I’m a highly creative, enthusiastic and collaborative designer with a passion for holistic experience design; specially during concept and design development. My approach stems from a desire to understand the nature of each individual project needs, aimed at defining design purpose within art.
My experience living in four different countries brings unique and creative perspectives to project needs. With 8+ years of experience with world leading Architecture and Interiors Design firms, and graduated from Syracuse University School of Architecture, B.ARCH Magna Cum Laude, I feel eager to continue contributing to the journey of the Design Industry. 8+ 9
Size: Residences range from 3,000 sqft to 12,000 sqft
218 Luxury Residences and Estates surrounding a 18-hole championship Golf Course.
A new hub of uncommon luxury, these ultra-modern estates provide effortless access to championship golf, resort amenities, and bespoke service—all surrounded by the highlights of Palm Beach County.
This private and exclusive address reinvents the golf community as an ultra-modern environment. Inspired by Scandinavian design and the elegance of European lifestyle clubs, Panther National forever raises the standard.
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Interior Palette Options
PALM BEACH GARDENS, FL
Coast Forest
218 Luxury Residences and Estates surrounding a 18-hole championship Golf Course.
The first-of-its-kind community integrates leading solar technologies to power the estates and amenities. With a commitment to clean energy shared by Panther National, the buildings bring sustainable energy to a world-class setting.
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Sandbar
COAST
FOREST
SILS MARIA GSTAAD
VERBIER LUCERNE
ZERMATT
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BERNE
BASEL
DAVOS CRANS MONTANA
ZERMATT PONTRESINA
RIVO ALTO PRIVATE RESIDENCE
[STRANG] DESIGN
Project Manager ID
Under Construction 2023
Client: Private
Residential Info: 4 BR 4 1/2 Baths, water front.
Location: Venitian Causeway, Miami Beach, Florida
This four level residence is located in Miami Beach, opens up with covered carports combined with a subterranean garage. A split level to the first floor dividing two volumes, with guest suite and home gym to the north and great room and library to the south. The library incorporates the firm’s signature fins overlooking the entrance.
The second floor is both the principal master suite and junior suite; the former overlooks the pool and terrace; latter overlooks the street. The waterfront terrace covers an exterior corridor connecting the street to the pool terrace.
Exterior Perspectives
Top: Backyard view.
Bottom left: Backyard view from an angle.
Bottom right: Front view.
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Midcentury design Walnuts, Terrazzo, Marbles
LONGBOAT
PRIVATE RESIDENCE
[STRANG] DESIGN
Project Manager ID
Currently under CD Phase
Client: Private
Residential Info: 8 BR 8 Baths 2 1/2 Baths, water front property
Location: Longboat Key, FL
The ground level mixes storage and garage space with understory access to a primary pool lounge, leading to the property’s beach access. Lifted by walls of oolite stone and sculptural concrete, the first level has a cantilevering volume towards the front housing more private quarters, while the waterside houses the great room with floor to ceiling sliding doors, creating a blend of interior to exterior.
The interiors feature a modern neutral palette, filled with organic textures and natural materials as a cavas to house the client’s art pieces, from furniture to sculptures.
Exterior Perspectives
Top: Backyard view.
Bottom left: Backyard view from the pool towards the ocean.
Bottom right: Front view.
BRICKELL CITY CENTRE
REACH + RISE CHILDREN’S PLAYROOM & AMENITIES
RICHARDSON SADEKI + ONE TOMATO, LLC
Junior Interior Designer
Renderings and Visualization
Brand Design Assistant
Client: Swire Properties
Location: Miami, Florida
Date: 2015-2016
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BRICKELL CITY CENTRE REACH + RISE
RESIDENTIAL LOBBIES AND AMENITIES
Collaboration work: Interior Architecture and Design; materials’ selections, overall palette, and furniture selections.
Rendering/3D modeling and visualization.
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Worked as Junior Architect/Designer. Participated in materials’ selection, construction documentation, shop drawings production and furniture selections.
