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Building Area: 199,357 SF Building Status: Unbuilt This project is composed of two different buildings – one hospitality for the new Shepherd Eco brand of boutique hotels and the other a residential building component which sits on 2 levels of enclosed parking. The project also includes ground floor commercial space along NE 27th Street. There is also an expansive outdoor rooftop garden on the 4th Story with access directly from the residential units. The Boutique Hotel will provide great views of downtown Miami and Biscayne Bay to the east and the heart of Wynwood Arts District to the west. The ground floor contains a small retail/F&B space and a mezzanine art gallery to bring back art programming into the District. Shepherd Eco will include several resiliency initiatives- such as storm water gardens, community farming on the roof and cisterns for collecting water. This project is also focused on connecting people to the dynamic and artistic neighborhood of Wynwood. The Project features a cross Block Pedestrian Paseo on the west side of the Property - providing access for pedestrians and intersecting with a sizeable landscaped green space which is envisioned as a neighborhood amenity for residents and hotel guests and local artists who might want a creative environment to create or share community events.
Building Area: 199,357 SF Building Status: Unbuilt This project is composed of two different buildings – one hospitality for the new Shepherd Eco brand of boutique hotels and the other a residential building component which sits on 2 levels of enclosed parking. The project also includes ground floor commercial space along NE 27th Street. There is also an expansive outdoor rooftop garden on the 4th Story with access directly from the residential units. The Boutique Hotel will provide great views of downtown Miami and Biscayne Bay to the east and the heart of Wynwood Arts District to the west. The ground floor contains a small retail/F&B space and a mezzanine art gallery to bring back art programming into the District. Shepherd Eco will include several resiliency initiatives- such as storm water gardens, community farming on the roof and cisterns for collecting water. This project is also focused on connecting people to the dynamic and artistic neighborhood of Wynwood. The Project features a cross Block Pedestrian Paseo on the west side of the Property - providing access for pedestrians and intersecting with a sizeable landscaped green space which is envisioned as a neighborhood amenity for residents and hotel guests and local artists who might want a creative environment to create or share community events.
Shepherd Eco
Building Area : 9,894 SF Building Status : Unbuilt The client came to us with a large property with about 35 mature specimen trees existing on this site. The client’s intention – to try to keep as many as possible and design the house and its access around full views of these specimens. The scheme began with the living room being placed in the center of the both the oak specimen trees with floor to ceiling glass on both sides so that the shadows throughout the day may fill the space. The program seeks to position the Public/Entertainment areas in a manner that would allow their containment and separation from the more private, family areas. Exterior areas include a rooftop deck, positioned to take advantage of the long views to the water and skylines; a usable front lawn/play area, a backyard with a pool, and areas for vegetable and fruit gardening. In addition to the main two-story house, there would be a desire to also provide a separate pool house which includes an entertainment room, pool bath and a gym with an associated outdoor kitchen. The canopy house has sits below many existing specimen canopies and creates its own architectural canopy as the master suite reaches and angles away from the rest of the residence. The residence lives in beautiful shadows from the trees above and the South Florida sun light.
Building Area : 9,894 SF Building Status : Unbuilt The client came to us with a large property with about 35 mature specimen trees existing on this site. The client’s intention – to try to keep as many as possible and design the house and its access around full views of these specimens. The scheme began with the living room being placed in the center of the both the oak specimen trees with floor to ceiling glass on both sides so that the shadows throughout the day may fill the space. The program seeks to position the Public/Entertainment areas in a manner that would allow their containment and separation from the more private, family areas. Exterior areas include a rooftop deck, positioned to take advantage of the long views to the water and skylines; a usable front lawn/play area, a backyard with a pool, and areas for vegetable and fruit gardening. In addition to the main two-story house, there would be a desire to also provide a separate pool house which includes an entertainment room, pool bath and a gym with an associated outdoor kitchen. The canopy house has sits below many existing specimen canopies and creates its own architectural canopy as the master suite reaches and angles away from the rest of the residence. The residence lives in beautiful shadows from the trees above and the South Florida sun light.
Miami Beach Canopy House
Building Area : 30,000 SF Building Status : Completed 2017 Touzet Studio designed almost an entire city block in Lincoln Road, one of the most successful pedestrian malls in our region. We were engaged by several global brands (Apple, Nike and Gap) to help them devise a language which would fit within the local context and the historical district of Miami Beach. In each case, we carefully researched their individual brands and married their corporate DNA to an architecture that better reflected our Miami culture, climate and materiality. We drew inspiration from Miami Beach’s history and architecture. Our work is also influenced by the Florida Sarasota School and Latin American Modernism, which share similar climates. When Nike decided to open a flagship store on Lincoln Road in Miami Beach, they came to our studio to better understand the local Miami Beach culture, context and the unique context of Lincoln Road. The City had asked for a
Building Area : 30,000 SF Building Status : Completed 2017 Touzet Studio designed almost an entire city block in Lincoln Road, one of the most successful pedestrian malls in our region. We were engaged by several global brands (Apple, Nike and Gap) to help them devise a language which would fit within the local context and the historical district of Miami Beach. In each case, we carefully researched their individual brands and married their corporate DNA to an architecture that better reflected our Miami culture, climate and materiality. We drew inspiration from Miami Beach’s history and architecture. Our work is also influenced by the Florida Sarasota School and Latin American Modernism, which share similar climates. When Nike decided to open a flagship store on Lincoln Road in Miami Beach, they came to our studio to better understand the local Miami Beach culture, context and the unique context of Lincoln Road. The City had asked for a
Nike – Flagship Lincoln Road
Building Area: 8,900 SF Building Status: Completed This flagship retail project’s concept and materiality were inspired by the Dade County pine forest and coral-rock bluffs that once blanketed the project site in Miami’s Design District– and most of coastal Miami. Less than 2 percent of this endangered pine rockland still survives. The building is composed of volumes that appear to rise from the park green at its southern edge. The first plate is clad in locally sourced Florida keystone, the same material oolitic limestone quarried locally from the coral bluffs that marked this coastal area. The taller, alternating plates are clad in panels that recall the dappling of daylight through the pine branches. These panels are fabricated from high strength, fiber-reinforced concrete. The interior paneling, stair treads, and cabinetry are made of reclaimed Dade County pine, salvaged from a nearby building during the process of demolition. As the flagship for an outdoor furniture line, it was especially important to showcase indoor/outdoor living for our subtropical climate. We designed a rooftop garden and exhibit areas that are open to the sky, with views of Downtown Miami, the Design District, and Biscayne Bay. On the ground floor, we included a modern take on a “Florida Room” that opens to a nearby park. All the spaces are day-lit and use local materials for a truly Florida store.
Building Area: 8,900 SF Building Status: Completed This flagship retail project’s concept and materiality were inspired by the Dade County pine forest and coral-rock bluffs that once blanketed the project site in Miami’s Design District– and most of coastal Miami. Less than 2 percent of this endangered pine rockland still survives. The building is composed of volumes that appear to rise from the park green at its southern edge. The first plate is clad in locally sourced Florida keystone, the same material oolitic limestone quarried locally from the coral bluffs that marked this coastal area. The taller, alternating plates are clad in panels that recall the dappling of daylight through the pine branches. These panels are fabricated from high strength, fiber-reinforced concrete. The interior paneling, stair treads, and cabinetry are made of reclaimed Dade County pine, salvaged from a nearby building during the process of demolition. As the flagship for an outdoor furniture line, it was especially important to showcase indoor/outdoor living for our subtropical climate. We designed a rooftop garden and exhibit areas that are open to the sky, with views of Downtown Miami, the Design District, and Biscayne Bay. On the ground floor, we included a modern take on a “Florida Room” that opens to a nearby park. All the spaces are day-lit and use local materials for a truly Florida store.
