Project material
- Category
- Coliving
- Typology
- Coliving
- Year
- 2023 - 2025
- Area
- 6.192,75 m²
- Program
- 132 apartments
- Location
- Bogotá
- City
- Bogotá, Cundinamarca
Brick studio apartments to start out in, right in Britalia
Uno62 stands at Carrera 55C # 162-61, in the Britalia-Cantalejo neighbourhood of northern Bogotá, between Avenida Boyacá and the Autopista Norte. This is a settled part of the city: four- and five-storey housing blocks, brick everywhere, cables crossing the street and a tree-lined pavement the project sets out to keep active. The plot holds a little under two thousand square metres of usable area, and a corner the building decides to take seriously.
The project is conceived as social housing in studio apartments aimed at young residents, and that choice can be read in how the building is divided. The ground floor is mixed: a commercial strip facing the street, with shopfronts that keep the pavement active, and beside it the residential entrance with lobby, gatehouse, bicycle store and management office. The residential floors repeat a single unit type — including one adapted for people with reduced mobility — and the shared facilities are gathered on the top level, with communal areas comfortably above the minimum required by regulation.
The construction is direct and free of gestures: piles, a conventional frame of beams and columns, and coloured brick façades ordering the volume with floor-to-ceiling vertical windows repeated like a stave. As the afternoon fades, that grid lights up room by room and the building explains itself.
One home, repeated
The project is organised from a single piece: the studio-apartment type. Once that unit is fixed, everything else follows — the width of the opening, the rhythm of the brickwork, the position of the core, the number of people sharing a corridor — and the design is decided by where the collective spaces go, so that repetition never becomes anonymity: community life is placed on the ground floor and the top level, and the street gets shopfronts instead of a blind wall. The building was developed as a single BIM model coordinated across all disciplines, and it remains in process: the latest filing of adjustments and the modification permit keep it moving.
The site. Almost 2,000 m² in Britalia, between Avenida Boyacá and the Autopista Norte: a settled neighborhood of four- and five-storey brick blocks. A floor for the street. The ground floor is mixed: shopfronts on the street keep the sidewalk alive, with the lobby, concierge, bike room and parking behind. Two bars. Above, two housing bars joined by the cores. They step 3.6 m back from the rear line and open a courtyard over the driveway. A single home. Everything grows from one piece: the studio sets the bay, the brick rhythm and the corridor. One unit is adapted for reduced mobility. The actual plan. Floor 2 of the model, cut open: the studios in a row on both sides of the corridor, each with its bathroom and kitchen. 132 homes. Three floors of studios above the mixed base: 132 affordable homes for young people, in a single coordinated BIM model. No gestures. Piles, a beam-and-column frame and a colored brick facade with floor-to-ceiling windows, repeated like a musical staff.
