Sky Condos by DCPP Arquitectos

Vertiginous swimming pools would cantilever like diving boards from every apartment in this tower proposed for Lima, Peru, by Mexican studio DCPP Arquitectos.



The 20-storey residential building would be constructed beside a golf course in the east of the city and feature a transparent glass facade and a series of elevated courtyards.



The concrete swimming pools would jut out from each of the courtyards and are pictured in the architect’s drawings without any safety rails.



We’ve previously featured proposals for a much taller skyscraper with a projecting swimming pool – see it here.



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Here’s a project description from DCPP:

Sky Condos Located on a privileged area of the City of Lima and with views towards the golf course, we sought to create an icon for the future, a new luxury housing concept in Latin America; combining the idea of incorporating the exterior space to the interior life of the apartments and creating a new relation between public and private areas.



We wanted to get away from the traditional tower; instead of piling up a series of identical apartments, we created three types that adjust to different necessities; each one with a clear individuality using the privative exterior spaces as our main core.



Ground floor plan

We believe that an apartment shouldn’t lack exterior spaces; this is why our main space in each apartment is the exterior public area which contains the pool and a series of terraces that bring dynamism to the whole tower.



Upper floor plan 1

These terraces fill the apartment with natural light and create a game of lights and shadows.



Upper floor plan 2

The 20 floor tower has a facade that is mainly transparent allowing the integration of the building to the exterior; generating crossed ventilation and natural lighting in all the spaces without sacrificing the privacy inside the apartments.



Upper floor plan 3

The floor plan is open looking for a transparency all along the plot and generating the sensation that the apartments are suspended.



Upper floor plan 4



Upper floor plan 5



Upper floor plan 6



Upper floor plan 7

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Affect and Sensation

lima PERU

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

alejandro vicente SOTO: The Hyper densification of Seoul Has led to its infrastructural proliferation thus the pedestrian realm has been overtaken leading to Seoul becoming a city adapting to the occupation of subterranean public zones, as a result the public domain operates through micro-spatialities; “Bang Culture.”[1] The premise of the project then becomes about adding sensorial experience to this underground realm and connecting it to the street.

The examination of this new underground frontier is carried through the expansion of micro-spatiality through Korean Bang culture. The importance on Korean Bang culture is that it has multiple embedded sensations related to its spatial and programmatic characteristics. The proposed study is a JJim-Jil Bang (Korean Bath House) mixed with other recreational typologies. The main focus is to unite them to provide a leisure cluster that aims to re-introduce Korea’s micro spatial identity back into the built urban fabric.

[1] Bang*: The Korean Bang, roughly translated as ‘room’. While the room has traditionally been considered a walled segment in domestic space, the bang has infiltrated the Korean Urban landscape of commercialized space with enterprises such as Pc Bang, Norae Bang, Soju Bang, JjimJil Bang …

sP: What or who influenced this project?

avS: Design Tutors Andrew Yau and Andrei Martin (Urban Future Organisation).

sP: What were you reading/listening to/watching while developing this project?

avS: Above and beyond, Axwell, John Digweed, Calle 13.

sP: Whose work is currently on your radar?

avS: Kokkugia, Hernan Diaz Alonso, Greg Lynn, MAD, Zaha Hadid, Urban Future Organisation.

Additional credits and links:

This design project was completed in my first year of post-graduate diploma in architecture at the University of Westminster, Design studio 13 under the tutorage of Andrew Yau and Andrei Martin.

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