Chauriye StäGer Arquitectos Limitada

Gen Carmen Sylva Building

Gen Carmen Sylva Building

Chauriye Stäger Arquitectos

ARCHITECTS
Chauriye Stäger Arquitectos: Rodrigo Chauriye, Beatriz Stäger.

ASSOCIATE ARCHITECT
Osvaldo Moreno

ARCHITECTS
Rodrigo Chauriye, Beatriz Stäger.

CONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPER
UNCO

MATERIALS 
Concrete, slate, glass.

MANUFACTURERS
Aislapol, Anwo

SITE AREA
720 m²

AREA
1800 m²

LOCATION
Carmen Sylva at the corner of Luis Thayer Ojeda.

YEAR
2008

LOCATION
Santiago, Chile

CATEGORY
Apartments

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The building is located in a consolidated area of Providencia. 7 floors high, the medium rise building is in front of some old oriental plane trees towering over 20 meters high.

The new master plan of the area raises the possibility of increasing the floor area of the building from the second floor up, which generates a gap where the larger volume is separated from its supports under the second floor.

The volume is designed with a concrete frame that attempts to integrate the treetops. The project seeks to destroy the classic overlapping of plans, breaking the scheme with two typologies that are displayed differently to the street.

Towards the corner, the single floor apartments overlap, and towards the party wall, duplex apartments are stacked, giving the facade a play of heights.

The single floor apartment typology has been grouped around an inner linear kitchen, designed as a cabinet. This piece of furniture is opened or closed by glass sliding doors that integrate it or separate it from the living-dining room as required.

The duplex apartment typology integrates both levels through the staircase, which on the second floor becomes a piece of furniture.

Grass covered terraces have been laid out on the roof, which helps to lower solar radiation outwards, while at the same time insulates the interior of the apartments. To the south, we have designed an enameled steel lattice where climbing vines cover the air conditioning facilities.

As to materiality, the building has a reinforced concrete structure, which has been treated on the outside with an insulating facade composed of a 20mm layer of Aislapol, and clad in cement plates.

Gen Carmen Sylva Building
© Ricardo Ferreira

The frame that faces the trees is made of hammered concrete, and the walls of the base are clad in black slate. The floors of the apartments, terraces, and common areas have been designed with a porcelain wood flooring, which gives continuity and fluidity.

The building is designed in such a way as to avoid having a fixed point concierge. The safety of the building is designed through technical surveillance, an adequate access control system, and an integrated IP phone system with CCTV.

The hall becomes a waiting area and living room without the classic concierge desk.


Gen Carmen Sylva Building
© Ricardo Ferreira


Gen Carmen Sylva Building
Ground Floor Plan
Gen Carmen Sylva Building
Typical Floor Plan

Chauriye StäGer Arquitectos Limitada
T +56 9 97992474
Chauriye StäGer Arquitectos Limitada
Santiago - Concilio Vaticano II 5936, 7640743 Vitacura, Región Metropolitana, Chile