DOMAIN
DOMAIN is an architecture and urbanism studio based in Belgrade, Serbia and Syracuse, New York, led by Mitesh Dixit and Sandra Subić. The firm works internationally on projects ranging from graphic design, residential, public buildings, masterplans, and territorial research. DOMAIN operates within the contemporary art realm and has collaborated with artists such as Wim Wenders, Armin Linke, Vincent de Rijk, Ari Versluis (Exactitudes) and Antonio Lopez Garcia, as well as curators including Chris Dercon and Julio Vaquero. Its work has been presented at the Venice Architectural Biennale (2014), Franc Centre Museum in Orleans, France (2014), and MIPIM Conference in Canes, France (2014), The National University of Singapore (2012), the Inaugural Chicago Architectural Biennale (2015), and STRAND’s 5th International Conference ‘ON Architecture’ in Belgrade, Serbia (2017). DOMAIN has been in numerous publications including Domus, Metropolis and Wallpaper.
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CCC Chemelot, The Netherlands
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Building Z Antwerp, Belgium
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BMW - Fiz Future Munich, Germany
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Twin Towers Tianjin, China
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Roma Contro Rome Rome, Italy
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Paco Park Sao Bernardo de Campo, Brazil
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PLANTA Lleida, Spain
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XLW9 Tianjin, China
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Planta Exhibition Venice, Italy
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TPMC Taipei, Taiwan
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The Rural City Marfa, United States
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CCdC Tarpon, Florida
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Losa Rota Lima, Peru
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Datum Dorrance County, Pennsylvania
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KLFID Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Macroplaza Monterrey, Mexico
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Project Seoul Seoul, South Korea
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Riordan Ranch Napa Valley, California
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Shenzhen Energy Shenzhrn, P.R.C
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Tampa Tower Tampa, Florida
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CCC Program Office, educational Location Chemelot, The Netherlands Client Chemelot Campus B.V. Design 2013 GFA 14,700 m2
The Chemelot Campus is located in the post-industrial city of Sittard-Geleen, in the southern region of the Netherlands. The invited competition asked for a new campus icon, the Chemelot Centre Court (CCC), which would function as a catalyst at two scales. It would ignite a largescale campus transformation, unifying otherwise fragmented rural and suburban areas into a cohesive campus dedicated to innovation. At the building scale, it would serve as a physical incubator containing three independent institutions, each dedicated to education and innovation of the material sciences. Rejecting the traditional duality of front & back, i.e. seen and not seen, CCC is positioned to engage and celebrate the immediate context. CCC is inserted within the site at a 35-degree rotation. The angle is driven by function (maintains an existing sewage line), heritage (acknowledges a historical trade route), and context (respects the existing trees). However, the pragmatic process had unintentionally performed in a desired manner: omni-directional porosity and Chemelot’s desired Icon. By rotating the building 35 degrees, it deviates from the dogmatic grid of the former campus plan and stands as a beacon amongst the existing buildings. The rotation also allows for a natural connection with the existing institutions whose facilities are adjacent to the new centre. CCC does not simply provide a container for innovation, but is itself an incubator for innovation at both the urban and building scales.
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BUILDING Z Program Educational, laboratories Location Antwerp, Belgium Client UA Universiteit van Antwerpen Design 2012 GFA 8,000 m2
The University of Antwerp’s amalgamation of multiple institutions has resulted in four detached campuses and their distribution throughout the city has left the University without a true center or “heart”. If connected, the University stands to assert its presence throughout the entirety of Antwerp. Given its prominent location, Building Z negotiates a void between two of UA’s campuses and a proposed ecological zone; Building Z has the potential to catalyze a transformation far beyond the demands of the brief. Building Z is NOT solely a container for a lab, but a lab itself. Dividing the specific functions of each department into two towers that are linked both programmatically through shared needs and physically, via a learning bridge. The building therefore can perform as one machine without sacrificing the unique demands of each user. The laboratory fosters a spirit of innovation that extends beyond the practical functions of the program it supports.
