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Team’s design philosophy Our professional activity is aimed to the development of the landscape and the quality of urban public spaces with the idea that the quality of the landscape and the increase of green spaces within the city are a right for all citizens and residents. Our projects arise from a dialogue with the project site, a dialogue based on listening to the places, the people and stakeholders.

The design approach Our design approach is thus based on two complementary points: • careful analysis of the local components in terms of: - ecological processes; - historical, urban and social context, and collective memory; - quality and aesthetic characteristics. We believe that our projects have the task of identifying the untapped potential of the places, surprising the future users / inhabitants and playing with their desire to dream. • sensibility to environmental issues in terms of: - promotion of the variety of natural environments for the protection and enhancement of biodiversity; - attention in the botanical choices, focusing on native species; - attention to energy issues and the choice of materials in terms of environmental sustainability. The design for the Wynwood Gateway Park in Miami will be addressed with this approach.

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Open air rooms Location: Via Gabbro – Milan, Italy Year: 2012-2013 Area: mq 3.620 State of the design: built In a big garden, the proposal has imagined open air rooms as intimate spaces that the children will live with more awareness and moderation, defined by green small hills: the crater for game, the birches clearing with the specific “tablebenches”, the kitchen garden with the plots and the small fountain.

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A web of poles in a garden school Location: Via dell’Arcadia – Milan, Italy Year: 2012-2013 Area: mq 3.090 State of the design: built In this garden a versatile space for play has been planned along the new bike path in fine gravel, where a number of games made ​​with wooden poles are located: a labirynth, a space for the paintball, an healing kitchen garden and a series of specially designed signs.

A train trip for kids in a schoolyards Location: Via Branca – Milan, Italy Year: 2012-2013 Area: mq 373 State of the design: built The project has emerged as a result of a series of participation workshops with children from which has emerged the desire to create 3 wooden train wagons. These wagons are the backdrop of a journey through the landscapes drawn on the panels along the back wall.

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The first Community Garden in Milan Location: Viale Montello – Milan, Italy 2011 Area: mq 2,800 State of the design: built In an abandoned public area awaiting the construction of a parking, a group of landscape designers, architects and horticulturists has created a community garden using salvaged and low cost building materials. The project aims also to respect the existing ecosystem, and pays particular attention to save urban biodiversity. Today the garden is open daily and is enriched by the active participation of the citizens.

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Public spaces for the Varesine project Location: Porta Nuova, Milan, Italy Year: 2012 Area: mq 3.400 State of the design: built The company responsible for the landscape architecture of the new complex Varesine in Milan has requested our advice for the preparation of the construction project, including the long stone promenade close to the buildings and the final square, entrance from the city.

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Malerbario: a traveling botanic garden Location: Sesto San Giovanni, Milan and Terni, Perugia Year: 2009-2010 State of the design: built The malerbario aims to monitor those places in the city colonized by spontaneous vegetation, usually regarded as weeds. The project is implemented through the collection of the plants found on the spot, and the subsequent construction of a botanical garden in which they are exposed and cataloged together with the mapping of the places in which they are grown.

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A rural urbanity Location: Paderno Dugnano, Milan, Italy Year: 2013 State of the design : competiton –project selected for the last 10 finalists The design proposes a new rural urbanity for an old industrial area. We propose a new settlement pattern of small houses organized around a public space oriented to a local agricultural production for the neighborhood. Object of interest is a new balance between urbanity and rurality, a new urban ecology.

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FIRM PHILOSOPHY

The firm's activities are focused on rethinking and designing our urban habitat in order to create vibrant cities while promoting environmental and social sustainability. Working with an interdisciplinary team and with experience developing projects in very different cultural contexts in Europe, America and Asia, the office has expanded its capabilities and its international network through close and fruitful collaboration with experts in different continents. The firm divide its activities into two platforms: Think Tank and Design Platform Think Tank works as an independent platform that analyzes urban and social problems and proposes innovative design solutions, new urban strategies and advice on the implementation of new policies. This platform collaborates with many outstanding and inspiring professionals from different disciplines to reach a wide perspective, formulate relevant questions, create a rich debate and finally build knowledge. Design Platform operates in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture and urban design. It promotes public life in the city by providing contemporary solutions for public buildings while experimenting with innovative landscape projects to improve the use of public space. Think Tank + Design Platform Think Tank complements the work of Design Platform and helps clients to enrich architecture with intelligence on the basis of a productive multidisciplinary approach. An example is Public Space Acupuncture, a two-year research project that focuses on regenerating urban public life, which was developed with expert urban sociologists and financed by the Dutch government. Coordinated by the firm's think tank, the research has led to a series of lectures and debates in cities such as Shenzhen, Istanbul, Mexico City and Beirut, and to teaching studios and workshops at institutions such as the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam, Artesis University Antwerp, MAHKU, Shenzhen University and the Lebanese American University. The knowledge acquired through this research has also fed back into many public space projects by the firm in cities such as Sao Paulo, Shenzhen, Lausanne and Rotterdam. The results of both research and practice have been disseminated worldwide through essays in many specialist publications and exhibitions, and will be gathered into a monograph to be published by Actar, Barcelona-New York. The need to activate and revitalize the public life in Wynwood Gateway Park, provides the perfect opportunity to apply the knowledge acquired through the research Public Space Acupuncture and the experience gained through the realization of similar kind of projects to create an attractive, innovative and lively public space.

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MOSAIC GARDEN AND CERAMIC MUSEUM. JINZHOU, CHINA 2013 world landscape art exposition Program: Client: Location: Engineering: Surface: Stage:

Museum and surrounding park 2013 World Landscape Art Exposition Jinzhou, China J-Com 3000 m² Completed

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Intervention as public life activator The geometry of the park is inspired by the crackled glaze of the Chinese porcelain developed from the 10th century during the Song Dynasty in the Ru Ware ceramic pieces. Mosaic Park is an attractive and colorful landscape made of broken local ceramic pieces that invites visitors to enjoy a multi-sensory experience. It activates the use of public space boosting the cultural and social life of the area. It also aims to awaken visitors’ curiosity about the place’s history, to provide information about the lost tradition of ceramic art, and finally to create a meeting place for citizens through a program of exhibitions and public events.


