Atelier Tropical House / Yemail Arquitectura

Atelier Tropical House / Yemail Arquitectura  - Exterior Photography, Brick, FacadeAtelier Tropical House / Yemail Arquitectura  - Interior Photography, Chair, BeamAtelier Tropical House / Yemail Arquitectura  - Exterior Photography, Brick, Facade, ArchAtelier Tropical House / Yemail Arquitectura  - Interior PhotographyAtelier Tropical House / Yemail Arquitectura  - More Images+ 11

Bogota, Colombia
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  5016 ft²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2024
  • Photographs
    Photographs:Paola Pabón
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Ladrillera Santafé
  • Lead Architects: Antonio Yemail, José Fernando Cáceres, Martín Jiménez
  • Art Direction And Furniture: Diego García
  • Construction Director: Pablo de Jesús García
  • Landscaping: Yarumo Botánico - Elisa Triana
  • Concept And Design Of Pieces In Ornamentation: Luz Lizarazo
  • Wood Floor: Néstor López
  • Program: Residential
  • City: Bogota
  • Country: Colombia
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© Paola Pabón

Text description provided by the architects. The project responds to a hybrid program format that mixes retail with cultural space on the first level and residential units connected by an interior courtyard on three levels. It promotes the idea of re-inhabiting a neighborhood that during the last decade has been transformed into an art district, introducing multicultural elements to the neighborhood and its inhabitants.

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© Paola Pabón
Atelier Tropical House / Yemail Arquitectura  - Exterior Photography, Brick, Facade
© Paola Pabón

From the sidewalk and the front garden a gradient of intimacy is built that moves from the most public formats to the intimacy of the inner Pati. The house has flexible circulations and divisions that allow, for example, to activate the garage as a gallery, connect a local with a workspace or configure a single space where all units are intertwined in a circuit, one with the other.

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In scale and materiality there is a dialogue with the tradition of modern Bogota architecture and the spirit of the neighborhood. It conserves the proportion of the first two levels of the pre-existing house, keeping the original facing, but adding layers of depth through the use of concrete materials on the parapets, flat bricks of different formats and handmade lattices.

Atelier Tropical House / Yemail Arquitectura  - Interior Photography, Chair, Beam
© Paola Pabón
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© Paola Pabón

The third level rises in retreat and is formed by a set of four serial concrete vaults overlooking communal terraces that connect all the units, offering shared areas between gardens. Around the idea of cultivating an Andean jungle inside a home in a city like Bogota, is the intention of thinking critically about the relationship with the territory and the local tradition of the use of the courtyard, resulting in an open and lush space where species of different sizes merge with the interior through the play of light and shadow.

Atelier Tropical House / Yemail Arquitectura  - Exterior Photography, Brick, Facade, Arch
© Paola Pabón

We like to think that this interior landscape shelters its inhabitants with an experience of disconnection in their personal and timeless space, being the preamble to a domestic dimension more linked to the cycles of life.

Atelier Tropical House / Yemail Arquitectura  - Interior Photography
© Paola Pabón

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Cite: "Atelier Tropical House / Yemail Arquitectura " [Atelier Tropical / Yemail Arquitectura ] 23 Jul 2024. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1019026/atelier-tropical-house-yemail-arquitectura> ISSN 0719-8884

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