02_ Panal Condominium Peñalolén, Santiago
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This project is developed through a sponge-type micro-neighborhood master plan, comprised of seven mixed-use units. These units provide a better quality of life for their inhabitants, minimizing commuting time from their homes to their place of work or recreational activities, and can accommodate housing, workshops, showrooms, and offices. Since the project absorbs 100% of its surface area, it captures all of the rainwater and filters it into the ground through green roofs, regenerative native gardens, and percolating pavements. At the same time, the green areas, which make up 90% of the project's surface, create an ecological corridor giving continuity to Arboretum Park, which connects the foothills of the Andes with the city, thus guaranteeing the biodiversity that existed before human intervention. In order to guarantee a minimum carbon footprint, "quincha" was used as the construction system for the entire complex, using the earth from the excavations to insulate and plaster the units, and the rocks for the stonewalls and landscaping, thus greatly reducing the removal of debris. This system, together with green roofs and a correct solar approach, guarantees greater thermal efficiency, giving the units a thermal oscillation inside between 15 and 20 degrees, achieving a savings of 56% and a B grade in the housing energy rating as established by the Chilean government. The entire complex processes wastewater through a wetland-type treatment plant located in the common courtyard, which is then used to irrigate common areas, green roofs, and the gardens of each home, reducing water consumption by 80%. By using natural materials, green roofs, deciduous shade, and native vegetation, the condominium blends in with its surroundings and har- monizes with the environment, giving back to the land what was taken from it when it was built. !
01_ Piedra Roja Condominium Las Condes, Santiago
This project consists of a condominium of 16 houses of approximately 300 m2 each, on a 9,500 m2 lot in the old sector of Los Domínicos, in the Las Condes community of Santiago. The initial operation consisted of dividing the land in two with a central road running from east to west to define eight lots to the north and another eight lots to the south of between 500 and 600 m2 each. The second operation was to repeat the same layout, but this time underground, to be used for vehicles, parking for all the cars, and access to courtyards for each house. This strategy frees the project´s first-floor area from the presence of automobiles and leaves it for user circulation and permanence, especially children. Three house typologies were designed: an elongated one with a northeast orientation for the northern plots and a more compact one for the southern plots. A third house typology was used at the four corners of the complex, at the beginning and end of the road. While the northern houses are closed to the interior road and open to the light and views of their own garden, the southern houses also receive northern light from an exterior courtyard with a circular layout that in its repetition also forms a curved edge that accompanies the circulation of this same road. All the houses have their own open courtyard underground. In this way, each owner can go up to the first floor and access their home from below, which is where the cars are left. The houses resolve the public spaces on the first floors while the second floors are for private use. The underground levels are designed as extensions with storage and living room programs, illuminated by the access courtyards of each house. As for its materiality, the project was conceived as a whole in exposed concrete and stone floors, so that the architecture acts as a backdrop for the vegetation that emerges from the courtyards and accompanies the road as the protagonist. !
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