SKYCONDOS

Size
50000 sq. ft.
Location
Peru
Date
2011
Status
Concept Design
Type
Residential Architecture

The project called ‘Para Todos’, which literally means “for all”, frees the conventional apartment typology by employing a sustainable assemblage – a system of natural ventilation that depends on strategic placements of sky gardens, to evolve an architecture that is non-standard and a programme distribution that is uniquely customized to each unit.
The project is an exercise that obsesses over optimization, as the design for a distinct residence emerges on each floor of a total of 10 units spread across a sprawling 5000 sq. ft. each. Optimization of land, of views, of the context, and most importantly optimization of real estate values.
Externally, the project seems like any other high rise apartment block in the luxury bracket with terrace gardens and glass facades. However, the primary structural skeleton works out completely distinct units, with each unit having both, the living and master bedroom oriented towards the surrounding scenic golf greens.  The nature of the construct ensures that each apartment adopts a completely different programmatic arrangement, with each favouring an individualistic lifestyle.

The architectural footprint breaks through the conventional construction of the apartment building typology with a real variation within units and a completely inward-oriented living style to evolve into distinctly different plans and layouts.

The architectural footprint breaks through the conventional construction of the apartment building typology with a real variation within units and a completely inward-oriented living style to evolve into distinctly different plans and layouts, albeit of the same size, and fashioned around the placement of the primary assemblage in relation to the service core, but opening out into the scenic vistas with vantage views. In doing so, each apartment maximizes both inherent and juxtaposed potentials, working within an individualistic performative sustainable agenda and catering to a completely different target client group.
Quite simply, with each type blurring the boundaries between the interiors and the elements, the apartment block can be viewed, in effect, as a collection of individual houses with fantastic interior and exterior views, stacked one on top of the other. The project is an architectural exercise, that is need-based rather than inspirational or aspirational.

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