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BMW - FIZ FUTURE Program Office, manufacturing, warehouse, industry Location Munich, Germany Client BMW Design 2014 GFA 2 million m2
As we know, the “corporate” campus has come under attack for imposing its presence in its surrounding, driven solely by its own internal needs and infrastructure. Such irresponsible acts are especially bad for urban areas. Regardless of the industry, the contemporary corporate campus tends to be insulated, selfinvolved, and unwelcoming to its neighbors, while simultaneously marking its presence rather negatively by straining existing infrastructure with vehicular activity and acres of asphalt parking lots. Unfortunately, BMW’s Munich campus is no different. BMW is a bad neighbor, but it does not have to be. It is difficult to criticize a company that produces perhaps the finest product in its industry, maintains profitability, and most importantly receives a very high level of satisfaction from its employees. However, it is their relentless self-criticism that BMW has inflicted upon itself to become the world’s leading automotive company that it is. BMW must now evolve the campus, so it can be ideologically consistent with the very standards that BMW has established for itself and others to follow.
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TWIN TOWERS T I A N J I N ,
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TWIN TOWERS Program Housing Location Tianjin, China Client Rose Rock Group Design 2013 GFA 120,000 m2
Tianjin has evolved into a city of icons, embracing structures revolving around monumentality and formalism. In contrast, we proposed a design that is defined by an intelligence derived from a thorough understanding of the individual unit. Instead of architecture of image, we have created architecture of performance. The two congruous residential towers exploit its elementary square plans to allow for a variety of unit types and vertical public spaces at the expense of its efficiency. Intelligence is not invested in effect, but in a structural and conceptual logic that offers a new kind of sustainable performance. The Twin Towers’ generic shape is a thin veil concealing a radical and innovative approach for housing in the 21st century.
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ROMA CONTRO ROME Program Urban strategy Location Rome, Italy Client YAC + Municipio XV Arvalia Portuense Design 2015 GFA 43,000 m2
Built between 1877 and 1881, Forte Portuense is one of 15 forts constructed to create a ring of defence at what was then the edge of Roma. The forts were literal and figurative symbols of defence against potential foreign invasion. Rome has come under attack by foreign invaders once again. Seduced by Global Capital and Foreign Investment, the city moved away from its traditional, public administration and construction based economy, to a predatory economy that consumes resources as opposed to producing resources. But the Faustian-like deal the city made with its Foreign Invaders Investors suppressed its own reality for the image prescribed by its Foreign Investors, thus creating Roma Contro Roma. Rome is trapped between perception and reality. Ironically, efforts to ‘preserve’ its desired image are attempted with foreign techniques. Rome must grow up. It must be forced to look at itself and see itself, as it is, not the simulation of the past that it so desperately tries to protect. Our proposal is simply to provide a framework for Nothingness. We propose to cover Forte Portuense in a highly reflective fabric, which will force Rome to look at the real: reflect the city to the city – no longer the perception of Rome, but the reality..
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PAÇO PARK Program City center Location São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil Client Municipality of São Bernardo do Campo Design 2014 GFA 1,1 million m2
City Hall Park of São Bernardo Do Campo occupies a position of strategic significance in the metropolitan region of São Paulo. The planned intensification of mobility throughout the site inevitably renders its emergence as the new center for São Bernardo Do Campo. The design organizes the site into an archipelago dedicated to leisure and performance; each island is reinforced with an icon dedicated to performance. The icons form continuity through irregularity, each with unique spaces, functions, typologies, densities, and landscapes. Adjacent to the performative landscape is the existing neighborhood. Whereas islands and supporting icons provide difference and diversity, the existing neighborhood provides cohesion and unity. By reorganizing the adjacent streets’ vehicular traffic to one-way flow, and consolidating infrastructure and logistics to the center of the site, the existing roads are transformed into commercial boulevards. The site is no longer a residual geological junk space, but the physical and programmatic center of the neighborhood. The masterplan consists of five programmatic anchors: creative industries, automotive industry, film, technology, and performance. The anchors are closely related through innovation and research, and provide the basis for strategic and economic cooperation for the metro region.
