Gurrimatute | Education

STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS

Education

Firm Overview

Gurrimatute is an award-winning, quality-driven architectural and interior design firm committed to providing first-rate results and exceptional service.

Daphne I. Gurri – Principal and Owner – initially founded Gurrimatute as a sole proprietorship under her own name in 1996, with José G. Matute – Principal and Owner – later joining as Partner to officially form Gurri Matute PA in 2000.

Our team deeply believes in the authentic and genuine storytelling that comes alive in the spaces we design. We not only pinpoint and create new brands for our clients, but also bring existing brands further to life by studying and understanding each client’s core visions/values (which we later develop and express using the manipulation of light, sound, color and space).

Collaborating is at the heart of Gurrimatute’s creative process. Our company culture celebrates and encourages our entire team working together as an integrated unit, beginning with the design charrette and planning phases, and ending with construction completion and user occupancy.

Our end-goal is always to identify, strategize and conceptualize unique and innovative design solutions for each one of our clients. Gurrimatute makes this happen by regularly adopting new technologies, utilizing industry-best products, and implementing cutting-edge design trends and professional approaches. This method allows us to consistently offer the best solutions to the most challenging and non-intuitive of projects… time and time again.

We do technical. We do creativity. We collaborate. We grasp problems with two hands.

27 years

Established in 1996, Gurrimatute is celebrating it's 27th year in business.

85%

As a testament to our exceptional service, 85% of our clients are repeat clients.

Designing for Learning

At Gurrimatute, the design of educational facilities is one of our Firm’s core areas of expertise. Our designs for higher education aim to create human-centered designs that integrates emerging technologies to make a campus a complete learning environment to serve the whole student.

Technology

Advancing technology means rapid changes to job markets and the education and training required to fill the positions. Gurrimatute is knowledgeable in the integration of new technologies including robotics but also the design of technical spaces including laboratories such as biology, chemistry, mechatronics, photography, research, simulation, and photography.

Renovations

We have an established track record of successfully completing numerous renovation projects at higher education facilities. This includes the renovation and updating of educational spaces including re-roofing, waterproofing, replacing HVAC systems for entire buildings, ADA retrofits, re-purposing spaces, building hardening, etc. All while the buildings remain 100% operational.

Branding

Attracting top talent has become more competitive within higher education. Branding can strengthen potential students and/or faculties’ understanding of your mission and influence their decision when selecting a school. Anyone that enters the campus should understand the history, quality, innovation, and environment of the institution. Integrating existing brand standards through material selection is one way to accomplish this. For example, at Miami Dade College’s Padron Campus Building 6 finish out of floors 11-15 each floor was assigned a different color that was in the College’s existing brand standards. This was brought through in furniture

selection, paint colors, flooring, etc. This not only helped to reinforce the College’s brand, but also assisted in wayfinding.

The Whole Student

Education has moved beyond academic knowledge and into serving the whole person. Our experience has included the creation of shared spaces that encourage social interaction including collaboration spaces and lounges, but most uniquely, it has also included a nondenominational chapel at Florida International University. This chapel is meant to serve all religions and spiritualities but also includes garden space for reflection and meditation and a place of solace.

Sustainability

One of the Core Values at Gurrimatute is Environment. We design with the environment in mind and apply Green Design Concepts whether or not the project will be certified by a third party agency.

Sustainable design objectives can be met by implementing both passive and active systems. We always look for ways to increase passive systems including reviewing a building’s site orientation for ways to increase prevailing winds, the creation of shady outdoor areas for students, increasing natural light and views and overactive systems. We provide you with viable options to meet your sustainable goals and objectives, and if so desired, we have in-house LEED AP design professionals, certified with the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) to design any project to be third party certified.

Overall, Gurrimatute is very experienced with the LEED process, including:

• Registering projects with USGBC, utilizing the current V4.1 rating systems

• Completing online templates

• Coordinating reviews with the USGBC

• Providing enhanced commissioning services

Project Experience

Miami-Dade County ISD Larcenia J. Bullard Plaza

Building Information

Modeling (BIM)

We firmly believe in integrating technology into our design process not only as a tool to communicate more effectively with our clients, but also as a means to reduce unnecessary change orders during construction caused by clashing building systems.

Gurrimatute uses Autodesk Revit, a building information modeling program that provides added features and benefit to our clients by allowing us to perform Clash Detection on our 3-D models to identify any conflicts between structural beams, mechanical systems and any other building systems before the project goes into construction.

All of our design professionals are highly proficient with this program and can take any space and create a view for the owner to have a view of the entire space. The program enables the design staff to apply finishes and lighting for photo-realistic images of the projects.

Visualize

Generate photorealistic renderings. Create documentation with cut-aways and 3D view, and stereo panoramas to extend your design to virtual reality.

Analyze

Optimize building performance early in the design process, run cost estimates, and monitor performance changes over the project’s and building’s lifetime.

Coordinate

Since Revit is a multi-discipline BIM platform, we can share model data with engineers and contractors within Revit reducing coordination tasks.

Broward College Central Campus Building 10 2nd Floor Renovation

Miami-Dade College Padrón Campus

Building 6 Finish-out of Floors 11-15

Miami, Florida

This four-floor renovation of vacant floors 11-15 of Building 6 includes makespace, collaboration spaces, multipurpose rooms, student lounge, community collaboration room, IT network lab, tech lab, video/photo workroom, mac lab, lounge/waiting area, classrooms, conference rooms, kitchenettes, and supplementary support space. In addition, private and shared office space for the Campus President, Director of Campus Administration, Campus Planner, CIO, Media Directors, Network Services Director, and faculty.

