In the ORGANIC building, Brigati Polak Arquitectos seeks to satisfy the needs of the building's residents while offering a meeting point and reference to the city. The ground floor setback with vegetation offers a refuge from a monotonous urban fabric.
It is a nine-story building in which the hall is located on the ground floor to give access to the homes and the entrance to offices is located on the second floor. On the upper floors we find homes, some distributed over two floors, and on the top floor, a walkable roof for the enjoyment of all residents.
ORGANIC by Brigati Polak Arquitectos. Photograph by Ramiro Sosa.
Description of project by Brigati Polak Arquitectos
- What expectations should a work of architecture satisfy when we are in front of it?
- That it exerts the necessary traction to awaken our interest.
- That temporarily responds to its time. Both formally and functionally, as well as technologically.
- That directly and indirectly benefits the greatest number of people. Not just those who live in the building.
- That the result of the intervention carried out on the plot is positive.
We act on these four premises at ORGANIC.
The result is a building that no one is indifferent to, thus exerting the necessary attraction for the first premise to be fulfilled, this drive, which is predominant in so many aspects of the current way of life, is not alien to our way of planning.
ORGANIC por Brigati Polak Arquitectos. Fotografía por Ramiro Sosa.
Without inherited fears, assuming that a building can temporarily become tied to a period, and still come out unscathed, it is that where before we took out this time we put. Without complex. No strings attached.
The shelter provided by the large roof on the corner provides shelter, both to the locals and others, making this expansion of the public space a meeting point and an unequivocal reference. In a monotonous urban plot with narrow paths, we proposed vegetation and widening, favoring the immediate public space. The intervention thus provides benefits to the city as well as to the residents, leaving a positive balance in relation to what was pre-existing.
