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Villa Miami
The elegant Villa Miami luxury residential tower rises at the water’s edge of Biscayne Bay, taking its place as one of the tallest buildings in Miami’s Edgewater neighborhood. The nearly 360,000 SF tower will feature 70 ultra-luxury residences, a three-level private residents’ club, a private restaurant operated by Major Food Group, private marina access, and a host of additional hospitality-inspired amenities.
The sculptural architectural form of the slender glass tower—inspired by a faceted jewel delicately cradled in place by prongs—features a dramatic, copper-hued aluminum and cast-bronze exoskeleton that expresses a warm, glowing, geometric presence across the bay.
| Client | One Thousand Group, Terra Group, 710 EDGE Property LLC |
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| Architect: | ODP Architecture & Design |
| Size | 56 Stories | 364,000 SF (33,817 SM) | 70 Units |
| Sustainability | Targeting LEED Certification |
| Office: | Miami |
| Completion: | 2027 |
Designing the reinforced concrete superstructure for this bold yet nuanced architectural vision presented a considerable challenge for our engineers. Our multifaceted solution to resolving the architecture’s complex load paths as the post-tensioned structure rises features sloping columns that walk, merge, and split, along with custom transitions at multiple slab levels, that together create a distinctive visual pattern, culminating in a crown beam at the top of the tower.
The exterior frame carries both gravity and lateral loads, eliminating the need for interior structural columns and allowing for wide-open, flow-through floor plans. To accommodate the unique column transitions, slopes, and transfers driven by the architectural design, our engineers created detailed lateral models, carefully mapping each column slope and transition to carefully manage load paths.
We tested the shear walls through extensive performance-based methodologies, construction sequencing techniques, and lateral analysis approaches, optimizing the shear wall system to achieve exceptional material efficiency for a tower of this scale. A constrained, half-acre site dictated the hyper-slender tower design.
Our engineers also designed the structure for the nine-story parking garage adjacent to the tower. Resilient measures to prevent flooding in the garage include a hydrostatic foundation slab.
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