GREEN WINDOWS. LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND public space. lausanne jardins 2009 Program: Client: Location:

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Public space Municipality of Lausanne belvedere square of the metro station Grancy, in front of the central train station of Lausanne. Switzerland 2009 COMPLETED

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The proposal consists of a vertical green wall that frames the views over the lake LĂŠman thanks to some windows perforated in it. This green wall closes partially the natural views from the square to catch the attention of the citizens over the special views behind. The project experiments with the concept "artificial landscape": 1. The intervention is produced as a prefabricated landscape: the plants grow for more than one year in a greenhouse in the Netherlands even from before the competition is launched / 2. In March 2009, a threedimensional steel structure is built, the plants are transplanted and continue growing on the grid / 3. The natural growing direction of the plants is manually manipulated / 4. The prefab green elements are transported to Lausanne and are installed / 5. After the festival is finished, "Green Windows" is dismantled and comes back to the Netherlands.

landscape as interaction element between citizens and surroundings

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THE GREEN ROOM. ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS intervention in the public space Program: Client: Location: Date:

Intervention in the public space Municipality of Rotterdam Rotterdam, Netherlands 2010

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completed The Green Room is a temporary landscape intervention specially designed for the city of Rotterdam that is part of a series of interventions in the public space of several European cities named Domestic Monuments. The Domestic Monument encloses a quiet spot that creates an oases effect within the busy city; encloses a small space with human dimensions within the large space of the city; provides an open room with domestic character in the public domain; it is personal in contrast with the anonymous street; it is made of vegetation, in contrast with the stone or bronze material of typical public artworks; it is temporal and alive in contrast with the permanent classical monuments; it is something to use, to play, to enjoy, to live and not only something to admire; it is an uncompleted work to be completed by the people and not a self-sufficient monument; it is a sculpture to stay inside, looking through the windows to the city outside; it is a monument for the citizens.


SQUARE. GRONINGEN, NETHERLANDS public space Program: Client: Location: Date:

Square Nijestee vastgoed, Municipality of Groningen Groningen, Netherlands 2011-

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under construction Stadswerven is an industrial neighborhood under transformation. The disappearance of industrial activity has led to the appearance of new residential complexes, far from the city center. Due to this specific situation, this project is not focused on promoting the more public dimension of public space, but rather its collective aspect. To this end, the strategy is broken up into small interventions located near each other. The spatial fragmentation responds to the need for encouraging interaction among small groups of residents and for creating more intimate places that function as collective satellite outdoor spaces for the new blocks. The interventions aim to collectivize public space so that, although these spaces are open to all citizens, the residents of nearby blocks may subliminally consider them as their own, reinforcing public space as a parochial domain.


SENSES COCKTAIL. APPELTERN, NETHERLANDS landscape intervention Program: Client: Location: Date:

Landscape intervention De Tuinen van Appeltern Appeltern, Netherlands 2010

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completed The “senses cocktail� is a garden where the visitor will enjoy a sensorial experience focused on stimulating the five main human senses: taste, hearing, smell, touch and sight. Five strips of different kind of plants of different colours are associated to each of the senses. All together conform a dynamic three dimensional landscape, which produces a very different perception depending of the point of view.


SQUARES. ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS public spaces Program: Client: Location: Date:

Squares Municipality of Rotterdam Rotterdam, Netherlands 2012-

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under development The intervention areas, designed in the 1960s, are two public courtyards in the center of the city that are surrounded by residential blocks. They have an ambiguous character, on the one hand because of the lack of shops or public program, which gives them a residential character, and on the other hand because they are actually public spaces that are visually open toward the city. These spaces lack urban life and present maintenance and security problems. The proposal defends the open character of the city's public space, positing the ambiguity of the open space around the urban blocks as an opportunity for activating the neighborhood's public and collective life. The Sharing Point strategy experiments with a process of citizen participation in some of its different phases. First, learns about the different groups' needs as well as the suggested activities they might undertake in public space. Second, it brings groups together that could share certain activities or that could even engage in a symbiotic relationship.


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FIRM PHILOSOPHY

We specialize in architectural design across scales, from small objects to large buildings. As a result, our office produces innovative buildings and projects that are both exclusive and accessible, forward looking and subtle, distinctly contemporary in their formal and material aesthetics and unapologetically timeless in their functional and spatial performance. Our creative process involves an analytical approach to the specifics of each project, client and context, an imaginative philosophy and unique artistic sensibility to design architectural and urban form and a sophisticated technological solution to its construction and material tectonics. Experience in collaboration with consultants in diverse fields ranging from economic advisors, master planning, to structural engineering and material fabrication allows us to produce increasingly unique projects locally and abroad. By deploying both pragmatism and imagination during all steps of design, the singularity of our architectural approach is that we can fluidly integrate speculative thinking with an effective production. Our vast experience in designing and building architecture worldwide enable us to create projects that maintain a refined balance between theoretical and aesthetic concerns, contemporary demands and long lasting values such as functionality and organization. By closely working with clients, we ensure that their vision is materialized in the most progressive and realistic way, so our final design is both distinctive and sustainable, providing worldwide visibility and recognition.

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JUJUY REDUX

The project presents a formally subtle and spatially complex mass which operates simultaneously at the scale of the entire building volume as well as at that of each apartment, thus challenging over-assumed notions of fixed scalar transformations within mid-rise housing typologies.

Multifamily Housing Rosario, Argentina

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FLUID CORE-YARD Chengdu, China

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The mass is subtracted from at its corners, generating similarly opposed structural cantilevers that produce a strong sensation of levitation. Waffle hyperbolic paraboloids connecting vertical walls and horizontal slabs further induce the sense of obliqueness throughout the building, linking the entry street to the golf course visually and physically.


PRISM GALLERY

Contemporary Art Gallery Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA The building ports the first facade in the nation to be constructed entirely out of a resin-based composite polycarbonate. The envelope is designed to create subtle sensations by inducing a physical and optical dynamism that both challenges and enhances movement along the iconic Sunset Strip.

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LAND TILES

Materials and Applications Landscape Project in Silverlake, Ca

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HELSINKI LIBRARY Central Public Library Helsinki, Finland

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HCPL I Helsinki Central Public Library

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The new Helsinki Central Public Library will become not simply a discrete building that silently completes the site, but a dynamic structure that visually connects and physically consolidate the site, further intensifying the visibility and status of the existing buildings.


