Glenda Puente /Architect
 
 

2024 WYNWOOD APARTMENTS

Missing middle housing in Wynwood Norte (also known as Little San Juan), a historic neighborhood navigating a density transition that promotes small-scale, denser development, while preserving the area's residential character and cultural heritage.

"Missing middle housing" refers to a range of housing types that are often missing in many communities, compatible in scale and form with detached single-family homes, providing housing options that fall between single-family homes and high-rise apartment buildings.


2022 ALLAPATTAH DUPLEX

Missing middle housing in Allapattah, a working-class neighborhood in Miami’s urban core and one of the oldest neighborhoods in the city. The design concept draws inspiration from the symmetry, scale and proportion of existing duplexes and quadplexes in the area, dating back to the 1920s and 1930s.


2020 floreana nails

Interior architecture, design and brand identity for the first nail salon of its kind in South Florida. The concept is inspired in domesticity, local architectural heritage, and the idea that simplicity can be more appealing than luxury.


2019 avenue 3

A light and shade urban intervention in a future pedestrian-oriented street, aiming to catalyze grassroots transformation in Miami’s urban core - winner of a Public Space Challenge grant by The Miami Foundation.


2018 raw pop up garden

An installation created as a social experience for seating and lounging using scaffolding as the main building material for an exhibition by Raw Pop Up at Brickell City Centre.


2018 MIAMI pop up archive

An interactive and playful research experience, in collaboration with HistoryMiami Museum Research Center and NYC-based curator, Arianne Kouri, at the abandoned Burdines Building in Downtown Miami.