Project material
- Category
- Multifamily Housing
- Typology
- Non-subsidized housing
- Year
- 2022 - 2024
- Area
- 8.625 m²
- Program
- 100 apartments
- Location
- Cajicá, Cundinamarca
100 apartments in two towers, in Cajicá
Matiz brings together 100 apartments in two five-story buildings in Cajicá, with a three-wing plan that distributes views toward the surrounding hills. We designed it for Mojica Constructora and 57Uno DC as the multifamily housing of the Tucurinca plan, on a 6,078 m² (65,400 sq ft) lot on the Cajicá–Tabio road, at the south-southwest end of the site.
The suburban road corridor zoning sets maximums of 0.30 lot coverage and a floor area ratio of 1.50 over the net developable area. The project reaches 0.28 and 1.49 with two identical buildings of 50 apartments each, permitted in two phases, for a total of 8,625 m² (92,800 sq ft) built. A 920 m² (9,900 sq ft) basement holds parking, storage units, mechanical rooms and tanks; the rest of the 126 parking spaces are at grade.
Each building opens into three wings around a central core, with ten apartments per floor in five types from 49 to 72 m² (530 to 770 sq ft) of private area. The wings point to the Tabio hills, the eastern hills, the road reserve and the Botero house, and that shape multiplies the facades with windows and balconies. Between the two buildings, the three-level amenity building marks the pedestrian entrance.
The facades are light brick, with balconies on the upper floors and planters at ground level. A fence and a landscaped setback separate the apartments from the street. A lit pedestrian path circles the buildings and links five outdoor areas along the edge of the lot: playground, pet area, outdoor gym, camping area and barbecue.
Three wings toward the landscape
The first sketch started from the views of the lot: the Tabio hills, the eastern hills, the road reserve and the Botero house. To give each apartment one of them, we divided the building into three wings joined by the core and repeated it on the other side of the amenity building. The massing model records that arrangement: where each wing looks, what area the basement takes and how the pedestrian paths circle the buildings. The fence, the garden and the balcony grade the passage from the street to the home.
The site. 6,078 m² with a 96 m frontage on the Cajicá–Tabio road. The code requires a 5 m setback from the road reserve. Two towers. 100 apartments in two five-storey, Y-shaped towers. They cover 0.28 of the net area; the code allows 0.30. The floor plan. Each floor holds 10 apartments of 49 to 72 m² net, arranged in three wings around a single core. Shared building. Between the towers, a three-storey building: gatehouse, gym and nursery, and events room. Parking sits in a 920 m² basement. Green space. Gardens fill the setbacks of the site. To the north-northeast, the 8,814 m² public park separates the towers from the Trazo houses.
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Each wing of the buildings points to a view: the Tabio hills, the eastern hills, the road reserve and the Botero house.
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The two buildings, the amenity building between them and, in dashed line, the footprint of the basement under the central space.
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Lit pedestrian paths: a path circles each building and the two meet at the steps of the amenity building.
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Site plan: pet area, playground, outdoor gym, camping area and barbecue along the edge of the lot, and the surface parking laid out in a fan.
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