Brown Jordan Flagship
Building Area: 5,000 SF Building Status: Completed 2018 Inspired by Bahamian architecture, but with a modern twist, this tropical beach house incorporates many of the design and climate adaptations found in traditional Bahamian Architecture. The name of the house – “Out of the Blue” came from the client and was inspired by the many layered shades of blue sea which are a hallmark of Cat Cay. The palette of both the architecture and the interiors of the house were inspired by nature and our desire to connect to the beauty all around. Most of the house has a soft palette of natural and made materials – concrete, Cuban tiles, light wood. The restful white and soft blues of the walls serve both as respite and contrast to the vivid colors of the tropical seas and gardens outdoors. The house includes Bahamian shutters, porches, breezeways, native keystone, and volume ceilings with wood cladding –elements with deep roots in Bahamian vernacular. The modern feel of the house is expressed in the openness of the Great Room, the immediacy of the connection to the dramatic reflecting pool outdoors, and the simple concrete decks perched above the rocks and beach below. Sliding doors in the main space retract to allow for 20 feet of gorgeous, uninterrupted ocean views. The Bahamian roots of the house also provide several important resiliency features: cross ventilation makes public spaces well ventilated and AC optional during much of the year. Elevated decks capture the breezes and shady porches block the sun. The mechanical and electrical is lifted from the grounds and incorporated into the architecture. The basement houses several large water cisterns that capture the water from the gutters and pitched roofs. The materials are simple to maintain in a harsh marine environment and unfussy. This is a tropical beach house designed to be enjoyed with family and friends.
Building Area: 5,000 SF Building Status: Completed 2018 Inspired by Bahamian architecture, but with a modern twist, this tropical beach house incorporates many of the design and climate adaptations found in traditional Bahamian Architecture. The name of the house – “Out of the Blue” came from the client and was inspired by the many layered shades of blue sea which are a hallmark of Cat Cay. The palette of both the architecture and the interiors of the house were inspired by nature and our desire to connect to the beauty all around. Most of the house has a soft palette of natural and made materials – concrete, Cuban tiles, light wood. The restful white and soft blues of the walls serve both as respite and contrast to the vivid colors of the tropical seas and gardens outdoors. The house includes Bahamian shutters, porches, breezeways, native keystone, and volume ceilings with wood cladding –elements with deep roots in Bahamian vernacular. The modern feel of the house is expressed in the openness of the Great Room, the immediacy of the connection to the dramatic reflecting pool outdoors, and the simple concrete decks perched above the rocks and beach below. Sliding doors in the main space retract to allow for 20 feet of gorgeous, uninterrupted ocean views. The Bahamian roots of the house also provide several important resiliency features: cross ventilation makes public spaces well ventilated and AC optional during much of the year. Elevated decks capture the breezes and shady porches block the sun. The mechanical and electrical is lifted from the grounds and incorporated into the architecture. The basement houses several large water cisterns that capture the water from the gutters and pitched roofs. The materials are simple to maintain in a harsh marine environment and unfussy. This is a tropical beach house designed to be enjoyed with family and friends.
Cat Cay Residence – Out of the Blue
Building Area: 382,050 SF Building Status : Unbuilt Factory town is a master plan of a 276,560 SF lot in Hialeah. The concept for the master plan is a cluster of buildings holding different programs ranging from marker spaces, markets, retail, entertainment venues, offices and recreational fields like soccer. A community of makers creating attractive work will attract and retain the 21st century Industries in Hialeah. Adaptive re-use of the existing industrial buildings for a variety of exciting uses creates a place that has activity day and night. Access to fresh food, urban farming and markets provide much needed services to the area. Community areas and programming will add to the wellbeing of residents and visitors. In addition to the program, resiliency comes into play with adding tree canopy and green elements help with heat island effect found in industrial areas.
Building Area: 382,050 SF Building Status : Unbuilt Factory town is a master plan of a 276,560 SF lot in Hialeah. The concept for the master plan is a cluster of buildings holding different programs ranging from marker spaces, markets, retail, entertainment venues, offices and recreational fields like soccer. A community of makers creating attractive work will attract and retain the 21st century Industries in Hialeah. Adaptive re-use of the existing industrial buildings for a variety of exciting uses creates a place that has activity day and night. Access to fresh food, urban farming and markets provide much needed services to the area. Community areas and programming will add to the wellbeing of residents and visitors. In addition to the program, resiliency comes into play with adding tree canopy and green elements help with heat island effect found in industrial areas.
Hialeah Factory Town
Building Area: 14,544 SF Building Status: Unbuilt Touzet Studio designed the addition and remodel of St Albans Child Enrichment Center, one of the oldest early Childhood education in Coconut Grove. St Albans has been educating young children of all abilities for over 40 years. Touzet Studio is working with St Alban’s to help them raise the necessary funding to build their classroom. This project was designed with the goal of helping to expand their facilities and offer more services to the community. The Board and the Director of St Albans were very inspired by the simple and thoughtful design ideas to help teach children of all abilities at an age where it is critical.
Building Area: 14,544 SF Building Status: Unbuilt Touzet Studio designed the addition and remodel of St Albans Child Enrichment Center, one of the oldest early Childhood education in Coconut Grove. St Albans has been educating young children of all abilities for over 40 years. Touzet Studio is working with St Alban’s to help them raise the necessary funding to build their classroom. This project was designed with the goal of helping to expand their facilities and offer more services to the community. The Board and the Director of St Albans were very inspired by the simple and thoughtful design ideas to help teach children of all abilities at an age where it is critical.
St Albans
Building Area: 15,402 SF Building Status: Completed 2018 Among this lushness, the architects oriented the structure “so the views from each room focus on specific trees in the landscape,” according to Carlos Prio-Touzet. Aligning living spaces around the outdoors also helped them modulate how the family experiences natural light. For example, the cantilevered, second-floor master bedroom seemingly floats among the trees, so morning sunshine is diffused softly through the leaves. Spaces like the kitchen and smaller dining area were made to overlook “some of the more beautiful trees with great branch qualities, so they can enjoy nice shadow play,” Prio-Touzet says. And operable glass walls intertwine throughout the facade’s solid volumes, carving out long vistas of rich greenery. “The lights are seldom turned on all day,” he adds, “because these rooms open to the outside, picking up all the bounced light.” “The streamlined, orthogonal structure never rises above the canopy. A tree survey was a critical starting point for positioning the house on the site and establishing view corridors, requiring only one specimen to be relocated and another rotated in its place. …The accumulation of such subtle details underscores the home’s sensitive statement, delicately floating among the trees, never overwhelming the landscape. It’s why the family has fondly dubbed their new house La Escondida, or “the hidden one”—a quiet piece of Miami’s rare wilderness to call their own.”- Luxe Nestled Among Oak Trees, A Miami Home Is A Modern Haven BY MONIQUE MCINTOSH NOVEMBER 6, 2019 Custom pieces of furniture we designed for the house include a jewel-box bar recessed into a wall of anthracite-stained white oak and slabs of basaltina. The feature is mirrored by a modular cabinet constructed of dark oak and thin bars of oxidized bronze that displays the clients’ extensive collection of antique chess pieces.
Building Area: 15,402 SF Building Status: Completed 2018 Among this lushness, the architects oriented the structure “so the views from each room focus on specific trees in the landscape,” according to Carlos Prio-Touzet. Aligning living spaces around the outdoors also helped them modulate how the family experiences natural light. For example, the cantilevered, second-floor master bedroom seemingly floats among the trees, so morning sunshine is diffused softly through the leaves. Spaces like the kitchen and smaller dining area were made to overlook “some of the more beautiful trees with great branch qualities, so they can enjoy nice shadow play,” Prio-Touzet says. And operable glass walls intertwine throughout the facade’s solid volumes, carving out long vistas of rich greenery. “The lights are seldom turned on all day,” he adds, “because these rooms open to the outside, picking up all the bounced light.” “The streamlined, orthogonal structure never rises above the canopy. A tree survey was a critical starting point for positioning the house on the site and establishing view corridors, requiring only one specimen to be relocated and another rotated in its place. …The accumulation of such subtle details underscores the home’s sensitive statement, delicately floating among the trees, never overwhelming the landscape. It’s why the family has fondly dubbed their new house La Escondida, or “the hidden one”—a quiet piece of Miami’s rare wilderness to call their own.”- Luxe Nestled Among Oak Trees, A Miami Home Is A Modern Haven BY MONIQUE MCINTOSH NOVEMBER 6, 2019 Custom pieces of furniture we designed for the house include a jewel-box bar recessed into a wall of anthracite-stained white oak and slabs of basaltina. The feature is mirrored by a modular cabinet constructed of dark oak and thin bars of oxidized bronze that displays the clients’ extensive collection of antique chess pieces.
