https://scalararchitecture.com/urban daily 0.75 2025-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1492696950788-ISG4L668P17N5VQ22ORY/2.jpg Urban - LES Street Seat Client NYC DOT Date 2015 Size 156 sq ft Budget n/a Collaborators CATHY LANG HO and LINDA POLLAK at MARPILLERO POLLAK ARCHITECTS Our parklet is an urban intervention for a public resting area created with the DOT Street Seat Program. It is the first one on the Lower East Side. Created by co-opting materials, atmospheres and spatial patterns from street construction sites all around the city: The mesh and scaffolding integrate the project in this urban program while providing a shelter from sun, traffic and wind. The massive lumber beams provide a seating than can be fixed into place or build as flexible and rotating benches. The project is further populated by plantings that infiltrate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1492699484392-GEE102FJMUCMO1G4GR3G/Rendering_low+res.jpg Urban - Build A Better Burb Client Long Island Index / Rauch Foundation Year of Completion 2011 (competition) Location Long Island, NY Responding to the stated statistical challenges for diverse housing provisions, car dependency and congestion reduction, public equity, and young and elderly needs, our proposal to revitalize Long Island is adaptive, incremental and at the same time revolutionary. We move beyond labels of new and old, suburb and downtown, to focus on the conditions on the ground. The proposal modifies emergent patterns and co-opts current predicaments as sustainably, economically and as flexibly as possible. The proposal identifies a lightly built network of symbiotic densities in the underutilized territories of commercial and retail parking lots and links them to the existing downtowns by subsequent improvements to the infrastructure. Within this light network we are proposing the addition of flexible modular units that tread lightly on the parking surface and maximize the givens. This addition provides complementary programs to these territories, engendering ecological systems where different programs – housing, commerce, retail, etc. – foster each other in closer proximity. The downtowns, left behind by the spatial and infrastructural demands on the late 20th century, are in turn inscribed into this emergent network by means infrastructure – buses first, light rail next. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1492700463901-XMZKFUULI3RWQXMSG3DP/proposal_web+image_Hamar.jpg Urban - Hamar Lakefront Development Client Hamar Town Hall / Rorn Eiendom Date 2014 Size 27 ha Budget $285,000,000 Collaborator MARC BROSSA Awarded first prize in the international competition for the development of the Hamar lakefront, the project encompasses architecture, urban design, and landscape, employing an informal solution and evolving mechanism for increased density and development. The proposal transforms a currently contaminated 27 hectare (75 acre) site into an alternative urban landscape district with a large housing component, commercial, research and recreational programs. The first phase of this project capitalizes on the four existing contextual conditions; isolation by transit infrastructure from the city fabric, an open edge condition between city and nature, extreme climate conditions, and soil and site contamination. The purpose of the second phase of this project is to demonstrate the validity, location and nature of an overpass connection, spanning the train tracks, between the city center and the Strandsonen area in Hamar. The challenge is hence to find an overpass solution that aids in the urban and landscape development of both sides, addressing the programmatic and infrastructural needs and provoking complementary activities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1494013725473-TRH04RHFTENLHPOESIZW/01+copy.jpg Urban - ID UNIVERSITY HOUSING Location Zaragoza, Spain Owner / Client Gobierno de Aragon Year of Completion 2011 Size 36,000 sq m Budget 50,000,000€   The motivation for the R&D campus housing - composed of 500 one and two bedroom apartments and 1200 campus parking spaces - was the creation of relational constructs at a variety of scales between the inhabiting students/researchers, the campus, the surrounding landscape and the city beyond. Urbanistically, the R&D housing breaks always from the stringent urban guidelines to integrate the project to its campus context and extend its realm to an adjacent neighborhood. The project’s heavy demand for resident and commuter parking is seen as an opportunity to relate to the larger landscape. The parking - through techniques like pervious paving and basins- becomes a built landscape. As such, it enters a complementary engagement with the buildings aiming to blur the boundaries between the two and together at as part of the larger green system of the city of Zaragoza. At the level of inhabitation, the project sought different rich, overlapped spatial realms that would foster productive interpersonal relationships. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1492700188943-JK7A5PFKVK6SR9QQ6UKK/usos22_hr.jpg Urban - A New Peripheral Community Client Gobierno de Galicia Year of Completion 2003 (competition) Size 27 ha A New Peripheral Community is an urban design proposal for a 27 hectare site just north of the city of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Embedding itself into the landscape, the proposed design promotes a sustainable exurban model by employing a tightly woven fabric of different programs and activities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1526412032752-YHQ679EDBI1ULTTJYXLW/Render1.jpg Urban https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1492699279810-JOXMQF2BJI1ND2E42GYS/Ambitos_site_uses1.jpg Urban - Ambitos Reciprocos Client Junta de Compensacion de Valdebebas Date 2009 (competition) Size 80 ha Budget €100,000,000 Collaborator DAVID FLETCHER STUDIO The urban park of Valdebebas is an 80 hectare landscape project to complement and define a new mixed use neighborhood with a 1 million square meter building program in the northern periphery of Madrid. Under the umbrella of landscape design, the project deploys a new sustainable multivalent model to address both the scarcity of natural resources – water, food and fossil fuels – as well as the lack of connection between Madrid, its new exurban territories and the greater regional landscape. In this new landscape, aesthetics are a link to more complex relationships that promote ecology, sustainability and human activities. The project provides a continuous space of production between the natural and urban areas. Harmonious and symbiotic interactions emerge through the creation of an effective and limited ‘living infrastructure’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1492699649318-4GR14Y5RK5DE4EXRBIPU/Slide01_lr.jpg Urban - Los Girasoles Olimpicos Client Spanish Olympic Committee Year of Completion 2008 (competition) Size 300 Key Hotel + 135,000 sq ft (infrastructure) Budget 60,000,000€ Location Madrid, Spain This proposal defines a different way to use infrastructure to occupy and delineate space within the historically polarized European periphery of cities like Madrid. The intent is to rely less on existing models of suburbia and city extension, emphasizing a more sustainable model for a post industrial society, and defining a specific approach to the landscape which is both generic and surprisingly particular. At the present time, the vast