PROJECT 8

In Progress: Confidential Urban Development Project Los Angeles, Ca

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My research and design practice investigates the connection between architecture and identity, examining architecture’s social and political agency through historical research and design speculation. Learning from historical data and perspectives from within architecture as well as cultural and ethnic studies, I examine how the built environment influences the social and cultural experience. I believe strongly in design as a process, and I approach each condition imposed on a project as an opportunity rather than a constraint. Architecture presents opportunities for transformation – materially, conceptually and sociologically. The main objective of any design exercise is to provide the client with new, original concepts and a practical architecture with, occasionally, visionary ambitions. All projects strive to go beyond the standard solution and are consequently able to redefine typologies. My strategy to tackle projects is based on two fundamental principles: research and collaboration. Driven by the desire to enrich and improve daily life, architecture is designed to meet the diverse needs of the communities they serve. Inspiration is drawn from many influences around the world and the work clearly articulates this enthusiasm for issues of place and identity. My work is variable to many different scales, with sculptures and installations providing a testing ground for form as well as materials. This is something that powerfully informs the wider body of work – from residential to intimate designs. It is with these ideologies that I submit my name for consideration in the next phase of the competition.

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PROJECTING TRIANGULARITY An architectural installation derived from the manipulation of viewpoints.

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ORNAMENTAL MODULARITY An architectural installation derived from digital frabrication.

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Air Architecture

A site specific installation, Pierre Koenig’s Case Study House 21 (1958), serves as a location for one of many Architectones Interventions.

Architectones Site Specific Installations Role: Lead Designer + Project Manager

Made of over 1200 individually unique pieces, at 1200 different angles, this undulating sculpture engages both the existing architecture, and visitors.

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CARRERA RESIDENCE Vacation Home in New York Suburb Role: Lead Designer + Project Manager

Natural Building materials allow for home to blend into the enviorment.

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Magnolia North

1st Place Competition Entry as a Part of a Team, Commissioned Role: Designer + Project Manager

$38,000 PLANNING OFFICE Design Incubator Graphic Designers Architects

FOR SALE $38,000

COMMUNITY ROOM

RENOVATIONS $80,000

Boy’s & Girl’s Club Micro-Commerce Grants Community Services Daycare

OPEN DOOR POLICY For public use

LIVING ROOM Conference Room Movie Night

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Rearing Pond

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Scenario 3: INTERROGATION Sizes of robot containers are dictated by the size of their inhabitants. Various salinity levels and ecological conditions are maintained within each specific robot.

Speculative Solutions for a Depleting Shoreline in Salton Sea, CA

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Each stage of the farming process is allotted its own corresponding plot of sculpted land.

Scenario 4: AGGREGATION Desert Pupfish Pumphouse 11’

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Utilizing gigantic mobile fish containers, the fish that call Salton Sea home are no longer exposed to contaminants.

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SYMBIOTIC DWELLINGS Architectural Interrogations of Race, Identity, and Community

The relationship between race and architecture is often an avoided discussion. This thesis aims to address the question “What role can architecture play in altering racial and social stereotypes in the built environment”? Geographically, one’s identity is often tied to their place of residence. Clusters of communities are routinely defined by their zip code, income, and education. Through rethinking the architecture of public housing, a new polemic will be forged between those who are identified as “poverty stricken” and those who are deemed the “elite.”

This project is dispersed into several sites located within the Los Angeles neighborhoods of Beverlywood and Mid-City, a territory divided by class and race. Within the two different neighborhoods, five distinct sites will serve as host for the insertion of new public housing complexes: public school, police academy, hospital, library, and park. Each project is designed to resolve inherent tensions associated with public housing, such as noise levels, privacy, and ownership. Each project will be rendered differently to demonstrate a translation of the “architectural figure” from a type of architec-

ture rendered “black” towards one rendered “white,” specifically heightening and denying racial and social stereotypes through the use of form and graphics. While the adjacent territories are manipulated by establishing new lines that define “public housing,” this project aims to force the status quo to be re-drawn and reconsidered. If the current condition is manifested as black and white, this project proposes that the perfect world is gray.

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“People are the most important defining and informing the city landscape” Following this principle our team has been actively developing projects in different context and scale, both individually and as a group, so to design new urban spaces and interventions able to trigger and redefine new spatial experiences Those interventions were able to stimulate the imagination of the people experiencing the city, regardless of gender or age or background, and constantly renewing their perceptions and understanding of the urban context they were in. This approach is the result of a joint work of the different team members, which operates in different ambits and different world region, combining an conceptual approach to a very local and site specific sensibility. Our approach for the project will address • the creation of a new dialogue with the community able to generate a new centrality within the urban context with flexible and adaptive strategies • refined and elegant urban furniture and interventions by LDVC • a new landscape scenography able to embrace the local community in a new warm and playful environment from dsb • a new spatial perception based on new light and mood installations able to be perceived during day and night and generate an array of multiple experiences ““Putting everyday technology at the heart of bespoke lighting installations may be a simple idea, but it’s led to high-profile projects across the globe for designer Dominic Harris” The team is not only formed by dsb-LDVC-Cinimod, but by us - local community - client, and this is what will define the new Wynwood gateway


Dominic Harris - Light designer Cinimod Studio has delivered the most epic of public lighting installations to mark the launch of the new “Ha 4” Xbox game. On the eve of the one of the most highly anticipated blockbuster launches of 2012, Xbox 360 celebrated th release of “Halo 4” with a ground breaking aerial lighti performance visible for miles over London. The “Halo 4” Glyph symbol is one of the largest and b ghtest man-made structures to ever fly over a capital c and measures 50 feet in diameter, weighs over 3.2 ton and was illuminated by 20 KW of pure orange LED ligh [2013 - Microsoft|Xbox- London UK]


Dominic Harris - Light designer Cinimod Studio were commissioned to create a spectacular lighting scheme to accompany the interior refurbishment of the exclusive Moose Bar located on Duke Street next door to Selfridges. Working closely with the client and their architect, we developed a highly integrated lighting desig that combines discrete integrated full colour LED lighting with carefully chosen chandeliers. The Cinimod lighting scheme extends to all areas of t club, including the upstairs bar where warm white light edge lights dramatic panoramic landscape prints. Copper mirror ball pendants were deployed over the main bar counter, providing further warmth to the interior. [2013 - private gallery- London UK]

Dominic Harris - Light designer It is a given that light changes space, but in “Walk the Light� it becomes the visitor who determines that change in the lighting. Their movement through the Victoria & Albert Museum‘s Exhibition Road tunnel entrance directly controls this innovative lighting installation.architectural scale. It the first time a large public landmark within London has been controlled directly by members of the public. This experimental interactive lighting sign project creates a band of white light that physically follows the visitor, forming a bright line of light tracking their journey. As one person pass the white light jumps to the next arrival. [2013 - London design Festival- London UK]


