office building
location: lima, peru
client: flat Inmobiliaria
authors: barclay & crousse + uastudio
design team: s. barclay – n. boljsakov - j.p. crousse - b. miller
assistants: paulo shimabukuro, tamy noguchi
built surface: 12 500 m2
completion: 2015
photographer: j. solano
A too-small plot for an office building is the opportunity for the project. An exoskeleton is the only way to fit the needed underground parking.
The structure becomes a façade, and the narrow avenues and vertical proportions of the building give place to a double-height, three-dimensional grid. Inspired in kinetic art, the grid changes the perception of its geometry with pedestrian movement.
In the interior, generous common spaces compensate the little office units for start-up companies.
