdoor class B. composters C. wd. sticks divider D. garden beds E. winter pond F. chipped wood stack G. truck turnning pt. H. rubber divider I. Corrugated electrical conduit J. wood chips mulch K. DRY outdoor class L. Recycling containers M. Gabion wall N. Bicycle racks
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Haifa MIX urban regenaration. A competition entry for city of Haifa. Received 2nd prize. Our proposal suggested an innovative approach to regenerate the commercial strip of the Carmel ridge by introducing a network mechanism, to coordinate interventions in the public domain.
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Hiriya on the bridge, competition proposal, park Ayalon
Our proposal offers a design solution to the question“ how could the visitors of the park keep a continuous eye contact with the mountain and still be in a fully shaded comfortable space for activities?� The bridge is a combination of two components: an economically engineered bridge and a lower level landscape component that encourages an educational and ecological experience of nature in the urban landscape of Tel-Aviv metropolitan area.
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Eco-dune
Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province is a fast growing city, speckled with scenic hills on its mostly plain terrain. A project for a creative garden in China. The proposal is looking at the topography of the urban landscape of Wuhan and introducing an exciting new typology for the Wuhan Expo-Park. The ECO DUNE is an ecological project, designed as a showcase for environmental awareness and putting the emphasis on human interaction.
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Givat-Brener logistic complex at Kibutz Givat-Brener.
Master plan for 81,000 sqm of logistics park with 5 different warehouses. The first building contain 10,000 sqm of logistics and storage and 3,000 sqm of offices gallery. opened at 2012
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TEAM 3
Our Design Philosophy Our design philosophy aims to unfold the profession of architecture and open a dialogue between community members through design. We are process-oriented and place people at the center of urban development. Our firm challenges traditional design processes to ensure all development within our cities starts with the communities. We believe that great cities are democratic cities that support, facilitate and nurture society. We as designers, in collaboration with citizens, share the responsibility for each other and our physical, built environment. Spaces within cities must be developed collectively to ensure citizens visions and desires are realized. Furthermore, we believe in generating concrete, well-informed strategies for urban development through interactive citizen involvement. We work with a method and ideology based upon the notion that place contains the culture of an area and facilitates future life. Our approach looks at how infrastructure and place are connected to the rest of the world. We allow green infrastructure and sustainable design strategies to drive our design. Lastly, we aim to work methodologically when we communicate our ideas to people in an effort to build systematically upon experiences and adapt over time to the ever-changing social, environmental and economic conditions.
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A green corridor was created as a functional urban greenway and linear landscape to serve as a linkage between different scales and types of landscape. The corridor offers various opportunities for recreation, education, and cultural resources. It creates a recreational spine and sustainable landscape for nature and people.
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The Mountain 1. Treatment of wall gives the illusion of a breathtaking mountain 2. Mountain scenery spills out onto parking spaces and create interactive elements 3. Works as a modern ecological playground with opportunity to rest and play
4. The space facilitates winter activities bringing life to the urban space year round 5. The mountain enables slow water filtration thus reducing run-off and beautifying the landscape 6. At night, the space will be well-lit creating a pleasant and safe passageway
Wallpaper the City- Salt Lake City, Utah Mono-functional urban spaces need to be redefined and urban life reinvented. Urban spaces should be flexible and adapt to weather, time of day and different events. Wallpaper the City challenges rigid and limited structures of the city by creating an illusion of depth and adding new dimensions.
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My local access point onto the Queensway offers recreational as well as natural activities. I love coming here after the rain, watching how the place has changed and adapted to the weather.
Habitat Infrastructure The proposal envisions the Queensway as a green lush corridor transporting people and nature and in the future connecting to other green spaces throughout the city and possibly the region.
Community Infrastructure The public space, in the neighborhood surrounding Metropolitan Avenue, is a social high performance space; usable, flexible, resilient and adaptable.
Ecological Infrastructure The layout of this gathering space allows for a high-detailed, eco-sensitive sensory experience.
Culture Crossing Nature - Queensway, New York The existing site conditions and old railway currently disconnect the areas, people and cultures. The redesign creates a valuable natural amentiy for the larger area with supporting green infrastructure. A hierarchy of access points, site-specific solutions and community supported public spaces connect the surrounding local areas.
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Culture Park - Hedehusene, Denmark The proposal consists of an experiential wooden path winding through the park. The path takes different form signifying new transitional spaces ideal for teaching, immersion, relaxation and child’s play with design features such as playgrounds, furniture and outdoor exercise facilities.
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Urban Getaway - Seoul, South Korea Urban Getaway seeks to bring life back to the old Mapo Oil Tank Reserve by celebrating the sites natural and cultural history. It will build upon existing infrastructure and reviltalize the features of the site by creating an idyllic, calm refuge within the chaotic city.
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Life and Community
Urban Concepts
Identity
- Mix the horizontal and vertical functions - Create opportunity for living edges - Ensure local scale identity
- Create urban built edge - Develop an urban green network - Integrate incidental spaces
- Celebrate existing amenities - Develop a lighting strategy - Respect the local culture
Warwick Farm - Sydney, Australia The vision was to create a vibrant, sustainable, and healthy urban village where the value of all social networks are high and people want to stay for their entire lifetime. The masterplan starts with life, then space, and lastly the buildings. The human focus is what makes this development successful.
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Our thoughts: We design for better. We design for present as well as our future. We plan for ourselves as well as our neighbors. People need well designed shelter for themselves, families, businesses and all type of endeavor that requires sheltered space. We aim to create beautifully effective shelter for the needs, hopes, dreams and memories of human kind, both collectively and individually. People need technology for comfort and nature gives us a sense of peace. We aim to reconcile both technology and nature in our plans. People want security and familiarity in their surrounding and they thrive in excitement. And we aim to provide both in our designs. We aim to design for sustainability addressing changing trends of climate. We believe that planning and designing is not only a visual aesthetics of our surroundings but also a way to communicate with the nature.