Ludovico Lombardi - Architect LDVC LDVC designed the Falper the art installation curated by Ludovico Lombardi and Katrin Zavka, which was th core of the main event by BOLOGNA WATERDESIGN framed in the historical former hospital Ospedale dei Bastardini. Wing is a wall sink realised in Cristalplant as a continu dynamic geometries frozen in its transition between th vertical and the horizontal planes. The solidity of the m terial and the sinuosity of the shape are generated wit dynamic simulation of a body pulled by the gravity [2013 - Falper - Cersaie - Italy]


Ludovico Lombardi - Architect LDVC The title of this project, Aldgate Compass, derives from its primary function as visitors’ information point. Unlike ordinary visitor centres usually situated in a closed structure where tourists obtain information through speaking to a service provider or by generic pamphlets and maps, this triangular island provides a unique experience in itself by allowing visitors to literally walk through a three –dimensional map, enabling them to en the neatly framed scenery while discovering information on interesting sites, both historical and modern, to visit in Aldgate. Aldgate Compass ma explores Aldgate in three levels: the very proximate surrounding, major London attractions (historical buildings, art galleries and markets in the Ea area), and finally the parks in the east side of London.

The reflective surface of the central structure of Aldgate Compass captures the vivacity of the area in its vibrant colours and incessant movemen The reflections of the passers-by captured within the bustling cityscape reinstate the fact that London citizens and its visitors from various corne of the world are in fact what Aldgate is primarily made of. Understanding the historical times when Aldgate was the only gateway that gave access to all, the design of Aldgate Compass emphasises the importance of those who use Aldgate Compass to better access and discover London, hen weaving them through the fabric of Aldgate. [2010- Architecture Foundation- London- UK]


Dong Sub Bertin - Landscape designer dsb

Darsena Center for the EXPO 2015 Milano is a tempo garden for the citizens during the construction and restauration of the water channel of “Darsena�, an histor place of Milan. [2014 - Expomilano2015 - Milan - Italy]


Dong Sub Bertin - Landscape designer dsb + YellowOffice Daily code vegetation - Appartamento LAGO - Milan design week 2011

Dong Sub Bertin - Landscape designer dsb + YellowOffice Into the flowers - Esterni - Milan design week 2010

Dong Sub Bertin - Landscape designer dsb + YellowOffice Poetto - new waterfront of Cagliari - competition - Cagliari - I


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We bring over 30 years as landscape architects creating innovative and award-winning urban parks. The success of this experience is extensive and successful, including the Village of Yorkville Park in Toronto. Featured in Alan Tate’s book Great Parks, it is beloved by the community and winner of two of the most prestigious awards bestowed by the American Society of Landscape Architects: the Presidential Award of Excellence and Landmark Award. Our projects encompass a range of scales, budgets and programs. What unites our work is the premise that there is always something inherent in a site and the surrounding culture that wants to be expressed. So we express it with distinction and with simplicity. We craft landscapes that transcend and anchor themselves in the hearts and heads of the people who use them. Our approach to Wynwood Gateway Park will be guided by a passion to inspire and engage the community, and to create a park that endures and thrives for generations. We will pursue inventive approaches to programming, but ultimately we believe for a park to succeed it must be flexible and adapt to evolving needs. A distinctive landscape should create the framework for the various proposed uses that will change over time such as urban farming, art, music performances, etc. Regardless of scale and budget, we know that through thoughtful design and creative use of materials, Wynwood Gateway Park can be an important anchor for the community and neighborhood.

888 BRANNAN STREET San Francisco, California Invigorating this historic building in San Francisco’s SOMA district, an elevated wooden plaza was constructed above the old loading dock. Built around an imported specimen maple tree, a ring of ‘semi-precious stones’ adorn the tree, distinguishes the courtyard, and provides a sheltered social place for tenants to work, eat lunch or socialize.

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VILLAGE OF YORKVILLE PARK Toronto, Canada The design for this award winning urban park reflects the history of Village of Yorkville and the diversity of the Canadian landscape. Transforming the idea of the Victorian collection box, the park is arranged into a series of gardens that contain a distinct collection of plant communities referencing the environments of Canada.

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WALLER PARK San Francisco, California As part of a housing development, Waller Park transforms an existing street into a series of thematic public gardens linked together by a grand staircase, forming a neighborhood promenade. The project also includes community gardens, performance plazas, and amphitheater like seating that creates a flexible venue for formal and informal events.

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LIMELIGHT Westonbirt International Festival of Gardens, England The concept for the design was to draw attention to and honor one of the ‘Champion’ trees in England’s National Arboretum. A sculpted hollowed mound was built to define the space around the majestic specimen and to distinguish it from the surrounding grove, creating a miniature amphitheatre where one can admire the ‘Champion’. REGISTRATION #_____________________________________


FIBROGEN HEADQUARTERS San Francisco, California Sited above an adjacent public park, the 1.5-acre on-structure plaza, created an expansive prospect to the San Francisco waterfront. The southern part of the plaza, planted with native grasses, provides intimate gathering spaces, while the great lawn to the north reaches for the water and ‘spills’ off the podium creating a public amphitheater to the waterfront.

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Design Philosophy Statement

We are a Miami-based partnership for Architecture, Urban Design, Landscape Urbanism, Interiors, and Art. Our practice does not subscribe to a predetermined architectural style or ideology, because that would be silly. Instead we strive to search for the most appropriate solution to any given condition. We try to avoid two extreme positions - one is an attitude against construction that comes out of a legacy of academicism and theory, and the other is the fetishization of construction. In fact we believe that there is no single truth in the production of meaningful form. We do not feel that construction is the degradation of ideas, and conversely we do not succumb to the celebration of construction with tectonic self-righteousness. The intellectual curiosity that guides the work of our office is the search of form which has acquired meaning through history. Our practice strives to reflect current cultural tendencies; however we rely fundamentally on precedents and typology. We share Rafael Moneo’s belief that “architecture is not only described by types, it is also produced through them.” Furthermore, our interest spans several scales. We believe that scale in architecture is one of the most important aspects of the discipline. We also understand that various scales, ranging from large urban interventions to small scale installations, require different attitudes and that the same issues can not be proportionally reduced or enlarged. Our work aims to be sensitive and appropriate to its dimensions.

