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Palma Apartament
Palma Apartament
Bogotá, Colombia
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Palma Apartament
Bogotá, Colombia
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2024
SIZE
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft
BUDGET
$50K - 100K
Historic buildings and neighborhoods such as La Soledad and the Park Way are defined by spaces where different eras and moments of Bogotá's history overlap. For this reason, we sought to reproduce that layering of architectural periods and finishes when approaching a project that involved dividing a 190 m² apartment into two 85 m² units for the Palma brothers, located on the top floor of a 1970s building embedded within an urban fabric of heritage significance, with views overlooking the Claustro del Señor de los Milagros.
Our intention was to develop a project that embodied a dialogue between the contemporary and the pre-existing, resulting in apartments that respected and celebrated the passage of time. Original materials were preserved and restored such as wooden floors, bathroom tiles and fixtures, the wooden framework of the fireplace and its original bronze detailing, so that every restoration would maintain a continuous language with the new social areas: the metal structure, new openings, and metal joinery fitted with translucent glass that creates a distinctive diffusion of images and light.
These elements propose varying degrees of privacy through shifting apertures of light, in keeping with a more contemporary sensibility, dissolving the reading of solid volumes through what Jean Nouvel described as the poetics of mist and evanescence.
The ribbed glass proposal invites a reflection on the materiality of glass as it relates to the rational clarity of modern architecture — recalling Walter Benjamin's observation that glass windows stand as an enemy of both property and mystery, professing a new poverty: the poverty of the absence of experience. For behind their anti-auratic surface nothing remains hidden, and everything can be verified.
Against this rational gaze, ribbed glass opens the possibility of more contemporary readings of veils and translucent diffusions that allow glimpses of interior spaces, enveloping them in an aura of mystery and lived experience.
Our intention was to develop a project that embodied a dialogue between the contemporary and the pre-existing, resulting in apartments that respected and celebrated the passage of time. Original materials were preserved and restored such as wooden floors, bathroom tiles and fixtures, the wooden framework of the fireplace and its original bronze detailing, so that every restoration would maintain a continuous language with the new social areas: the metal structure, new openings, and metal joinery fitted with translucent glass that creates a distinctive diffusion of images and light.
These elements propose varying degrees of privacy through shifting apertures of light, in keeping with a more contemporary sensibility, dissolving the reading of solid volumes through what Jean Nouvel described as the poetics of mist and evanescence.
The ribbed glass proposal invites a reflection on the materiality of glass as it relates to the rational clarity of modern architecture — recalling Walter Benjamin's observation that glass windows stand as an enemy of both property and mystery, professing a new poverty: the poverty of the absence of experience. For behind their anti-auratic surface nothing remains hidden, and everything can be verified.
Against this rational gaze, ribbed glass opens the possibility of more contemporary readings of veils and translucent diffusions that allow glimpses of interior spaces, enveloping them in an aura of mystery and lived experience.
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