Studio CL has created a concrete condominium block in Chile made out of precast concrete that was designed as a prototype for a multi-family housing unit.
Named DSP Condo, the constructing is sited in Santiago on a website beforehand occupied by a single-family residence.
Prompted by the “dramatic surge” in actual property improvement within the Chilean capital over the previous twenty years, the design was meant to extend the density of the neighborhood.
Studio CL was commissioned by the Japanese/Chilean design collective Ochoalcubo to create a multi-family housing block.
“The DSP condominium constructing proposes a sustainable approach for housing improvement,” mentioned Studio CL.
“Fitted in loads beforehand occupied by only one residence, it is an train in micro-scale density.”
The construction encapsulates three completely different properties with completely different typologies: a duplex with a yard on the bottom flooring, a studio condominium on the second, and a penthouse with a rooftop on the highest flooring.
Constructed largely with precast concrete panels and a metal body, the constructing used a kind historically reserved for parking garages so as to obtain flexibility within the flooring plans.
The design workforce additionally aimed for velocity so as to sustain with the fast-paced improvement and wish for density within the rising city core, making a system that enables the development to proceed from basis to completion in simply over a month.
A collection of “cabinets” act as flooring through the use of a double-tee flooring system, attaining structural solidity “with out the necessity for central help”.
“This single high quality permits for the multiplicity of sorts contained in the constructing, making every flooring’s inside successfully impartial from the one beneath,” mentioned the studio.
An absence of columns allowed for expansive glass to fill within the areas between the flooring in order that the flats have lengthy home windows that run by way of the widths of the flats on the street-facing facade.
The edges of the constructing are largely stable concrete.
Over the facade, an operable second pores and skin of aluminium mesh was positioned so as to present shade in addition to privateness.
Whereas the outside of the constructing has a toned-down look, the causeways and public areas got particulars that make the constructing habitable.
These embrace a central courtyard that connects the ground-floor bike storage space to the higher ranges. On the second storey, a walkway connects the second-storey studio with the doorway to the second flooring of the duplex.
For the penthouse, which is separated by the courtyard, the walkway was lined with glass and a separate part of the staircase results in the rooftop.
On the centre of it is a steel-plate staircase that was painted white, with spherical edges on the turnarounds.
Studio CL saved a few of the structural parts of the constructing uncovered for the interiors of the flats. Uncovered concrete rafters and partitions have been complemented by gentle wooden and tile.
Whereas the street-facing home windows let in loads of gentle, extra home windows have been positioned to face the courtyard, permitting daylight to enter the rooms positioned across the core.
In accordance with the studio, these design choices permit for “new urbanites to search out housing” whereas sustaining a few of the neighbourhood character that had been erased by “predatory improvement.”
Studio CL was based in Santiago in 2012 by Daniel Lazo and Gabriel Caceres.
Different progressive condominium buildings in Santiago embrace Izquierdo Lehmann Arquitectos and Francisco Saul’s San Crescente housing block, which is positioned underneath a single lengthy glued-laminated timber roof.
The pictures is by Bruno Gilberto.