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Academic and ongoing projects: We presented the following 2 projects on ‘Design of Community Park’ before the Planning & Design authority of Rajshahi Development Association(RDA) and they ensured that after some modification any one of the two projects on community park will be included in the Master Plan of Rajshahi City Corporation. #1. Design of a community park Location: Baharampur, Rajshahi, Bangladesh. Longitude and latitude are respectively 24˚23ˊ00.69˝N, 88˚35ˊ14.28˝E Area: 6 acres
Google Earth Image SketchUP Top view of proposed design
Features: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Entrance Playfield ( cricket, basketball ) Elevated land for refreshment Birdbath Pond
6. Toilet 7. Picnic spot and canteen 8. Open space for children 9. Sloppy land 10. Front side trees
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Backside trees Other two side trees Parking area Small water-body Walkways
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#2. Design of a community park Location: Terakhadea, Rajshahi, Bangladesh. Longitude and latitude are respectively 24째23'33.41"N, 88째35'35.83"E Area: 11 acres
Google Earth Image SketchUP Top view of proposed design
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Toilet Marry-go-round Lake Sitting arrangement Water slide
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We have also done projects on Micro-climatic Issues. One of them is in the below. Project Name: Landscape Design for Market Square Addressing Micro-climatic Issues Location: Uposhohor New Market, Rajshahi, Bangladesh. Longitude and latitude are respectively 24째22'40.02"N, 88째35'50.78"E
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Design Components: 1. Croton Hedge 2. Evergreen Shade Tree 3. Deciduous Tree 4. Green Roof 5. Removable and Re-adjustable Shade 6. Vine Lattice for Redirecting Wind 7. Porous Concrete as Surface Material of Market Square 8. Grass Paver 9. Porous Asphalt as Surface Material of Road 10. Fountain 11. Benches 12. Dustbin 13. Parking Space
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Besides all of these we have also done several academic projects on
Developing a well functioned residential area Developing pocket parks Combining active and passive parks altogether Proper site selection for community park and residential area.
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In our opinion, architecture is primarily a social item, a consequence of both conflicts and compromise. Architecture is the dynamic result of the contradictory dialogue between economic, cultural and social interests which are interacting for each project. Thus, each project is “loaded” with information and becomes less autonomous. However, the design and construction of space establish some sort of consensus and implies the will to go beyond individuality. The design of space is the real proof of shared cultural values. We are stimulated by both the collective dimension of work and by work on collective areas. One may say that modernity nowadays, means being and wanting “at the same time”. It means combination, confrontation and dialogue, the collective topic which goes beyond individual limits. The design process of a building only ends when the building is completed. It thus transcends the division of tasks during the different phases of standardized assignments which structure the work of architects and the relationships between various actors during the construction stage. “Leaving open the wounds of possibilities” is our way of working, in order to enrich our design process. We believe that the future of architecture does not only lie in architecture. The recent evolutions of our profession in France show that it is also a real economic stake.
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2 Social Dwellings, Torre de Miguel Sesmero (Badajoz) The essence of ‘dryers’ at Extremadura, buildings where tobacco and veg etables are stored for drying, is transferred from the peripheral industrial landscape to our building by means of the construction of a veiled volume using the same lattice system for the façades. By using a simple construction system we aim to rediscover and reformulate industrial architecture in the domestic field.
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Carnival’s house, Burguillos del Cerro (Badajoz) The environment where the building is inserted has no identifying features. The only reference is a castle that dominates the skyline as symbol for the town. The pavilion interior takes on a porous image to create a subtle atmosphere. The result is an artificial cave isolated from the outside world.
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Minimum-distance-approximation method applied to complex surface.
Surface Approximation for architectural envelope design. MIATD-ETSASevilla 2013. The methods of approximation consist of the optimization of predefined triangulations over the surface. We will use a method of optimization based on circle packing over the surface. Afterwards, these optimized triangulations will be used in order to get a polyhedral surface whose tessellation is reach by a singular polygonal pattern.
Initial surfaces.
Approximation meshes.
Circle packing mesh optimization.
Dual sphere packing. Triangular subdivisions in different models of surface approximation.
(Previous page) Planar hexagonal mesh as the approximation of surfaces of positive-negative Gaussian curvature. Models in laser-cut cardboard. Planar hexagonal mesh as the approximation of surfaces of negative Gaussian curvature. The hexagonal mesh is generated as the dual of the initial
Initial triangular mesh.
Hexagonal dual mesh.
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Serendipicity. Improvisational strategies in the city, 1965-1975 Several projects in the early sixties are reviewed to become aware and make alternative positions to show new ways of understanding the urban landscape today. Serendipicity is any city that provides propitious conditions for unrehearsed creations. The unexpected can arise and be useful in order to generate new urban space.
NIEUWENHUYS, Constant Anton: New Babylon. Group of sectors
COOK, Peter: Instant City, 1969. SUPERSTUDIO: C ontinuous monument: New New York, 1969.
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Bringing together Architects, Landscape Architects and Urban Designers, the firm’s work is grounded in research and analysis. Each project is developed with imagination and passion, creating designs that are inspiring, efficient and enduring. The practice’s rich mix of design skills enables us to look beyond the immediate site to the wider context, creating buildings and spaces that respect and enhance their surroundings. Working collaboratively with clients from concept to construction has given a team that appreciates the financial and operational context in which design takes place and the creativity to find intelligent ways of designing practically from the outset to maximise the potential of every opportunity.
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HARRIS ROAD ALLOTMENTS
Focuses on creating a space based around the principles of the edible landscape, for the local community to forage/ harvest herbs, vegetables and fruit grown and produced in the area, with potential Education re-
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source linking with the local Primary school.
