works
g house
g house
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g house
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g house
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g house
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2 + 2 HOUSE. Program: A single family 3000 sq.ft residence. Location: Fort Lee, NJ. Concept: Contextually, the premise devised is two simple volumes link by a vertical stair. The two volumes are equally divided yielding two solids and two voids. The voids provide a threshold from inside to outside, the solids provide permanence with the site. Each volume measures 21’6” x 21’6” x 28’-0” height, allowing for very simple means of construction; the parameters of the volumes are yielded by maximizing the zoning constraints, yard setbacks and height allowed.
g house
project info
client: - confidential - site: Fort Lee, nj program: Residence: (3) bedrooms, kitchen, living areas, library and private studio. sq.ft: 2,800 sq. ft. completion: December 2004 materiality: Cedar cladding and plaster
achio house
achio house
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achio house
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achio house
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achio house
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Program: A residence composed of 4 bedrooms, kitchen, living areas, library, and 4 car garage, pool and private studio. Location: Santa Ana, San Jose, Costa Rica. Concept: The house is in a residential development area, a setting comprised of modest sporadic low scale dwellings. Achio House sought to reconcile the various normative factors of program, site and technology and achieve a meaningful exisitence with its surroundings. Propriety of form is guided by notions of – inhabiting the edges, the house as a filter, thresholds and layers, intervals precisely scattered. A linear translucent bar defines and screens the south edge boundary line. Periphery wall secures the property and stabilizes the geometry of the site. The general plan of the site is set in oblique orientation to the site and is bound to the north property wall. This condition reconciles the plan to the property and recalls its relationship to the context. Achio house negotiates between interior / exterior activity, without compromising the basic premise of shelter and interiority.
achio house
project info
client: Wilson Achio site: Santa Ana, San Jose, Costa Rica. program: Residence: (4) bedrooms, kitchen, living areas, library ,a (4) car garage, pool and private studio. sq. ft: 4,000 sq. ft. completition: 1999 materiality: Reinforced concrete, concrete block infill with plaster finish, Structural steel framing systems, Corrugated metal sheathing, Glass and polycarbonate panels.
m_house
m_house
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m_house
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m_house
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m_house
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m_house
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m_house
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m_house
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m_house
project info
client: mng site: Residencial Valle del Sol, Santa Ana, Costa Rica program: Entertainment + Working + Residencial sq.ft: 1.200 sq.ft. completion: October 2005 materiality: Concrete, wood, glass
escazú house
escazú house
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escazú house
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escazú house
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escazú house
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escazú house
project info
client: - confidential - site: Escazu, San Jose, Costa Rica. program: Residence: (2) bedrooms, kitchen, living areas, library and private studio. sq.ft: 1.300 sq. ft. completion: January 2004 (Project) materiality: Exposed concrete, teak wood and plaster
jwt ad agency
jwt ad agency
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jwt ad agency
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jwt ad agency
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jwt ad agency
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Program: The program houses approx. 6000 of entry lobby, conference areas, communal and meeting areas for an international advertising agency. Location: New York, NY. Concept: The space targeted was part of a larger space that had been left unused but it directly connected to the main entry of company s international floor. Our initial idea was to handle the project as an insertion; to allow our intervention to demarcate the boundaries of old and new. Those boundaries to become apparent through very clear geometries and surface delineation.
jwt ad agency
premises
Conceptually, we inserted two long bars into the existing space that define the new programs.One bar define the entry at the Elevator Lobby and the Reception Area, it also contains a seating area. The length of such space is emphasize by a graphic timeline adhere to the floor which describes milestone dates on the history of J WALTER THOMPSON. Physically, this bar is defined by the same homogenous material on the floor, walls and ceiling. Various splashes of color are presented at key points, such as reception desk and volume behind it celebrating a moment of arrival. The second bar takes place opposite to the Lobby/ Reception area. It extends about 90 feet in length; programmatically it contains various informal meeting areas as well as two flat screens that define both ends of the bar. Among other components, it houses a rotating table and bench that when not in use hide inside the wall, as well as various storage units built into the wall. The Bar is physically express by a continuous rubber surface that extends over the floor, walls and ceiling. Other areas are a flexible conference room and lounge areas that thru their very large translucent doors become one or two separate spaces. All the various furniture pieces through out the space were design by DATUM 0 and fabricated in Germany by Moebel Mock through an ongoing continuous collaboration.
jwt ad agency
project info
client: J Walter Thompson Ad Agency site: 466 Lexington Avenue, 6th floor, New York, NY program: Lobby + reception area + communal and conference areas sq.ft: 6,500 sq. ft. completion: December 2001 materiality: Plaster, poured Rubber, Plexiglas and Steel, and rubberized concrete surfaces.
