South Florida's building code — administered under the Florida Building Code's high-velocity hurricane zone provisions that apply in Miami-Dade and Broward counties — sets structural and glazing requirements well above most of the rest of the US. Impact-rated windows and doors, wind-load calculations, and flood elevation requirements tied to FEMA flood maps are baseline constraints a design has to work around from the first sketch, a different starting point from Bali, where open, naturally ventilated construction is the default.
The studio's experience with indoor-outdoor living, deep shading and resort-style material palettes translates conceptually to Miami's hot, humid climate. But execution has to go through impact-rated products, engineered structural systems and a permitting process the studio hasn't gone through before, since there is no built project in Florida to date. Any Miami project would be led on the design and interior side, working alongside a Florida-licensed architect and structural engineer of record for code compliance and permitting.
Does the studio have completed work in Miami or Florida? No — built projects are in Bali, Indonesia, and separately in the Dominican Republic, Panama and Mexico. Miami would be a new market for the studio.
Can a Bali-based architect handle Florida permitting? Not directly. Florida licensure is required for permit submission and structural certification, so that work goes to a local architect and engineer of record while design direction and interiors are led from Bali.
Why hire an architect who isn't already local? Generally for interior and spatial design sensibility rather than code expertise, which stays with the local licensed team regardless of who leads design.
The hurricane-zone construction logic in Miami has more in common with the Bahamas than with most of this studio's Asian-market pages, and Miami's high-rise condo market overlaps somewhat with New York's co-op and condo constraints. Get in touch through the contact page to discuss a specific site.