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This house is a tropical modern home designed with internal courtyards and nestled into the hillsides of Stony Hill, St Andrew in Jamaica. The house is designed as single family home with five bedrooms over two levels with courtyard space off the main entry, located in between the living and dining room spaces to allow for maximum light and ventilation to flow throughout the house. This creates spaces that are perfect and full of light and natural air for entertaining.
Alpha Boys’ School is synonymous with Jamaica’s rich music history and the development of Jamaican music. With this in mind, Alpha has decided to open a music school to facilitate formal music training. As a part of the mandate, we have renovated and re-purposed a number of existing buildings to form recording studio spaces, practice rooms, classrooms along with an external courtyard for outdoor performances and private meeting areas.
YEAR : 2017 LOCATION : Westmoreland, Jamaica CATEGORY : Residential
This project is a pool and entertainment extension to an existing home in Jack’s Hill in Kingston, Jamaica. This extension is designed to keep large functions with three levels that include swimming and bar areas along with pool table and private bedroom for overnight guests.
This project is an interior renovation to an existing branch of the National Housing Trust offices in Montego Bay Jamaica. This intent of this brief was to increase security measures within the existing service floor to all each department to have clear demarcated areas that allow them patrons to enter only with security permissions rather than the open free movement that now exist. The design challenge was to provide these barriers while keeping the open plan while making the layout of personnel more efficient for the current cashier centre, equipment and furniture.
The Soares Residence is located in the north coast parish of Portland, Jamaica, overlooking the clear waters of the Caribbean Sea. The house is designed as a modern tropical home that is responsive to our Caribbean Climate with deep overhangs which shade exterior walls and with a transparent design, which allows for excellent cross ventilation while maintaining strong vertical and horizontal lines for a modern feel. The house contours to the sloped hill which it sits on with a split level to the rear of the house with a private studio space below and with a viewing deck which cantilevers out above capturing the experience of being on the seas.
The National Housing Trust (NHT) is responsible for providing housing and service lots for thousands of Jamaicans. Most Jamaicans are able to afford housing though benefits and low interest rates offered by NHT. The NHT Headquarters is a landmark in Kingston that is directly adjacent to Emancipation Park. The building was built over 40 years ago and since then, it has foregone a number of internal renovations.
We were commissioned to redesign the main lobby and solve security and directional issues being faced by its employees and customers. We were entrusted to change the overall look and feel of the existing space to a more “international”corporate environment but at the same time creating a space that would still have a distinct Caribbean flavor. We used warm earth tone colors, recessed and track lighting and wood paneling and inlays with contemporary furniture that we durable to handle the human traffic of this very heavily used building.
This project was designed for the Tourist Product Development Company(TPDCO) to be a “new model”for sustainable architecture within the Tourism sector in Jamaica. This project is designed to be sensitive to as well as meet the social, economic and environmental needs of the people that currently sell shrimp on the side of the roadways in Middle Quarters, St Elizabeth Jamaica.
The site borders the lush mangroves that are a breeding ground for many species of plants, fish and animals. The projects is designed to use solar power generations and water catchment and re use will having minimal destruction of the existing site. the structure is made of wood and materials that can be found from nearby hardware suppliers with concrete foundations and timber walling and paneling.
This commercial building is the Headquarters for CASE IH agriculture in the Caribbean. This building is an expansion and renovation to an existing warehouse of the Winston Jones Highway in Mandeville Jamaica. It is designed to sell parts and equipment, service existing buyers of Case equipment and supply high duty agricultural equipment all across Jamaica and the Caribbean. The building is designed to be sustainable in its operation with key features such as the use of solar panels to reduce the energy consumption of the building, catching and reusing rainwater for washing equipment, landscaping and ablutions throughout the facility.
The Lloyd residence is located in the hills of Mandeville with views of the southern coastline of Jamaica. The design is an exploration into the making of a naturally ventilated home in a tropical climate and within the design principles of Architect Geoffery Bawa.
The design facilities the viewing of the coastline from all major spaces within the house while making each space “one room wide” to maximize the use of natural ventilation and light which is abundant in the Caribbean in order to lower/ reduce the energy cost and lifecycle cost of the house. This is achieved through the use and placement of an internal courtyard and adjoining communal spaces that connect with the outside landscape making it a place to live and call home.