Located in Tulum, Quintana Roo in México, the design for the medium density apartment complex, targeted to a mid to high income market, has its basis on the following premises: - Improve the sense of community among the residents inside the scale of the complex, introducing meeting places into the architectural program. - Improve the sense of individuality and privacy inside each unit, using transitional spaces and thresholds between social and private areas of the apartment layouts - Reduce the energy consumption of each unit as much as possible by the composition of all the component bodies and their scale. - Preserve and relocate as much of the present flora as possible, while introducing new landscape compatible in density and composition with the endemic landscape of Tulum. - Create a building noted by the use of organic materials typical of the region, weather resistant and that age beautifully, contraposed with industrial materials which are cost effective for a commercial project with high quality design and a character of its own.
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architects: Gabriel Konzevikarchitects: reyes rios + larraínLocation: Tulum, Q.R., MexicoArea: 2300.0 m2Project Year: 2017Photographs: Edmund SumnerPhotographs: Pim Schalkwijk
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