The Swiss Embassy designed for Yaoundé, Cameroun is a unique dialectic pairing of a highly public and representational building with extraordinarily sensitive requirements concerning privacy and security. The design of the compound uses the courtyard building type to address the need for privacy and security while also expressing the vernacular thoughts towards space, light and air that is typical in this region.

The design of the building is based on two opposing L-shaped structures, which are linked by a third element. This layout provides two courtyard spaces to serve the main program elements of the Chancellery, Ambassador Residence and the Staff Quarters.

Team:
Nozomu Sugawara, Architect 
Toru Narita, Architect, LEED GA 
Kentaro Yamada, Architect

PARAVANT Architects designed a modern interpretation of an American Four Square multifamily residence. The two story building is located in close proximity to the University of California (USC) campus and is part of the University

Park Historic Preservation Overlay Zone (HPOZ) Los Angeles City Planning Department, Office of Historic Resources. During the HPOZ public hearing this week the board members approved the Certificate of appropriateness.

ACLA believes that every child is a freely creative individual deserving safe, healthy communities in which to express themselves on their own terms and with a supportive network of peers and mentors. ACLA is committed to working with youth in underserved Los Angeles neighborhoods to transform unused urban land into dynamic neighborhood ArtParks. As a daily presence in youth's lives, ArtParks can implement programming that are both responsive to the immediate and specific challenges of a community while at the same time addressing itself to the holistic needs of individuals.

John Maroney was inspired by “Spiraling Orchard”
a symbol for infinite neighborhood outreach, and
based the design for the pavilion on this concept.
The community center is naturally embedded into the sloping landscape of the park and provides a larger assembly space, supporting kitchen and restrooms for the daily activities of ACLA. The building will be a state of the art environmentally responsible structure with the aim of reaching Passive Building Certification and becoming a Zero Energy facility.

This pavilion project had been permitted with the Los Angeles Building Department but unfortunately has not been built.

Team:
Civic Enterprise Associates
Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP
Peter T. Erdelyi & Associates, Inc.
Schlaich Bergermann and Partner lp
CEG Engineering, Inc.

Feasibility study for a new hotel project located along the 405 Freeway in Long Beach, California.

The Center for Community of Faiths is an interfaith organization specifically dedicated to the establishment of a multi-faith center in the heart of Los Angeles.

The chosen site is a mountainous region along one of the busy freeways connecting downtown LA with the San Fernando Valley.

The primary focus of the Center is the Chapel and surrounding amphitheater.

KIPP is a high performing K-8 public charter school, dedicated to preparing students in under served communities for success in college and life. Through the use of bright and contrasting colors and light, strong

connections between inside and outside, textures and warm materials, and physical and visual openness of spaces, the school will instill a sense of place, pride and ownership that will inspire the minds of it’s young students.

Feasibility study for one of their new school locations in South Los Angeles.

Residential remodel and façade renovation of an existing single family home located in Manhattan Beach, CA has

recently received approval for construction by the Building and Planning Department.

Residential remodel, facade renovation with addition of existing single family residence in West Los Angeles, CA.

“Living at New West Lake” is a new luxury community comprising of low rise, spacious, high-density condominiums focused on a family friendly and community-centered environment.

The City Villas are located in an urban park setting offering the experiences of suburban living as well as access to the amenities of the more urban center of Hangzhou.

This house is planned per the international Passive House construction standard that has been successfully

implemented across the world. Passive House is
reducing energy consumption up to 90%.

This master plan is based on the interlinking of city spaces and functions, and the creation of new urban spaces for the contemporary European metropolis, through the

linkage of the existing urban elements with the open spaces of Berlin’s former Tempelhof Airport and the developing areas of the Columbia Damm. The plan shows

the reinterpretation of the traditional Berlin block structure, and introduces a connection to future neighboring sites as well as existing recreational parks

Like it’s predecessor, Passive House Two is designed following the international Passive House Construction standard.

Designed as a contemporary interpretation of the traditional American Ranch Style house. Passive House Technology reduces energy consumption by up to 90%.

The approach to the design of the art center was inspired by the evocative industrial environment and the arid climate of the state of New Mexico and in particular the city

of Santa Fe. The proposal depends on the usage of recycled materials, widely available and easily transportable. The design emphasizes the connection of

the art center to the surrounding city.

Composed of a vertical axis to highlight the existing tower and a horizontal axis to integrate the urban surroundings with the tower, the design is essentially a path that sweeps

along these two axes. The path becomes an aesthetic and structural feature that takes the visitor from the city, through the plaza and up the tower, transforming the

experience of the tower and the surrounding city.

Commercial tenant improvement (TI) project of a private airplane hangar located at the Long Beach Airport. The addition provides office space, a lounge, break-room and

supporting areas including storage spaces. The curved form of the building was derived from the resulting geometry of maneuvering the jet in and out of the hangar

and ensuring for a sufficient turning radius within the hangar.