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The SOFIA FLOATING PLAZA - competition | Sofia | Bulgaria | 2013 The competition brief called for the urban concept and architectural design and development of Sveta Nedelya Square, in the city of Sofia. The main strategy for the project is to provide a clearly defined plaza for congregation in the heart of Sofia. To achieve this, we propose a plane which “peels” away from the north side of Sveta Nedelya Church and floats over Boulevard Vitosha. This ‘plane’ alludes to the historical use of that area of ancient Serdika.Some of the geometrical lines of the plaza disposition are carried over from the angle introduced by the Roman Cardus and Decumanus and the Forum. Furthermore, we are proposing an extension of the existing underground level considering that new ruins will be uncovered and to provide a connection to the subway system. Three levels are present in the proposal; the floating plaza, street level, and archaeological level.

BROTHERS TO THE RESCUE MEMORIAL PLAZA - Sweetwater| FL | 2014 (In Progress) The Brothers to the Rescue is a humanitarian organization that saved the lives of many rafters at sea fleeing from Cuba in the search of freedom. They flew small planes in search of rafters, once they spotted rafters they would hover over them until the Coast Guard would arrive. They provided protection overhead, very much like a seagull. The Seagull, a symbol for hope, peace and freedom became the intuitive inspiration for the design of the plaza. The design considered how the symbol and form of the seagull could be transformed into a public space where the story of this tragic event could be presented.The seagull form begins to define space while creating seating and landscape areas, but also considers the limitations of the site. The vertical surfaces of the form is where the information, facts and faces of the victims are displayed.

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HAITI NATIONAL CATHEDRAL - competition | Port-Au Prince | Haiti | 2012 The competition brief called for the redesign of the Notre Dame de l’Assomption – Haiti’s National Cathedral which was destroyed during the 2010 Earthquake. The design of a place of worship introduces the challenge of how to inspire religious feelings appropriate for the reverence of a supreme being. Our proposal attempts to achieve a tranquil space for meditation by illuminating the vast mass of architecture with an incomprehensible mysterious light.

ROYAL PALM RESIDENCE | Miami Beach | FL | 2011 - 2013 The project is a new custom 5,000 sf two storey residence located in Miami Beach. The client’s particular needs required a spatial arrangement where visual access from the exterior and within the interior was important. This resulted in a thickened façade composed of layers such as porches, balconies and terraces as well as a sectional expansion and contraction of spaces facilitating direct visual connection from room to room.

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INKANTA DESIGN STORE - 1111 Lincoln Road | Miami Beach | FL | 2010 The project is to design a flagship store for an internationally established design retailer. The commission included generating a branding identity that would easily become a repeatable prototype. The design accomplished these criteria through material research and display-furniture development. The retail space is located in the 1111 Lincoln Road building completed by Herzog & de Meuron in Miami Beach. The sales area steel pattern is designed via a digital interpretation of an analog act of crumbling paper. The pattern was then pixilated and produced through a digital fabrication process. The stainless steel panels were laser cut and perforated creating an undulating light effect.

CAFE BUSTELO - Gansevoort South | Miami Beach | FL | 2008 The project is to design a flagship coffee shop for the internationally established Bustelo Coffee. The commission included generating a branding identity that would easily become a repeatable prototype. The retail space is an interior build-out at the Gansevoort Hotel South in Miami Beach. The design seeks to emphasize the proportions of the shell space by juxtaposing two distinct volumes. The double-height volume is defined by a wall of stacked metal coffee cans which not only accentuates the height of the space but also becomes a clearly identifiable characteristic. The simple metal can repeated 2,697 times is an obvious homage to Warhol and Lichtenstein.

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’PALMOASIS’ Build in the Bay Competition - Florida InsideOut Magazine | Miami | Fl | 2006 [Winner] The proposal considers the Venetian themed vision of Biscayne Bay established by the early founders of Miami Beach through understanding the agglomeration of artificial islands and the attempt to recreate the urban condition of Venice. Given that Miami is lacking any significant public open space, one might perceive this re-creation to be an inherent contradiction. Our project rethinks the Venetian themed vision and proposes a public recreational space which is site-specific and establishes an open space typology for Miami a waterfront urban condition. A single palm tree on a base is a direct representation of any generic island. Palmoasis consists of 4000 such islands arranged on a 30’grid.

AMSTEL BRIDGE - competition | Amsterdam | Netherlands | 2012 “The value of ornament in contemporary infrastructure” The proposal considers the dual circulation of traffic (pedestrian / bicycle) as it harmoniously connects the existing neighborhoods on the east bank of the Amstel River through a spatially varied form articulating the new entrance to the Hermitage Amsterdam Museum. The bridge, being one of simplest architectural intentions, inevitably takes its form through intuitive resolution addressing several technical issues (slopes, program, structure in relation to ornament) but ultimately the piece is thought poetically as a ‘line’ jumping from one edge to another.

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_practice philosophy The practice has been working internationally and collaborating on public projects, mainly cultural and sports & leisure since 2008 and provides full architectural and landscape design services. The practice places emphasis on the connection between architecture and landscape and how the space in between then is not fixed but is adaptable, changing overtime due to demands of a dynamic society. Changes, collaborations and dependencies which fine tune the design. An open source attitude is adopted and embraced. Conceptual processes are critically assessed based on their functionality, aesthetics and connection to the physical and social context. The limits of architecture, landscape and infrastructure are blurred and their definitions interchangeable. Sustainable architecture for us is one which adapts to its context and function both at the moment of conception and overtime, being used and enjoyed year after year, in different ways by different people. The most important aspect of our work however is the ability of each project to embody spaces which surprise and delight. The emotive value of the idea for us is the success of the project. Being functional contextual and beautiful are prerequisites. We will only be satisfied providing imaginative design solutions, with a sense of place. The following images demonstrate how very different situations have produced radically different results within our work while our level of creativity never drops. Memorable not iconic with the capability to be engaged with, and even make someone’s day.

