Adib Cure-Coconut Grove House

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Coconut Grove House
- Location Coconut Grove, FL
Cure-Penabad, Adib-Cure, Carie-Penabad,
Architecture-Miami, Latinamerican-Architecture,
Vernacularology, Architecture-University-Miami-sch
ool, AIA-MIAMI, Coconut-Grove-House
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The project includes the restoration and addition
of an existing Florida modern house located on a
bay front lot in Coconut Grove, Florida. Built in
1955, the original house was composed of a
two-storey volume set perpendicular to Biscayne
Bay, with an attached one-storey wing, entry and
detached carport pressed toward the street to
define an irregularly-shaped interior courtyard.
Cure-Penabad, Adib-Cure, Carie-Penabad,
Architecture-Miami, Latinamerican-Architecture,
Vernacularology, Architecture-University-Miami-sch
ool, AIA-MIAMI, Coconut-Grove-House
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The main living spaces were located at ground
level with bedrooms and an office on the second
floor. The new design reverses the existing
sequence of spaces, placing the private rooms
(i.e. bedrooms) at the ground level and
relocating the principal stair to the front entry
loggia. The stair culminates in the main living
room with a carefully choreographed view of
Biscayne Bay.
Cure-Penabad, Adib-Cure, Carie-Penabad,
Architecture-Miami, Latinamerican-Architecture,
Vernacularology, Architecture-University-Miami-sch
ool, AIA-MIAMI, Coconut-Grove-House
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This view, previously seen from a private
corridor leading to the bedrooms, is now enjoyed
as an integral part of the primary rooms of the
house. A new exterior stair, adjacent to the
second floor terrace, celebrates the seamless
connection between indoor and outdoor living and
descends to a keystone-clad pool deck that
physically terminates at the waters edge.
Cure-Penabad, Adib-Cure, Carie-Penabad,
Architecture-Miami, Latinamerican-Architecture,
Vernacularology, Architecture-University-Miami-sch
ool, AIA-MIAMI, Coconut-Grove-House