Design And Development Research

The subject of design and development research encompasses a wide range of important elements. STRANG is a Miami-based design firm renowned for advancing the principles of Environmental Modernism in extraordinary locations around the world. This concept, dubbed by the firm, reflects their deep commitment to designing stunning architectural works that maintain an acute awareness of each project's surrounding environment and site. Rock House - strang.design.

Nonetheless, the Rock House masterfully blends these disparate influences together to create an unexpected, yet convincing, design solution. The dense and riotous tropical landscape of Coconut Grove affords the home its proper context. Jain Residence - strang.design.

Selected works | Strang. Max Strang – College of Fellows | Strang - strang.design. Building on this, river's Reach | Strang - strang.design. River’s Reach is an evolution of the Strang’s unbuilt design for the Mola Residence. Vertical ‘fins’, which act as sun-shading and privacy elements, are sandwiched between the structural shell of the second floor. Beyond Vernacularity: Lessons of Elemental Modernism - strang.design.

A culmination of the ecologically-forward architecture that has defined Strang’s career, the tropical architecture that influenced him on his travels, and the Floridian design scene’s expansive history of landscape architecture, as seen in the work of the likes of Mario Nievera. Ballast Trail Residence | Strang. It goes further by offering an evolutionary design which creatively celebrates the cultural, ecological and physical environment of The Florida Keys.

Equally important, located on the shores of Key Largo, the house is positioned where a tropical hardwood hammock meets the Atlantic Ocean.