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2010-13 Avondale Park This competition winning scheme, built with a budget of five thousand pounds was inpired by the local brick kilns in the surrounding area. Four pods contain the separate areas of the program while the fifth area is a picnic area sheltered by a floating canopy. Client: Kensington Borough



2011- Katara Waterpark The project done in collaboration w MYAA is located on a prominent site facing the Pearl of Doha and is currently in feasibilty. The waterpark resort also contains 4 and 5 star hotels and and entertainment complex. Water features and slides where modelled taking inspiration from naturally occuring forms in the Qatari Landscape Client: QDC

2012Madrid REclaim REuse A selection of abandoned sites around Madrid were selected to provide temporary public facilities using recycled materials following the success of Campo de Cebada in Madrid (right) These half finished building sites are occupied using recycled materials and labour from local volunteers to produce quality urban furniture with minimum budget. Client: Los Arces / Verum


2008-14 Faculty of Islamic Studies, Doha The largest and most complex built project has been a continual colaboration for the office. The idea for the scheme began with two ribbons which relate to the progam which is of a university faculty and also of a mosque. The two inclined minarets become the roof and floors of the faculty building and then come together to form the quibla wall and the dome of the mosque. Client: Qatar Foundation


2012-14 Secret Garden On a vacant site in the center of Madrid we were asked to create a temporary play area for the children of the area which would be removed once the site became active again. Our proposal gives access to a secret garden through a thickening of the existing ruin facade. Client: ETSAM/Private

2013 AA Summer School Selected Student Work from 10 day Charette which involved mapping and a intervention in the important Torres Winery near Barcelona (Student: Runze Wang)


2011 Orchid Palace (Right) This private residence for one of Qatar’s VVIPs is fully integrated into the large garden landscape. Client: PEO/Private

2012 Heart of Don Benito (Above) Urban Regeneration Project in the center of this important town in Extremadura, Spain. The brief was to create a new urban space with a by replacing a large surface carpark with phasing construction of mixed use and residential units. Client : Ayuntamiento de Don Benito


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DESIGN TEAM PHILOSOPHY

“Buildings should grace and not disgrace their environment” Frank Lloyd Wright “I have found that … all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.” - Oscar Wilde As clearly portrayed in the above quotes, our design philosophy is one of context and purpose. Through an in depth study of place, we respond to the specific conditions of each site, with the hope that our projects can become one with their surroundings. Through dialogue with our clients, we strive to achieve clarity of purpose. We approach our work with the calling of service and a humanistic perspective that good design has the potential to enhance the quality of life in any setting. While our professional knowledge is complemented by constant research and openness to new ideas, our work is consistently rooted in basic practices. These include a commitment to sustainability, a focus on craft, materials and constructability, and an emphasis on process and collaboration. Finally, drawing from South Florida’s subtropical climate, our projects strive to capitalize on indoor/outdoor living integration.

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Luna Rossa Residence Location: Bay Harbor Islands, FL Square Footage: 5,810 SF

The project developed with a focus on integrating indoor and outdoor spaces in order to capitalize on South Florida living. The home’s aesthetic is consistent inside and out. Its geometry is clearly expressed through the use of materials. A series of open spaces, already visible from the street, leads visitors to the main entrance of the house. The street garden pierces through the front fence wall to reveal the water feature behind.The front garden leads to a two story open courtyard with a green wall. Visitors experience the garden and courtyard as they are led to the front door.

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West Broadview Location: Bay Harbor Islands, FL Square Footage: 5,810 SF

The program called for the development of the primary residence for a family with young children on an in-fill waterfront lot. The home was designed at the height of the economic boom in the earlier part of 2007. In contrast to the pervading trend at the time in South Florida--to capitalize on the increasing cost of land and real estate--the owners and design team set goals that would be respectful of the context and the landscape, as well as conscious of resources and sustainability.

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Lakewood Art Studio Location: Skylake, FL Square Footage: (total lot): 22,150 sf (hardscape): 4,000 sf (new pavilion): 622 sf

The opportunity presented itself when our clients approached us with the request to add an artist studio for the mother--a painter-- on the Northern edge of the property. They also wanted to re-design the outdoor areas which consisted of a worn out fabric canopy, a pool, and a large expanse of unusable open space which sloped down to the lake. Designing the studio as an anchor for a series of outdoor spaces, the addition/intervention strived to shake the existing structure and connect it to its beautiful natural setting in order to celebrate South Tropical indoor/outdoor living.

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Ballantrae Court Location: St. Andrews Country Club, FL Square Footage: 10,000 SF

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Organic Bistro Location: Aventura, FL (Indoor/Outdoor Cafe & Garden)

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Del Valle Location: Santa Ana, Costa Rica Square Footage: 5,500 SF

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The objective of the project was to capitalize on the beauty of the landscape, which included many mature tree specimens on the site, as well as the backdrop of the mountains. The main volume houses the living and dining rooms on the first floor and the secondary bedrooms above. The one-story volume to the East houses the service areas, a playroom and a large gourmet kitchen on the corner, acting as the connector between the public and private spaces. The outdoor rooms flow from the interior to provide seamless indoor/outdoor tropical mountain living

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Design Philosophy

Our design team philosophy is dedicated to an art that shares ideas, creativity and inspiration that develops into a unique style of architecture. It creates memorable, urban, outdoor experiences for residents who participate in their neighborhoods. The South Florida urban core is a transitional, vibrant, experiential place. By linking the design elements of hardscape, lighting, art exhibition , and softscape with culture, a sustainable destination is born. Design is the reflection of the residents it serves. The infill design should fold neatly into the fabric of the neighborhood, while adding to the heart of the community. Our business background provides leadership and vision to the development of a project, in addition to a unique understanding and sensitivity to our clients' needs and goals.

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Industrial Glass Fabrication Facility, Coral Springs

Renovation of existing warehouse to a highly technical and automated industrial glass fabrication facility. A great example of revitalizing an industrial area and re-use of existing unutilized building. Coordination of highly technical fabrication and finishing equipment with upgraded power, water and ventilation specifications. Existing shell modified with new openings inside and out for natural light, equipment placement and storage.

Country Club, Delray Beach

Reconfiguration of an existing, two storey, 35,000 SF facility. Redesign of building wide infrastructure and space to create enhanced usage opportunities, including a mĂŠlange of luxurious social areas.

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Auto Services Center, Pompano Beach

Notable features include twenty feet vertical clearance engineered using 8� block and monolithic footings that saved thousands of dollars and time, integrated office spaces and cost effective aesthetic features. Creative use of common masonry units created a unique and engaging building design. Motorcycle Retail & Service Center, Wynwood

Another great example of urban regeneration. The existing building was revitalized to house a nationally recognized brand in the heart of the Wynwood District. Creative architecture was successfully integrated with the1930's built warehouse for a now new landmark building.

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Loft-Style Apartment Complex, Gainesville

A unique and bold approach to student housing. 40 units of approximately 1,400 SF on two stories with two or three bedrooms with a loft den area. The modern aesthetic of the building was successfully integrated into a traditional, residential neighborhood.

Clothing Retail Store, Various Locations

Approximately 1,800 SF clothing retail store for internationally recognized brand including new storefront, storefront display area, open retail showroom, and rear utility room. Locations completed in Florida (Boca Raton, Aventura, Sawgrass Mills, Dadeland Malls ), Georgia (Lennox Square Mall), Colombia (Bogota, Medellin, Barranquilla), Venezuela (Caracas), and Panama (Panama City, Colon.)

