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Shepherd Eco

Multi-Family, Hospitality

2023 AIA Florida Citation Award for Unbuilt Design
2020 AIA Miami Unbuilt/ Merit
This project is composed of two different buildings: one hospitality for the new Shepherd Eco brand of boutique hotels and a residential building component sitting on two 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 fourth story, accessible 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 stormwater gardens, rooftop community farming, and cisterns for collecting water. This project is also focused on connecting people to the dynamic and artistic neighborhood of Wynwood. Shepherd Eco features a cross-block pedestrian paseo on the west side of the property, providing access for pedestrians. Additionally, it intersects with a sizeable landscaped green space which is envisioned as a neighborhood amenity for residents and hotel guests. It also provides a creative environment to create or promote community events.

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Urbin Retreat

Architecture, Multi-Family

2021 AIA Miami Award Unbuilt Greater than 50K
Located in a dynamic community in the heart of Miami Beach’s Entertainment District, the Urbin Retreat 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. Solar panels on the rooftop will provide LEED lighting for community.

Miami Beach’s materiality and iconic colors are highlighted in this project which also happens to be located directly next to two significant historic buildings. Custom features such as breeze block and metal space dividers will be developed to customize the architectural vocabulary while providing important shading. An urban plaza with shady trees provides protection from the heat, and the planting and finishes of the ground floor were designed with water in mind.

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Grove Central

Commercial, Architecture, Multi-Family, Featured spot 3, Selected Works

Grove Central is a mixed-use multi-modal transit project located in Coconut Grove, one of Miami’s oldest and most desirable neighborhoods. It seeks to bring much needed housing density to the community while connecting it to both multi-modal transit and high ground. The project includes a 23-story residential tower that will offer market-rate, workforce housing as well as co-living units. Touzet Studio is both the Design Architect and the Interior Designer for this project.

The design for Grove Central is bold, graphic, and fun. In designing this multi-modal project, Touzet Studio considered how the building would be seen at different speeds and vantage points (trains, cars, bikes and pedestrian). Inspired by its Miami roots, Touzet Studio incorporated playful aspects of both the streamline modern and mid-century modern Miami. For instance, the floating canopies above the bus stop reference Morris Lapidus’s work. Graphic speed lines and strong curves are featured in the parking garage structure alongside a bus station also influenced by Miami Beach midcentury modernism. The tower itself plays with a gray and white infill pattern between bold white accent lines that open up as the tower rises.

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Vitri

Architecture, Multi-Family

The palette for the buildings is inspired by the two distinct environments that make Miami Beach unique. The beach’s colors and shapes, derived from the sea, sky, and sand, dictate the appearance of the West Avenue building. The body of the first volume relates to the ocean with its curving, wavelike concrete frame that encloses facets slipping out towards the water views. The glass portions allow light to seep in and change the colors of the structure.

The Alton Road building was inspired by the manmade environment of the City of Miami Beach itself. Appropriately, 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. Not only are spectacular views of Miami Beach accessible from this building, the Vitri itself offers a unique take on the city.

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South Pointe Townhouses

Architecture, Multi-Family

The project consists of four townhouses located on a broad landscaped boulevard in South Beach. 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: water, earth, fire, and air. 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.

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Wynwood Plant

Commercial, Architecture, Multi-Family

For the design of this project, Touzet Studio 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 lives on 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 Touzet Studio’s approach to design, it is important to share history and tell stories through architecture of what each unique part of the city is all about. While researching the site, Touzet Studio found that it 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.

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The Setai

Architecture, Multi-Family, Hospitality

This 38-story condominium tower was designed by Carlos Prio-Touzet and Jacqueline Gonzalez while at Schapiro and Associates. This project marked the first design collaboration of Touzet Studio’s Founding Principals 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.