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Zoka Zola Architecture + Urban Design

Profile of Zoka Zola Architecture + Urban Design, headquartered in United States. Five projects submitted by Zoka Zola Architecture + Urban Design have been published on Architecture News Plus (ANP).

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Principal

Zoka Zola

Brief description

ZZ A+UD 's approach aims to absorb all the complexity that goes into a project - client, budget, people, ideas, technology, building methods - knowing that this multiplicity can be mastered, and that the best architecture emerges from the inclusion and welcoming of all those forces. Sustainability is a default, understood as interrelationship between organic and disorganic qualities.

The studio's unique method of work involves a thorough and committed process, that starts with the finding of the problem, and evolves to form the idea. Every project in seeking solutions benefits from the knowledge of the vast historical body of inventive architectural moves. Critical questioning at all stages of the project leads to a maximum level of productivity, resulting in a rigorous and inventive architecture. The integrity and innovative character of the firm's work attracts the best consultants who bring their active intimate knowledge to the process. As a result the project accentuates all the teams players' lucidity.

We work towards architecture that has the capacity to satisfy our present needs and pleasures and also to move us toward uncovering our depths. “Here we are on the very threshold of the poetic state.” Each project is developed to function as a highly developed organism that is experienced less cerebrally than viscerally.

Published projects

: The Solar Tower by Zoka Zola Architecture + Urban Design A concept for a tower that captures maximum amount of solar power. The Towers Of The Future: Majority of the towers designed these days are extravagant formal...

: Breeze Engine by Zoka Zola Architecture + Urban Design A showcase sustainable project for South China: "Breeze Engine" is a building in subtropical climate that is developed as a large natural ventilation...

: Social Housing by Zoka Zola Architecture + Urban Design Anonymous open and invited Competition - Winning scheme The competition We won this invited and open competition for social housing in Croatia in August 2008...

: Zero-Energy Home - “Rafflesia House” by Zoka Zola Architecture + Urban Design International Invited Competition - Winning scheme The Competition We have been selected to participate in an international competition for Zero Energy...

: Pfanner House by Zoka Zola Architecture + Urban Design Chicago / Zoning Ordinance and Building Code / Neighborhood Chicago is a gridded city mostly regulated through it's zoning ordinance, which divides city lots...