One of our premises was a work respectful of its surroundings, that embraces the corner and rotates using the course of the day from its openings. Employing expansions, not only as functional but also morphological tools, we created alternating facades with movement and depth that allow different typologies on every floor, generating diverse and flexible ways of living: 7 of 13 apartments are different.
We yearn for a building that resembles people’s expectations of a home. Units are separated by voids instead of party walls, an adjustment module increases the social area according to dwellers and not just the number of bedrooms, and all of them have generous expansions no matter the value or total rooms of the unit, which represents for us a small strike to the real estate market. Most typologies also have a workspace. Unknowingly, the pandemic gave even more meaning to these areas that were initially flexible and today so necessary.
Using the qualities of reinforced concrete and natural disposition of the weight, the structural supports are reduced. The material is forced by bending it while we accommodate the weight in the center, freeing the ends, which are expressed in corbels and 10 ft cantilevered slabs, with ridiculous six inches of thicknesses. The vertical circulation system located in the center, made of the same material, becomes the foot of a balanced scale. Meanwhile, the formwork of wood boards and its stone color, manages to charge the element with a new meaning: “a heavy block that floats”.