Located in San Marco Island in Miami Beach Florida, Pandora’s Box is a concept design for a 7,300 square foot single family residence with 5 Bedrooms and 6 Baths. The design of the project is conceptualized as a sculptural deformation of the maximum buildable volume set forth by the local zoning code. The project reorganizes the program within the maximum allowable envelope to generate an long open ground floor plan that revolves around a central courtyard with 3 hovering volumes on the level above. These volumes on the second floor contain all the private areas of the home. Externally this internal program is sandwiched by both the street and waterfront facing facades which are sculpted as a simple pull and stretch deformation of these two facades and the openings they require for their respective internal programming. The stretching of these facades result in a home that provides expansive interconnected interior living spaces which draw out the eye toward the exterior horizon and blur the boundaries between the interior and exterior making the home appear larger than it’s zoning really allows.
