Punta Cana

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Residential › Private House Multi Unit Housing

Traditional master planning for multi-family residences typically requires sacrificing privacy for density. Units are arranged in a way that looks specifically at achieving a certain level of density, and the concepts of privacy and/or community are often relegated merely to afterthought. These embody the connotation of suburbia, with broad paved streets and row upon row of cookie-cutter homes.
This method, while acceptable and often financially successful in a wide variety of locales, falls short of the potentials held in those very locations. In places such as Miami, these strategies are unrolled en masse, without any consideration for the unique characteristics of their given location. But Punta Cana is not Miami.
Punta Cana is defined by a series of sub-developments that operate within themselves while still clearly maintaining a cohesive identity with Punta Cana overall. Hacienda can function on this same premise within itself by defining a series of localized clusters, each offering their own individual settings that also represent Hacienda and Punta Cana as a whole. This allows the resident to have a specific Hacienda experience yet remain connected to the identity of Punta Cana.
While the notion of increasing density begins to undermine the successful aspirations of seclusion in Punta Cana, the idea of unrolling the high-end exclusive plots of Coralles or Tortuga Bay is equally unviable. Herein exists the potential to hybridize high-density living with the sense of exclusivity typically reserved for high-end residences. By increasing density in each cluster, privacy and community can be simultaneously increased, creating a beneficial paradox. To achieve this, the concept of “multi-family” is reconsidered. By breaking apart a typical high-end residence into 4 detached, but conceptually connected single homes within the same lot that previously held only 1 large home, the density and communal aspects are maintained, all the while allowing for increased privacy.
The challenge lies in managing the perception of shared community within the 4 units, while simultaneously enhancing the individual sense of retreat in the single residence.
Each unit, then, exists as its own private enclave within a multi-family communal setting of four units, which in turn is a part of a larger community within Hacienda itself. This layering of development allows for an increase in density without sacrificing privacy or community, and therefore gives the resident the benefits of both settings that are uniquely Punta Cana.

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