The Grove at Grand Bay

Miami, United States

2016

Client

Terra Group

Typology

Residential

Size m2/ft2

58,900 / 634,000

Status

Completed

2016

Client

Terra Group

Typology

Residential

Size m2/ft2

58,900 / 634,000

Status

Completed

The Grove at Grand Bay gallery image | Bjarke Ingels Group

FRONT & BACK — The program could fit two towers. With the site wedged between mid-rise buildings, the only way to ensure good views of the water would be to build perpendicularly to Bayshore Drive, creating a front and a back building - a good one and a bad one.

COMPACT FOOTPRINT — BIG responded by compacting the footprint of the south tower, to ensure the north tower is offered views straight out to the water.

ADDITIONAL VIEWS — From the view of the marina below to the massive panorama of the bay and the skyline of downtown Miami beyond.

TOP OPTIMIZATION — From the 14th floor up, the towers continue straight in their new-found optimal orientation. Each tower, just as privileged as the other.

CARPET OF LUSH VEGETATION — Rather than the traditional podium, BIG proposed a topographic stepped landscape of local stone, covered with indigenous plants.

SIDE BY SIDE — The view corridors open up when reaching the 12th floor. Suddenly the narrow view corridor became an open panorama.

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— The elevator cores are strengthened with two-inch steel plates, to absorb all the torsion forces. The cores are adjusted to align with the upper floors and continue straight through all levels, seeming to turn as the floor plates rotate around them. The columns carry all the gravity loads, but none of the shear loads.

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"Coconut Grove is a special place with a well-defined soul, so it was important that The Grove at Grand Bay responds to its community through a design that was respectful and distinctive."

Bjarke Ingels - Founder & Creative Director, BIG