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Lab / Office Facility, Ft. Lauderdale

Existing 11,600 SF warehouse facility reconfigured to support highly technical research and development laboratories. The design is consistent with the innovative and technical culture of the firm.

Cigar & Wine Bar, Boca Raton

Luxury wine and cigar bar including open seating area, oversized humidor, cigar storage area, wine display and storage area, conference room, and dual use design to manage air quality. The design creates an upscale, relaxed atmosphere perfect for Boca Raton.

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Margate Boulevard Redevelopment

Margate Community Redevelopment Agency redefining the urban core. Margate Boulevard was designed and built as the center spine to the proposed 36 acre planned Margate City Center. Redesigned urban roadway included plazas, signage, landscape, benches, lighting and paver design.

Timbercreek Boca Raton City Park

Redeveloped Boca Raton Park for accessibility, seating, decking, relationship to the lake with a recreational basketball component. A pocket community park design.

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Boca Raton Community Garden – Joint Venture City of Boca Raton and Junior League of Boca Raton

Junior League of Boca Raton and the City of Boca Raton entered into a joint venture on a coveted 1.25 acre of down town land. The purpose was to create a place of destination, a park for residents, with a growing component. Located adjacent to the new city library, the site has become more than a growing center. Programming, both learning and cultural, is scheduled weekly from September through May each year. The site development has been an inspiration for intergenerational programming.

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WYNWOOD GATEWAY PARK

OUR DESIGN PHILOSOPHY

The design team is a multidisciplinary practice that aims to enrich spatial experience putting forward territorial interactions between human activities and natural processes in the construction of new and spatially enrich environments. As such the team shares: -an interest for multi-disciplinary, collaborative and alternative forms of practice; -the understanding of the urban landscape as the place where various agencies and interests meet ultimately building the grounds for social and spatial experiences; -the definition of design as a framework for a sustainable lifestyle where the community and the natural processes interact and are mutually enhanced; -the all-encompassing thinking of ecology and sustainability that includes social, cultural, economic and environmental conditions; -the principle of multiplicity related to both experience and performance and meaning of the design spaces and elements; -and the interests and concerns to incorporate the time factor in the projects; the idea that the decisions we make today are influenced by the past and have a repercussion in the changing futures. To this extent, the team weaves tectonic and social processes as part of the creation of these spatial experiences and the design of public spaces, i.e. urban parks, seamlessly integrating landscape, architecture, urbanism and infrastructure. Tectonically the team explores landscape materials and models as well as new technologies, both digital and physical that foster alternatives to normative approaches. Socially the design team engages and pursues a constant interaction with the dynamics of inhabitants and local associations in order to understand and incorporate local needs and aspirations.

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Seamlessly integrating architecture, landscape and urbanism Flowing Gardens uses architecture as nodal intensification of the surrounding landscape and makes use of infrastructure as integral part of a design environment. Status: Built, Area 37 Ha REGISTRATION:_________________________________________


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The proposal comprises of a 5000m2 Exhibition Hall, a 4000m2 Greenhouse and a 3500m2 Gate Building sitting in a 37 ha landscape that housed the International Horticultural Expo to create a park for Xi’an City as its legacy. Status: Built, Area 37 Ha REGISTRATION:_________________________________________


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Fabricating an intimate public space inserted in the middle of Beijing’s main roads and groundlabteam elevated highways, Beijing Gardens creates a series of differentiated environments providing pedestrians with a microcosm of landscape pockets to stop, contemplate and groundlabteam relax. Status: Built, Area 0.9 Ha

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TH ICK ENING G R O U ND

Through the manipulation of the ground (folding, thickening) this small and intimate landscape located in the outskirts of Xian provides a variety of environments; promenade, gardens piers, reflecting pools and water streams and planting to constantly interact with the adjacent lake. Status: Built, Area 0.7 Ha REGISTRATION:_________________________________________


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With a topographical approach, the Mobility Centre(urban plaza + train station) choreographs the ground as a connective tissue to shape an extensive public plaza that smoothly drops to flow beneath the rail tracks and forms a new pedestrian and bike connection to the northern part of Innichen, Italy. Status: Under development, Area 118 Ha REGISTRATION:_________________________________________


TA IC H U NG PAR K G AT EW AY

The reason for a park is that of providing a chance to weave the cityscape of our urban environments with ecologies and places with entirely different character. In this sense, Taichung Gateway Park in Taiwan weaves distant and local Taiwanese territories into the ultimate form of metropolitan experience, helping to forge character and long term vision of the entire city. Status: Short listed competition entry, Area 90 Ha REGISTRATION:_________________________________________


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Symbiosis 207 Philosophy The city is a spatial and temporal reference of human manifestation. It is the scenario where people attempt to satisfy their needs, interact and develop their activities. Miami is the result of a racial, cultural, social, economic and political melting pot, which in face of globalization has acquired an hybrid image composed by a myriad fragments. This is precisely what grants it a unique beauty and significance. Currently it is hard to identify and visualize the limits within a city. Spatial boundaries tend to disappear and socially what is private blends with what is public. If we are able to understand the city as a succession of layers or events that leave behind footprints that remain exposed to interpretation, then we can approach its study through historic mediation mechanisms which provide valuable facts about architectural intervention.


•“Symbiosis between architecture and billboard”. 2002 – Present.

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The city is product of cultural patterns, a space continuously changing according to human evolution.

Architecture is a communicative art that captures and transmits messages.

“Symbiosis between Architecture and Billboard” 2002 – Present


Institutional Projects

“Metropolitan Theater” National Competition Barcelona, Venezuela 2003

Each city possesses a collective image among its inhabitants and visitors. Institutional and commercial buildings are important milestones within this depiction. Façade treatments also contribute to entice the mind. Theaters and cinemas are among those places that invite us to dream and to experiment. To enrich such experience, the building itself is the first image, the first stage.

“Cinex” Maracaibo, Venezuela 2004 - 2005 / Built


Commercial Projects

Urban dynamic gradually changes leaving behind residual spaces.

“CCCTRenovation” Caracas, Venezuela 2008 – Present / Under Construction

At the moment many cities are embracing walking and mass transportation as primary forms of movement. It is vital to connect the pedestrian with other modes of transportation. As the city, buildings must be reinvented too. Even minor changes in key features provide a new visual without a complete overhaul.