Originally the College had budgeted $10.5 million for this project, but when Gurrimatute and the Construction Manager developed a budget, we had estimated that the project could be completed for approximately $9.3 million. With construction currently underway, without reducing any services, the actual construction cost is $8.8 million. With this savings in the construction budget, the College was able to redirect this money to make much needed repairs to two 16-story egress stairs in the building. In addition, the College was also able to create a multi-purpose room on the 15th floor that in the future be dedicated to a museum for the past College President, Eduardo J. Padrón.

Furthermore, this project had an accelerated construction schedule of eight months in order to be completed prior to the fall 2021 semester.

Size 32,000 sf

Completion

2021

Cost $8.8M

Services

Architecture

Interior Design

Project Management

Construction Administration

Features

12-classrooms

Collaboration space

Computer lab

Conference rooms

HVAC upgrades

Kitchenettes

Makerspace

Multi-purpose room

Offices

Student/waiting lounge

Video/photography studio

Miami-Dade College Homestead Campus Building D

Skilled Nursing Program

Homestead, Florida

Project scope included renovating a 4,800 sf existing space to house the new Skilled Nursing Simulation Program. Completed facilities included two 1,600 sf areas, both housing a 6-bay patient treatment simulator (both with adjacent class spaces); one 6-bay patient-assessment area; two patient-room simulators (both with central control rooms for teaching staff); and two debriefing rooms.

Scope also included acoustical design to address a 25-ft tall open area, reconfiguring existing HVAC, electrical reconfiguration, installing a new “nurse call” code-blue system, installing new patient simulators, upgrading IT data to support the new space, and upgrading the plumbing & lighting.

Size 4,800 sf

Completion

2021

Cost $1.8M

Services

Architecture

Interior Design

Project Management

Construction Administration

Features

2-skills lab, 6-bay patient treatment simulator

6-bay patient assessment lab

2-simulation patient rooms

Conference rooms

Control room

Debriefing rooms

Florida International University Trish &

Dan Bell

Chapel & Road Realignment

Miami, Florida

The Trish and Dan Bell Chapel is a new multi-faith gathering space for worship, contemplation, spiritual strengthening, and understanding. The Chapel will be an iconic building for the University, architecturally distinct and inviting, and includes multiple supporting spaces, a bell tower, and exterior garden areas that maximize the views to the lake and the opportunities for openness and transparency between the exterior and interior spaces. The exterior gardens incorporate walking paths, mediation pods inspired by sacred geometry, a labyrinth walk, and lakeside open-air seating.

The site for the project is located along the main road into the university campus, flanked by the University President’s house on the east side, a manmade lake facing north, and the road. The project required the reconfiguration of the existing road, and filling in a portion of the western bank of the lake to create the site for the chapel and gardens.

Besides having to relocate major buried utilities and impacting the adjacent parking lot, the site although fairly flat, has a rapid slope into the water ’s edge. Vibro stone columns and compaction was required to reduce differential foundation settlement as well has a thickened floor slab on grade.

Size 18,432 sf

Completion 2024

Cost $34M

Services

Architecture

Interior Design

Project Management

Construction Administration

Features

80-foot-high bell tower

225-person Sanctuary

Catering room

Conference room

Counseling rooms

Green rooms

Meditation pods

Multi-purpose rooms

Narthex

Offices

Private prayer rooms

Site design, road realignment, and lake infill

Miami-Dade County Public Schools Ruth K. Broad/ Bay Harbor K-8 Center Classroom Addition

Town of Bay Harbor, Florida

This new, 3-story classroom building is incorporated into the Ruth K. Broad/Bay Harbor K-8 Center’s existing campus. The ground level of the building includes a sheltered basketball court with bleachers, and a scoreboard. The second and third floors includes classroom, laboratories, and administrative spaces. The main façade features a custom ceramic tile pattern inspired by the tropical, modern architecture of the neighborhood and South Florida.

The building and associated fields are also utilized by the Town of Bay Harbor for after school activities, movies on the lawn, and other public functions. Site constraints and site conditions added complexity to this project including having to design the entire site on piles, providing flood protection, and cantilevering a portion of the building over the field area.

Although it is not certified by a third party, Gurrimatute implemented sustainable design solutions such as life-cycle cost analysis, energy efficient exterior windows and doors, energy efficient HVAC system, reflective roof, and interior finishes with a high recycled content.

This project was so successful that MDCPS is reusing this design for the Alonzo & Tracy Mourning Senior High School.

Size

32,000 sf

Completion

2019

Cost

$6.8M

Services Architecture

Interior Design

Project Management

Construction Administration

Sustainability Consulting

Features

17 classrooms

3-story building

Basketball court

Collaboration room

Contaminated site

Makespace

Offices

Pile foundation

Site design

University of Miami Rosenstiel Medical Science

Building 5th Floor Classroom Renovation

Miami, Florida

This 4,300 sf expansion and renovation of an existing classroom area was to transform the space by repurposing storage, A/V control room, and hallway areas into a more expansive auditorium style classroom.

The execution of this project involves coordinating all support MEP/FP services, integrating owner-selected furniture and finishes, and collaborating with the owner-provided A/V consultant and their selected equipment. This comprehensive effort created an upgraded and efficient educational space that meets the evolving needs of the University of Miami Medical Campus.

Size 4,300 sf

Completion 2023

Cost $2.2M

Services

Architecture

Project Management

Construction Administration

Features

Higher education

Renovation

Classroom A/V control room

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