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A competition winning entry, that creates a ‘green’ festival focusng on a central London location.
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HAMPTON COURT
Our Hampton Court Garden entry, all about playscapes that connect children with their environment.
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LIVE MOVE PLAY GROW
How can we recycle old housing stock in the UK and create regenerated healthy environments for the local residents? Live, move, play, grow develops a strategy to deal with solutions.
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Philosophy
OUR APPROACH We define our approach as “context social design�. Three words that define our dedication. CONTEXT is understood as global, local, tangible and intangible forces, all equally processed to determine our designs SOCIAL approach that works to empower people and communities to drive the projects that affect them, improving citizens self-organization, social interaction within communities and their relationship with the environment. So we think that understanding types of behavior and social processes at different levels are crucial. DESIGN understood as an action, an interaction, and a tool for transformation. We try to excite, to cause different ways of using space around us and to experiment . Our interest in user experience goes from the pragmatic to the poetic. How can simple spaces be inspirational and rich experiences? Our projects cover from urban approach, landscape and architecture to interior refurbishment and exhibitions. In our work we follow high creativity parameters, understanding creativity mainly as the capacity to connect things innovatively. We try to modify the typical perception and to generate new relationships. We also believe that the creative process is not just a team but an open and flexible structure .Open means transparent, accessible, inclusive, collaborative, modifiable, reproducible. We usually collaborate with professionals coming from multiple fields of knowledge. Sustainability and technology are nowadays crucial in our cities. A sustainable design can connect people with the natural environment, impacting it minimally, creating meaningful innovations and shifting behavior. Technology multiplies possibilities as a social tool that enables us to better relate and interact with each other and with the surrounding environment . During our design process, we bet high on collective enrichment.
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Magic room 08.ARCO, Madrid
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Type : Ephemeral Status : Complete. All phases. Budget : 60.000$/ Gross Area: 1615 sq q ft.
Cรกmara Mรกgica is a temporary space for a temporal VIP area at ARCO in Madrid consisting of two undulating skins, two materialities, noise reduction foam and the white semitransparent fabric fabric. The void between both will contain the functional program (bar, seats, clothing store...)
Year with the children. Guggenheim Museum Museum, New York
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Type : Temporary exhibition Status : Complete.Collaboration in all phases. Budget : 45.000$ Gross Area :3229 sq ft.
The museography was designed to accommodate the annual program that promotes the Guggenheim G Museum in New York, in which children from various schools exhibit their work for a couple of months. The design is inspired by the origami with which children play.
Transparent wall. Hondarribia [Spain] Type : Permanent exhibition Status : Complete. All phases. Budget : 290.000$ Gross Area : 3890 sq ft.
Transparent wall was a commission for a small museum in Hondarribia, a village enclosed by a rounded wall. The proposed spaces include a tourist information section and store on the gground floor, a permanent exhibition space on the first floor and a flexible multi-purpose space on the second floor. Two layers are proposed: a folded glass wall, directly reflecting the plan of the city, and a wooden backdrop.
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Folded House. Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Island s [Spain]
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Type : Single Family house, store and parking Status : Complete. All phases. Budget g : 355.675,41 $ Gross Area: 3.207,6 sq ft.
The project includes a parking area below, a retail store at the ground level and a dwelling level above. To achieve this, the ground floor cedes the front area to the public keeping a private backyard for the owner . The façade folds into the roof in order to incorporate a mezzanine that accesses private terrace. The dwelling has a double height space.
Polygonal House. Palma de Mallorca Mallorca, Balearic Island s [Spain] Type : Single Family House, parking and swimming pool Status : Under Construction. All phases. Budget : 543.520 $ Gross Area : 2.874 sq ft.
The building is inserted into the plot and adapts its morphology to the existing conditions in order to save the original pine trees through open courtyards . The house is organized in pavilions, all linked to each other by a glass gallery. The house is oriented to the south and to the sea views.
Chromatic play. Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands [Spain] Type : Multipurpose classroom primary school Status : Complete. All phases. B d t : 282.899,44 Budget 282 899 44 $ Gross Area : 2.874 sq ft.
The plot is elongated and the main goal of the project was to have natural lighting and cross ventilation in the interior which was achieved by having a whole translucent glass facade and skylights built in the roofing. The roofing will be used as a playground for children from the kindergarden and is connected to the school from the 2nd floor via a ramp.
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Zig Zag Apartment Building. Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands
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Type : Block of 6 dwellings, 2 offices and 2 stores Status : Complete. All phases. Budget g : 763.305 $ Gross Area: 8.944,8 sq.ft
The facade is created by two layers which fold in zig zag terraces and canopies. The various twists allow the dwellings to focus toward the the correct orientation and the views that give individuality to the dwellings. These twists also act as a parasol protecting the inner glass skin from solar radiation. The external skin is opaque.
Latticework Apartment p Building g. Palma de Mallorca,, Balearic Islands
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Type : Block of 7 vpo, 2 stores & 7 parking Status : Complete. All phases. Budget : 961.359 $ Gross Area : 11.959 sq ft.
The design increases the relationship between interior and p exterior of the apartments by providing an external common public area and individual space. Additionally, it has a variety of housing solutions, all with cross ventilation that responds to Mediterranean climate.
Bay window house . El Barraco, Ávila, Spain] Type : VIP areas Status : Complete. All phases. Budget : 407.640 $ Gross Area : 3.207sq ft.
The house is located on the main street of a small village in the mountains, situated between several four story buildings. The concept is to open the house to the scenic views and close it to the neighbours of the lateral street, achieving privacy and reaching the same height of the surrounding buildings.