La Escondida Residence
Building Area : 45,400 SF Building Status : Competition This project is an invited competition we entered for St. Thomas University. The building was for their School of Global Justice. One of the key design features was an elliptical rotunda where the community could gather.
Building Area : 45,400 SF Building Status : Competition This project is an invited competition we entered for St. Thomas University. The building was for their School of Global Justice. One of the key design features was an elliptical rotunda where the community could gather.
St. Thomas University – School for Global Justice
Building Area : 5,000 SF Building Status : Unbuilt This small retail infill building was designed to replace an existing carpet and rug shop in the Design District. The design of the rainscreen concrete façade (unbuilt) was inspired by the weaving of the carpets and rugs that had been the client’s business for over 20 years. We thought it would be a nice way to weave in the stories of the past shop and the client with the new design.
Building Area : 5,000 SF Building Status : Unbuilt This small retail infill building was designed to replace an existing carpet and rug shop in the Design District. The design of the rainscreen concrete façade (unbuilt) was inspired by the weaving of the carpets and rugs that had been the client’s business for over 20 years. We thought it would be a nice way to weave in the stories of the past shop and the client with the new design.
Design District Retail “The Weave”
Building Area : 12,830 SF Building Status : Unbuilt Wynwood 2.0 was our study of facades to move beyond murals and into architecture and urban space making. What are the possibilities when artists can shape architectural skins and spaces beyond street murals? This design was for a client who wanted to study the renovation of their existing one-story building and adjacent parcels in Wynwood. They wanted us to add glazing and a coherent design to the assemblage of existing warehouse buildings. All the adjacent areas were studied as potential urban spaces for cafes and public art. We proposed that the roof area as a significant design opportunity: a fifth façade designed to be seen from above as a composition which also could serve as urban space with pop-up retailers and roof deck and garden in a neighborhood with very little green public space. A rain screen was designed for part of the façade to play with light and shadow in the interior as well as another opportunity to integrate art into the architecture. The façade glazing pattern was designed to allow sufficient contiguous space for local Artist to do significant pieces of mural art. (Mural art in concept study renderings by Jane Stark)
Building Area : 12,830 SF Building Status : Unbuilt Wynwood 2.0 was our study of facades to move beyond murals and into architecture and urban space making. What are the possibilities when artists can shape architectural skins and spaces beyond street murals? This design was for a client who wanted to study the renovation of their existing one-story building and adjacent parcels in Wynwood. They wanted us to add glazing and a coherent design to the assemblage of existing warehouse buildings. All the adjacent areas were studied as potential urban spaces for cafes and public art. We proposed that the roof area as a significant design opportunity: a fifth façade designed to be seen from above as a composition which also could serve as urban space with pop-up retailers and roof deck and garden in a neighborhood with very little green public space. A rain screen was designed for part of the façade to play with light and shadow in the interior as well as another opportunity to integrate art into the architecture. The façade glazing pattern was designed to allow sufficient contiguous space for local Artist to do significant pieces of mural art. (Mural art in concept study renderings by Jane Stark)
Wynwood 2.0
Building Area : 4,746 SF Building Status : Unbuilt The distillery includes an adaptive reuse design on an existing Wynwood building. The building will house the Five Drinks Brewery and Distillery. The reuse of the industrial building includes improving the elevations of the structure with new openings, shading structures and some outdoor seating area. The concept of the space it to have a transparent atmosphere where the goer can see the process of the distillery as well as a hydroponic farm where the distillery gets some of their ingredients from. This project also includes the improvements of an alley in Wynwood which connects many retail spaces together.
Building Area : 4,746 SF Building Status : Unbuilt The distillery includes an adaptive reuse design on an existing Wynwood building. The building will house the Five Drinks Brewery and Distillery. The reuse of the industrial building includes improving the elevations of the structure with new openings, shading structures and some outdoor seating area. The concept of the space it to have a transparent atmosphere where the goer can see the process of the distillery as well as a hydroponic farm where the distillery gets some of their ingredients from. This project also includes the improvements of an alley in Wynwood which connects many retail spaces together.
5 Drinks Distillery
Building Area: 66,905 SF Building Status : Unbuilt Urbin Retreat is a dynamic community in the heart of Miami Beach’s Entertainment District. The project includes a new 48,000 SF building of co-living Units, Boutique Extended Hotel Suites and micro retail adjacent to a full restoration of a Mid- Century Modern Office Building. Urbin Retreat will include several resiliency initiatives- such as elevated front porches with cisterns below, a ground floor designed for 5’ freeboard and rain water gardens that capture and clean run off from the roof. The project will include rooftop solar and community spaces and will be designed to be LEED. This project is adjacent to two significant historic buildings and is designed to relate to the scale, materiality and playful geometries and colors of Miami Beach. Custom features such as breeze block and metal space dividers will be developed to customize the architecture vocabulary while providing important shading. An urban plaza with Shady trees provides for thermal comfort and the planting and the finishes of the ground floor were designed with water in mind.
Building Area: 66,905 SF Building Status : Unbuilt Urbin Retreat is a dynamic community in the heart of Miami Beach’s Entertainment District. The project includes a new 48,000 SF building of co-living Units, Boutique Extended Hotel Suites and micro retail adjacent to a full restoration of a Mid- Century Modern Office Building. Urbin Retreat will include several resiliency initiatives- such as elevated front porches with cisterns below, a ground floor designed for 5’ freeboard and rain water gardens that capture and clean run off from the roof. The project will include rooftop solar and community spaces and will be designed to be LEED. This project is adjacent to two significant historic buildings and is designed to relate to the scale, materiality and playful geometries and colors of Miami Beach. Custom features such as breeze block and metal space dividers will be developed to customize the architecture vocabulary while providing important shading. An urban plaza with Shady trees provides for thermal comfort and the planting and the finishes of the ground floor were designed with water in mind.
Urbin Retreat
Building Area: 5,583 SF Building Status: Unbuilt Basecamp 305 is an education facility to complement the functions of Basecamp 305 located at 224 Second street on Miami Beach and a master plan of a 13,000 SF parcel. The design stressed flexibility of program and spaces as the building could be used for upper elementary and middle school campus. The design includes a secure and private fence with two layers of access from the front and back. The fence was designed to complement the playfulness of children and the colors used at Basecamp 305. Resiliency and sustainability was vital to integrate through the whole project. Solar cells, rainwater harvesting, green roof and natural light in the all the rooms were designed into the architecture so that these steps towards resiliency could be seen by the children and they have a more transparent education of resiliency and sustainability.
Building Area: 5,583 SF Building Status: Unbuilt Basecamp 305 is an education facility to complement the functions of Basecamp 305 located at 224 Second street on Miami Beach and a master plan of a 13,000 SF parcel. The design stressed flexibility of program and spaces as the building could be used for upper elementary and middle school campus. The design includes a secure and private fence with two layers of access from the front and back. The fence was designed to complement the playfulness of children and the colors used at Basecamp 305. Resiliency and sustainability was vital to integrate through the whole project. Solar cells, rainwater harvesting, green roof and natural light in the all the rooms were designed into the architecture so that these steps towards resiliency could be seen by the children and they have a more transparent education of resiliency and sustainability.