All rights reserved Richardson Sadeki + One Tomato, LLC
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Discovering your Personal O A S I S (UNDER
CONSTRUCTION)
ARUBA RENAISSANCE RESORT & CASINO RENOVATION
GENSLER
Lead Designer
Client: WindCreek
Hotel Brand: Marriott - Renaissance Practice Area: Hospitality Location: Oranjestad, Aruba
Size: 180,000 SF, 296 Guestrooms
Inspired by the origins of the virgin and savage nature of Aruba; a tropical desert with rich Arawak indigenous culture ignites a sense of curiosity for discovery. The Renaissance Aruba Resort is located in the urban and active city center, being now the Oasis within Oranjestad’s hectic crowds. It is an extension of the beautiful arid untouched lands of Aruba. As travelers go deeper in this inspirational journey a sense of calm and warmth overtakes them, coming to realize they have found their Personal Oasis.
Refreshing, rustic and bohemian defines this shelter. A subtle palette of tone-on-tone hues combined with raw textures blend the transition between the indoors and the outdoors. The use of rustic and handcrafted materials create the desert-like feel alluding back to indigenous precedents to the untouched geography and history of Aruba. The design intent is to allow the guests to create their own unique oasis and fulfill their thirst for discovery.
noun
a fertile spot in a desert, where water is found. refuge. paradise.
a pleasant change.
LOOK & FEEL
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As I’m waking up to my senses I feel a glorious peace and tranquility. Slowly noticing a soft, dry, almost mystical breeze on my face.
I feel alive. I feel free. I feel relaxed. I’ve escaped the crowds to a landscape of powdery soft sand and crystalline blue waters warm to the touch. Windswept palms climb skyward reaching for the sun. Tropical shades of green combined with taupe to compose a refreshing desert-like feel. Cactus and Aloe offer their subtle scents across a wild and alluring landscape that is calling to me... I just breathe and let the sound of the waves break against the silence of my room, returning to a new and deeper truth, the curiosity of my imagination.
…. What is your Personal Oasis?
NATURAL RUSTIC ADVENTUROUS REFRESHING CALM
AUTHENTIC
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EXISTING VANITY TO REMAIN
SHOWER WALL BATHROOM FLOOR BARN DOOR
BATHROOM GRAPHIC; LEAVES
CUSTOM BREATHABLE WALLCOVERING
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GABLES STATION INTERIORS
GENSLER
Lead Interior Designer
Client: NRI/Lifetime
Practice Area: Mixed-Use Residential and Retail
Residential Units: 560
Location: Coral Gable, Florida
Size: 1,300,000 SF
Situated on a 4-acre narrow site which, for decades, has been a car dealership parking lot, the new Gables Station project will become a transformational destination for Coral Gables and the greater US 1 corridor. The program includes approximately 1.3 million square feet in 3 towers up to 160 ft. high with 560 residential units, 75,000 sf of retail and, at 2.9 acres, what will become the largest park in Coral Gables. An extension of the CG trolley line will connect many neighborhoods to Gables Station establishing it as a new lifestyle destination for the city. Construction on the development began in 2018. It is scheduled for delivery in Late 2020.
A new point of view for the way I want to Live and work today.
Regenerate, refresh, and reflect, a place for your everyday, day-to-night and the in-between.