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Hanami. Santa EulĂ ria del Riu, Ibiza, Balearic Islands [Spain]
3rd Prize!!
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Type : Remodeling of the Isidoro Macabich Square and Street Status : 3rd Prize in an Open National Architectural Ideas Competition p Budget : 1.087.040 $ Gross Area: 52.743 sq ft.
The project wants to link the street and the square by creating a new cover street market. It does so by introducing three elements, a new flower carpet produced b the by h fallen f ll lleaves andd the h flflowers off the h trees, an orchard of flower trees grouped in areas which define a new type of furniture and activity to each area and a ceiling of lights and shadows, to be customized by the users.
Progress is blue. Palma de Mallorca
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Type : Remodeling of the Progres Square Status : Competition. Cancelled due to the economical crisis Budget : 10.598.640 $ Gross Area : 78.480 sq ft.
The project presents a model of contemporary space that fits the changing needs of saving money and reducing environmental impact , and public participation. The project proposes a visualization-participation game in which citizens can see CO2 emission savings produced by their actions through a points system. These are tools to raise i awareness andd that h can transform f leisure l i citizens everyday habits .
Overlapping. Plaza de S’Escorxador, Palma de Mallorca [Spain ] Type : Square redesign Status : Only preliminary phase. On hold Budget : 3.485.669,85$ Gross Area : 86.584 sq ft.
The project aims to visually eliminate the boundaries between S'Excorxador center and the square. It becomes a connector of different speeds, activities and experiences, treating the surface of the square with different materials according to their hardness which determines the type of activity to develop on it and that will shape different landscapes. They are created in continuous layers which overlap one on top of each other creating new hybrid landscapes.
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Lumps. Kotka [ Finland ] Type : Housing and urban integration Status : EUROPAN- Architectural international ideas competion. 3rd Prize Budget g :Gross Area: -
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The aim of the proposal is to create a new housing development to increase the relationship between land and sea. A proposed longitudinal structure that extend across the land into the sea, works as conector and provides all the necessary infrastructure of the site in order to connect the dwelling units.
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Parkaeological. Santa Ponsa, Calviá, Mallorca [Spain] Type : . Archeological Museum Status : Spetial Mention in an Architectural National Ideas Competion. Budget : 4.012.222 $ Gross Area : 33.153 sq ft.
The project has the ambition to utilize the features of the site to integrate the archaeological ruins and the park with the new programs of the Museum. We propose the identification of several routes that weave threads between the sites and scenic drives which articulate the Museum, setting the geometry of the building . The building becomes another layer in the historical development of the site.
Living Bamboo. San Cristóbal de Bolívar, Departamento de Bolívar [Colombia] Type : Participatory design strategy with community in bamboo Status : 1st Prize in the International Architectural Ideas Competition Budget : Gross Area : Urban Planning and detailing of a housing prototype
Using bamboo and participatory design are the main tools to improve, strengthen and recover the three ecologies: - Economical Ecology by promoting new economical i l activities ti iti as a resultlt ffrom th the use of bamboo, such as ecotourism, etc.. - Environmental Ecology by recovering biodiversity. - Social Ecology, involving the population in the decisions making
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Tsunami Memorial. Khao Lak Lamru National Park [Thailand] Type : Public / Memorial. Status : In progress. Competition 1st prize. Budget : 25.000.000$/ Gross Area: 38.000 sq q ft. closed area 27.000 sq. ft. exterior area
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The project is a tribute to the 2006 tsunami victims. The building takes the image, the atmosphere and the spatial concept of the Pacific atolls and islands of the landscape of Southeast Asia. The temples and pagodas in Thailand are also inspired from this landscape. The project is placed in a National Park by the sea.
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This office bases its activity on the proposal of solutions for buildings and public spaces with the most social and architectural quality. We have developed over the years an intensive work around to join to international architecture competitions which aim is to promote architectural elements enabling the creation of social coexistence and the exchange of experiences and cultures between users. The members of the team we are able to generate an environment of continuous reflection over the design activity. We use to start considering that every project starts with a brain storming. We establish a dialogue between the members of the team to share reflections around the problematic issue. After that we will able to create a solid theory of intervention on which our proposal will be based. This process ends at the time when all ideas are captured in the paper until we reach the level of the building detail. We have received several recognitions in international contest and in addition several awards from the maximum representative institution of architects of our country regarding our work in development because we "have a positive, proactive and continuous attitude to develop innovative and necessary solutions". Also we "have contributed to the introduction of elements of innovation, sustainability and efficiency that society demands".
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We believe in the City as a platform for human interaction. This City which is built by architects, should be a place where every single citizen is a fundamental part of it’s culture and identity. In order to create the City of Miami, we must reduce the automobile culture and the isolation of it’s inhabitants in endless highways and anonymous streets. Every project, urban or sub-urban, should be an opportunity to use the architecture and create Public Space, even at a very modest scale. The improvement of a single sidewalk is the beginning of a new space for neighbors to meet and interact with each other. In our tropics, sometimes a simple tree-shade is the only structure needed as a gathering place. We don’t always want to be indoor when most of the year the weather is a pleasant experience.
Architecture is responsible for the well being of the passerby, the building has to protect the people and create Public Space.
Casa SM / 2006
Valencia Venezuela
Casa O / 2010
Valencia Venezuela
Casa VL / 2013
Puerto Ordaz Venezuela
Casa SJ / 2014
Valencia Venezuela
Homeless shellter / in progress 2014 Caracas Venezuela
Hotel / in progress 2014
Puerto Ordaz Venezuela
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Architects transform the urban landscape, in the same matter as a plastic surgeon’s transforms the human landscape they refer to as skin. All living and non living things have a three dimensional skin that grants them their own DNA or uniqueness and makes them a recognizable object to human begins. My firm attempts to transform the urban landscape through the use of innovative architectural skins. New architectural skins that are a sign such as a billboard advertisement within the urban context, yet responds to its environmental, contextual, and urban surroundings. Architectural skins that create physical boundaries yet are linked to the natural environment around them. Skins that invoke the human sensory experiences, such as a peaceful setting in nature or the non-stopping bustle of the city may do.