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PLANTA Program Agricultral science, art & learning Foundation Location Lleida, Spain Client Fundacio Sorigue Design 2013 GFA 13,500 m2
PLANTA consists of an an excavated volume which contains seven rooms: each room is strategically ‘carved’ per its programmatic specificity, however the location and precision of the carving is done to liberate any institutional separation and / or compartmentalization of the rooms to create an environment which reinstates the ethos of the new Group: individual and collective effort, quality, continuous reinvestment, professional and social commitment to the workforce. PLANTA will launch a corporate move from “CLOSED” to “OPEN” – in which PLANTA will act both as a symbol and a tool; a place to lure the entire Group to its compound in the Menárguens quarry, as well as international visitors and guests. PLANTA will be a building that lavishly broadcasts the work of individuals for shared analysis. The new office block is injected within and around the private collection - creating a new centre of Sorigué. A centre that, paradoxically, is not a geographic centre, but a conceptual and spiritual centre. PLANTA is not simply integrated into the landscape...it is landscape. A platform. The platform, amidst the sublime chaos of production and the screaming contours of the Pyrenees Mountains, provides silence and stability via a horizontal datum. It allows one to privately observe the intimate yet aggressively brutal process at the quarry as well as the beauty of the Catalonian landscape.
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XLW9 Program Housing masterplan Location Tianjin, China Client Rose Rock Group Design 2013 GFA 800,000 m2
China’s Megacities are establishing a new paradigm for the contemporary CBD. The results are ambitious, bold, and sometimes innovative. However, the rise of the Megacity has had an inverse effect on Chinese housing; it has little, if any, of the ambition found in the CBD’s. Due to limited supply, high demand, and an entire generation of first time homeowners, new housing developments lack the innovation, ambition, and quality expected of the contemporary office building. The ambition for XLW9 will be to develop a new typology for housing in China. Inspired by Northern European metrics for living spaces and mobility, coupled with a strong understanding of traditional Chinese housing and urban planning, XLW9 will offer a standard of living unique and specific to China and Tianjin.
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PLANTA EXHIBITION Program Official Exhibition for 14th Architectural Biennial Location Venice, Italy Client Fundacio Sorigue Design 2014 GFA 250 m2
PLANTA the exhibition is neither an attempt to explain nor capture PLANTA, nor is it an artistic installation demanding attention or gaze… it is simply a lose choreography of discrete elements that will give insight into an environment that can never truly be known. The building PLANTA, which will find its home within the quarry “La Plana del Corb” in Lleida, Spain, exists in an environment in constant flux. The exhibition PLANTA resides in a similarly complex environment of the Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello di Venezia. The quarry and the Conservatorio are environments layered in both physical and cultural textures, and like the quarry, the Conservatorio demands full engagement of our secondary senses. Most importantly, each site is dedicated to the concept of performance. One is the performance of agricultural and material manufacturing, the other the performance of the education and instruction of music. As the building does not try to compete with the context of an active quarry, as it would surely lose, PLANTA the exhibition is a respectful visitor in a space with its own purpose and need. However, both PLANTA the building and the exhibition provide a datum amid the sublime chaos of performance.
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TPMC Program Theater, museum, music studio, education Location Taipei, Taiwan Client City of Taipei Design 2009 GFA 114,750 m2
The intent of this project is to create an institutional building for a culture that thrives outside of the institution. A balance is achieved by creating a connection between buildings to satisfy the institutional demands of the center, namely to produce, market, and celebrate the industry, while by contrast the landscape avoids regulation. It is here that one experiences the natural, human, and organic moments, which truly create culture through conversation and interaction. The proximity of these spaces will bring attention the “other”, creating tension but also perhaps a synergy. This tenuous relationship between the two spaces is necessary for a creative space. It is only through this stark juxtaposition that something new may emerge, making the center a living space rather like a lab or a studio. It is a space whose purpose is flexible and can adapt to the needs of future generations of young people, retaining its relevance and vitality with an audience who by nature reject the old and are quick to recognize the passé. Instead of following in the footsteps of others, it will lead free from the past, leaving its own identity mutable and vibrant.