majority of the community and landscape rely on extensions of the dense urban model; scattered in clusters across the land. This project tunes into the overlooked historical ethos of the territory, one of harvested land and industry, and projects a new sustainable and programmatic agenda onto it by creating a new flexible infrastructure that will harvest the passive energy and make the most of passive conditions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1561658770576-05JO4M6HYRK4SRW4AL36/Hamar-NO-SP2.jpg Urban Winning Entry _ European 2006 PLANTING SEEDS Hamar, Norway To meet the needs of Hamar, the project, entitled 'Planting Seeds', proposes, not a formal solution, but a mechanism for increased development in a ‘re/covering’ landscape. The proposed strategy thickens and enlivens the site over a fifty-year time span. In direct contrast to usual patterns of urbanization –i.e. the adjacent grid-, buildings and landscape evolve in a reciprocal relationship, and over time, their complimentary interactions will support a multifunctional urbanity. New infrastructures, housing, commerce, recreation, land remediation, and the interaction with ecological systems are gradually demonstrated and allowed to thrive in various degrees of interdependency. 'Planting Seeds’ capitalizes on the site’s different development pressures in terms of time constraints and programmatic definition; as well as on the existing contextual conditions - isolation by transit infrastructure from the city fabric, an open edge condition between city and nature/lake, extreme climate conditions, and soil and site contamination-. In its adherence to the complexity and changing nature of these specific parameters, 'Planting Seeds' defines the alternative to the ‘generic extension’ of the city onto the lake. Initially, the project introduces a scattering of physically elevated and publicly programmed platforms to the site –“Seeds”. The “Seeds” hover above a simultaneously designed, and installed, landscape - comprised of ridges and furrows, and aimed at habitat growth, soil and water remediation. They are anchors, new rocks of the waterfront. Connected to the city over, above and longitudinally to the tracks by new infrastructures, they draw people to the new and previously unknown site. The “Seeds” are based on the dimensions and orientation of the traditional blocks across the tracks, but they host public activities such as a greenhouse, a theatre, a spa-swimming pool, a convention center, a leisure center, a library. As the landscape matures and programs arise, a new architectural skin grows around the initial “Seeds”, hosting residential, office and commercial space, expanding upward and outward. In contrast with established “hybrid program models”, the “Seeds” evolve from the initial stages in two different ways: explosion and implosion. In the first model, the “Seed” retains its hollow core with new segregated uses added peripherally. In the second model, ‘solid’ public programs occupy the core –convention halls, theatres, cinemas- requiring the additional layers to house both open public program and other segregated uses. Public enterprises are supported by private interests and vice versa. Their partnership spurns the growth of additional physical and economic layers. The skin lives and breathes with the enlivening landscape, utilizing and recycling the resources of air, water and energy they occupy and displace. The skins provide circulation mechanical conduits, thermal insulation, solar energy and heat exchange. The project restores a diverse shoreline edge condition and wetland habitat to the site over the fifty-year period. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1559222273664-2F7GMZJ8UNCMBLUOCTR4/Exploded+Axo.jpg Urban https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1602265813310-L4JP1M4A73V0RVO41PGE/splash+page.jpg Urban https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1492699000319-YXQHCDW2N9UH37IJMHZE/Hamar_2.2.jpg Urban - Hamar Train Station Client Hamar Town Hall / Rorn Eiendom Date 2014 Size n/a Budget n/a Collaborator MARC BROSSA Located in Hamar, Norway Hamar 2.0 relocates the city’s existing train station to connect it with the new, national Intercity Corridor Project. The relocation of the station creates an opportunity to explore Hamar’s future, its relation to the waterfront and local scales as well as to the regional and national scales. At a local level, the new Train Station reconnects the city to the Mjøsa waterfront, creating a space to be enjoyed by all in the community that also functions as an expansive, linked ecological realm resilient to floods and harboring of ecosystems such as Åkersvika. In a broader scale, the new station acts as a planned, sustainable catalyst for Hamar’s connection to the regional and national networks, smartly dealing with the growing population, diversity, economic interdependence, and the city’s carbon footprint. Through increasing city density, farmlands and existing ecological systems are preserved. Through a series of overlapping loops, connectivity and development are promoted. The ‘Hamar 2.0’ vision is built through a series of linked but autonomous projects that build upon each other towards a common goal, what we define as ‘Incremental Urbanism’. The relative autonomy of the projects allows for their implementation in different stages whenever resources and funding become available. By designing through a series of lenses—connectivity, development, and environment—we provide Hamar with a holistic, interrelated framework for a sustainable future. The surface track option of Hamar 2.2 would replicate this condition and in turn would not be too much better than the existing conditions in regards to connectivity with the Mjøsa. Although we understand the concern regarding the image of Hamar and the potential disruption of the town aesthetics by the incursion of the elevated tracks, we see these concerns as less significant than the opportunities and benefits than an elevated option. For these reasons, it is our belief that Hamar 2.0’s elevated track option is the better choice. SALCEDO.BROSSA STUDIO: Marc Brossa – Principal Julio Salcedo – Principal TingTing Jin – Associate Doohyun An – 3D Visualization Marylynn Antaki Kerstin Bauer Josh Carrelo-Mendez Aran Cho Dongyeol Lee Minsub Lee Moonji Lee Sujin Lee Gayoung Lee Miguel Lopez Camen Rubio Hyunmin Seo Justin Tan ARUP: Cameron Thompson – Associate Principal – Sustainability / Development Vincent Lee – Associate Principal – Green Infrastructure and Water Management Eric Rivers – Associate – Transportation Planner Alexan Stulc – Sustainability / Energy Alban Bassuet – Associate Principal – Acoustics https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1766069419805-JND92ZQSMEJPNVMF57OO/edited+context.jpg Urban Laya Bhutan Client laya Bhutan In progress Size 1800 sq m Budget With held We were initially commissioned to prepare a report and advisory study in Laya and have since been selected to advance the project across three related sites. The work explores how local skills and assets can support a small-scale, community-based tourism model that complements village life and environmental stewardship. Each site presents distinct conditions, including the shared challenge of no road access, requiring careful consideration of logistics, construction methods, and long-term sustainability. Our role focuses on aligning these realities into a coherent, locally grounded framework that supports resilience and equitable value creation. https://scalararchitecture.com/residential daily 0.75 2026-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1494015072149-HILHGEIZAVJCMJN2MSVV/IMAGE09.jpg Residential - Second Skin Social Housing SCALAR ARCHITECTURE in Collaboration with Totem Arq. Location Guadalajara, Spain Owner / Client Ayuntamiento de Guadalajara Year of Completion 2004- Size 15,000 sq m Budget 21,000,000€   112 units in a single structure in agreement with existing codes. The figurative character of the block responds to technological and environmental issues. The plan invests in a generative process of permutations of units. