GARDEN STYLE LIVING
The project design is driven by how students live today. Currently, students commute or choose to live off campus because they have no desire to live in small on campus dorms, and prefer a market-rate experience. The project design responds by providing market rate units, townhomes, restaurants, retail and active amenity and landscape spaces. Studio and one bedroom units are intended for graduate or older students returning to college. The two, three and four bedroom units are provided for students that desire to live with roommates for a traditional or social living environment. The townhomes are designed for students with young families and/or mature students returning to college. The amenity spaces are driven by an inside-outside design intent. The Architecture, Landscape and Interior teams coordinated indoor and outdoor spaces that engage with each other by use of scale, materiality and views from the interior and exterior of the large mixed use building. The landscape and interior spaces provide a variety of fun activities and quiet spaces for studying. The restaurant and retail spaces are implemented to establish an active hub for locals and students living on and of f site.
The market rate multi -family project is a 377- unit wrap building that is de signed with sizeable amenit y space s, a large pool cour tyard and a pas sive cour t yard. The amenit y space s include a club room, game room, golf simulator, double volume fitne s s/yoga center, conference rooms, co -working space s and a roof top amenit y deck. The landscape space s consist of a primar y cour t yard with a pool, outdoor game area, and lounging area for grilling and social ac tivitie s. The secondar y cour t yard is intended for outdoor game s and areas set aside for quiet social ac tivitie s. The roof top amenit y deck is de signed for private social gathering that include s a kitchenet te, bar and an indoor/outdoor lounging space. The building consist s of t wo construction t ype s. The amenity and re sidential building are type IIIB and the parking garage is t ype IIA construc tion. The amenity spaces are steel frame construction, while the residential units are wood frame construc tion. The parking garage that is embedded within the re sidential building is calculated as a separate building, and is constructed of precast concrete.
The garden style multi-family project is divided in two phases. Each phase includes a free-standing clubhouse with amenity spaces that include a lobby, club room, gym, mail room, package room, bike storage, and facility leasing/management space. Outdoor amenities include a pool, outdoor patio, firepits, grilling stations, bar, private walkout patios, pickleball cour ts, and landscaping that incorporates a running trail and a fully stocked fishing pond. The project consists of three story type VA wood construction apar tment buildings with walk up units, and townhomes that are type VB wood construction.
The Museum of Naval Exploration and Trade is located at Tarra de la Plata and the connecting fragment of the ancient fortification wall. Tora de la Plata is one of the militar y towers in Seville. It is known as the Tower of Silver. The Torra de la Plata site was chosen for the museum to bring life back to the tower and wall. The base of the tower was hidden by an existing building that was demolished to allow the tower to stand alone, and become the focal point of the site. The urban room on the East side of the for tification wall was buried, and used as sur face parking. The parking lot was removed and excavated to its original elevation, then redesigned into a landscape to give back to the public realm of Seville. The masing of the museum is set back from Torra de la Plata to allow the tower to become the focal point of the site, and the for tification wall is lef t untouched. The tower and wall are used as a datum that separates the public spaces and private spaces in the museum.