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THE RURAL CITY M A R F A , U N I T E D
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THE RURAL CITY Program Urban framework Location Marfa, United States Client MARFA DESIGN Design 2014 GFA 3,900 m2
Marfa, Texas: a rural town in the Chihuahuan Desert is a 5-hour drive from the contemporary notion of what defines a city. In this case, that “city� is San Antonio, Texas. However, this is only true if you consider a city to be a matter of population. The clear truth is that an actual City is more complex. In terms of places that are indisputably Urban we notice some other patterns, including population, density, mobility, transport, infrastructure and social services. However, even by these specific but expanded definitions, we believe Marfa can redefine the typology of a city. Our intention is to develop an urban framework that will allow for Marfa to transform from a creative community that will be as progressive and radical as the artists and intellectuals who originally transformed desolate railroad refuelling point into a new paradigm for creative and productive Urbanization. Marfa will become a Rural City.
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CCdC Program Residential, hotel Location Tarpon Springs, USA Client Confidential Design 2015 GFA 630 m2
In an effort to satisfy conflicting desires: anonymous vs. domestic; engaged vs. foreign; respectful vs. iconic, we have studied countless interpretations of the cube, in effort to achieve the multitude of desires with one shape. The 14m cube has achieved this ambition. The activities of the CCdC, circulation, functions, services, events, and density are hidden within a form that at once appears to be known, but is not. CCdC’s urban strategy consists of a concreted encrusted cube that sits as a foreign yet respectful visitor in an environment, with the sole ambition to simply provide a viewing platform amid the sublime chaos of a raw environment. The entrance into CCdC is uncomfortably torn from the lush tropical plane, to create an intimate threshold between the known and unknown: a gateway into an autonomous architectural heterotopia in constant levitation. We have carefully studied, the existing contorts of the site, so the building can ‘drop’ into a position, which understands the demands of coastal living, like hurricanes and flooding. CCdC will be the ultimate object of man’s desire to control yet preserve. It is perhaps a new paradigm for our epoch of the anthropocene?
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LOSA ROTA Program Cultural Location Lima, Peru Client Museo de Arte Lima Design 2016 GFA 6,400 m2
When presented with the site, as described in the brief, our initial response was to accept the expert approach and use ‘standards’ to fill the void. The obvious solution was once again the pure, abstract, clean, white box. As we have seen globally, the museum is typically stripped of any regional or cultural specificity, and instead, has been reduced to an object which is almost offensively un-offensive. When utilising this ‘expert’ method in Lima, Peru, i.e. a box, the building literally collapsed due to its own ideology. Unable to adapt and react to local materials, context, climate, and culture, the proposal literally broke under its own burden to be perfect and autonomous. However, the break, though at first perceived as failure, is precisely the opposite. The break is simply the beginning. The proposition that the “true beginning only arrives at the end” should thus be understood in a literal fashion: the act — the ‘thesis’ (e.g. the Slab) is necessarily ‘premature’; it is a ‘hypothesis’ condemned to failure, and the dialectical reversal takes place when the failure of this ‘thesis’ - the ‘antithesis’ (e.g. the Buried Slab) reveals the true ‘thesis’. ‘Synthesis’ (e.g. the Broken Slab, Losa Rota) is the signification of the thesis emerging from its failure.
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DATUM D O R R A N C E
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DATUM Program Industrial Location Dorrance County, Pennsylvania Client Confidential Design 2016 GFA 2,130 m2
Our approach to the Data Centre, is two fold: eliminate the inherent waste and redundancies in the standard design approach; represent the structure as it is- exposing the real and physical of the ‘virtual’. The proposal consists of four distinct volumes that are unified via a datum that travels 200m, from north to south, whilst simultaneously negotiating the topography of the site. The four programmatically distinct volumes -servers, technical equipment, offices & VIP- are integrated, via a primary circulation route, that is embedded within the Datum. Each volume is designed to function both structurally and mechanically as independent, however, they have been inserted to allow for deliberate contamination, specifically at the edges, which will allow for the rooms to collectively perform as a singular machine, without diminishing the function of each.