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1492183311074-85YPOAO4GG9BKM5WF6K0/103.jpg Residential - Casa Lasso Client Ms. Reyes Fernandez Date 2005 Size 2,500 m2 Budget €1,500,000 Collaborator SCAPE STUDIO This 2,500-square-foot residential structure, located near the small village of Trasierra, sits halfway between the Basque country and Galicia on Spain’s Northern Atlantic coast. Emerging from windswept former farmland overlooking the Gulf of Biscay, Casa Lasso intertwines built structure with the landscape. This occupation forms a figure eight along the site’s longest diagonal and aligns itself with prevailing wind patterns. The structure is composed of a series of hinges or vertical axes occurring at the moment of crossing of the figure eight. This technique defies and rejects standard projective geometries which focus on elevations and facades, in favor of an alternative composition that develops about the axis and the spaces in-between. In the open quadrants of the nexus, rather than conventionally central or linear typologies, Casa Lasso defines a new model for cohabitation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1492187987056-S8ATLN4KAR7PZWM21QTW/JS+76.jpg Residential - Central Park South Apartment Architects : Scalar Architecture, PC Interior Design : Scalar Architecture, PC along with Ashley Moyer Interior Design Contractor: Brace Construction LLC Location : Central Park South, New York, NY, United States Area : 4,000 sq.ft. Project Year : 2016 Photographs : Costas Picadas For this floor-through residence overlooking Central Park in NYC, Scalar Architecture developed a design language that reinterpreted the 1930s Art Deco building’s architecture along with the client’s cultural Middle Eastern background. Per the client’s request and with a subtle but present geometry, the design was cast in a muted palette that incorporates stone as the main material. While window treatments and furnishings explore a lush minimal design, the architectural trims and millwork detailing become a delicate reminder of the design’s provenance and location. The 4,000 sq.ft. residence is a complete renovation combining two separate apartments into a single, flowing apartment facing the south end of Central Park, as well all other cardinal directions. The apartment consists of a living room and music room, powder room, four quite distinct bedrooms with en suite bathrooms, family / media room, dining room, kitchen, gym and laundry rooms. Scalar Architecture coordinated significant structural and mechanical modifications, extensive code and board approval efforts, and complex and articulated spatial layouts. The careful crafting of the design as seen in the articulation of the stone baseboards, vanities, doors and sweeping molding was the work of Clemens von Reitzenstein of Brace Construction. “The greatest challenge was to create a smooth, seamless look regardless of stringent aesthetic demands; the project was a technical, spatial and code juggernaut. Ultimately, we wanted to carefully craft the design of the details and furnishings. All construction, including all of the stone work, took place in approximately six months, which is unheard of in New York City. Overall, this was one of our most enjoyable and challenging projects.” – Julio Salcedo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1492788778868-71JMLC18BF3YRP52KIMO/004_Fixed_perspective_low+res.jpg Residential - Bowery Addition Client Tapper Development Year of Completion 2013 Size 1,700 sq ft A new multi-story addition to a private residence within an existing five-story building on the Bowery. The project includes a new building facade, interior fit-out of existing space, design of new build-out and a rooftop garden. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1507931882622-4W57GOVWRZI98V2CA701/PRUEBA+ILLUSTRATOR+AXO+SUN+AND+WIND-low.jpg Residential https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1492788529435-HYWZP4LTZB1UQX75ML12/front+view+cropped.jpg Residential - 11th Street Lofts Client Tapper Development Year of Completion 2012 (schematic) Size 44,000 sq ft Budget $23,000,000 Scalar Architecture is the official architect for Tapper Development. Tapper engaged scalar Architecture to develop an 3 story existing structure. The project comprised 20 residences with a communal center. The original structure was adaptively incorporated into the project and reinforced to support an additional four stories. The new 44000sf project was design with a LEED Platinum rating. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1559158455232-9BUUTX85HK4LZKPSJBQP/02_axo.jpg Residential - Big Ideas for Small Lots NYC | Housing Competition Let's Share, Let's Huddle, Let's Breath provides a hopeful solution to the human right of access to affordable housing in an denser, more environmental dire outlook for NYC. In the past, NYC has lead by demanding better health and programmatic housing conditions through policies arching back to the Tenement House Act of 1867. Today, we proposed a comprehensive review of habitable and shared spaces through a careful consideration of applicable codes and new co-habitation realities. In a building adhering to the OneNYC Green 80 X 50 challenge, we increase environmental exposure to double the access to "light and air" and, in so doing, we engender a new productive social space to foster an inclusive, invested, community. Project Location: New York City, NY Total Area (sq.ft.): 7,670 sf 2019 Project Team: Julio Salcedo – Principal in Charge, Alberto Martinez - Associate, and Carlos Torres https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1522700181559-LUF8JD5ENMT1MDAB4UER/171017+Scalar+Anker+Jordan+007.jpg Residential - Anker Jordan Residence Project Team: Julio Salcedo – Principal in Charge, Ben Prager, Cristina Marti Vilar, Fernando Cremades, Julia Castano, Laura Hernandez Ramos, Lina Gao, Min Ji Kim, Murilo Machado Candido Project Location: OssipeeLake, New Hampshire Total Area (sq.ft.): 3,000 sf + 700 sf deck Cost: withdrawn per client request $190,00/sf Month/Year of completion: October 2017 Contractor: Glen Builders – Paul Marks, General contractor Civil: HEB Engineering, Inc Structural: Reilly Tarantino Engineering Photographer: Miguel de Guzman, Imagen Subliminal Models: Ye Rim Kim, Murilo Machado Candido, Julio Salcedo   Scalar Architecture brings a multigenerational family and site together through parametric design.   