“Renovation Caurimare Shopping Center” Caracas, Venezuela 2004 / Built


Single Family House Projects The single family dwelling concept is ambiguous. Not only it is the nuclei of personal life, at the same time it is also part of a whole urban life. Therefore, it is where the public and private life begins and ends. Therefore, transition spaces are required to merge the individual with the collective.

“Hybrid House” Caracas, Venezuela 2005 / Built

“Fractal House”

“Assembly House”

Caracas, Venezuela 2005 - 2007 / Built

Caracas, Venezuela 2005 - 2007 / Built


Constructive Details

Architecture results from a juxtaposition of images and its meaning derives from the internal characteristics and how they relate to the specific context. The emerging city’s beauty resides in the coexisting contrasts within itself.


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OUR PHILOSOPHY

“We worked on industrialization for the last 150 years… Perfection can not take us any further: We need LIFE in our environment.” -Marcel Wanders The bus stop. The park bench. The coffee stand and the old man’s dog. As you walked the last block, chances are you didn’t see these things: In order to focus, our brain filters out over 90% of the surrounding stimuli. Designers, explorers, inventors, dreamers – this is what we are. We thrive when we can imagine an experience – the visuals, the uses, the feelings – and project that forward with such engaging passion that this experience overwhelms the thresholds built in like a moat around our brains. Precisely to the point where it speaks to us with clear gestures: “LOOK at me. FEEL me. USE me. Elevate the sensorial bundle that is your living moment, and let - out of that which is mundane - something extraordinary emerge.” This is LIFE how is meant to be lived. Imagining experiences, developing new ways for people to interact (with each other and with their surroundings), we consider how the individual – immersed in a given space – will represent itself in 3 dimensions. Through graphic and technological integration, we aim for the guest to emotionally connect. Our philosophy, summarized, is that of thresholds shattered.

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Integration of art. Collaboration with a local graffiti artisit to create an urban context within an interior space. Completed 2013.

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Rooftop revitalization. Creating casual yet unique meeting spaces in areas that are often overlooked. Completed 2013. REGISTRATION NO. ��������������������


Exploring the relationships between site context and program. Allowing the exterior to resonate throughout the interior space.

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Mobilizing food service. Bringing varieties of food to users through food trucks. Completed 2010.

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Providing choice. Creating diverse areas and styles of seating for users to choose from.

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Integration of technology. Providing interfaces which users can interact with on a personal or collaborative level. Completed 2012.

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We are an interdisciplinary team with expertise in architecture, landscapes, ecologies, curation, urban design, planning, graphic identity, and publications. Our approach is structured around six working points that we implement in all projects, which range in scale from books to cities. Every project benefits from the varied professional experiences of the principals and their collaborators, resulting in designs that are intelligently shaped by a co-dependence of process and product. Our team’s designs, research, and the exhibits of its pinkcomma gallery have been widely published. 1 Visualize the process Construct a nimble method of delivery with every design product—be it a book, a building, or a city—having enough foresight to handle the inevitable need for change along the way. 2 Work elastically Dissolve disciplinary boundaries to make the design task about innovative solutions to the problem at hand. 3 Be curious Complement a design-rooted value system with other areas of specialization, including expertise in history, sustainability, marketing, community development, publishing, and programming. 4 Work smart Use intelligent design tools and technology like building information modeling to achieve goals quickly and efficiently, resulting in more time spent designing and less time documenting. 5 Look around Search for opportunities through research and investigation to create an intensified sense of place without muting it by the tactics of contextual sameness. 6 Be pragmatic idealists Embrace a sense of responsibility to the public, the environment, and the needs of the client.

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Selected Work

Info Space is an evolving architectural catalog and public interactive installation. The information includes maps, photography, and iconography that encourages visitors to discover interesting observations about each building and locate those sites on the larger projected map.

The exhibition Think Swiss, Think Swim brought attention to the potential for urban river swimming that exists in the Charles River today. Developed as a temporary, nomadic exhibition along the Charles River. A series of metal fabricated crosses serve as view ports, each of which illustrates a Swiss river bath.

Parti Wall, Hanging Green generated awareness for underutilized sites in Boston and offered design solutions that applied sustainable principles for improving public space and creating healthy neighborhoods.

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Selected Work

A series of Metro-Boston building icons were developed as part of Info Space. Developed as a game, the icons are used for civic pride, and for potential collateral such as t-shirts, bags, and app icons.

The exhibition Let’s Talk About Bikes examines changes in Boston’s public realm as they relate to the bicycle. Content is presented around five themes: infrastructure, culture, transit, production, and participation. Graphics explore how cycling relates to urban and environmental public policy.

The exhibition inaugurated the new BSA Space, a public gallery created by the Boston Society of Architects. Three themes— Legible City, New/Public and Futures—explore how design can shape our understanding of the urban realm, expand its cultural sphere and propose new possibilities for its development.

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Chuckie Harris Park Working with a diverse community of stakeholders and a variety of public agencies in Somerville, this small park maximizes programming in a neighborhood lacking sufficient open space. The park includes numerous custom-designed elements, asserting a definition of “play� that engages the young and old, and claims a vital role for topography and vegetation in the recreational experience. These components are distributed to all corners of the park in order to integrate active play with the social spaces and plant life that permeate the park.

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Oberlin College Conservatory The central common of Tappan Square extends its space onto the campus of Oberlin College. Straddling the edge between town and campus, this project transforms what had been considered the back side of the college into a series of highly connected pedestrian surfaces, on multiple levels, atop, below, and between those of a new building dedicated to jazz. The design invites spontaneous engagement and creative interpretation. Sloped and stepped levels in the entry plaza can be seen as sculpture, benches, or bandstands. A flexible rooftop garden functions as a performance venue and an everyday gathering place.

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Marina del Sur Located on the Pacific coast of Guatemala near the small city of San JosĂŠ, this new beach house for a couple, their children, and grandchildren engages with its ocean-side site and the local climate. The house sits at the high point of the narrow and deep plot of land, with commanding views of the ocean across the slope of a lawn. The house forms an L-shaped mass, with a long volume containing sleeping quarters and the more centralized mass for the public functions.

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Museo Maya de América The Museo Maya de América is designed to make the cultural heritage of Mayan civilization accessible to a broad public. The architectural expression of the building reflects characteristics of Mayan ruins within an abstracted and patterned contemporary language. The primary volume hovers over the lush landscape, containing artifacts and galleries inside. The building surrounds a central void— known locally as a cenote—rising from the lowest parking level deep underground to the roof.

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