Holanda Townhouses

In recent years, the city of Santiago has seen the value of urban land increase and new housing formats emerge as a result, such as the townhouse or urban house. This typology seeks to draw upon land scarcity by developing vertically, providing a small patio or garden and giving access to the rooftops.

The project is conceived as a three-story residential building with a continuous facade facing the street, which houses 12 dwellings in a vertical format plus a duplex apartment. The vertical housing units round off with a rooftop terrace, which allows a view of the traditional, low-rise neighborhood where the project is located, at the border of Providencia and Ñuñoa districts.
The project was designed in reinforced concrete with an exposed finish, including several steelwork details. Its stairs and railings stand out as key elements that provide transparency, continuity and identity to the vertical spaces and lateral facades.

Conversely, towards the western street, smaller, alternating openings were arranged in order to break the disparity of the interior subdivisions and to achieve a unitary composition. These openings contain a series of folding shutters made of corrugated and micro-perforated metal panels that act as a solar control and privacy barrier, while a ventilated facade of the same material is incorporated in front of the walls, changing its appearance into a completely homogeneous front when the shutters are closed.