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Plusurbia Design [Architecture & Urban Design]

A finely tuned ensemble of distinct talents, academic interests and professional strengths launched on the shared strength of over 25 years of professional accomplishment in the fields of urban design, architectural design, planning, development and project management +Urbia (PlusUrbia), a practice founded on the precept of collaborative creation. We design cities, towns, neighborhoods, which strive to be beautiful places with lasting value for the communities they serve.

06/05/2026

The forces reshaping our cities, from shifting demographics and housing pressures to climate change and cultural transformation, are challenging all of us to reconsider who we are truly building for.

Plusurbia Founding Principal Juan Mullerat was recently interviewed for The Future We Build, a compelling four-part documentary produced by BrickCity and presented by Terra that examines the decisions defining South Florida's future.
Each episode digs into a critical dimension of how cities must evolve:

Affordability — Rethinking density, housing typologies, and land use to address Miami's complex housing challenges.

Resilience — Embedding climate-conscious thinking into how communities are planned, designed, and built for the long term.

Health — Recognizing that the built environment directly shapes physical and mental well-being, from walkability to access to green space and social connection.

Public + Private Collaboration — Aligning government, developers, designers, and communities to deliver solutions that are both scalable and locally grounded.

These are not isolated challenges. They are interconnected systems that demand coordination, adaptability, and a shared long-term vision.

Plusurbia is proud to contribute to this conversation alongside Miami Homes For All, Bilzin Sumberg, The Underline, Oliver Gilbert, Meg Daly, Annie Lord, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and many others committed to shaping what comes next.

Explore The Future We Build and join the conversation: https://www.thefuturewebuildfilm.com/

06/04/2026

The story of Miami's Little Santo Domingo is the story of the American Dream.

It is the story of working class people of every race, ethnicity, and language who came to Allapattah to build a better life. From Native American settlement to a thriving Dominican diaspora community, this neighborhood on 17th Avenue carries layers of history in its streets, its storefronts, and its mature mahogany trees, the national tree of the Dominican Republic.

But today, Little Santo Domingo is threatened. Like so many communities of color across the United States, it faces displacement, gentrification, and the quiet erasure of a history that was never fully written down.

In 2024, Plusurbia completed a comprehensive historic resources survey of Little Santo Domingo on behalf of Allapattah Collaborative CDC, one of the organizations working tirelessly to protect this community. The survey documents the full history of the neighborhood, with a dedicated focus on Dominican diaspora culture in collaboration with Rudolfo Pou of the Diaspora & Development Foundation. It is now being used as a blueprint to combat cultural erasure and displacement.

This is exactly the kind of work we believe planning should do. History belongs to the people who lived it. Our job is to make sure it is not forgotten.

Read the full Little Santo Domingo Historic Survey Report here: https://plusurbia.com/project/little-santo-domingo/

05/29/2026

We are thrilled to announce that Karla Fidalgo and Beau Clardy have joined us as full-time Urban Planners & Designers!

Both began their journeys with us as interns, and we could not be more excited to welcome them into the next chapter. Karla will be based in our Miami office and Beau in our Greenville, South Carolina office.

Watching them grow from interns to full-time team members has been a joy. Their collaborative energy, curiosity, and commitment to creating places where communities thrive are exactly what drives our work forward. At Plusurbia, we believe design begins and ends with people, and these two embody that spirit completely.

05/26/2026

Children are shaped by cities long before they fully understand the places they call home. They walk along sidewalks that are either welcoming or neglected, cross streets designed by people they will never meet, and experience the impact of planning decisions every single day.

From Wood Blocks to City Blocks is a free illustrated book written by Plusurbia Founding Principal Juan Mullerat, inspired by his experience as both a father and urban designer. The book encourages young readers to observe the world around them, ask thoughtful questions, and imagine better possibilities for the communities they share. Through everyday places like sidewalks, streets, parks, and schools, it introduces urban planning as an act of care and shared responsibility.

Free to download and licensed for educational and civic use.
📖 https://lnkd.in/eVH8Y2si
🖨️ Print copy: https://lnkd.in/enBE8yhE

Because at Plusurbia Design, we believe everyone deserves to understand and access the cities they live in and that civic awareness can begin early.

05/22/2026

Plusurbia and the Miami-Dade County Office of Historic Preservation / Miami-Dade County Department of Regulatory and Economic Resources are honored to receive the 2026 Dade Heritage Trust Miami Preservation Award, recognized for Navigating Miami-Dade Heritage.

Every April, Dade Heritage Trust celebrates individuals, organizations, and businesses whose work helps protect and promote Miami-Dade County's built heritage and natural environments. Being named among this year's honorees is a distinction we do not take lightly.

