Project material
- Category
- Coliving
- Typology
- Affordable Housing (VIS)
- Year
- 2023 - 2025
- Area
- 7.940 m²
- Program
- 284 apartments
- Location
- Bogotá
- City
- Bogotá, Cundinamarca
Double-height studio apartments
Atelier 68 rises on a corner of Chapinero, in Bogotá — a dense, well-served district where buses, bike lanes and street commerce pass right by the door. The building answers with the city's own material: an exposed brick facade ordered by tall vertical windows that carry daylight deep into each unit, with planted balconies punctuating the corner.
The unit that gives the project its name is the double-height studio: the bed sits on a mezzanine, freeing the level below for the bathroom, the laundry nook and the cabinetry that merges closet and kitchen, so a compact floor plate works like two. It continues the studio's Atelier line — a sibling of the Cedritos Atelier — developed together with Incol.
What the unit does not contain, the building provides: a double-height lobby with parcel lockers, a gym, a TV room, a games room and a glazed ground floor that opens to the street. The tower holds 284 apartments that share these collective spaces instead of duplicating them behind each door.
A tower drawn down to the detail of a locker.
The project moved from commercial proposal to a BIM model in Revit, which coordinated permitting and construction. The interiors were drawn with the same discipline as the structure: dedicated lighting plans with LED strips in the ceilings, spotlights in the planters and floor uplights at the entrance, down to the elevation drawing of the lobby's parcel lockers. At Atelier 68 the sketch did not stop at the facade: it reached the hardware.
The site. A corner site on Carrera 15 and Calle 68: almost 2,000 m² of usable land after giving the sidewalk to the city. The bar. A continuous seven-storey bar with two courtyards at its center that bring light into the heart of the plan. The module. A 6.10 m bay, two mirrored studios and one shared shaft. Repeated, it adds up to 284 affordable homes. The unit. About 21 m² that live larger: with 3.80 m of clear height, the bed goes up to a loft and the living room stays below. Shared spaces. What the unit lacks, the building provides: over 2,000 m² of shared spaces, from the lobby up to the roof. The roof. A roof of about 1,000 m² turned into a shared terrace: the garden each apartment does not have.
