018 Anchieta
Residential Condo
Location
Anchieta, ES Brazil
Date
March 2010
Client
Confidential
Program
Residential 14.000 m²
Status
Regulation Approval
Collaboration
OnOffice
Team
Eugénio Cardoso, João Vieira Costa, Joana Gomes, Ricardo Guedes
Anchieta is located in the Espirito Santo state, in between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. As the rest of the state, it has on its coastline the main economic and environmental asset…
Still close to the coast and the town, the site stands on an almost untouchable hill, facing the ocean, where few agriculture huts and local road are the only men-made findings…
The challenge is how to respond to the real estate speculation while respecting the environmental richness of the area. "how can we build, without ruining it?!"…
The municipal regulations limit of 5 story buildings, has been translated by current developments literally into superimposed stand-alone volumes. The proposal aims to respect the wilderness of the site, by incorporating the building into the topography…
The mainly residential program is spread throughout the site, maximizing the developer future revenue. A sense of community condition is reached, where the social areas are placed in the base, facing the apartments…
As in a Greek theater typology, the social and communal stage is overseen by every exterior private area of the apartments…
Soccer field, swimming pool, gym, bar, kids area; are combined on the bottom floor. The parking is situated at a back of house, at the height of the road's entrance. As the floor rises, the residential units become fewer, and the green terraces take over…
From the top, the building disappears and merges with the green fabric, and only the façades are highlighted…
Each apartment has in average, the same footprint of interior and exterior area…
The 10x10 meter grid, provide a standard 100 m2 residential unit. This strategy gives the future tenants a possibility to customize their own apartments, free of interior structural obstacles…
By combining, dividing, orientating the units, a wide spectrum of typologies is possible, responding to market needs…
Regardless of the typology, the full glass panoramic views are constant, so it conveys with the views over the valley…