CORAL GABLE, FL
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BUILDING B
T E R R A
GAME ROOM I LEASING OFFICE I TERRACE LOUNGE
KEY PLAN: BUILDINGS B & C
GAME ROOM
ZAZZLE
CHARCOAL GREY BLACK AND WHITE DART BOARD
ACOUSTIC WALL KIREI
DIAMOND TILES - 101 FROST
* PENDING FINISH SAMPLE
ARHAUS COBURN THREE PIECES
SECTIONAL SOFA - NOMAD SLATE
**SUBMIT SOFA FABRIC SAMPLE TO ARCHITECT PRIOR TO PILLOW FABRICATION TO CONFIRM PILLOWS’ FINISHES.
ACCENT PILLOWS KALSEN PENNINGTON 500 CHARCOAL TONE
RESTORATION HARDWARE SOLANO
CONCRETE & TEAK PLANK COFFEE TABLE
AREA RUG
GENERAL FLOORING MANNINGTON SPACIA WOOD EDEN OAK
ARHAUS GRIGGS CHAIR
WEST ELM PAINTED STAGGERED SHELF
* PENDING FINISH SAMPLE
GX 15 LED DOWNLIGHT WHITE
BERTOGNE END TABLE
* PENDING COLOR SAMPLE
ARHAUS
BUILDING C
A Q U A
WINE TASTING ROOM
WINE TASTING ROOM
*PENDING ALTERNATE
ACCENT WALL
ACCENT WALL
BACK PAINTED GLASS
DARK GREY
*PENDING FINISH SAMPLE
SCRIBELINE
FRY REGLET
BRASS
OPTION 1 - QUARTZ
COUNTERTOP
HAN STONE
BLACKBURN RS401
OPTION 2 - RESIN
COUNTERTOP
LIVING STONE
L718 APOLLO
WOOD WALLCOVERING
MAYA ROMANOFF
GENERAL FLOOR
MASLAND LVT
SPACIA WOOD
RUSTIC LIMED WOOD
NATURAL ELEMENTS -
*PENDING COLOR SAMPLE
CABINETS
LAMINATE
ARBORITE W475 LE
GENERAL PAINT
SHERWIN WILLIAMS
SW 7011 NATURAL CHOICE
ACCENT PAINT
SHERWIN WILLIAMS
SW 9179 ANCHORS AWEIGHT
TASTING ROOM
RESTORATION HARDWARE
CB2 AZALEA GREY MINK CHAIR
ICARO PENDANT 31” DIA.
2 MODERN BLU DOT SWOLE SMALL TABLE
SOFA BLUDOT SUNDAY 102” - MAKADA CHARCOAL
GENERAL FLOOR
MASLAND LVT
SPACIA WOOD
RUSTIC LIMED WOOD
ARHAUS
BERTOGNE COFFEE TABLE
60”W X 31.5”D X 15.75”H
ARHAUS
ZAIKIN POUF
BUNSWICK OAK & LEATHER GAME TABLE
54” DIA X 31”H
MARTIN MARIETTA
Interiors & Workplace Strategy
GENSLER
Designer
Client: Martin Marietta, Inc.
Location: Raleigh, North Carolina
Size: 150,000 SF
Date: 2019
A member of the S&P 500 Index, Martin Marietta is an American-based company and a leading supplier of building materials - including aggregates, cement, ready mixed concrete and asphalt.
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POLISHED RAW COMFORTABLE TEXTURED
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RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
Participated in the project as Designer from programming through Construction Documentation.
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1ST FLOOR
2ND FLOOR
4TH FLOOR
LA TROPICAL BREWERY
(UNDER CONSTRUCTION)
GENSLER
Designer
Client: The Padron Group, LLC
Practice Area: Services - RE Brokerage F&B
Location: Wynwood - Miami, Florida
Size: 23,000 SF
A lush oasis for the senses, La Tropical Brewery is a craft beer and dining experience where the soul of a Cuban past meets the pulse of modern Miami.
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La Tropical’s rich history as a lively music and culture destination and Havana’s largest brewery inspired its owners to bring the re-crafted brand into modern-day Miami. The renewal of a Wynwood arts district warehouse makes the perfect location for its new brewery. Sitting at the intersection of Miami’s arts and culture scene, the introduction of La Tropical creates a unique opportunity to engage a dynamic audience in a one-of-a-kind brewery experience.
