Project material
- Category
- Multifamily Housing
- Typology
- Multifamily Housing · Colombia
- Year
- 2022
- Area
- 21.528 m² (área construida)
- Location
- Colombia
- City
- Cartagena, Bolívar
- Status
- Portfolio
Oval towers and linear blocks under the flat Caribbean light of Serena del Mar
Serena del Mar is the new city growing north of Cartagena, about fifteen minutes from the historic center, reached from the Cartagena–Barranquilla ring road. Strada sits there on a strip next to Tierra Baja, still surrounded by a green plain and neighboring Trevi and Castelo, two sibling compounds in the same sector.
The gated community is resolved with nine white five-story blocks that alternate two ways of inhabiting the block: five oval-plan towers, with curved corners and continuous balconies, and four linear blocks facing the boulevard. Together they hold two hundred and seventy-eight apartments, with one parking space per home.
Shared life is delivered in two stages: the first brings the amenity building — lounge, café room, multipurpose hall, laundry, playroom, gym and a rooftop BBQ terrace with timber pergolas open to the green horizon; the second adds the playground and the pool area for adults and children with a jacuzzi, planted at the center of the courtyard.
From Serenísima 5 to Strada.
The project entered the studio as the commercial proposal "Serenísima 5," and that working name accompanied the whole process: urban design proposals in May 2022, the pool area designed between July and August of the same year, and a descriptive brief built on the basis of Trevi, the sibling project already developed in Serena del Mar. The alternation of ovals and linear bars, present since the first urban schemes, ended up giving the compound its definitive street name: Strada.
