PERMEABLE LIVING Building / Arquitectura X
Permeable living
© Sebastian Crespo
Architects: Arquitectura X
Location: Quito, Ecuador
Architects In Charge: Adrian Moreno, MarÃa Samaniego, MarÃa José Crespo, Juan Pablo Freire, Jorge Durán, Eva Setz
Structural Engineer: Juan Carlos Garcés
Client: SMC + EDECONSA
Area: 9890.0 m2
Project Year: 2016
Photographs: Sebastian Crespo
Construction: SMC Shubert MartÃnez Construcciones, EDECONSA Ecuatoriana de Construcciones S.A. Juan Carlos RodrÃguez, Sebastián MartÃnez
Electrical Engineering: OCTANS
Sanitary Engineering: INSTALHID
Mechanical Engineering: ECOAIRE
© Sebastian Crespo
Permeable livingThis building proposes a possible answer to reconcile market interests with the necessity for architecture to be the tool for place making in a city, relying on permeability at all levels:
© Sebastian Crespo
Section
© Sebastian Crespo
We fragment the possible building mass, creating two main courtyards, one at the back to provide an inner facade and garden, one towards the contained cul-de-sac; we then fragment the building in section to achieve elevated double height terrace-courtyards overlapping each other.
© Sebastian Crespo
Both actions break up the border between building and city
Axonometric
The normally hermetic volume of a series of stacked apartmen...
© Sebastian Crespo
Architects: Arquitectura X
Location: Quito, Ecuador
Architects In Charge: Adrian Moreno, MarÃa Samaniego, MarÃa José Crespo, Juan Pablo Freire, Jorge Durán, Eva Setz
Structural Engineer: Juan Carlos Garcés
Client: SMC + EDECONSA
Area: 9890.0 m2
Project Year: 2016
Photographs: Sebastian Crespo
Construction: SMC Shubert MartÃnez Construcciones, EDECONSA Ecuatoriana de Construcciones S.A. Juan Carlos RodrÃguez, Sebastián MartÃnez
Electrical Engineering: OCTANS
Sanitary Engineering: INSTALHID
Mechanical Engineering: ECOAIRE
© Sebastian Crespo
Permeable livingThis building proposes a possible answer to reconcile market interests with the necessity for architecture to be the tool for place making in a city, relying on permeability at all levels:
© Sebastian Crespo
Section
© Sebastian Crespo
We fragment the possible building mass, creating two main courtyards, one at the back to provide an inner facade and garden, one towards the contained cul-de-sac; we then fragment the building in section to achieve elevated double height terrace-courtyards overlapping each other.
© Sebastian Crespo
Both actions break up the border between building and city
Axonometric
The normally hermetic volume of a series of stacked apartmen...
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