Basecamp 305
Building Area : 1,132,423 SF Building Status : Under Construction Role: Design Architects and Interior Designers Grove Central is a mixed-use multi-modal project that seeks to destigmatize mass transit in Miami and to weave together the conveniences of 21st century urban living and shopping, while keeping the indoor/outdoor tree canopy and some of the palette that defines Coconut Grove. Whether it’s getting a cafecito, picking up groceries or taking the train downtown from your Grove apartment – the idea was to weave in the urban fabric and Underline together to create an active, safe and engaging linear plaza of retail to tie the project together and to increase ridership. The project is planned to house one of the first microgrid solar roofs in the South Florida region, with battery back-up to power the Metro Rail Station and maintain essential services functional in the case that a storm event should disrupt the general grid. This resiliency features is a huge advantage for retailers, residents and transit riders.
Building Area : 1,132,423 SF Building Status : Under Construction Role: Design Architects and Interior Designers Grove Central is a mixed-use multi-modal project that seeks to destigmatize mass transit in Miami and to weave together the conveniences of 21st century urban living and shopping, while keeping the indoor/outdoor tree canopy and some of the palette that defines Coconut Grove. Whether it’s getting a cafecito, picking up groceries or taking the train downtown from your Grove apartment – the idea was to weave in the urban fabric and Underline together to create an active, safe and engaging linear plaza of retail to tie the project together and to increase ridership. The project is planned to house one of the first microgrid solar roofs in the South Florida region, with battery back-up to power the Metro Rail Station and maintain essential services functional in the case that a storm event should disrupt the general grid. This resiliency features is a huge advantage for retailers, residents and transit riders.
Grove Central
Building Area: 10,473 SF Building Status: Completed Our client came to us with the idea of making a modern Miami Beach translation of a hôtel particulier, which is essentially a French urban palace. The idea of re-interpreting this typology to be relevant for a 21st century Miami Beach house presented us with a very interesting design challenge. We understood that the client’s request was not for a “French style” or historical mansion. He wanted a thoroughly modern Miami Beach house, but he also wanted references to the spatial and historic roots of the hôtel particulier, re-imagined for Miami Beach and its tropical climate, as a starting point for the inspiration.
Building Area: 10,473 SF Building Status: Completed Our client came to us with the idea of making a modern Miami Beach translation of a hôtel particulier, which is essentially a French urban palace. The idea of re-interpreting this typology to be relevant for a 21st century Miami Beach house presented us with a very interesting design challenge. We understood that the client’s request was not for a “French style” or historical mansion. He wanted a thoroughly modern Miami Beach house, but he also wanted references to the spatial and historic roots of the hôtel particulier, re-imagined for Miami Beach and its tropical climate, as a starting point for the inspiration.
Hibiscus Residence
Building Area: 8,000 SF Building Status: Completed Winter 2018 The heavily landscaped 1.6-acre site sits at the corner of a roughly diamond-shaped lake that rewards the property with a long, diagonal view across the water. The house is positioned on the lake to take advantage of the seasonally changing sunsets. The clients, a retired couple, desired a single-story residence that would be immersed in the landscape. The program brief they provided focused on public areas for entertainment and the cycles of occupancy and absence that their frequent travel would impose on the residence. These factors would be major influences on the decision to divide the program into an assemblage of parts, starting with an entertainment pavilion to house the public rooms including his office, a wine storage feature, an internal garden court, and a long, deep portico facing the lake. The private pavilion would include a large master suite, a massage room/gym, and her office. A service pavilion with guest accommodations and family room includes staff quarters, garage, and mechanical areas. The kitchen and breakfast room serve as a connector between the entertainment and service pavilions. The lake is intentionally hidden from view for the entire entry approach. Arrival at the front of the entertainment pavilion only alludes to the relationship of the house to the lake, in that the entertainment and master suite pavilions are surrounded entirely by serene water features. The first view of the lake occurs only after the visitor passes the midpoint of the entertainment pavilion, at which point, the pavilion-wide glass wall opens a view to the lake. (A glimpse of the lake is just possible at the juncture between the connector from the private pavilion to the entertainment pavilion.) The one-story pavilions that make up the residence all are oriented toward the water, with full-height walls of sliding glass doors offering views of the lake and the shoreline beyond. The public rooms in the entertainment pavilion open to an extensive porch that doubles its covered area. The deck areas lead to a long, infinity-edge pool that blends visually with the waters of the lake beyond.
Building Area: 8,000 SF Building Status: Completed Winter 2018 The heavily landscaped 1.6-acre site sits at the corner of a roughly diamond-shaped lake that rewards the property with a long, diagonal view across the water. The house is positioned on the lake to take advantage of the seasonally changing sunsets. The clients, a retired couple, desired a single-story residence that would be immersed in the landscape. The program brief they provided focused on public areas for entertainment and the cycles of occupancy and absence that their frequent travel would impose on the residence. These factors would be major influences on the decision to divide the program into an assemblage of parts, starting with an entertainment pavilion to house the public rooms including his office, a wine storage feature, an internal garden court, and a long, deep portico facing the lake. The private pavilion would include a large master suite, a massage room/gym, and her office. A service pavilion with guest accommodations and family room includes staff quarters, garage, and mechanical areas. The kitchen and breakfast room serve as a connector between the entertainment and service pavilions. The lake is intentionally hidden from view for the entire entry approach. Arrival at the front of the entertainment pavilion only alludes to the relationship of the house to the lake, in that the entertainment and master suite pavilions are surrounded entirely by serene water features. The first view of the lake occurs only after the visitor passes the midpoint of the entertainment pavilion, at which point, the pavilion-wide glass wall opens a view to the lake. (A glimpse of the lake is just possible at the juncture between the connector from the private pavilion to the entertainment pavilion.) The one-story pavilions that make up the residence all are oriented toward the water, with full-height walls of sliding glass doors offering views of the lake and the shoreline beyond. The public rooms in the entertainment pavilion open to an extensive porch that doubles its covered area. The deck areas lead to a long, infinity-edge pool that blends visually with the waters of the lake beyond.
Hammock Lakes
Mary Street
Mary Street
Mary Street
Building Area: 6,091 SF Building Status: Completed Inspiration for this house was taken from nature, the tropical hammock of Coral Gables, and Biscayne Bay beyond. The house transitions from two engaged, stone-clad volumes on the street to a primarily crystalline facade on the bay side. The interiors balance a warm, neutral palette with moments of intense color, using terrazzo floors and natural wood to give the residence a very Florida tropical feeling. The blues and grey of the carpets and custom light fixtures pick up on the shades of the ocean. Bright bursts of color recall the vibrant tones typically found in tropical garden landscapes. The furniture layout takes full advantage of the crystalline facade and beautiful bay views, while also meeting the client’s programmatic needs.
Building Area: 6,091 SF Building Status: Completed Inspiration for this house was taken from nature, the tropical hammock of Coral Gables, and Biscayne Bay beyond. The house transitions from two engaged, stone-clad volumes on the street to a primarily crystalline facade on the bay side. The interiors balance a warm, neutral palette with moments of intense color, using terrazzo floors and natural wood to give the residence a very Florida tropical feeling. The blues and grey of the carpets and custom light fixtures pick up on the shades of the ocean. Bright bursts of color recall the vibrant tones typically found in tropical garden landscapes. The furniture layout takes full advantage of the crystalline facade and beautiful bay views, while also meeting the client’s programmatic needs.
Coral Gables Residence
Building Area: 28,111 SF Building Status: Completed The challenge was to design a flagship retail building on that site that respected and honored the past but still looked forward. The building we designed was an evolution of the original Streamline Modern structure; it kept the historic elements and incorporated them into the overall design.
Building Area: 28,111 SF Building Status: Completed The challenge was to design a flagship retail building on that site that respected and honored the past but still looked forward. The building we designed was an evolution of the original Streamline Modern structure; it kept the historic elements and incorporated them into the overall design.
