YUNGAY RESIDENTIAL BUILDING

YUNGAY DISTRICT , SANTIAGO, CHILE

Area:   6.500 sqft

Status:   UnderConstruction

Client:   SPA development LLP.

Team:   Julio Alvarez

Description:   The project is located in the middle of a well-recognized and protected historic zone of Santiago, named Barrio Yungay (Yungay Neighborhood).This condition imposed several morphologic regulations aimed to preserve the character of the area and to produce some degree of harmony with the existent urban landscape. The project suggest a re-organization of the traditional constructive elements such as windows, balustrades, plinths, and domes taken as they are, but rearranged to fit the interior program. This consists in 16 different apartment units, retail, patio and services. The interior life of the patio contrasts with the one on the individual terraces shifting from the collective to the individual.