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Permeable Living Building

Permeable Living Building
Sebastián Crespo

PERMEABLE LIVING BUILDING

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ARCHITECTS
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CLIENT
Smc + Edeconsa

CLIENT
SMC + EDECONSA

ARCHITECTS IN CHARGE
Adrian Moreno, María Samaniego, María José Crespo, Juan Pablo Freire, Jorge Durán, Eva Setz

CONSTRUCTION
SMC Shubert Martínez Construcciones, EDECONSA Ecuatoriana de Construcciones S.A. Juan Carlos Rodríguez, Sebastián Martínez

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Juan Carlos Garcés

ELECTRIC ENGINEERING
OCTANS

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
ECOAIRE

MANUFACTURERS
Briko, Closets.com, Dekoractive, Deacero, Pedrosa

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Juan Carlos Garcés

SANITARY ENGINEERING
INSTALHID

PHOTOGRAPHS
Sebastian Crespo

AREA
9890.0 m2

YEAR
2016

LOCATION
Quito, Ecuador

CATEGORY
Housing

PERMEABLE LIVING

This building proposes a possible answer to reconcile market interests with the necessity for architecture to be the tool for place making in a city, relying on permeability at all levels:

Permeable Living Building
© Sebastian Crespo
Permeable Living Building
© Sebastian Crespo

We fragment the possible building mass, creating two main courtyards, one at the back to provide an inner facade and garden, one towards the contained cul-de-sac; we then fragment the building in section to achieve elevated double height terrace-courtyards overlapping each other.

Both actions break up the border between building and city.

The normally hermetic volume of a series of stacked apartments with private balconies becomes a permeable open form that relates apartments to each other and to the city.

Permeable Living Building
© Sebastian Crespo
Permeable Living Building
© Sebastian Crespo
Permeable Living Building
© Sebastian Crespo

The city also permeates the building at different heights taking advantage of Quito´s topography and the building is totally open at street level to the quiet residential neighbourhood, changing the relationship with its surroundings as it rises to eventually reach out to the great city scape limited by the Andes.

The two tree lined courtyards provide scale, shade, and quality public spaces at ground level.

Permeable Living Building
Sebastián Crespo
Permeable Living Building
© Sebastian Crespo

Trees give the same quality and character to the large terrace-courtyards which are designed for appropriate species to grow in overhanging planters.


Permeable Living Building
Sebastián Crespo
Permeable Living Building
Sebastián Crespo
Permeable Living Building
© Sebastian Crespo
Permeable Living Building
© Sebastian Crespo


Permeable Living Building
© Sebastian Crespo
Permeable Living Building
© Sebastian Crespo
Permeable Living Building
© Sebastian Crespo


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