Gap – Flagship Lincoln Road
Building Area : 33,192 SF Building Status : Completed 2019 Built in 1936 and designed by Robert Law Reed, 800 Lincoln Road was originally home to the Burdines Department Store. The streamlined steel and concrete frame structure was originally intended to serve as a pedestal for the future addition of five more stories. After Burdines moved to a new, larger structure on the corner of Meridian and 17th Street, the building was occupied by the Richard’s Department Store and several other commercial businesses before becoming home to Art Center South Florida. Decades of neglect had covered the original surfaces with layers of paint and had seen the loss of storefront area, a major entry feature and important trim elements. The building was acquired in 2014 with the new owner intent on the restoration of the façades and the expansion of the retail area. The design is focused on two major initiatives: bringing back the original character of the building – restoring the cast concrete panels that made up the façade skin and the polished aluminum trim that established discrete bands of diverse surface treatments – and establishing a clear demarcation between the addition and the original building. The addition retains the use of concrete as a surface material, but differentiates itself by using board-formed concrete, with its rough texture, in contrast to the smooth surface of the original panels. The volume of the addition is setback from the plane of the original building and is separated from the historic structure by a continuous band of glass that runs from the entry to the addition at the southern edge of the historic volume up to the rooftop restaurant.
Building Area : 33,192 SF Building Status : Completed 2019 Built in 1936 and designed by Robert Law Reed, 800 Lincoln Road was originally home to the Burdines Department Store. The streamlined steel and concrete frame structure was originally intended to serve as a pedestal for the future addition of five more stories. After Burdines moved to a new, larger structure on the corner of Meridian and 17th Street, the building was occupied by the Richard’s Department Store and several other commercial businesses before becoming home to Art Center South Florida. Decades of neglect had covered the original surfaces with layers of paint and had seen the loss of storefront area, a major entry feature and important trim elements. The building was acquired in 2014 with the new owner intent on the restoration of the façades and the expansion of the retail area. The design is focused on two major initiatives: bringing back the original character of the building – restoring the cast concrete panels that made up the façade skin and the polished aluminum trim that established discrete bands of diverse surface treatments – and establishing a clear demarcation between the addition and the original building. The addition retains the use of concrete as a surface material, but differentiates itself by using board-formed concrete, with its rough texture, in contrast to the smooth surface of the original panels. The volume of the addition is setback from the plane of the original building and is separated from the historic structure by a continuous band of glass that runs from the entry to the addition at the southern edge of the historic volume up to the rooftop restaurant.
800 Lincoln Road
Building Area: 54,094 SF Building Status: Unbuilt Concept Design for an adaptive Re-use building in the Miami downtown area of Brickell
Building Area: 54,094 SF Building Status: Unbuilt Concept Design for an adaptive Re-use building in the Miami downtown area of Brickell
Brickell Retail
Design architect: Touzet Studio Doral Square is a proposed mixed-use retail and office development to be located on the southeast corner of Doral Boulevard and 87th Avenue in Doral. Doral Square would incorporate a two-level retail and garage structure into an existing 148,000-square-foot office building and parking lot. The project is adjacent to Carnival Cruise Line’s headquarters with over 3,900 employees, and one block from City Place Doral, a community where CineBistro and Fresh Market now serve 1,000 residential units and 150 single-family homes.
Design architect: Touzet Studio Doral Square is a proposed mixed-use retail and office development to be located on the southeast corner of Doral Boulevard and 87th Avenue in Doral. Doral Square would incorporate a two-level retail and garage structure into an existing 148,000-square-foot office building and parking lot. The project is adjacent to Carnival Cruise Line’s headquarters with over 3,900 employees, and one block from City Place Doral, a community where CineBistro and Fresh Market now serve 1,000 residential units and 150 single-family homes.
Doral Square
The Moorish Revival house was designed by a very respected local Miami Beach architect Russell T. Pancoast, at a point in his career where he was experimenting with different Architectural vocabularies. What started as a thorough renovation that included the incorporation of modern technologies, and comforts, to a historical residence, gradually incorporated a modern intervention. The client asked to add a studio to the house, over the existing kitchen that would feel like a “treehouse”. He also shared his desire for no visible signs of modern technology, and his appreciation for Cuban architecture. We promptly started studying historic photographs and existing details of the house, parallel to the exploration of tropical architecture and its application to the South Florida climate. For the past five years, careful attention was placed to the modernization of the property integrating virtually invisible technology while maintaining the historic characteristics of the residence. Architectural professionals and craftsmen were commissioned to apply their knowledge and expertise to the restoration as well as to the new addition of the house. One by one, the pieces came together and we continue to look at the past for inspiration.
The Moorish Revival house was designed by a very respected local Miami Beach architect Russell T. Pancoast, at a point in his career where he was experimenting with different Architectural vocabularies. What started as a thorough renovation that included the incorporation of modern technologies, and comforts, to a historical residence, gradually incorporated a modern intervention. The client asked to add a studio to the house, over the existing kitchen that would feel like a “treehouse”. He also shared his desire for no visible signs of modern technology, and his appreciation for Cuban architecture. We promptly started studying historic photographs and existing details of the house, parallel to the exploration of tropical architecture and its application to the South Florida climate. For the past five years, careful attention was placed to the modernization of the property integrating virtually invisible technology while maintaining the historic characteristics of the residence. Architectural professionals and craftsmen were commissioned to apply their knowledge and expertise to the restoration as well as to the new addition of the house. One by one, the pieces came together and we continue to look at the past for inspiration.
Tree House Pavilion
Building Area: 68,689 SF Building Status: Unbuilt This project was one of the first projects for Touzet Studio and garnered many awards and international press when it was released. Designed as a “gateway” to Miami Beach. The design is composed of two forms- one in a curvilinear form facing the water and the other a rectilinear box which is part of the urban grid of Miami Beach. The form of the curving volume with its curving concrete frame that encloses facets that slip out towards the water views was meant to evoke forms that are related to the sea or eroded by the wind or the waves. The palette for the buildings is inspired by the two distinct environments that make Miami Beach. The West Avenue building was inspired by the natural environment of the Beach sea, sky and sand. The colors of the glass and the facets will ensure that the building itself changes with the light, and with the dynamic way one engages this – from the major bridge that leads to the City. The Alton Road building was inspired by the manmade environment of the City of Miami Beach itself- and the materials reflect a more modernist aesthetic- composed of steel, glass and concrete. The different glass colors and irregular grid were meant to show that the City is a mosaic of different pieces, all contained within one frame of reference. It is eclectic, exuberant yet nonetheless contained in a rectilinear volume. The views to downtown and across Miami Beach are spectacular.
Building Area: 68,689 SF Building Status: Unbuilt This project was one of the first projects for Touzet Studio and garnered many awards and international press when it was released. Designed as a “gateway” to Miami Beach. The design is composed of two forms- one in a curvilinear form facing the water and the other a rectilinear box which is part of the urban grid of Miami Beach. The form of the curving volume with its curving concrete frame that encloses facets that slip out towards the water views was meant to evoke forms that are related to the sea or eroded by the wind or the waves. The palette for the buildings is inspired by the two distinct environments that make Miami Beach. The West Avenue building was inspired by the natural environment of the Beach sea, sky and sand. The colors of the glass and the facets will ensure that the building itself changes with the light, and with the dynamic way one engages this – from the major bridge that leads to the City. The Alton Road building was inspired by the manmade environment of the City of Miami Beach itself- and the materials reflect a more modernist aesthetic- composed of steel, glass and concrete. The different glass colors and irregular grid were meant to show that the City is a mosaic of different pieces, all contained within one frame of reference. It is eclectic, exuberant yet nonetheless contained in a rectilinear volume. The views to downtown and across Miami Beach are spectacular.
