Apartment complex

DVS 03 is a new sector within the Villa Serena apartment complex, located in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico. Rafael Gamo Rafael Gamo The development is located within an existing complex made up of low-rise brick apartment buildings surrounded by common areas, gardens, gym, pool and other amenities. The meticulous study of the site and the analysis of the axes of the original buildings were the starting point in the design process to create direct relationships between the new sector and the pre-existing environment. Rafael Gamo Rafael Gamo DVS 03 comprises two buildings with 33 unique one and two bedroom apartments. The apartments have an exterior perimeter made up of balconies and terraces which provide much... More

This condominium building consists of seven apartments, two of which are two-storied penthouses. The site is long and narrow and faces a public square. The building is placed along the diagonal axis which materializes as a concrete wall upon which several volumes are attached. Costas Kontos Costas Kontos Costas Kontos That way, all apartments -even at the back- have view to the square and to the landscaped garden of the property. The building is broken into two main volumes, connected through a common staircase, steel and glass, mass. The front volume is kept as low as possible in order to appear as a private house -it belongs to the land owner family- and to allow for the back volume to have better views, ventilation and su... More

The 13Chenar residential project referred to us when the construction process was suspended due to the client dissatisfaction. The building was designed by bubble deck system which liberates the interior from structural elements and moved them toward the edges of slabs.They just finished the fourth slab when they asked us to revise their project. We refused to design just a simple facade and proposed a serious set of changes both in architecture and facade. Because of the imposed structural system limitation in making hollows, we decided to focus on the edges of the building and define a hierarchy from outside in. In order to do so, we designed all the units requirements in the space between the core and the shear walls and considered the l... More

Atelier MjK's aim for these eight 2-unit ground-up construction apartments is to provide middle class housing inside Washington, DC. The micro-unit building is geared towards teachers and young professionals who would otherwise typically be priced out of living within the city. More

McIntosh Poris Associates’ design for DuCharme Place—a new, ground-up, 185-unit luxury apartment community in Detroit’s historic Lafayette Park—is the area’s first lifestyle community in 40 years. The $45-million complex comprises four mid-rise buildings, with residences standing three stories tall above a parking/lobby podium base, totaling 188,500 square feet. It is one of many ground-up residential projects designed by McIntosh Poris Associates throughout the area. “We’ve been working on designing multi-family housing developments in Lafayette Park for nearly 15 years,” explained Michael Poris, AIA, Principal of McIntosh Poris Associates. “DuCharme Place builds upon the vision of the park’s original development team by creating a co... More