Architectural Skins that stimulate
occupants while leaving a lasting impression. To create such innovative architectural skins my firm explores the idea of the detail. Explore how materials are composed and meet everyday construction in order to find a system that can be built with ease, yet produce inventive ideas within the juxtapositioning of materials. My firm wishes to explore new technology and materials and how it can be used to produce inventive architectural surfaces. My firm also feels that we should have some responsibility for trying to educate the end users on how their attempts to build or alter untimely affect the environment. Through educating the end user of how the building choices they make ultimately have an impact on them. We strive to provide the end user with an educated choice that will benefit them on long run through many avenues. We attempt to implement environmentally friendly design through education of the building choices made and their overall impact.
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Our Philosophy:
Wynwood is the heart of the current artistic expression of Miamiʼs up and coming artists. This unique neighborhood in transition has the infrastructure and strategic location to become a rich urban fabric. It has attracted a variety of population that ranges from young professionals and families, artists, developers, craftsmen and even the elderly. Such a melting pot requires spaces where people can interact, express themselves and even freshen up on Miamiʼs warm summer evenings and even warmer summer days. A place big enough to host events, informal gatherings for neighbors and children but also small enough to fit in Wynwoodʼs ever-changing grid. It is our vision to offer such a place full of layers, flexible enough to provide different spaces and shelter from the elements, to create opportunities for human interaction and reactivating the city fabric. Under the motto “play in the city – pocket gardens” we search to fulfill one of the growing needs of this neighborhood – a place for recreation and reconnect with nature.
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Work Sample Portfolio: Twins Plaza - Suzhou, China - BUILT 2012
This project started as a competition in China, it was teamwork from concept/volumetric proposals to construction documents. The main challenge lied in the relative open program –office, commercial and hotelwe could play with different possibilities, coming up with “duality” as the concept to define the building. “ Two axes, two towers, two squares and a similar number of courtyards define the planned building complex.
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Work Sample Portfolio: Re-stitching Providence - Master in Urban Design UM - Spring 2013
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Work Sample Portfolio: Movistar - Telefónica Customer Service Center - COMPETITION 2012
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This was a competition for a pilot center in Maracaibo, Venezuela and we based the concept on transitioning the center into a full store/interactive showroom that will increase sales, improve the clients experience and help Movistar be part of the competitive telecommunications and media market in Venezuela. Working together with the Branding director we coordinated the analysis of the customer service process and layout of the current situation for this client. We developed a design applicable to all customer services centers nation wide -following the brandʼs handbook. This Project was finalist but the competition was cancelled due to political unrest and economic uncertainty in the country.
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Work Sample Portfolio: Residential Healthcare Centre for Elders - Caracas, Venezuela - PROJECT 2012
The Project consists of a 63,000 sqft residential and health care building for elders, located in a residential area of the city of Caracas. The complex is structured in two main buildings, the one at the front of the plot is a 3 - story building that contains all the healthcare facilities and the residential 6 - story tower is set at the back of the plot. The idea was to create a single structure that contained everything but kept public and private areas separated.
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Work Sample Portfolio: Palma Dorada Inn - Tucacas, Venezuela - BUILT 2012
The Project consist of a touristic building of 18,000.00 sqft in the city of Tucacas - Venezuela. The main idea was to create a building around an inner yard which contained social areas, pool and Jacuzzi. 19 suites are set around the yard, making it in the most important space in the complex.
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Work Sample Portfolio: Playing in the Corrala - Madrid, Spain - HONOURABLE MENTION
Playing in the corrala started as a competition for Building Trust International, we received a honorable mention for our proposal. The design consist in a light wooden structure which works like a public park and as regenerator of space and community. Children, adolescents and adults are mixed physically and visually, making the corrala a place of integration.
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Our Approach We are a landscape architecture and urban design collaborative established with placemaking, attentiveness and collaboration in mind. We see each project as an opportunity to partner, dream big and synthesize ideas wrought from many, often opposing, influences. Our goal is to evoke the poetry of the place and in doing so reveal something delightful but perhaps previously unseen. Most of all, we consider our practice a contemporary voice for landscape architecture and a small, agile and fresh alternative to traditional firms. We work within the full breadth of scales from master plans to pocket parks, civic spaces to private residences, streetscapes to green roofs. We specifically enjoy addressing the leftover spaces between buildings, applying the principles of landscape urbanism to city-building, site design and community consultation. We like to explore new methods and materials, forge new relationships and ultimately create places that people remember.
Accommodate People to Make Great Space Regardless of place a great public realm has one constant: the energy of activity. We consider this activity as clues for the ‘social infrastructure’ of the site from which we derive form and program. We Are Alchemists We are small, therefore nimble and timely in our responses, while taking time to apply thoughtful design ideas and creative spirit to our work. This spirit of experimentation will help transform this into a vital social space. Collaborate, Question and Lead We ask lots of questions, and engage conversation first. We will collaborate with owner and stakeholders to invigorate the design process, and collectively determine the potential of this new social hub.