Vitri
Building Area: 18,000 SF Building Status: Unbuilt The project consists of four townhouses located on a broad landscaped boulevard in South Beach, Miami Beach, Florida. The individual townhouses are composed of a series of horizontal, overlapping “drawers,” both enclosed and unenclosed, that create living areas of varying heights. These horizontal volumes are pinned together by a solid vertical element – the elevator – that sits near the center of each of the compositions. The landscaped ground level establishes the first of a series of horizontal planes that cap the shifting horizontal volumes. These are surfaced alternately in stone, natural ground cover, and wood decks, all with water features and variable amounts of vegetation. The townhouses are differentiated by decorative attributes that identify each unit with one of the four elements: wood, wind, fire, and water. These elements inform the individual designs of the cast metal fences, doors, and entry courts. Off-center pivoting main doors into the entry courts are built of smooth and rough-hewn stone, and translucent cast resin panels on a cast metal framework. The 4,500-square-foot residential program is distributed over four full stories, one service mezzanine, and a main rooftop. The ground floor contains a partially-covered entry court, a two-story foyer, and a two-car garage. The service mezzanine contains a maid’s room, laundry, and mechanical area. On the second floor are the living room, dining room, kitchen, family room, and covered deck, while the fourth floor contains the two secondary bedrooms. The fifth floor contains the master bedroom suite with an outdoor plunge pool and meditation area within a landscaped terrace. The first roof deck — a green roof with fire pit — sits atop the living room. The main roof deck is of wood, and is fitted with large soaking pool, summer kitchen, outdoor shower, and restroom.
Building Area: 18,000 SF Building Status: Unbuilt The project consists of four townhouses located on a broad landscaped boulevard in South Beach, Miami Beach, Florida. The individual townhouses are composed of a series of horizontal, overlapping “drawers,” both enclosed and unenclosed, that create living areas of varying heights. These horizontal volumes are pinned together by a solid vertical element – the elevator – that sits near the center of each of the compositions. The landscaped ground level establishes the first of a series of horizontal planes that cap the shifting horizontal volumes. These are surfaced alternately in stone, natural ground cover, and wood decks, all with water features and variable amounts of vegetation. The townhouses are differentiated by decorative attributes that identify each unit with one of the four elements: wood, wind, fire, and water. These elements inform the individual designs of the cast metal fences, doors, and entry courts. Off-center pivoting main doors into the entry courts are built of smooth and rough-hewn stone, and translucent cast resin panels on a cast metal framework. The 4,500-square-foot residential program is distributed over four full stories, one service mezzanine, and a main rooftop. The ground floor contains a partially-covered entry court, a two-story foyer, and a two-car garage. The service mezzanine contains a maid’s room, laundry, and mechanical area. On the second floor are the living room, dining room, kitchen, family room, and covered deck, while the fourth floor contains the two secondary bedrooms. The fifth floor contains the master bedroom suite with an outdoor plunge pool and meditation area within a landscaped terrace. The first roof deck — a green roof with fire pit — sits atop the living room. The main roof deck is of wood, and is fitted with large soaking pool, summer kitchen, outdoor shower, and restroom.
South Pointe Townhouses
Winner of the Miami AIA 2017 Unbuilt Award Building Area: 45,000 SF Building Status: Unbuilt The Copper Stitch is a retail infill project in Miami. The site’s lots are divided, with one small lot fronting NE 1st Street, and other lots grouped together on NE 39th Street. The client charged us with finding a way to connect the two sites with a memorable yet discreet design in keeping with the aesthetic of the Miami Design District’s mix of luxury shops and restaurants. We wanted to design, in addition, a focal point that would activate the street at night with a soft glow. A major inspiration for the project was our exploration of the many ways to use copper material – as a perforated rain screen, as softly-burnished reflective panels, and as copper fascia. We wanted to differentiate the building with a distinctive, warm material that was rich enough in its materiality to hold its own with adjacent luxury retailers.
Winner of the Miami AIA 2017 Unbuilt Award Building Area: 45,000 SF Building Status: Unbuilt The Copper Stitch is a retail infill project in Miami. The site’s lots are divided, with one small lot fronting NE 1st Street, and other lots grouped together on NE 39th Street. The client charged us with finding a way to connect the two sites with a memorable yet discreet design in keeping with the aesthetic of the Miami Design District’s mix of luxury shops and restaurants. We wanted to design, in addition, a focal point that would activate the street at night with a soft glow. A major inspiration for the project was our exploration of the many ways to use copper material – as a perforated rain screen, as softly-burnished reflective panels, and as copper fascia. We wanted to differentiate the building with a distinctive, warm material that was rich enough in its materiality to hold its own with adjacent luxury retailers.
Design District Retail “Copper Stitch”
Building Area: 59,287 SF Building Status: Unbuilt This building is envisioned as an organism that invites the neighborhood’s creative energy inside and connects its occupants with the environment outside. Wynwood, known for its world-class collection of street art/murals and monthly art walks, is rapidly losing its galleries in favor of retail and office. This project is designed to provide space for both. Through careful sculpting of the building’s primary massing, and by considering natural light and ways to frame views, residents and visitors alike can engage with the community, urban life, and nature in ways that most conventional Miami buildings would not allow.
Building Area: 59,287 SF Building Status: Unbuilt This building is envisioned as an organism that invites the neighborhood’s creative energy inside and connects its occupants with the environment outside. Wynwood, known for its world-class collection of street art/murals and monthly art walks, is rapidly losing its galleries in favor of retail and office. This project is designed to provide space for both. Through careful sculpting of the building’s primary massing, and by considering natural light and ways to frame views, residents and visitors alike can engage with the community, urban life, and nature in ways that most conventional Miami buildings would not allow.
Wynwood Retail
Building Area: 12,000 SF Building Status: Completed 2017 Residence designed around banyan tree that is existing on the property.
Building Area: 12,000 SF Building Status: Completed 2017 Residence designed around banyan tree that is existing on the property.
Key Biscayne Residence
Building Area: 17,871 SF Building Status: Completed The Client’s synopsis included over 16,000 SF of program and the request that the plan organization should follow the basic layout of the 1926 Carl Fisher Estate, a property he had once owned. The program is divisible into three distinct groupings: a main house that contains the primary public and private areas; a guest pavilion; and finally, a service structure with staff quarters, garage, secure storage, mechanical rooms and power plant. The main house consists of a large rectangular volume intersected by numerous expressive elements that articulate portions of the program. The master bedroom suite is expressed within a cantilever that overlooks a strip of private beach and over 100 feet of reflecting pool (serving as a pool and spa). Located in a high-ceilinged wedge the family room overhangs the front garden, while the breakfast room, wrapped in a glass, extends beyond the main volume of the house to capture views of Indian Creek and the morning sun. A twenty-five-foot cylindrical void becomes the core of the house, containing its vertical circulation, a partially suspended stair that spirals up, with a nine-foot width, to the roof garden, ending in a three-and-a-half-foot width. The roof of the core is built in glass allowing the natural daylight to fill the three-story void, bringing light deep within the house.
Building Area: 17,871 SF Building Status: Completed The Client’s synopsis included over 16,000 SF of program and the request that the plan organization should follow the basic layout of the 1926 Carl Fisher Estate, a property he had once owned. The program is divisible into three distinct groupings: a main house that contains the primary public and private areas; a guest pavilion; and finally, a service structure with staff quarters, garage, secure storage, mechanical rooms and power plant. The main house consists of a large rectangular volume intersected by numerous expressive elements that articulate portions of the program. The master bedroom suite is expressed within a cantilever that overlooks a strip of private beach and over 100 feet of reflecting pool (serving as a pool and spa). Located in a high-ceilinged wedge the family room overhangs the front garden, while the breakfast room, wrapped in a glass, extends beyond the main volume of the house to capture views of Indian Creek and the morning sun. A twenty-five-foot cylindrical void becomes the core of the house, containing its vertical circulation, a partially suspended stair that spirals up, with a nine-foot width, to the roof garden, ending in a three-and-a-half-foot width. The roof of the core is built in glass allowing the natural daylight to fill the three-story void, bringing light deep within the house.