Colossal wooden doors are a grandiose entry to the tap room, with brand elements on the handles that translate La Tropical’s brand heritage directly into the hands of guests. A giant perforated metal starfish hangs at the entry to welcome visitors and when illuminated, casts light in a dream-scape pattern as an ode to the original location’s “”El Ensueño” room. The starfish’s regenerative nature parallels the renewal of La Tropical’s brand. Complete sightlines through the tap room give visibility to a backdrop of brewing tanks for an experience rooted in making beer. Cuban tile incorporates vibrant brand colors into the flooring, and a chevron wooden bar and long, live edge wood tables celebrate the communal aspects of drinking beer. Expansive industrial windows provide open views of the gardens outside and the cooking inside of the central kitchen. Eclectic groupings of furniture in a recrafted tropical style invites guests to get comfortable while a grab-and-go area supplies apparel and brewery-centric accoutrement for the road.
The design connects La Topical’s heritage elements and Cuban flavor to the industrialism of its new neighborhood. An eclectic tropical character is juxtaposed with an industrial quality through exposed ceilings and a range of materials from concrete to leather. Colorful murals and graphic artwork create layers of visual vibrancy and pay homage to the arts neighborhood, and the greenery outside is brought in with hanging plants. A thin series of metal tubes form a railing to elevate the staircase leading upstairs to the mezzanine, which provides a space for hosting private parties and features sweeping views of the interior. Back outside, the entire experience culminates in a garden stage for entertaining and hosting performances, concerts and events.
Brewing, landscaping, dining and social spaces are woven together at La Tropical Brewery to create a lush tropical oasis that engages all of the senses and celebrates craft brewing within the context of Wynwood’s dynamic arts community.
LEVEL 01/ AXO VIEW
MEZZANINE
TAP ROOM
TERRACE
PALLETIZED DRY STORAGE
ENTRY GATE
TAP ROOM ENTRY
GRAIN SILO
Collaborated in the project from Schematic Design to Construction Documentation.
ADRIANA
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STARWOOD CAPITAL HQ - MIAMI BEACH
(UNDER CONSTRUCTION)
GENSLER
Intermediate Architect/Designer
Client: Starwood Capital Group Practice Area: Financial - Investment/Trading; Office Tower
Location: Miami Beach, Florida
Size: 344,000 SF
Starwood Capital’s HQ on Miami Beach makes history as the city’s first ever Class A office building and its first new corporate office building in over 20 years. Paying homage to Miami Beach’s rich architectural history, the new hub bridges past and present by incorporating elements of the city’s signature Art Deco style with a modern glass window façade. It marries the company’s hospitality roots with its home base’s heritage using a palette of natural elements and expressed stucco floor plates, seamlessly interlacing the landscape into its Gensler-led design. The result is an innovative and uniquely Miami headquarters at 2340 Collins Avenue that is launching its neighborhood’s evolution from a resort town to a successful mixed use community.
MIAMI BEACH, FL
The building is set on a 1.2-acre lot across seven uniquely shaped floors, stacked atop parking and retail and bifurcated by a communal breezeway at the fourth level.
Two three-story towers flank the breezeway, allowing Starwood Capital Group to reside in one half of the building while the other half offers boutique office space for lease to growing companies, from tech startups to financial equity firms. The HQ is seeking LEED Gold certification. Lush landscaping and water features are built into every paseo and key tenant intersection, effectively extending the workplace outside, reducing stress and enabling tenants to work and collaborate freely.
Participated in the project during construction documentation for core and shell and interiors.
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ROYAL CARIBBEAN Innovation Lab & Collaboration Center
LEO A. DALY
Junior Architect
Client: Royal Caribbean
Location: Miami, Florida
Size: 50,000 SF
LEED Silver Certified
The Royal Caribbean Cruises Innovation Lab & Collaboration Center increases the pace of innovation for the company’s New Build department, which designs technologically advanced ships. LEO A DALY’s design incorporates virtual reality and collaborative workplace design into the 20,000SF facility, which is attached to the company’s Port Miami headquarters – where LEO A DALY also renovated 30,000 SF of office space.
