Casa-Taller 24 Atelier Tropical 2025

Project Details

Workshop-House 24 Atelier Tropical 2025

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DESCRIPTION

Finalist selected project selected at the XXIX 2024 Colombian Architecture and Design Biennial

Finalist selected project at the 2024 Lapiz de Acero awards

Nominated project at the 2024 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) in Emerging Architecture category

El proyecto responde a un formato de programas híbridos que mezcla comercio con espacio cultural en el primer nivel y unidades residenciales conectadas por un patio interior en tres niveles. Promueve la idea de volver a habitar un barrio que durante la última década se ha ido trasformando en un distrito de arte, introduciendo elementos multiculturales al barrio y sus habitantes.

Desde el andén y el antejardín se construye un gradiente de intimidad que se mueve desde los formatos más públicos hasta la intimidad del patio interior. La vivienda tiene circulaciones y divisiones flexibles que permite, por ejemplo, activar el garaje como un galería, conecta un local con un espacio de trabajo o configurar en un mono espacio en donde todas sus unidades se entrelazan en un circuito, la una con la otra.

En la escala y materialidad hay un dialogo con la tradición de la arquitectura moderna bogotana y del espíritu del barrio. Conserva la proporción de los dos primeros niveles de la vivienda preexistente, conservando el paramento original, pero agregando capas de profundidad mediante materas de concreto en los antepechos, planos ladrillos de distintos formatos y celosías fabricadas artesanalmente.

The third level is elevated in recoil and is conformed by a set of four serial concrete vaults overlooking communal terraces that connect all the units, offering shared areas between gardens. Around the idea of growing a andean jungle in the interior of a home in a city like Bogotá, there is the intention of critical thinking about the relationship with the territory and local tradition of the patio's use, leading to an openand lush space, where species of varying sizes blend together with the interior through playing with lights and shadows. We like to think of this interior landscape it shelters its inhabitants with an experience of disconnection in their personal and timeless space, being the preamble to a household dimension more closely tied to life cycles.

Since 2019 this process has gifted us lessons about the relationship between the construction and the time to acquire a place in the layers of memory that resonate with both legacies as omens. Also, a lot of generosity in ideas exchanging, in spending time to the painstaking pursuit of the specific, and reaffirming the nobility behind building a home is superior to any sacrifice.

As Flo and Diego say, “The spirit of this space is to honor the root and our collective heritage, family, and friends that are the core of this home”.

DETAILS

Use

Workshop-House

Area

466 m²

Location

San Felipe, Bogotá – Colombia

Meters above the sea level

2625

Average annual temperature

13.1 °C

Year

2025

Client

It's a Wrap

Design and construction

Yemail Architecture

Project team

Antonio Yemail + José Fernando Caceres + Martín Jiménez

Construction foreman

Pablo de Jesus Garcia

Art and furniture direction

Diego Garcia

Landscaping

Yarumo Botanico – Elisa Triana

Conceptualization and ornamental elements design

Luz Lizarazo

Photo credits

Santiago Beaume + Paola Bermudez

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