88 La Gorce/Okto – Interiors
Building Area: 12,309 SF Building Status: Completed The house is designed as a long main bar, running east-west, positioned along the north side of the property. This bar is intersected by two other elements, thus forming a series of three courtyards – each with its own separate and unique character. The street-side of the property contains a number of mature live oaks that helped inform the character of the first court. This “Tree Court” is bound by the Florida keystone-clad wall of the guest quarters volume and the Ficus ripens-covered volume of the garage. The court is sheltered by the natural canopy of the oak trees. The first perpendicular element, a glass-clad bridge that contains the children’s bedrooms, extends from the main bar and rests on the guest quarters volume. It shields the home’s entry and frames the entry to the second court. This court, the “Rain Court,” is bound on three sides by the circulation spine of the main bar, the guest quarters volume, and the two-story living room; it opens onto a dense garden wall. The third court, the “Water Court,” faces Biscayne Bay, and contains the pool and spa. It was designed to create an exterior environment that encourages full access and enjoyment of the Bay and its long vistas and sunsets. The second canopy to shield a court is the concrete ͞parasol͟ that extends above the living room volume. Positioned to offer solar and rain protection, its is raised above the roof to allow Bay breezes to flow through the site, keeping both the Water Court and Rain Court cool. This parasol also acts as a solar reflector that blocks direct sun during most of the day while allowing the light that is reflected off the living room’s single-membrane roof to bounce off its underside.
Building Area: 12,309 SF Building Status: Completed The house is designed as a long main bar, running east-west, positioned along the north side of the property. This bar is intersected by two other elements, thus forming a series of three courtyards – each with its own separate and unique character. The street-side of the property contains a number of mature live oaks that helped inform the character of the first court. This “Tree Court” is bound by the Florida keystone-clad wall of the guest quarters volume and the Ficus ripens-covered volume of the garage. The court is sheltered by the natural canopy of the oak trees. The first perpendicular element, a glass-clad bridge that contains the children’s bedrooms, extends from the main bar and rests on the guest quarters volume. It shields the home’s entry and frames the entry to the second court. This court, the “Rain Court,” is bound on three sides by the circulation spine of the main bar, the guest quarters volume, and the two-story living room; it opens onto a dense garden wall. The third court, the “Water Court,” faces Biscayne Bay, and contains the pool and spa. It was designed to create an exterior environment that encourages full access and enjoyment of the Bay and its long vistas and sunsets. The second canopy to shield a court is the concrete ͞parasol͟ that extends above the living room volume. Positioned to offer solar and rain protection, its is raised above the roof to allow Bay breezes to flow through the site, keeping both the Water Court and Rain Court cool. This parasol also acts as a solar reflector that blocks direct sun during most of the day while allowing the light that is reflected off the living room’s single-membrane roof to bounce off its underside.
Parasol House
Building Area: 48,000 SF Building Status: Unbuilt The 2.5-acre site is located on Long Key, in the City of Layton, one of the older and certainly the smallest cities in the Florida Keys. The site is on the southwestern side of the island, bounded on the east by US 1 and on the north by a nature research station. The site is richly landscaped with mature vegetation that includes gumbo limbo, sea grape, ficus, royal poinciana, mahoe, and coconut palm. The program requirement specified 48,000 sf of luxury residential-hotel space with resort amenities and support spaces. The 40 residential-hotel units consist of 26 two-story units above garages and 14 flats on two stories also above garages. While the 40 units are grouped into five building clusters, the units are designed as individual structures engaging each other along structural planes. The building palette comprises traditional Keys elements such as oolithic limestone for the main base elements, which also house the fireplaces, wood, metal roofs and white stucco on concrete masonry. Conceptually, solid, rectilinear walls flank glass volumes that protrude above the walls as clerestories above which a metal-lined, exposed interior, wood shed-roof is placed. The five building clusters are arranged along vehicular and pedestrian paths that are themed through palettes of vegetation. A common area open-air lounge and a gymnasium structure are located on a floating barge anchored by the properties west-facing pier. Two distinct environments are created around the two swimming pools – the southern pool sits within a grove of coconut palms; the northern pool and spa skirt the eastern boundary of the white sand sunning beach.
Building Area: 48,000 SF Building Status: Unbuilt The 2.5-acre site is located on Long Key, in the City of Layton, one of the older and certainly the smallest cities in the Florida Keys. The site is on the southwestern side of the island, bounded on the east by US 1 and on the north by a nature research station. The site is richly landscaped with mature vegetation that includes gumbo limbo, sea grape, ficus, royal poinciana, mahoe, and coconut palm. The program requirement specified 48,000 sf of luxury residential-hotel space with resort amenities and support spaces. The 40 residential-hotel units consist of 26 two-story units above garages and 14 flats on two stories also above garages. While the 40 units are grouped into five building clusters, the units are designed as individual structures engaging each other along structural planes. The building palette comprises traditional Keys elements such as oolithic limestone for the main base elements, which also house the fireplaces, wood, metal roofs and white stucco on concrete masonry. Conceptually, solid, rectilinear walls flank glass volumes that protrude above the walls as clerestories above which a metal-lined, exposed interior, wood shed-roof is placed. The five building clusters are arranged along vehicular and pedestrian paths that are themed through palettes of vegetation. A common area open-air lounge and a gymnasium structure are located on a floating barge anchored by the properties west-facing pier. Two distinct environments are created around the two swimming pools – the southern pool sits within a grove of coconut palms; the northern pool and spa skirt the eastern boundary of the white sand sunning beach.
Lime Tree Bay Resort
Building Area: 2,851 SF Building Status: Unbuilt Touzet Studio created the Master Plan for the 20-acre site of Pink Sands Resort and was asked to design several estate homes, beach front cottages and common areas for this famous resort. This project was slated to be a LEED project and employ many passive sustainable design features as well as cutting edge technology for wind and rain resiliency. Touzet Studio worked on the design of environmentally conscious re-interpretation of Bahamian architecture. The cottages collected rainwater, were cooled passively through cross ventilation. The Tree Top Units were designed as floating treehouses that sat very lightly on the landscape and gave the feeling of being in a treehouse or tree canopy.
Building Area: 2,851 SF Building Status: Unbuilt Touzet Studio created the Master Plan for the 20-acre site of Pink Sands Resort and was asked to design several estate homes, beach front cottages and common areas for this famous resort. This project was slated to be a LEED project and employ many passive sustainable design features as well as cutting edge technology for wind and rain resiliency. Touzet Studio worked on the design of environmentally conscious re-interpretation of Bahamian architecture. The cottages collected rainwater, were cooled passively through cross ventilation. The Tree Top Units were designed as floating treehouses that sat very lightly on the landscape and gave the feeling of being in a treehouse or tree canopy.
Pink Sands Estates – Spa + Sanctuary
Building Area: 950 SF Building Status: Unbuilt Touzet Studio created the Master Plan of the 20 acre site of Pink Sands Resort. Touzet Studio also was engaged to design a series of new estate homes, beach front cottages and common areas for this famous resort. This project was slated to be a LEED project and Touzet Studio worked on the design of environmentally conscious re-interpretation of Bahamian architecture. The cottages collected rainwater, were cooled passively through cross ventilation. The Tree Top Units were designed as floating treehouses that sat very lightly on the landscape and gave the feeling of being in a treehouse or tree canopy.
Building Area: 950 SF Building Status: Unbuilt Touzet Studio created the Master Plan of the 20 acre site of Pink Sands Resort. Touzet Studio also was engaged to design a series of new estate homes, beach front cottages and common areas for this famous resort. This project was slated to be a LEED project and Touzet Studio worked on the design of environmentally conscious re-interpretation of Bahamian architecture. The cottages collected rainwater, were cooled passively through cross ventilation. The Tree Top Units were designed as floating treehouses that sat very lightly on the landscape and gave the feeling of being in a treehouse or tree canopy.
