Palafox Associates is a multi-disciplinary firm founded in July 1989 by Felini”Jun” Palafox Jr., principal architect and urban planner. Company size is 51- 200 employees, specialties of Palafox Associates is architecture, urban planning, site planning, town planning, engineering, interior design, environmental design, project management. This company has undertaken more than 900 various projects in 38 countries.

1. Fisher Mall

Area: 120,000 Square Meter
Location: Quezon City

2. Crown Regency Hotels and Resorts

Location: Dauis, Bohol

The design of the hotel aims to evoke comfort and indigenous identity through the use of traditional and modern Filipino design elements, which all take root from the Bahay na Bato.

3. The Lighthouse

Location: Subic

4. Naguilian’s Future Central Hub

The planned 20-hectare, mixed-use development of Providers Multi-Purpose Cooperative integrates places where residents, employees, and visitors can live, work, shop, dine, enjoy, and worship with wellness and medical facilities. The development will feature a Provider’s Mart and depot; leasable spaces for mixed-use and light industrial offices, warehouses, and retail and commercial establishments; medical tourism; residential development; garden apartments; a condotel; a transportation hub; a chapel, and a park.

5. San Juan: Smart City of the Future

The plan calls for a three-phased transit-engaged development: The first phase would be the development of the main level, which is the street level, with wider and more defined sidewalks for pedestrians, cyclists, and public transit. The second phase, the upper level, will focus on the elevated and interconnected walkways for pedestrians, and the last phase will be the elevated and integrated monorails to be linked with the LRT and MRT. The plan also calls for the improvement of parking facilities in the city through a city-wide organized parking system. This plan hopes to alleviate the imbalance between jobs and housing, and thus address traffic congestion in the city.
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Moreover, the plan does not just call for a better transit system but also improved easements along the banks of the San Juan River and its creeks for pedestrians and as well as flood mitigating and adaptation measures. Palafox Associates created a flood overlay zoning map in order to provide the city government and council a blueprint for mitigation and adaptive architecture of which areas are liable to flooding.

A flood overlay zoning map, in the long-term, will be a tool in creating policies, plans, and programs to save lives and property as a result of flooding in these areas. If San Juan City follows Palafox Associates’ plan, the city will become a smart city by 2023. It will be walkable, bikeable, livable, better-connected with public transit, a city that is safer, better-prepared for disasters.

6. Rockwell Center

Location: Makati Poblacion, Metro Manila, Philippines

7. Proposed Island Resort Development

Location: Coron, Palawan

8. Dubai Healthcare City

Location: UAE

9. Asian Eye Institute

Location: Philippines

10. Tzu Chi Eye Center

Location: Manila, Philippines

11. Vien Dong Meridian Towers

Address: 84 Hung Vuong Street, Da Nang, Vietnam
Category: Office
Status: Pre-Construction
Height: 722 ft / 220 m, 722 ft / 220 m

12. Tzu Chi Schools

Location: Bam, Iran

Built after an earthquake that devastated Bam, Iran, the Tzu Chi Schools provide hope for an earthquake-prone community. The unique collaborative design designed by Palafox Associates manifests high regard for the culture and traditions in the area, Persian, Assyrian-Christian and Ionic Greek architectural aesthetics, and the site’s historical importance. The building has wind towers that act as air catchments to cool the building during hot days.

13. Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mosque

Location: Colabato City, Philippines

14. Pasig River Rehabilitation Master Plan

Location: Metro Manila

15. Proposed Low-Rise Condominium

Location: CEBU, PHILIPPINES

The design for this family-owned condotel melds modern functionalism and sustainable urbanism to create a functional community center that promotes walkability, bike-ability, and livability to the multifamily tenants. The five-story community structure designed by Palafox Associates is conveniently located near the Cebu Business District and is planned to be easily accessible to all types of pedestrians.

Author

Nastaran Razavi graduated in Landscape Architecture at University of Toronto in 2012, worked as an architecture editor and conducted research on projects in architecture to present creative ideas in architecture and interior design fields for Kaazdeco studio. It is my honor as an intern to spread the message of successful architects to current generation of architecture students. It is hoped that innovative ideas in architecture, interior design and landscape architecture improve the quality of space in design.