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KLIFD Program Mix-Use Location Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Client 1MDB Completion 2010 GFA 2,14 m2
The intent and ambition of the project is not only to create a new home for the world-class institutions of Malaysia’s financial system, but also to provide the ideal location for the first Islamic finance hub in Asia. Besides its international context the development will also have a determining local impact and likewise the project has to be able to reflect the complexity of its unique context. The skyline of Kuala Lumpur seems to literally inherit the multiplicity and ambition of Malaysia’s society, formed by numerous ethnicity’s and religions. Ultimately also 1MDB embodies the 1Malaysia principles of acceptance, equality and sharing, in line with the new dynamics shaping global demands for ideas, talent and high value creation. Accordingly the masterplan aims to represent the national unity and ethnic tolerance behind this idea. The center of Kuala Lumpur is characterized by large squares with abundant greenery, broad streets, and parks. The however most determining landmarks in Kuala Lumpur are surely the Petronas Towers and the Kuala Lumpur Tower. Due to their enormous height, the two building dominate, but also relativize the skyline of Kuala Lumpur. In fact buildings under 200 meters seem to get easily absorbed by a sea of towers from which only very few structures are able to emerge. But the Petronas Towers and the Kuala Lumpur Tower are also unequivocal reference points within the city: By viewing the two towers in relation to each other they become a precise orientation device with allows for the quick determination of direction in the city centre. Interestingly this condition has also a much more historic reference which can be found in Florence, where the dome of the Duomo flanked by Giotto’s Campanile rise from the precise symbolic and transportation center of the city as a point of orientation visible in every section of the city and for kilometers outside of it.
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MACROPLAZA Program Urban, Office Location Monterrey, Mexico Client Grupo GP Design Commissioned 2015 GFA 170,000m2
Macro Plaza, once the centre of Monterrey, is today nothing more of a reminder of a rich past, which was quickly left behind for the ‘safer’ alternatives. The site’s proximity to cultural and public amenities and its position as the real centre of Monterrey demand this change. The new mixused tower and downtown masterplanning reconstitutes the site as both the physical and cultural centre of Monterrey…the true heart of the city.
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PROJECT SEOUL Program Masterplan Location South Korea, Seoul Client Dubai Holding Design 2016 GFA 12,5 million m2
The existing use of the site consists primarily of infrastructure, agricultural plots, and natural terrain. At the very centre of our site is a large development that we cannot move. The existing landscape, development and its related functions define the quality of our site. What if, rather than attempting to suppress or insulate these uses from our development, they are considered as latencies capable of forming the identity of a new site, with multiple centres? Can the introduction of new urban conditions benefit from and reinforce the existing conditions of the site? The design organises the site into an archipelago, composed of six islands, each defined by particular types of knowledge based industries. The irregular physical definition of the islands are reinforced with icons that provide universal needs for all residents. The icons form a continuity of irregularity, each varying in terms of architectural form, function, density, and materialisation. Our Smartcity eliminates the need for one to chose between city or nature, modernisation or preservation. We reject a binary approach to living and embrace paradox as the essential quality of the 21st Century City.
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RIORDAN RANCH Program Residential / Agricultural Location Napa Valley, USA Client Riordan Ranch Design 2017 GFA 500 m2
We have used two principles to drive the overall planning of the site: ecological regulations and the existing home. Regarding the former, via a rigours mapping exercise, we were able to define the different zones of intervention, from none to complete transformation. The existing home has been used to derive the basic module of the new home, as to create a formal continuity throughout the site. Located in a rural setting, a pavilion in the woods, the building is both introverted and extroverted: each space has a relationship either to the internal platform or to the surrounding greenery and agriculture, while certain moments provide views of the Napa Valley Vineyards. With a pitched roof and a consistent floor level the new home shows a respect for the existing structure. The building is designed as a sequence of connected pavilions - an arrangement that eliminates the need for corridors and hallways. The plan has been organised for the spaces to feel casual, almost carefree, allowing one to feel at ease and at home. At the same time the design also provides spaces for larger and more public events - either in the platform, or the pool and spa pavilion at the North edge of the site.