Pink Sands Estates – Estates and Beach Cottage
Building Area : 13,845 SF Building Status : Completed 2015 The Client is a global icon of technology and design. They commissioned us to help them design a building that fit into the scale and materiality of Lincoln Road. The main façade, as well as all other visible surfaces of the building, had to communicate and celebrate the qualities for which the brand is known for but still be compatible. One can argue that one can no longer showcase such a thing as state-of-the-art technology because, just like the waters of Lao-Tze’s River, it is always in motion –always in flux. The technology of the current model is already dated when it hits the market. Therefore, in this case, we argued that today’s technology would not be an appropriate “material” for the building envelope and needed to be more “timeless” of its place and culture. The façade, and the interior, which is the second façade, needed to convey the other, very powerful aspects of the brand: simplicity in design, exquisite materiality, and impeccable execution/workmanship. Touzet Studio has designed some of the most iconic retail flagship buildings for global design brands seeking to come to Miami Beach’s most prestigious pedestrian historic district of Lincoln Road. Touzet Studio designed almost an entire block of which included 72,000 SF of new retail for Gap, Nike and other world-renowned companies. Each receiving approval from the historic board and praise from the community and the press. These prominent companies commissioned Touzet Studio for their attention to detail, their extensive knowledge of innovative building systems and materials and their understanding of how to blend new architecture into a historic district.
Building Area : 13,845 SF Building Status : Completed 2015 The Client is a global icon of technology and design. They commissioned us to help them design a building that fit into the scale and materiality of Lincoln Road. The main façade, as well as all other visible surfaces of the building, had to communicate and celebrate the qualities for which the brand is known for but still be compatible. One can argue that one can no longer showcase such a thing as state-of-the-art technology because, just like the waters of Lao-Tze’s River, it is always in motion –always in flux. The technology of the current model is already dated when it hits the market. Therefore, in this case, we argued that today’s technology would not be an appropriate “material” for the building envelope and needed to be more “timeless” of its place and culture. The façade, and the interior, which is the second façade, needed to convey the other, very powerful aspects of the brand: simplicity in design, exquisite materiality, and impeccable execution/workmanship. Touzet Studio has designed some of the most iconic retail flagship buildings for global design brands seeking to come to Miami Beach’s most prestigious pedestrian historic district of Lincoln Road. Touzet Studio designed almost an entire block of which included 72,000 SF of new retail for Gap, Nike and other world-renowned companies. Each receiving approval from the historic board and praise from the community and the press. These prominent companies commissioned Touzet Studio for their attention to detail, their extensive knowledge of innovative building systems and materials and their understanding of how to blend new architecture into a historic district.
1021 Lincoln Road
Located in Cartagena, Colombia, the resort is located on an 18-hole championship resort golf course with ocean views. Touzet Studio worked with Ron Garl, who designed the golf course, to take advantage of the site’s natural beauty by creating panoramic vistas of rolling hills, beautiful trees, and the ocean. The resort includes a hotel, condos, and residential areas.
Located in Cartagena, Colombia, the resort is located on an 18-hole championship resort golf course with ocean views. Touzet Studio worked with Ron Garl, who designed the golf course, to take advantage of the site’s natural beauty by creating panoramic vistas of rolling hills, beautiful trees, and the ocean. The resort includes a hotel, condos, and residential areas.
Cartagena Mar de Indias
Building Area: 27,244 SF Building Status: Completed This project serves as a gateway to the Miami Design District, interacting with pedestrians at street level and with vehicles on the elevated highway. The 21,592-square-foot commercial building with a usable rooftop is located at 3711 NE 2nd Avenue and was completed in Summer of 2018. The location shaped our intention to design a building that could serve as a three-dimensional canvas or billboard capable of delivering completely different experiences, depending on the time of day or night. The floating bar façade across the top of the structure is meant to anchor the viewer’s sense of perspective . The massing and moves were kept purposely simple to allow the floating bar element to assume different personalities, playing with simple concrete and light, rather than relying on complicated skins. The building’s base is dark and rounded to contrast visually with the sleekness of the rectilinear shape above. The building’s exterior uses embossed metal and glass surfaces to add texture and interest to the pedestrian experience. A proposed paved urban courtyard, designed by landscape architect Jefre, will take visitors to a rooftop garden with views of downtown Miami, Biscayne Bay, and the ocean. The building will serve as an exceptional venue for events both on the rooftop and at street level.
Building Area: 27,244 SF Building Status: Completed This project serves as a gateway to the Miami Design District, interacting with pedestrians at street level and with vehicles on the elevated highway. The 21,592-square-foot commercial building with a usable rooftop is located at 3711 NE 2nd Avenue and was completed in Summer of 2018. The location shaped our intention to design a building that could serve as a three-dimensional canvas or billboard capable of delivering completely different experiences, depending on the time of day or night. The floating bar façade across the top of the structure is meant to anchor the viewer’s sense of perspective . The massing and moves were kept purposely simple to allow the floating bar element to assume different personalities, playing with simple concrete and light, rather than relying on complicated skins. The building’s base is dark and rounded to contrast visually with the sleekness of the rectilinear shape above. The building’s exterior uses embossed metal and glass surfaces to add texture and interest to the pedestrian experience. A proposed paved urban courtyard, designed by landscape architect Jefre, will take visitors to a rooftop garden with views of downtown Miami, Biscayne Bay, and the ocean. The building will serve as an exceptional venue for events both on the rooftop and at street level.
Design District 3711
Building Area: 88,862 SF Building Status: Unbuilt For the design of this project, we wanted to recognize the unique qualities of this artistic neighborhood and weave them together with inspiration from Wynwood’s rapidly vanishing industrial past. The area’s history is still visible in the form of industrial plants and manufacturing warehouses that artists have used as their urban canvases. This project aspires to continue that intersection of art and architecture at a larger scale. Miami is a young city with a rich collection of culturally distinct neighborhoods. In our approach to design, we like to share history and tell stories through our architecture of what each unique part of the city is all about. In the course of our site research, we discovered that this site was once an iconic Coca Cola plant. As with many historic buildings in Miami, the identifying signs had been taken down some years ago and nothing remains. This project’s name, Wynwood Plant, honors that historic use and serves as a reminder to future generations of this neighborhood’s story.
Building Area: 88,862 SF Building Status: Unbuilt For the design of this project, we wanted to recognize the unique qualities of this artistic neighborhood and weave them together with inspiration from Wynwood’s rapidly vanishing industrial past. The area’s history is still visible in the form of industrial plants and manufacturing warehouses that artists have used as their urban canvases. This project aspires to continue that intersection of art and architecture at a larger scale. Miami is a young city with a rich collection of culturally distinct neighborhoods. In our approach to design, we like to share history and tell stories through our architecture of what each unique part of the city is all about. In the course of our site research, we discovered that this site was once an iconic Coca Cola plant. As with many historic buildings in Miami, the identifying signs had been taken down some years ago and nothing remains. This project’s name, Wynwood Plant, honors that historic use and serves as a reminder to future generations of this neighborhood’s story.
Wynwood Plant
Building Status: Completed 2004 Designed the 38-story condominium tower while at Schapiro and Associates. This project marked the first design collaboration of Founding Principals Carlos Prio Touzet and Jacqueline Gonzalez Touzet and exhibits many of the qualities of design storytelling, sculptural modernity and the attention to detail, that have become the major focus of their own studio.
Building Status: Completed 2004 Designed the 38-story condominium tower while at Schapiro and Associates. This project marked the first design collaboration of Founding Principals Carlos Prio Touzet and Jacqueline Gonzalez Touzet and exhibits many of the qualities of design storytelling, sculptural modernity and the attention to detail, that have become the major focus of their own studio.
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