Project material
- Category
- Affordable Housing
- Typology
- Social Housing
- Partners
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- Year
- 2022 - 2025
- Area
- 13.101 m²
- Program
- 240 apartments
- Location
- Pereira, Risaralda
- City
- Pereira, Risaralda
- Status
- Portfolio
Homes connected to their natural surroundings
Río is part of La Gran Reserva, a housing development in Pereira that settles on the steep slopes of the Coffee Region, among stands of guadua bamboo. The sloping terrain —worked with, not against— is the condition that orders the project.
The housing towers sit on stepped platforms held by retaining walls, which fit the building to the slope of the lot without flattening the topography.
The urban design was adjusted to the slope: the parking areas were inclined to reduce the height of the retaining walls, and the access ramps to the towers were eased, resolving circulation on difficult terrain.
The second social-housing project of the complex, Río shares with La Gran Reserva a commitment to affordable housing integrated into its natural surroundings, with the guadua forest as a permanent backdrop.
From the slope to the project
Río's first fact is not a number of homes but a slope: the guadua-covered hillside on which La Gran Reserva sits in Pereira. The project was drawn by stepping platforms and retaining walls to set the towers down without flattening the terrain, and by adjusting the urban design —inclined parking, gentler ramps— until the topography stopped being an obstacle and began to order the complex.
The hillside. 6,410 m² of hillside in La Gran Reserva, Pereira, among guadua groves. The slope is the condition that orders the scheme. Five towers. 240 social housing units in five 12-storey towers, four per floor: two of 60.5 m² and two of 43.3 m². Platforms. Each tower starts on its own platform, at the level the slope asks for, and retaining walls take up the difference. The clubhouse and shops complete the scheme. The guadua grove. The Coffee Region’s guadua forest stays as the permanent backdrop of the scheme. The typical floor. Four flats per floor around a single core: two of 60.5 m² and two of 43.3 m². The scheme. The full model: five towers at three different levels, the clubhouse and the shops along the road. The finishes. Exposed brick bands between white graniplast walls, white roofs and aluminium window frames.
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The tower under construction rises over the guadua hillside of Pereira; the crane and the stepped platforms reveal how the project settles onto the slope.
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The concrete structure climbs, fitted to the fall of the terrain, with the guadua forest of the Coffee Region surrounding the site.
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