In the quiet fabric of the Colegiales neighborhood, this residential building is designed to offer a flexible, luminous living experience in constant dialogue with the outdoors. The project embraces typological diversity, with units that vary in size and layout but share a common feature: each one extends toward private balconies, gardens, or terraces, seeking to foster a more open lifestyle connected to fresh air and nature.

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At the heart of the building lies a large central courtyard, entirely clad in pale blue and grayish tiles. This surface reflects the light of the sky, blurring the boundaries between architecture and landscape, and creating a serene, ever-changing atmosphere throughout the day. The courtyard not only organizes circulation and defines the interior spatiality, but also enables effective cross-ventilation for all units and brings natural light into every corner of the building.

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The circulation paths, which unfold around this central void, are lined with planted beds, creating a gentle, lively journey that integrates nature as a fundamental part of collective living. Facing the street, the building presents a skin of aluminum made up of operable shutters that act as light screens and visual filters. This system allows each resident to control their level of openness and privacy, alternating between a closed, sheltered façade or one that is fully open to the neighborhood and its surrounding greenery.

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The building is conceived as a piece that engages with the scale of its context—promoting a way of life in touch with air, light, and vegetation—and proposing an architecture that is restrained yet attentive to detail, to daily experience, and to the passage of time.