Nestled in a peninsula on Ossipee Lake, New Hampshire, the 3000 sf cottage is formed by two conjoined prisms that provide an elegant and singular resolution to a wide range of desires and concerns. Among these concerns are passive climate responses, adaptability for multi-generational living, and deference towards the spectacular surrounds - including the lake, forests, and White Mountains range beyond. The cottage's lakeside site is uniquely challenging. Beyond its climate, topography, and vegetation - all orientations offer distinct opportunities in need of reconciliation: there are northern views, sparse southern solar exposure, western summer and northwestern winter winds, and southern and eastern neighbors to shield from. The client family is invested both in the intermingling of the three generations, and the acknowledgment of the interdependent needs of all the generations. To this regard, the family favors the degree to which the spaces may be used as a gathering continuous sequence, whilst providing rather separate moments of isolation and play. Using a process of adaptive computational design, the architect developed an elemental prism that maximizes interior volume while affording a high passive environmental efficiency and minimum impact on the site. The folded roof simultaneously negotiates the southern exposure, the northern views, the management of rain and snow precipitation, and the summer westerly winds. The interior of the prism is articulated as interconnected cells that afford a complex landscape of social interaction. The process is then reiterated in a fractal fashion to address a multi-generational dwelling program: A conjoined second prism - evolved from the first one, provides a discreet yet connected realm for the young adults occupying the middle level. Below it, the ground floor is given over to the grandparents’ quarters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1565016317056-3MUQR94KD7HA7YY4CCG6/Piano_Factory_2_small_.jpg Residential https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1565016404159-7RG0HXGIGKCY1G0BDL3W/proposal_web+image_elements.jpg Residential https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1566405080009-P7D2JHPCQS83GLAFAAHM/20190821_town+houses+elevation3.jpg Residential https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1718834965253-56Q2NFN5GBHKUGL0STZ0/220930+Scalar+Connecticut+2+008.jpg Residential https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1718900440667-UKRED1LDOB87CBQ8JAF0/220930+Scalar+Connecticut+2+008.jpg Residential https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1718900650973-GB6XKSONWINMZRT6VS6X/220930+Scalar+Connecticut+1+069.jpg Residential https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1719423539751-UOUHM9S25V6ROAY53TSK/image-asset.jpeg Residential - King County Client: Private Location: North Carolina, NC Year of Completion: 2023-Ongoing Area: 1,800 sq ft Perched atop a foothill in Kings, North Carolina, the Menefee Cromer residence is thoughtfully arranged around a generous expanse of outdoor space that embraces the north-south axis, offering captivating views of the mountains and valleys. This arrangement also enables cooling from the prevailing summer winds while blocking the winter northeast winds. This domesticated outdoor realm encompasses courtyards, a greenhouse, pathways, and a southern porch, seamlessly intertwining with the indoor spaces to forge an intimate connection between indoor and outdoor spaces and surrounds. Inspired by the traditional tobacco barns of the area, the design draws upon their semi-closed structure and metal siding to create a minimalist aesthetic that honors the local heritage. The slight repetition of varying pitch roofs, reminiscent of farm structures, echo the architectural vernacular informing the contemporary design's aesthetics and performance. This architectural approach elevates the site's rural character, transforming it into a serene and contemporary residence. Crafted to remain open and airy throughout much of the year, the house employs passive environmental techniques, complemented by geothermal and solar power during the summer months. This sustainable design not only ensures comfort but also promotes energy efficiency, aligning with the residence's harmonious integration into its natural environment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1542667530124-ZZ7162ZXXHF1HB3OLCY5/bird+eye+view+new.jpg Residential - Coastal Nicaragua Homestead SCALAR ARCHITECTURE with Cinco Patas al Gato Location Tupilapa, Nicaragua Year of Completion 2016 Size 3,400 sq ft Budget Withheld On a slight verdant coastal bluff above the Pacific in Tupilapa, Nicaragua, the Coastal Homestead seamlessly reconciles a series of environmental and site conditions that far from solely prizing the ocean rely on a complex set surround relationships. These include changing wind patterns, solar orientation and the distant view of Nicaragua’s volcanos. The design takes clues from the vernacular environmentally responsive palapa building – an open-roof treviated construction originally from the Philippines. In so doing, an environmentally responsive and parametrically modelled ruled surface roof affords a larger setting and encampment. Mostly under this new open, a series of three discreet volumes hold more private or weather protected domestic functions and modulate the outdoor dwelling spaces and circulation. Lastly, dealing with a slope foundation and sandy soil, an occupied foundation and base further site the project and provide for service functions. (In collaboration with CPAG) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1492788882112-B2FHXJKJ3E0479HQXKL1/livingroom_12.jpg Residential - Tribeca Loft Year of Completion 2013 Size 1,900 sq ft The Broda Residence is a dramatic interior renovation of a 1,900 square foot Tribeca loft. The project includes modifications to the spatial arrangement of rooms, and custom-designed partitions, storage and furniture, as well as new finishes and fixtures throughout. This transformation of a 1,500 sq. ft. loft, located along Manhattan’s Hudson River Park, takes advantage of abundant natural light and reflections from the river. Materials and custom furnishings combine to emphasize transparency and the fluidity of space. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1718915760583-KU2P6VOORA8F8M2OJH4I/JS_1_front_A_2_lr.jpg Residential - SVS House Date 2006 Size 2,200 ft2 Budget $940,000 The SVS house on Branch Lake in Maine was one of two prototypes being built on four lots. The design of the house explored a generative/generic process, based on research of Allison and Peter Smithson’s unrealized project of 1959. Inherent to the design was a programmatic demand for flexibility and multiple performances. The house is intended to vary widely in its occupation and potential uses, from a single artist to a large family, expanding to the lower level over time. There was an additional demand to subscribe to a total energy consumption standard of $100/sf construction cost, and to utilize local building techniques, namely the balloon frame. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1492789396309-C3WGCKW827ZY42CWOZFP/Mancia+Loft_rev.jpg Residential - Mancia Loft Date 2005 Size 2,500 ft2 Budget $1,000,000 A set of two distinct 2500 sf. lofts located in an undulating glass facade building in New York City. The design incorporates the supple geometry of the undulating facade by tracing a distinct geometry into the ceiling, defining spaces and activities while also managing structure, lighting and services. This generates a spatial fluidity that further defines the manner in which one room and space flows into another. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1492789653620-DV8R2DGDG7Y9YGJI64GS/Diningroom.jpg Residential - Washington Street Loft Year of Completion 2013 Size 2,000 sq ft Budget $350,000 Loft renovation in Tribeca, New York. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1605215633911-4FRJ1UN3SO6N12V11UMR/Enscape_2020-11-12-16-03-482.png Residential - Tallahassee Residence and Collection SCALAR ARCHITECTURE with Cinco Patas al Gato Location Tallahassee, Florida Owner / Client Private Year of Completion 2021 Size 3,400 sq ft Budget Withheld Surrounded by live oak trees, farm fields, wetlands and a pond, the residence and collection is deployed as a pattern of tall volumes and courts that configure new relationships and spaces on the site. The site location and architectural language were highly restricted by a series of neo-historicist local codes and by-laws that largely neglected environmental factors. These codes were also unaware of the nuances and social justice connotations of the proposed historical models. In this context, the project pushed for a revision of historical requirements in favor of muted volumes which both performed environmentally and reflected on the many histories of the land. These revisions were very much in line with the collection housed: A personally curated wide and diverse ranging collection of artifacts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1770997405467-Q1VTN8AA9VSMIQBHYEOT/201223+render.png Residential - Roxbury Creative Compound Roxbury Creative Compound Location: Roxbury, CT Owner / Client: Mr. Charles Forman Year of Completion: 2021 Size: 2,500 sq ft + 3,000 sq ft Budget: Withheld Nestled in a rocky plateau of secluded forest among hills and ravines, the Roxbury Creative Compound is devised to augment the environmental conditions of topography and solar exposure and minimally affect its surrounds. The compound arranges a 2500 sf combination of residence and greenhouse and a 3000 sf structure housing studios, programming rooms and workshops. The spatial arrangement, tectonic and envelop definitions for both buildings engender a series of relations between the buildings, their inhabitants and the environment. This is further achieved by creating a series of liminal or in-between spaces within the buildings and the landscape. Key among these spaces is the the multivalent greenhouse. This spatial concatenation extends to sting and the manner in which the structures lie on either side of rock formation of akin morphology and topography to the structures. https://scalararchitecture.com/institutional daily 0.75 2026-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1492705914414-0UU7X8XLSZG5MJMQC0X8/bucklake.jpg Institutional - Vermont Summer Camp Date 2013 Size 4,500 sq ft The Dining and Education Center at Buck Lake will function as the heart of the summer camp. The program is composed of dining facilities, classrooms and a welcome center. A modulated curving and tapering structure houses all programs optimizing orientation and siting conditions whilst reducing the number of elements and the quantity of building material. The program and structural deployment formally define the entry loop, they provide cross ventilation and thermal cooling and they provide an efficient and sustainable construction centered around nine timber trusses and purlins. In this trusses no member is required to exceed sizes that would question sustainable forestry. Additionally, the base would have local field stone creating a deep connection to the local context and through its thermal mass aiding to the building’s environment comfort. The design choreographs impressions of the vernacular by invoking camps of yesteryear, canoe and arch craftsmanship, local traditions, material and sustainable features. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1492452915417-6Q9FMTLRBZI16IP36J80/JS_4_render_B_4_lr.jpg Institutional - Woodstock Museum and Pavilion Client Woodstock Artist Association Date 2010 (on hold) Size 12,000 sq ft Budget $4,000,000 Construction methods and structural logics dictate the parameters of this design, an addition to the existing Woodstock Museum. The reiteration of architectural elements (a series of double upside-down U-frames) anticipates a construction sequence of events that will expand over most of the existing structures before dismantling a few of the additions. The design relies on a triangulated structure at the top joints of the frames that would otherwise be moment connections. The series of frames transforms from the incorporation of the triangulation within the frame to its externalization outside of the frame, keeping the interior space free of lateral structures. The movement through the design sets up a choreography that weaves through the new and old, as well as supporting the changing nature of space in relation to structure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1492784920182-IAS01GF33JKH3RPP283U/scalarArchitecture_UHPheadquarters.jpg Institutional - Urban Health Plan Client Urban Health Plan inc. Year of Completion 2013 (on hold) Size 48,000 sq ft Budget $25,000,000 In an ongoing partnership with Bronx-based Urban Health Plan, scalar Architecture conducted a series of feasibility studies for sites located near existing UHP facilities and adjacent to an elevated subway line. The selected proposal was developed as an eight-storey, 48,000 sq. ft., LEED certified building comprising UHP offices, ambulatory healthcare facilities and a system of automated underground parking. Because of the building’s adjacency to an elevated subway line and the need for sound mitigation, as well as a desire to increase energy efficiency, the building utilizes a ventilated double façade of interior window wall and exterior curtain wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1492784515528-M81UK46A2H7PCC95R2CM/Healthcare_Center_5.jpg Institutional - San Juan Health Center Client San Juan Healthcare Center Date 2015 Size 100,000 sq ft Budget n/a Collaborators n/a The San Juan Healthcare Center is a 100,000 sq. ft. state-of-art, Class A medical facility which will include an ambulatory surgery center, diagnostic testing physical therapy, a comprehensive imaging center, a sleep lab, a pain management clinic, and a retail pharmacy. Located at the crossroads of Westchester Avenue and Southern Boulevard in The Bronx, the building is just steps from numerous buses and subways and offers easy ambulance and vehicular access. There will be a dedicated entrance and lobby for the building’s tenants and visitors with separated entries into the various ground floor retail stores. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1492723960642-YHX842EBT6GAHM5Z87JN/Homestead+3.jpg Institutional - Farnsworth Homestead Client Farnsworth Art Museum Date 2012 Size 16,000 ft2 Budget n/a Collaborator SOFTlab Our response to the Fansworth Museum’s request to re-imagine its Homestead for a nuclear family is a daring examination of residential space as the interface between the patron, the community, and local artists. As a means to construct a certain friction and specificity for the exhibition, our proposal questions both the nature and dynamics of the client family, as well as the nature and dynamic of a 21st Century homestead and its relation to the larger constructs including its complicit relationship with the current museum. The homestead proposal consists of a thin bar of permeable program and a related public gathering space. An inflatable surface creates an indoor/outdoor public space in relation to the new homestead. This mutable surface changes to accommodate functions regardless of weather or season. The ground floor orchestrates different degrees of public activity and private use to include the community in their new home. There are public and private entrances to allow the community to pass through to the activities in the park beyond. The second floor allows Mr. and Mrs. Farnsworth to loosely accommodate their private life as well as providing rooms for guests and artists. There are bedrooms for the children and several stairs to facilitate access and flexibility. The façade of the new homestead inflates and deflates along with the enclosure surface, allowing the interior to grow and deal with the changing climate. The larger site also expands and contracts to accommodate the change in season. In the winter the surface inflates to create a protected, semi-enclosed space for gathering and artistic work. The translucent surface offers protection from the elements and sunlight, both much needed in the harsh Maine winters. This naturally-lit space for artists and local merchants contains several artist studios and a large exhibition space where local artisans and farmers can sell their goods. In the summer the surface deflates to the ground, leaving the occupiable topography adjacent to the homestead available for farmers markets and public gatherings. The softly sloped outdoor space will be an ideal place for warm-weather community events. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1492722272208-RECPKSUACPVPD2FMKG9W/exterior_2_rev.jpg Institutional - Port-au-Prince Cathedral Location: Port-au-Prince, Haiti Client Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince Date 2012 Size 4,200 m2 From the ruins and the devastation, we focus on restoring two key elements of the cathedral – the narthex with its elaborate rosette window, and the nave and its colonnades. These are restored to all their glory, and are secured from future seismic activity by large piers and light steel buttress respectively. The rosette and the nave colonnades then become the primary determinants for all other elements: from the notion of procession and reflection, to program, structure and enclosure. As the parishioner enters the Cathedral, the arched ceiling and structure frame the rosette at the narthex. This framed arched ceiling transforms as it reaches the choir and ambulatory in a triad of skylights invoking the Holy Trinity- encapsulating the mystery and complexity of the Christian faith. As the space widens, the nuanced range of light invites the parishioner to a larger crossing and implied transepts allowing the parishioners to partake in the homily as a community. The Cathedral’s new envelope is light and performative, and is emotive of an emergency blanket elevated to a permanent veil. While it protects and shelters, it also conjures the sacred realm of contemplation and faith beyond physical need. Composed of two surfaces which act together structurally, the outer surface is shingled and mediates the elements (sun, wind and rain), while the inner surface is a textile and defines a series of interstitial spaces that serve as chapels. The chapels are syncopated with the original structure in order to emphasize their discreetness and singularity from the central bay. The double enclosure, acting as a veil, delineates theses realms and provides the programmatic support for the chapels and the chevet. It also mediates the environment and provides passive cooling and ventilation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1492439564109-2M44G4ZKXELM48CFACPE/150130+scalar+huntington++069.jpg Institutional - West Hills Reggio Center Abe and Kay Sterman Torah Center Client Private Date 2015 Size 5,500 sq ft Budget $600,000 Architecture: Scalar Architecture – Julio Salcedo – Principal in Charge, Yetunde Ogunwumi, Megan Roy, Justin Tan, Adam Kuruc, Josh Carrelo-Mendez Structural: Thomas D. Reilly P.E. Materials: Standing seam enamel metal roof, recycled fiber cement panels, Steel and wood insulated windows, certified harvested wood floors, 2 by 6 balloon frame construction. Photography: Miguel de Guzman, Imagen Subliminal   The pre-school is based on the Reggio pedagogical approach which fosters community through exploration and discovery in a supportive and enriching environment based on the interests of the children through a self-guided curriculum. The environment as a whole becomes a “third teacher”. To enhance pedagogical focus on active and exploratory space, we designed a series of focus relations to the outdoors and more importantly, spatial variety as implemented by the fenestration and roof lines. As an example, the alternating height window envelope defines child and adult spaces as well as it integrates the sectional shift of the program and topography. A series of pedagogical legible passive energy and water harvesting methods as well as a geothermal system provide a sustainable structure. Moreover, the roofline – besides its enunciated role in the harvesting of solar energy and water – integrates a previous attached 1950 pitch roof structure. The project is sited on a residential neighborhood with stringent regulations. The design co-opts the standard materials and methods and transforms their assemblage. This transformation is attained by engendering a series of geometric operations at different scales that provide a reiterative sequencing of folds and patterns. The result allows to profoundly heighten the registers of entry, environment, program and perception from within these restrictions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1548195828224-1NSU8D72SGW9V3X2CY43/axo_2_combined1.jpg Institutional - The AJM Institute The AJM Institute's new headquarters establishes a new collaborative and diverse work-space in a state of the art environmentally dynamic building. The design configures a new vertical circulation in a 6 story 8000 sf structure that manages to inform both the functions of the building and its environmental agenda. The section foregrounds connectivity, day-lighting, energy and water conservation. Among the many complexities of the project that Scalar resolves, the integration with a landmarked historical fabric and the design of a compact vertical circulation remain the most challenging. Project Location: New York City, NY Total Area (sq.ft.): 8,000 sf 2018-ongoing Project Team: Julio Salcedo – Principal in Charge, Alberto Martinez - Associate, Hyerim Ju, Cesar Noriega, Murillo Machado, Carlos Torres https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1634570864458-RYBVP0F4PXZ2GQOON6QP/image-asset.jpeg Institutional - IVAN NAVARRO AND COURTNEY SMITH ART SPACE Project size: 5000 ft2 Year of completion: 2021 Scalar works with world renowned artist who crafts socially and political relevant sculptures and installations Located on a former garage within the industrial neighborhood of Sunset Park, the three level 5000 sf studio for the artists Ivan Navarro and Courtney Smith is a diaphanous volume for art production. Iván Navarro is a Chilean artist who works with light, mirrors, and glowing glass tubes to craft socially and politically relevant sculptures and installations (Wikipedia) In line with their conceptual and political stance, the architectural solution reimagines, inhabits and expands the existing facility by means of articulating steel both as structure and reflective skin as an equal conversant in the old buildings of the neighborhood. In addition, Ivan Navarro’s Often relies on frames to contain his works of sound light and reflections. In this manner, the building creates a larger opening to define a large