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Mid-Main Park Vancouver BC
Working with the Mount Pleasant community, we developed a park design that provides a social hotspot on the Main Street promenade. The bendy-straw trellis references the Palm Dairy milk bar, formerly on site. We integrate sustainable principles with drought tolerant shade planting and pervious paving that collects water into a subterranean infiltration gallery. Completion: 2013 Size: 1,500 m2 (16,000 ft2) Budget: $ 450,000
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800 Robson Viva Vancouver Vancouver BC
Our vision for the corduroy road was to make reference to the history of settlement and to highlight a state of transition. The playful configuration of the decking creates uniform, curbless connections across the road, while the uniquely colored benches provide informal seating and a new form of public realm. Completion: Size: Budget:
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2013 500 m2 (5,500 ft2) $ 50,000
Market Lane London ON
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Lane drew inspiration from the local landscape of Ontario, including the Thames River valley and of the Hapa Collaborative was selected the unanimous winner the larger London community with it’s reputation Market Lane Design Competition, a proposal to revitalize a narrow for higher learning, medicine and technological but critical linkage the urban fabricLane of downtown innovation. Theinedge of Market has a London. strong relationship with the neighboring interior Beating out competition from some of Canada’s most noted landscape architects, Hapa’s proposal performance space. entitled Figure Ground utilized a simple concept and austere palette of materials to animate the London, ON
Lane, and provide a venue for the upcoming World Figure Skating Championships and the imminen
Completion: 2013 Size: 650 m2 (7,000 ft2) $ 800,000 TheBudget: landscape design concept drew inspiration from the local landscape of southwestern Ontario, arrival of Fanshawe College’s Digital Media Arts program on the west edge of the Lane.
including the Thames River valley that weaves through the city and the Carolinian forest that the
site lies within, as well as the aspirations of the larger London community including it’s reputation for
higher learning, medicine and technological innovation. The concept will also engage the design for
building edges to provide a stronger indoor outdoor relationship between interior performance space and potential programming in the Lane.
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McBurney Lane Revitalization Langley BC
A raised middle wood deck, a lawn area, and a linear water table and plaza work together to strengthen pedestrian connections through a prominent Lane to accommodate a variety of programming following the City’s sustainability agenda. Completion: Size: Budget:
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2013 750 m2 (8,000 ft2) $ 650,000
Ponderosa Commons University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC
At a critical transition between the campus and the western forest, the Commons landscape is partitioned into three main spaces; The Bosque, a small contemplative space roofed by a grove of cherry trees; the Field, a multiuse open space and the Rooms, a series of classroom, edged landscapes with a trellis / blackboard. Completion: 2014 Size: 3,500 m2 (38,000 ft2) Budget: $ 2.5 millions
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Vancouver Art Gallery North Plaza Redevelopment Vancouver BC
The Vancouver Art Gallery North Plaza has enormous potential to become a premier public gathering space. Our team’s efforts are JAZZ FESTIVAL - SET-UP 1 underpinned by six principles: putting people before things; advance social infrastructure; work at a range of scales; ask questions; advance democracy; and reach excellence through efficiency and agility. Completion: Size: Budget:
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Foot of Lonsdale Public Space North Vancouver BC
The Foot of Lonsdale is currently an underutilized site with a panoramic view to the Vancouver skyline. The proposed design will integrate open space with a water feature, a strong connection through waterfront regional trail, and an intertidal parterre garden that captures and filters stormwater. Completion: Size: Budget:
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Orchard Commons
University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC Located on the site of the first apple orchard plantation at UBC, Orchard Commons will be the new home for an International transition College and 1,100 new student residences. The signature feature of the site is the elevated deck that will overlook a central commons, and heritage apple orchard plantings that will be used in food preparation. Completion: Size: Budget:
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DESIGN PHILOSOPHY
Our practice takes a unique approach to design through the creation of narrative environments. Our landscapes express stories that connect people through nature, creating vibrant places which are productive, meaningful and imaginative. Our practice develops imaginative responses to derelict sites and forgotten spaces. Our projects are platforms for collaboration, experimentation and creative innovation. Community engagement is at the center of our projects: ensuring that local people feel included in the visioning of the landscape. We work with communities to reflect their local stories within the designs and develop opportunities for participation in the making, growing and caring for of the spaces. Our current projects range from large-scale urban rooftop farms, to commercial shop-fronts and restaurant design, to playgrounds and high-profile public spaces. Our work extends beyond design to project delivery, creative direction, event curation and community design & build workshops.
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The URban PhysiC Garden (London, 2011) Client: N/A (Self-initiated by the designers) The Urban Physic Garden is an imaginative pop-up community garden, shaped by the hospital and pharmacy, which focuses on medicinal plants and herbs that heal. The garden emerges in in-between spaces - healing derelict sites, bringing together communities and providing a platform for artists, urban gardeners and health practitioners. The first iteration of the garden was completed in 2011; a derelict site in London was transformed with the help of nearly 200 volunteers. In this hospital-themed garden, the medicinal plants were organized according to hospital wards (with the Cardiology ward housing plants that heal the heart, the Dermatology ward containing plants that heal the skin), and a disused ambulance was transformed into a cafĂŠ, serving up home-grown dishes designed in collaboration with medical herbalists. Winner of multiple awards and commendations, published internationally. Toured internationally with the British Council through Asia, Europe and Latin America. New interations of the project are currently in development in the UK and USA.
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Algaegarden (quebec, 2011) Client: The Metis International Garden Festival (Official Selection) Algaegarden celebrates the beauty and productive potential of algae through a design that underlines its diversity and meaning. This garden stands between the landscape, the artistic and the scientific world, presenting algae organized by colour and species in curtains of tubes hanging from steel frames. The spectrum ranges from reds to greens to bioluminescent algae, which can glow a bright blue. The algae, often considered a nuisance in the garden pond, here become an object of beauty and curiosity. The garden leads the visitor to appreciate algae both as an alternative to oil and other energy sources and a source of food and nutrition. Referencing a pond edge, the garden is lined with pond grasses, and will display algae specimens, most that can be sourced locally. The garden explores the diversity of an often-overlooked plant, and demonstrate possibilities for how algae might become an evocative and productive part of our daily lives. Official selection of the Metis International Garden Festival in Quebec. Selected as the People’s Choice among visitors to the festival. Invited as a returning garden in 2012 and 2013. Shortlisted for the International Algae Design Competition. Showcased at the IIDEX Canada 2011 and at FarmShop London.