digital pulp
digital pulp
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digital pulp
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digital pulp
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digital pulp
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Program: Corporate offices for an I builder Company. Location: New York, NY Concept: The generating premise was to create a spatial metaphor coherent to the founding roots of Digital Pulp; to establish an architectural language representational of their ideals. Conceptually two oppositions through form and materiality established the parameters of the project. One representing the intangible side of the company; the digital and virtual; the other representing the tangible side, the physical aspects of the company. The space is basically composed of two wings; the joint of two buildings done by the landlord years ago dictates this configuration. This transition was a compressed, dark small space.
digital pulp
premises
There are three key elements that yield a system of organization and a system of representation for the entire project. At the entry point, one is confronted by the first element, an amorphic soft form sheathed with blue rubber that operates as the seating area; it also operates, plan- metrically, as the hinge point for the space. The second element is an orange tunnel, which exploits the transition of the two adjoining buildings as well as the connection of two very different programs. It does not negate the connection but negotiates it, celebrates it. The third component is a continuous line of fix and operable translucent Plexiglas panels, uninterrupted from floor to ceiling, defining the private and public areas. The custom made operable panels are hardware less, they close and open on magnets. Other secondary elements are a large sliding translucent wall dividing the conference room to the gallery. During large gatherings this wall opens giving way to the gallery. Display panels in the gallery rotate from the wall to collapse into tables as subsidiary surfaces.
digital pulp
project info
client: Digital Pulp site: 220 east 23rd street, 9th Floor, New York, NY program: Corporate offices sq.ft: 4,500 sq. ft. completion: June 2000 materiality: Plaster, poured Rubber, Plexiglas and Steel, and rubberized concrete surfaces
la valencia
la valencia
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la valencia
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la valencia
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la valencia
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client: euromobilia site: La Valencia, Heredia. Costa Rica program: Storage + Comercial + Entertainment sq.ft: 40.000 sq. ft. completion: Ongoing (Construction) materiality: Steel, glass, concrete
pantone universe
pantone universe
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pantone universe
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client: pantone site: Department Stores World Wide program: Display units housing various pantone products sq.ft: 24 cu./ft completion: June 2005 materiality: Plexiglas and rubber sheathing
pantone universe
premises
Program: Design of a Booth for a Stationary Trade show. Location: New York, NY Concept: There were certain characteristics about the stationary product that were revealed to us; Colorful, smart, utilitarian and sexy. These characteristics are revealed by how the product is layered; composed of its Colorful palette, subtle text and carefully placed pragmatic information. We understood these characteristics as having expandability.
pantone universe
premises
We decided to come up with a system that would allow injecting these trademarks into the exhibit. A clean backdrop created by the vertical towers that all together become a Graphic system representative of Pantone’s Identity. The products displayed and suspended on their clean Plexiglas fronts became wonderful drops of color celebrating not only the product itself but Pantone’s sleek and precise image. The collection of all these moments together i.e. the careful semi-translucent storage, the product display, the blown up Pantone Chips, lighting, singularity by color, they all attempted to give more than a display, a COHESIVE EVENT, an image that could possibly speak about the Product and maybe further about PANTONE.
ck cosmetics
ck cosmetics
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ck cosmetics
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Program: CK REALTIME-Re-design of their display systems for a re-lauch of a product. Location: Worldwide Concept: The real time Kiosk deals with the premise of allowing the user to be projected and display into another Kiosk in real time via cameras and internet. Simultaneously, the user can see another person in his/her displayed in real time. The Kiosks can be place in the same store, or remotely in different cities in different parts of the world. The Kiosk allows for transcendence
ck cosmetics
project info
client: Calvin Klein Cosmetics site: Department Stores World Wide program: Display unit housing various ck Cosmetics products. size: 24 cu./ft materiality: Structural steel, metal sheathing, plexiglas and rubber sheathing.
uva hotel + spa
uva hotel + spa
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uva hotel + spa
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Program: The design of a Boutique Hotel and Spa with all supporting services. Location: Limon, Costa Rica. Concept: Understated Luxury.
uva hotel + spa
project info
client: - confidential - site: Punta Uva, Limon, Costa Rica. program: Beach Front Development: Private Residences, Hotel, Spa and Cooking School. sq.ft: 100.000 sq. ft. completion: January 2004 (Project) materiality: Teak wood, glass
celestial city + spa
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celestial city + spa
project info
client: Development Office _ datumzero site: Quepos, Puntarenas, Costa Rica program: Beach Front Development: Health and Prevention Center, Private Residences, Hotel and Spa sq.ft: 200.000 sq. ft. completion: June 2004 (Project) materiality: Teak wood, glass
day spa
day spa
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day spa
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day spa
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client: - confidential - site: Coral Springs, Florida program: Day Spa sq.ft: 2180 sq. ft. completion: October 2006 materiality: Various textiles, wood, glass, stones and concrete.
urban spa
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urban spa
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client: - confidential - site: San José Downtown, Costa Rica program: Urban Spa sq.ft: 2500 sq. ft. completion: Ongoing materiality: Ultrasuede Textile, Glass, Wood and Stone