two-story frame that ties all the production spaces together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1683318397288-E4VP80SXX3K6WIBNTG7Q/220609+Zooco+Big+and+Tiny+NY+004.jpg Institutional - Big and Tiny Project Architect: Zooco Studio Local Architect: Scalar Architecture PC Client: Big and Tiny / Brooklfield Sq Ft 3000 sf Contractor: CJS NYC Big and Tiny is a family oriented 3000sf early childhood daycare and preschool located in lower Manhattan. Big and Tiny was founded with the commitment to create a new lifestyle for families, where work and home life can thrive together. The company offers an early childhood preschool program that allows parents to focus on their work while their children learn and grow in a safe and nurturing environment. When it came to designing its Manhattan location, the team faced the challenge of fitting five classrooms within the space required by the regulations. By dynamically displacing and rotating the set of geometric cells, we were able to achieve the classroom area requirements. The remaining space between the classrooms and the glass façade serves as access and playground for the students. To create a home-like feel for their educational system, the design of the building is like little houses with sloping roofs. The design is a metaphor for the domestic and home, as it aligns with the original educational system of Big and Tiny. Lastly, a glass strip that allows the sun and Manhattan's waterfront shine through the entire day care and unites all spaces visually while enhancing the sense of community inside and out. As local architects, Scalar enjoyed bringing to fruition the project of the talented Zooco Studio from Spain and the visionary client Big and Tiny. Scalar overcame challenges such as building an inspired and precise geometry, coordinating complex environmental engineering integration, and securing fire and life safety and change of occupancy approvals to provide services to families in record time https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1492198832381-IZLF9B7D6UTGNZTHX6BB/scalar_536_Court-380-Edit-LoRes.jpg Institutional - Court Street Culinary Institute Client Private Date 2010 Size 3,600 ft2 Budget $800,000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1492453410079-KHV2BP81UWSM2WNQXK7X/P1080174_web-second.jpg Institutional - Marmur Clinic Client Private Year of Completion 2010 Size 2,300 sq ft Budget $500,000 Interior fit-out of2,300 square foot private medical practice located within a pre-war building in the Upper East Side. The high-end custom interior project includes seven exam rooms, a laboratory, and office space for three physicians. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1732741871332-M9COEA6HO699E2MF6UGL/20241119_ScreenRoom_03.jpg Institutional - Screening Room & Event Space Location : Connecticut, US Project size: 5000 ft2 Year of completion: 2024 Team: Julio Salcedo, Tomás Rodríguez, Elda Hernández, Sharon Mendoza, Raúl Tenoira Interor Designer : Paul Feldsher Contractor: Bill Haley This structure embodies a modern minimalist design while drawing inspiration from the vernacular barn architecture of its rural setting, reinterpreting traditional forms with clean lines, and purposeful simplicity. The lower level houses a working screening room designed for both viewing and editing, equipped with precision-engineered projection and sound systems. This space offers an immersive environment ideal for films, professional editing, and private viewings. Above, a spacious social area balances openness and intimacy, accommodating a variety of uses, from casual gatherings to more formal events. Strategically positioned openings are thoughtfully scaled and oriented, inviting natural light to pour in while framing views of the surrounding landscape. Large spans emphasize spatial continuity, and meticulous detailing enhances the structure’s minimalist ethos. The barn spans 2,400 square feet per floor, offering ample yet efficient space to support its dual-purpose functionality. By bridging past and present, it respects the architectural language of the area while introducing innovative design and functionality. This is a place of connection and contemplation, harmonizing contemporary design principles with the serene rhythm of its rural surroundings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1773256528224-2V1V2VH1XVKHLH9PD2H4/IMG_0272-3.jpg Institutional - Wellfleet Pavilion Client Mrs. Judith S. Ball Year of Completion 2009 Size 300 sq ft Budget $76,000 A 300 sq ft pavilion and renovation of a private residence in a suburban area of Wellfleet, MA. https://scalararchitecture.com/commercial daily 0.75 2025-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1492447978644-G19FT689VNOYXWNRWLMR/Greatworks_11.jpg Commercial - Great Works Client Great Works Date 2008 Size 3,800 sq ft Budget $245,000 Location New York, New York Interior fit out for the offices of a digital marketing agency. Services included architectural and custom furniture design. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1492448232202-Z0Q8VK4RRWKM99U3Q7QO/P1080870_Cropped_20150409.jpg Commercial - Influenster 2015 HQ Client Influenster Year of Completion 2015 Size 3,200 sq ft Budget $600,000 Tribeca Corporate offices for Influenster, a social media company. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1492447428460-S2LXDM65M8A6ROSBAGTL/recess-9_low+res.jpg Commercial - Recess Cafe Client Recess Cafe Date 2009 Size 2,500 ft2 Budget $400,000 Fabricated with rapidly renewable and recycled materials, this location is the first ‘prototype’ for Recess Cafe. Recess is a new culinary venture, employing the themes of playground, escape, and health. The design creates an intimate environment for its customers, engaging the physical habitation of the spaces by ergonomically adapting to the activities of ordering and consuming, enabling customers to both lean and sit on its surfaces. Through the sensorial interplay of light and reflection, the design evokes different moods responding to music, seasons, and times of the day. The space is divided horizontally, with the lower half , a rapidly renewable laminated bamboo composite, constructing a figurative landscape of lean-to-walls, tables, counters and benches. The upper half, of fabric and recycled metal, configures a mutable field as a backdrop for different activities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1492456313398-NJ7LC99PZHCL0XOAUQKQ/P1080535_3.jpg Commercial - Brooklyn Craft Beer Store Client Gambrinus Beer Shoppe Date 2013 Size 1,200 ft2 Budget $230,000 St. Gambrinus Beer Shoppe is a recently completed craft beer store and bar, located on Atlantic Avenue in the Boerum Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn. With an emphasis on traditionally heavy and unfinished materials including reclaimed wood, blackened steel and brick, the design focused on a system of shelving for the storage and display of bottles and growlers. Patrons can throw back a pint while sitting at the custom bar located in the front half of the store, and then take home their own craft beer sampler from the retail area at the rear. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1492783939162-WRU8S1X9FZGVXUP4IQEF/rev.jpg Commercial - Club Quarters Wall Street Client Club Quarters Year of Completion 2014 Size 8,000 sq ft Budget $1,000,000 Scalar Architecture was invited to re-conceptualize the idea of “Club” for Club Quarters Hotel. The first results of this work were the meeting room and common areas of the Club Quarters in New York City. Bright and reflected surfaces provides a serene backdrop to a serious of working, meeting, and lounging. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1493929062917-4EFOHCT8UFEV5XOU3RIO/002_allen_hr.jpg Commercial - Allen Street Allen Ice, LLC Year of Completion 2009 Size 200 sq ft Budget $ 50,000 Interior fit-out and signage development for a cryogenic ice-cream store in the Lower East Side. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1499368377195-ESQVHBOHX5Z8KVNLJS28/2_+Reception+CUT.JPG Commercial - Influenster HQ 435 Hudson Scalar has collaborated again with Influenster to design their 18,000 square-foot HQ in the West Village after the company more than tripled in size over the past two years. Influenster is the leading product discovery and reviews Platform. “We had developed a great rapport with Influenster’s partners – Aydin Acar and Elizabeth Scherle – in our first collaboration in Tribeca, we got their daring vision. For us, in this new amazing space, the project experience and activities flows were critical but so was our eco-friendly motto.” said Julio Salcedo. “More than being conscious sourcing the right products, we strove to re-adapt as much form the previous spaces as possible: from mechanical systems to enclosures. It was challenging but ultimately so rewarding. Our play on surfaces and patterns played a key in making this transformation”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1492451681956-NT6NDNEPKBRSB70R9BGB/01_lr.jpg Commercial - Hybrid Hotel Client Abraaj Capital Investing Year of Completion 2007 (on hold) Size 340,000 sf Budget $90,000,000 The company Abraaj asked us to submit a proposal for a commercial center, hotel, offices and residences in Lahore in Pakistan. They asked us to stretch the technical possibilities of building in Pakistani and to assume a building technology paradigm shift. The design takes on the mandate of a single structure and pursues strategies for the incorporation and delineation of the disparate programs and their demands. The structure is defined by a series of optimal programmatic layouts that morph into each other. In the latest structure, the base houses the commercial center and large hotel functions, the bottom of the tower contains the hotel section (the tower at his point is an elongated sinuous base with lots of perimeter), the mid section contains the offices ( the previous plate has at this point centrifugally morphed providing a large floor plate layout) and the residences get the views and a minimal footprint and geometry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1492609584258-A440R8L1KPXFO4R7SA40/HIEX+72+PPP.jpg Commercial - Agrisal Hotels Client Agrisal Date 2015 Size 5,700 m2 (108-Key Hotel) Budget $12,000,000 Collaborator REGIONAL As a part of the collective Regional, Scalar Architecture collaborated on the design of two 108-room hotels in Central America for Agrisal Development. Serving as design prototypes, the hotels will be reiterated with site and scale nuances throughout the region. The proposal included a redefinition of the brand concept, reflected in the interior design and architecture, while complying with standards of maximum efficiency, a tight budget, seismic and local climatic conditions. The hotels in Managua and Tegucigalpa began construction at the end of 2012, with expected completion in 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1492447776802-V9IAPBNZLNYWC7M3XUH4/1109_398-3.jpg Commercial - Cineflix Studios, New York Client Cineflix Studios / Cineflix USA Year of Completion 2012 Size 8,300 sq ft Budget $300,000 In late 2011, Cineflix, a reality television company, commissioned Scalar Architecture in order to reinvent the interior space of their corporate offices, set on two different offices within the same building in Soho, NYC. The highlights of our proposal consisted of two multimedia walls along with two reception desks. We also introduced custom signage and flexible meeting/working spaces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1572206651191-9HJUEBMYMZ6R0AE4EP3G/190918+Scalar+73+Hudson+008.jpg Commercial https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1637707023170-NVSWHBZJXKW4LWZKAV8P/211007+Scalar+29st+NY+001-2.jpg Commercial - Manhattanhenge / E 29th Manhattan, New York Owner / Client : Private Year of Completion 2021 Size 30,000 sq ft Team Members – Julio Salcedo, Carlos Torres, Murilo Machado, Alberto Martínez, KenHo Lee, TingTing Jin, Megan Roy, Elizabeth Mac Willie Our project is a transformative intervention on an existing 6 story 30,000 sf early XXth century structure located within Manhattan’s Commissioner city grid. The ideas for the innovative restoration effloresce in a new environmentally performative and digitally-fabricated envelope. Being located on a narrow street - mostly oriented East West, the design conjures a material and geometrical system that circumvents an existing façade steel structure to establish an oblique longitudinal relation with the street. The new oblique geometry allows for direct sun access - insolation- as well as a series of visual relations between the interior and the streetscape. In addition, the new envelope provides high performance insulation, and elective ventilation and porosity. The envelope was conceived as a system of panels that can be further reconfigured by rotation and mirroring. The metal and insulation panels are built by a digital process of cutting and folding. In such a manner, the capacity of the design software to flatten three-dimensional geometry closely aligned with the fabrication protocols. The folding of the panels hence operates at a variety of scales: the folding provides the necessary rigidity to a thin material, negotiates the connections to the existing structure sidestepping old columns, sites the project in the urban context of a narrow street, and ultimately affords a solar and environmental connection. In so doing, the design recalls the Manhattanhenge phenomenon - the bi-annual alignment of the Manhattan’s Commissioner’s grid with the sunset and sunrise- and prolongs it further throughout the seasons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1492452477132-KVNF4U8ATH9BXSFFI1Z5/_DSC1013_modified_low+res.jpg Commercial - Rize Coffee Client Private Date 2011 Size 950 sq ft Budget $500,000 Located within Manhattan’s historic Channin Building, an iconic art deco landmark one block from Grand Central Station, this project combined two existing storefronts into a new boutique café. With large windows gazing into Grand Central Station, Chrysler Building and the building art moderne lobby, the designed engages the existing, historic context in novel and subtle manners of luminosity and reflectivity. The scope included custom light fixtures and furniture design, complete interior fit-out of the space, and concept branding. This café will be the first of a chain of throughout the United States. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58efa1539f7456cb9bec61d8/1766089468908-QC3Q6P5IBDXDM62V0NZS/IMG_3101.jpg Commercial Bil Bhutan Client Bil Bhutan In progress Size 3469 sq m Budget With held As we begin working side-by-side with local sponsors and partners, the project takes on the rhythms of its landscape—architectural culture, sun paths, monsoon rains, and shifting seasons. Each element is helping shape a more resilient, climate-responsive architecture. 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