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The Market Hall (London, 2013) Client: Borough Market Budget: £1 million Contained within a striking glass structure on Borough High Street is an innovative and highly distinct public space. Simultaneously an urban garden, mobile olive grove, classroom, night market, information hub and event space, the Market Hall is the newest addition to the UK’s most celebrated food market. Throughout the year, the Market Hall will be used for growing hops, fruits, flowers, herbs, olives and salad leaves, resulting in a wonderfully fragrant and visually stimulating environment as well as providing a highly engaging focus for educational programmes. The hall’s structure has been designed to maximise its horticultural potential. The plants are watered using an innovative rainwater irrigation system and the resulting produce is used for cooking demonstrations, tastings, workshops and, in the case of the hops growing up cables along the windows, the brewing of a Borough Market beer. Shortlisted for the New London Architecture Awards.
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The QUeen’s Walk Window Gardens (London, 2013) Client: The Southbank Centre Budget: £100k The Queen’s Walk Windows Gardens were a micro-city of large-scale allotments created from reclaimed windows that spanned one of the busiest and most activated public spaces in the world. Commissioned for the art of Southbank Centre’s Festival of Neighbourhood, the imaginative garden was built and cared for by the local community over the summer of 2013. Built from hundreds of reclaimed and fabricated windows and community-built window-boxes, the large architectural structures along 80m of the riverfront transformed from open allotments by day, demonstrating urban growing at multiple scales, to illuminated sheds at night. The plants were watered using an innovative and sustainable treadle pump system which invited the community to pump and filter water from the Thames at high-tide. The Queen’s Walk Window Gardens were visited by an estimated 8 million people. The structures have now been installed in school playgrounds across London, as part of an educational strategy to bring food growing to schools.
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Helsinki Plant Tram (Helsinki, 2012) Client: The British Council for World Design Capital Helsinki Helsinki Plant Tram is a participatory project that included an urban action (transforming a tram on Helsinki’s local transport into a mobile garden) and an imaginative urban garden built from plants donated by passengers. An imaginative timber structure filled with plants, the design was inspired by the iconic wooden roller coaster found at the Linnanmäki Amusement Park, which opened in Helsinki for the 1952 Olympics. Shortlisted for the prestigous D&AD Yellow Pencil. Registration # : _____________________
The Union Street Urban Orchard (London, 2010) Client: The Architecture Foundation The Union Street Urban Orchard transformed a derelict site in London into a thriving, community-built garden, filled with 85 fruit trees and countless edible plants. Built from reclaimed materials with the help of 100 volunteers, the orchard was an innovative community garden and event space that demonstrated the potential for sustainable-living in cities. Central to the design of the orchard was a plant exchange: people contributed hundreds of plants to create an ever-evolving garden that was truly built by the community. After one fruit harvest, the trees were distributed to local community estates to seed new orchards, creating a lasting legacy for the project. The Union Street Urban Orchard received a special commendation from the Conservation Foundation. It has been published internatonally, serving as one of the most iconic models for meanwhile space use.
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Our interdisciplinary studio builds on links between architecture and landscape architecture to create spaces that engage both nature and urbanism.  Our office is in New York, and we currently have projects in New York City, Tampa, Calgary, and Toronto. With over 35 years of proven experience, the firm believes that effective leadership on complex projects requires vision, a collaborative and talented team, effective communication, and persistent commitment to finding solutions to project goals and aspirations. Projects are often complex involving multiple constituencies with differing points of view, on challenging sites with sensitive environmental conditions. Our creative outlook on what exists allows us to maximize the value of what is there, turn constraints into opportunities, and expand possibilities. We are committed to thorough collaboration across traditional design boundaries, and we work with artists, engineers, and scientists. Research into the history of the place and the processes that have shaped it, coupled with analysis of opportunities and constraints enables creative solutions which align finance, policy, sustainability and design. Our work seeks to engage its visitors. Our work has had a consistent theme of revitalizing formerly forgotten or blighted sites and transforming them into wellloved public parks that serve diverse communities. Another strong focus of our work has been on creating gateways that link communities to local ecologies, environmental features, and cultural resonances. We have proven experience in creating destinations that become unique, creative hubs of activity and enhance surrounding neighborhoods and environments.
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the edge williamsburg Brooklyn’s Williamsburg waterfront has been revitalized by The Edge park, which turned a former industrial area into a creative hub for a diverse mix of visitors. The Edge park brings this world class creative community to the river and links the ecosystem with the fabric of the thriving neighborhood.
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west harlem piers park The West Harlem Piers Park is a dramatic transformation of space that had been lost to the community for many years. A narrow 69,000 sf parking lot was expanded through creative planning into a 105,526 sf park that re-imagines the threshold between the city and the Hudson River in a sustainable and meaningful way.
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st. patrick’s island This 30-acre park is designed to act as a catalyst for change, establishing St. Patrick’s Island as the new center to a thriving mixed-use Rivers District and Calgary’s East Village, a vibrant, creative community. A collaboration with artist Michel de Broin will activate the park’s public spaces.
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fifth st. square Fifth Street Square is at the center of the revitalized East Village in Calgary. With shaded groves flanking a central space, the square provides flexible spaces for daily happenings as well as special events, performances, ice skating, and holiday festivals.
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college of human ecology The College of Human Ecology at Cornell University lies at a critical juncture in the campus landscape. The landscape seamlessly integrates the college with the overall campus, while also providing a strong identity. The lively student community is invigorated by the spaces for gatherings and picnics and enriched by the quiet places for solitude and studying.
