Location: Barrio El Golf. Las Condes, Santiago de Chile. Photography: Nico Saieh
Bronze Medal, Bienal de Miami 2007.
Plataforma Arquitectura Building of the Year, Third Prize, 2007.
Artevia Lafarge Prize, 2006.
Shortlisted World Architecture Community Awards, 3° Cycle, 2009
Shortlisted WAN Residential Sector Awards 2009.
The challenge offered by this building was to resolve the theme of apartments with varied programs within a 25’ 7’. frontage. Additionally the Golf Club’s building code, in this specific case of ´remnant site’ obliged the building to be restricted to a straight bay, not allowing any element to project forward from the facades.
In view of these two conditions the design proposes the following:
First: the program is resolved mainly in the section, as the apartments are intercalated vertically and horizontally in a spatial interplay, searching for natural light on the basis of set-backs and balconies.
Second: the building sits on the ground by means of two large 98 foot long walls (East and West facades) which contain a series of openings and windows of different sizes that reflect the internal program. At the entrance, the building conforms its urban facade with a system of horizontal windows and a coronation above which frames the entrance.
Third: from a constructive point of view the building is resolved with concrete incorporating titanium dioxide and a system of phenolic molds with 5 inch wide planks, which have been designed and modulated on the basis of the geometry of the windows, sills, beams and walls. The exterior is completely white and all the doors, windows and joinery items are in cedar wood.
Fourth: all the elements of the facades establish a composition of strict correspondence with squares and rectangles in such a way as to ensure that the voids, light, transparency and framing of views give each space its own identity, in the manner of a photographer’s lens.
