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Architecture and Urban Design

Plaza de la Hoja

CONCEPT

Designing an audacious low-income housing project that on the one hand, fulfills the client’s needs, and on the other, generates new forms of spatial, urban, and social relationships among its inhabitants and among the project and the city. Also making a permeable project, with commercial spaces and connected to the adjoining public space.

CHALLENGE

Design a low income housing project that had the amenities of a higher segment housing.

DESCRIPTION

This Project was the result of the design entry proposal for the preliminary architectural and urban design of the PIH priority interest housing and its complementary uses, within the framework of an integrated urban intervention of the Plaza de la Hoja.

The Project’s main objective was the design of an urban piece where multiple situations and activities would converge, articulating a minimum of 417 units of social housing along with complementary and related uses permitted by the urbanistic regulations, such as: trade, low-income housing, workshops and offices, that each user could choose freely.

CLIENT
Metrovivienda S.A.S
LOCATION
Bogotá, Colombia
COMPLETION
2012
AREA
Architecture 71.139 mt2 / Urban Design: 57.380 mt2