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riverwalk The Riverwalk will take advantage of the river’s natural features to integrate them into a waterfront trail. The pedestrian and bicycle trail will create a new destination and continuous link to downtown Calgary. The Riverwalk will vibrantly enhance the river’s edge and play a vital role in revitalizing the downtown area.
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Cities are rich and complex places where social, cultural and ecological functions come together. We believe in flexibility as the key to diversity. Flexible public spaces allow for a variety of social, economic and ecological activities to take place simultaneously or alternatively according to the configuration of the space. Spaces become fluid, multifunctional, and allow for adaptation to future change. We like to engage our clients and end users actively in the design process as places are shaped by people’s activities. A place with a variety of activities, both informal and programmed, becomes a destination for the local community and tourists alike, and encourages the local community to adopt it in their daily routines.
We believe in the positive outcomes that arise from the interaction of people and environments: improved health and wellbeing, improved communities and improved ecosystems. We seek new solutions to the challenges of sustainability, water management, food security, globalisation and social stability.
Our approach builds on our varied experience and is informed by our many interests including architecture, art, ecology, sustainability, education, history and culture. We like each project to stretch us a little bit further and believe that what exists is only a small part of what is actually possible. The significance of a project is not measured by size but by its potential impact on the people that experience it.
We are currently researching with a local university the multi-sensorial experience of nature in the city, with a view to create very human and evocative urban experiences.
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qatar secondary schools The concept is inspired by the Arabian house with its controlled outer and exquisite inner courtyard. The simple external setting contrasts with the spectacular doha, qatar design proposals
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biodome at the heart of the building, a space for research showcasing the principles of Hydroponics, Aquaponics and Aeroponics as a means of sustainable food production.
littlehaven promenade south shields, UK completed
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The vision is to celebrate the character of the existing setting of the beach which contrasts from open, wild and exposed to sheltered, calm and intimate. The sites unique location is also explored as a metaphor for storytelling, and the relevance of sea shanties and poetry from the local community.
kings road, newcastle university, UK in construction
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Our competition winning proposal to redevelop the main campus artery for Newcastle University is built on three key objectives - create a pedestrian focused environment, develop a sustainable approach to current surface water and flooding problems and provide a flexible, multi-functional environment.
redcar leisure and community heart, UK completed
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A truly collaborative approach involving the public, stakeholders and all levels of the Council throughout the design process. The concept draws on the rhythm of movement and strands of connectivity. The colour palette and bespoke seats are inspired by the historic context and nearby beach.
newcastle public realm, UK design proposals
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Our proposal re-imagines key areas within Newcastle, bringing character and vibrancy back to the city centre. These ideas seek to keep the city centre as a vibrant pedestrian friendly environment, with space for spontaneity, variety and life.
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We seize the opportunity to enter design competitions to push our imagination and technical innovation, and are proud to have been successful in a number of them, most recently Newcastle University, and shortlisted for others.
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WRITEUP OF THE TEAM-MAXIMUM 250 WORDS Wynwood Gate - A Holistic Ecology We operate at the intersection of landscape architecture, art and urbanism and approach design projects as a process of assimilation. Landscape forms the datum of all projects and is the ecological and social medium through which all transactions pass. All designed elements are accretions to that datum and are eventually integrated into it. For us these assimilations need to be ‘holistically ecological’ – across time the site must evolve into a matrix that addresses the realms of the natural environment, the built environment, society and the local economy. In our view Wynwood Gateway is a place where water, people, plants, insects, birds and buildings interact in a seamless urban environment. Our research objective with Wynwood Park is to demonstrate ‘seamlessness’ and the ways in which we can envelope users in an immersive environment. Designed more as a stretched canvas than a finished place the site will open itself to opportunities for user-defined space, dynamism and flexibility – in other words ‘crowd-sourcing’ the urban landscape. Wynwood Gate will need to work at multiple scales, where a toddler may have a chance encounter with a butterfly, near a stormwater swale where an artist busily tends to his installation piece and which functions as part of a neighbourhood-wide system of open space. Wynwood Gate will be symbolic of the neighbourhood ecological, artful, discursive and inspirational.
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Winning Competition Entry “PUBLICity� held by the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore. Lang Hwa is light, wind, Lang Hwa is waves, wind, light and atmosphere. Lang Hwa is a visitor-oriented environmental, artistic and events space that dynamically responds to changing environments. It is an urban armature for a 21st century public space.
The Team challenged the project brief to widen the concrete canal and the stringent judistrictry boundaries and demostrated a shared space that transforms from a flowing stream where the public can interact with the water and ecosystem. The project was awarded with best landscape of the year 2013 at the world architecture awards.
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JUMEIRAH HILLS MASTERPLAN, DUBAI
COPENHAGEN STORMWATER MASTERPLAN
WATER TREATMENT RETENTION, SINGAPORE
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The Collins Street Parking Garage is a visionary piece of public infrastructure in Miami. It is actually a Car(Park). As a sculptural piece of infrastructure it also adds to the vitality of the street through its active street frontage programming.
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1000 Museum Miami
King Abdulla House of Culture and Arts, Jordan
Stone Towers, Cairo
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The Hakkasan Terrace is an intimate garden in the heart of the Dubai CBD. Despite the extreme conditions it functions as a vibrant and thermally comfortable outdoor space. It is highly crafted and creates a sense of privacy and comfort in a highly urbanised setting.
Majaz Park in Sharjah was a underutilised waterfront park in Sharjah cut off from the lagoons by highways. The design shifted the road and succeeded in recomnecting the park to the waterfront through intensive programming.
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Dubai Design District Central Park
Dubai Design District Masterplan
Masdar City HQ Link (under construction)
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