The design of the lab celebrates innovation with a curved building corner to call attention to the three-story virtual reality “cave,” which allows designers to inhabit a full-size representation of the spaces they are designing. Wearing virtual reality headsets, team members are immersed into those spaces through projectors that are positioned above, below and around an all-glass platform.
Because this facility is about pushing the speed of innovation, it came together quickly using design-build and lean methods. Early collaboration between the design and construction teams allowed schematic design through full occupancy to occur in just 10 months.
PORTMIAMI, MIAMI, FL
Unbuilt Award of Merit, Non-Residential, AIA Palm Beach
Design Excellence Award of Merit, Non-Residential, AIA Palm Beach.
Most Outstanding Green Office Building – Small, USGBC South Florida, Gala Verde Awards.
Participated in the project as Junior Architect from programming through beginning of construction administration.
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PASEO DE LA RIVIERA HOTEL + RESIDENTIAL
GENSLER
Intermediate Architect/Designer
Client: NRI
Practice Area: Mixed Use Residential + Hotel + Retail
Location: Coral Gables, Florida
Size: 480,908 SF
Hotel: 247 keys (157,605 SF) - THESIS
Residential: 176 room (284 bed / 287,571 SF)
Retail: 35,732 SF
Serving as the perfect place for professionals, students, and their families to live, work, and play, NRI’s Paseo de la Riviera embodies a two-way “paseo” to the kind of urban, dynamic, and transitoriented city that Coral Gables is becoming and the fixed pillar of Mediterranean prestige that began it all.
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Participated in the project as intermediate Architect and Interior Designer. From Programming through beginning of Construction Administration for the interiors.
CORAL GABLES, FL
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THESIS HOTEL AND RESIDENTIAL
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THESIS HOTEL GUESTROOMS
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PIRANESIUM
STREET
GALLERY
+ MUSEUM AWARD WINNING
SCHOOL PROJECT
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, FLORENCE STUDY ABROAD CALUCCIO SALUTATI AWARD
Date: 2013
Location: Florence, Italy
Studio Professor: Daniel Deriva
The Piranesium is intended to Architecturalize the techniques of repetition and lighting, perception, and “Impression; The spiritual adventure intensely lived, on the borders of the conscious and unconscious” represented on Piranesi’s Carceri.
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The Piranesium is intended to Architecturalize the techniques of repetition and lighting, perception, and “Impression; The spiritual adventure intensely lived, on the borders of the conscious and unconscious” represented on Piranesi’s Carceri.
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PIRANESI’S CARCERI
GARDEN IN THE MACHINE AESTHETICS
OF MACHINE DESIGN
SCHOOL PROJECT
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, VISITING CRITIQUE STUDIO
Date: 2014
Location: Syracuse, NY
Studio Professor: David Ruy
Coral Trellis. Preservation of an ecosystem; an underwater world of strangeness and livelihood of the coral reef ecosystem.
This Project consists of taking care of the coral bleaching phenomenon through the revitalization and re-programing of oil rigs. It consists on the extension of the preexisting, underwater, oil rig foundations that have never been used for any other purpose. These pre-existing structures are a potential site/machine for an underwater world of strangeness and livelihood of the coral reef ecosystem. The way these artificial reefs work is that the coral larvae (the bacteria that produces the coral reef) settle on substrates that are made of rock-solid material.
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The first part of the exercise consisted of creating machines with other machine parts and placing them in “real life scenarios”.
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CORAL TRELLIS
PRESERVATION OF AN ECOSYSTEM
Coral Trellis. Preservation of an ecosystem; an underwater world of strangeness and livelihood of the coral reef ecosystem.
This Project consists of taking care of the coral bleaching phenomenon through the revitalization and re-programing of oil rigs. It consists on the extension of the pre-existing, underwater, oil rig foundations that have never been used for any other purpose. These pre-existing structures are a potential site/machine for an underwater world of strangeness and livelihood of the coral reef ecosystem. The way these artificial reefs work is that the coral larvae (the bacteria that produces the coral reef) settle on substrates that are made of rock-solid material.
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