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SHENZHEN ENERGY Program Urban, Masterplan, Office, Hotel, Cultural, Retail Location Shenzhen, P.R.C. Client Shenzhen Bay Design 2016 GFA 1,8 million m2
The site is located on reclaimed land. The northern wetland was once part of the sea. At the centre of the site is a major metro station. We have chosen this critical urban intersection to serve as the ‘ground zero’ for the new development. The ambition for the project will be is reconnect the wetland, the seaside, and the metro station to perform both as a gateway forShenzhen and provide am urban heart for the new Creative Super City. We define the two icon towers as twins acting as bookmarks at each edge of park, the becoming one clear landmark. The eastern tower is rotated to face the Shenzhen Bay Bridge, becoming a symbol to welcome visitors from Hong Kong. The east and west towers are composed of 4 “mini towers. In order to satisfy structural demands each “mini tower” has a specific height, thus reducing the massing of the whole tower to improve performance against wind loads, as well as exposing more interior space to views of the Bay. The Podium, i.e. The Cloud, provides a generous platform that allows for varying office sizes, which acts as a playground for creativity and collaboration. Strategically placed vertical cores allow direct access to destination office.
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TAMPA TOWER Program Residential and Office Location Tampa, Florida Client Feldman Equities Design 2016 GFA 54,000 m2
The building’s external form and internal organisation are a deliberate reaction to its immediate context. Situated along the curving expanse of the Hillsborough River at the centre of the city, the Tampa Tower is composed of an architectural language and materiality familiar throughout the city, yet its form remains distinct. Rising to a height of 185m, the Tampa Tower rotates to provide all residence with a desired northern orientation. The fanning floor plates, allow for the seemingly impossible: a building which gets bigger as it rises. Rotating back to the North, the tower is able to gain additional area as it cantilevers over its very own base.This asymmetrical form simultaneously provides views of both the Hillsborough River and Tampa Bay, whilst providing ideal unit orientation.
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DOMAIN M. DIXIT (MITESH) Mitesh Dixit is an architect, philosopher, educator, and noted public speaker with wide interest in the intersection of design with government policy, society, and culture. In 2012, Dixit founded DOMAIN Office, an architecture and urbanism studio based in Belgrade, Serbia and Syracuse, New York. Dixit’s current research is focused on territorial investigations in the area that is currently defined as the Balkans. The research intends to documents the intersection of conflicting ideologies at specific moments in the region, to objectively illustrate the effects of ideology in the transformations of the built environment. Previously, Dixit was on the faculty of TU Delft in the Netherlands as a visiting professor of architecture and urbanism. There, he also served as editor for the Chair of Complex Projects and helped to develop curriculum. Throughout 2016, Dixit lectured internationally, conducted workshops, and seminars on behalf of the US Department of State. After completing undergraduate and graduate work in politics and philosophy, Dixit completed the master of architecture from the Washington University in St. Louis and then began his career at the San Francisco office of Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill. Prior to DOMAIN, Dixit worked with Rem Koolhaas’ Office for Metropolitan Architecture as a project leader.
S. SUBIĆ (SANDRA) Sandra Subić leads the Belgrade studio and serves as the Creative Director for DOMAIN. Operating at the intersection of architecture, fashion, fabrication and graphic design, Subić has focused her cross-disciplinary approach within the realm of spatial design, bringing together the research foundations of anthropology, design research, and architectural and art history. Subić completed a Bachelor Degree in Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade and Master of architecture from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Subić began her career at Foolscap Studio, an independent cross-disciplinary design practice in Melbourne, Australia. Prior to DOMAIN, Subić worked for the Neri & Hu Design and Research Office in Shanghai, China. Subić worked on multiple international projects, publications, and exhibition designs, as well as leading the conceptual development for various cultural and commercial hospitality projects.
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