At Plusurbia, we believe that understanding a place and its context is essential to planning for its future. Miami-Dade's layered history, its neighborhoods, its architecture, its culture, is not a backdrop to our work. It is the foundation of it.

Thank you to Dade Heritage Trust, Miami-Dade County, and to the communities across Miami-Dade who trust us to help navigate what makes this place worth preserving.

View the project here: https://bit.ly/4dxxSzc

05/21/2026

Plusurbia was recently featured in the Key Biscayne Portal - Keybis in a piece covering the latest progress on The Shoreline, a proposed redesign of the Rickenbacker Causeway that would transform how people move to and from Key Biscayne.

The article highlights several of the key concepts our team has been developing alongside HDR Engineering and the Friends of The Underline, including a split-level viaduct that separates fast-moving traffic from pedestrians and cyclists, 160% more beach space below, and improved access to destinations like Virginia Key, Miami Marine Stadium, and MAST Academy.

This project reflects exactly the kind of work Plusurbia was built to do. Complex, context-driven, and rooted in the belief that great infrastructure should serve people first. The Shoreline is not just a transportation solution. It is an opportunity to create a more connected, walkable, and resilient corridor for the tens of thousands of people who use the causeway every day.

We believe that understanding a place and its context is critical in planning for the future. That means listening, analyzing, and designing with precision so that bold ideas can become implementable ones.

The feasibility study is underway, and the conversation is just getting started.
Read the full article and follow the progress: https://bit.ly/4uZXADy

05/19/2026

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and the spaces we inhabit have more to do with how we feel than we often acknowledge.

Research consistently shows that access to green space, parks, and tree-lined streets has a measurable impact on mental health and wellbeing. Yet in many cities, these spaces are unevenly distributed, often absent in the neighborhoods that need them most.

Equitable access to green space is not a design preference. It is a public health necessity.

At Plusurbia, we believe great places begin and end with people, and that means designing cities where everyone has the space to breathe, slow down, and feel at home.

05/18/2026

Proud to share that The Underline has recently reached a significant milestone, completing five miles of its 10-mile linear park and urban trail beneath Miami's Metrorail, connecting Brickell to Coconut Grove and Dadeland.

What began five years ago as a bold vision for how Miami could reclaim its public realm is now a living civic destination where mobility, recreation, culture, and community converge.

Plusurbia Principal and Founder Juan Mullerat, who serves on the Board of Directors of The Underline Conservancy, has been part of supporting this vision as it takes shape across Miami's neighborhoods. His work advancing walkable, connected, and inclusive urban environments reflects the same commitment that drives everything we do at Plusurbia: great places begin and end with people.

Five miles down. Five more to go.

05/06/2026

Plusurbia was recently featured in the Boca Raton Tribune in a piece spotlighting the Nora District. The article specifically references our role in shaping the master plan alongside the City of West Palm Beach.

Districts like Nora don't happen by accident. They are the result of intentional planning that begins with a deep understanding of place, its patterns of daily life, and its cultural context. When that foundation is in place, it creates the conditions for operators who are equally intentional about their concepts to want to be part of what the place can become.

At Plusurbia, we believe the creation of great places begins and ends with people. That means listening and translating what we hear into environments where urban life can unfold naturally and where communities can genuinely thrive.

Nora is a living example of what that process produces.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4tlO1gJ

04/30/2026

Continuing our Earth Month series, we’re highlighting Wynwood Walls Garden, an example of how even small interventions can reshape the experience of a dense urban district.

This approach is explored further by Juan Mullerat in his latest piece in the May issue of the National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA), where he examines Wynwood’s evolution from an industrial district into a mixed-use neighborhood, and what it reveals about the future of urban public space. In places where parks were never planned and land is limited, cities must take a different approach.

In a place surrounded by art to look at, people still need space to pause and experience nature. Wynwood Walls Garden introduces that condition into one of Miami’s most active environments. Set within a 0.43-acre site, it functions as an outdoor living room, creating space to gather.

By embedding public realm improvements into zoning, streets, and development, Wynwood reflects a broader shift in how cities can create more accessible, livable environments, where public space is not centralized, but integrated into everyday life.

Set within a dense environment, the project transforms a 0.43-acre site into what functions as an outdoor living room, a place where people can sit, gather, and spend time and not just move through.

Sloped planters and integrated greenery soften the space and reduce heat, while angled seating and open sightlines allow visitors to experience the murals from multiple perspectives. The layout is intentional and creates moments of pause without interrupting the flow of the district.

In a place built for visual engagement, the garden adds a space designed to pause and breathe.

Read the full article here: https://parksandrecmag.mydigitalpublication.com/may-2026/page-36

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