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COMMERCIAL BUILDING DESIGN PORTFOLIO:
For a two-year
period from 1995 -1997 I was engaged in a collaborative design effort with my good friend Daniel Gaudette. We had
contracted together to do building, site and interior design for the Olympus Corporacion in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
The following images are of a building that was originally intended to be the flagship headquarters of a
large national bank that had multiple offices in many cities throughout the South American country. Upon completion
of construction and due to the economic turbulence and political instability of the time, the building was taken over by the
central government.
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| SITE PLAN Schematics |
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When Dan and I arrived in country the building was a concrete frame. It was intended
to be glass curtain wall on all sides from top to bottom with no further architectural detail. Quite frankly, it was
hard to determine where the doors were on the building plans.
| Auditorium Studies |
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| Terrace Level ELEVATION Schematics |
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| Roof Plan Schematics |
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| Presentation Drawings |
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We proceeded to go through a rigorous process of studying
the local culture and architecture and ultimately proposed that the building be shrouded in Spanish colonial references in
an effort to tie it together with all of the banks other free-standing branches. We determined that the banks image
and brand was inextricably tied to the history and stability of solid Spanish colonial architectural language.
We imagined that this modern building may have erupted from the ground beneath
a classical building and thrust up skyward leaving only small, but iconic, remnants and ruins of historical reference.
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Design collaboration with Daniel Gaudette Copyright 2010 SmartToTheMarket, LLC All Rights Reserved 
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