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• Architects: CARREÑO SARTORI arquitectos
• Location: Gerónimo de Alderete 1155, Vitacura, Región Metropolitana, Chile
• Author Architects: Mario Carreño Zunino, Piera Sartori del Campo
• Area: 595.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Marcos Mendizábal

• Electric Project: Pablo Oyola
• Sanitary Project: Leonardo Cuevas
• Landscape Project: Carreño Sartori Arquitectos
• Collaborators: María José Saez
• Calculation Project: Vertical Ingenieros – Roberto Soto
• Plot Area: 499 sqm

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From the architect. The project introduces an open interior spatiality, in which the different levels are related with the context through large windows and a gap which cross the interior.

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While the first floor extends to the site edge through a side yard, the second one is facing the street and the neighbor gardens. Finally, the terrace of the third level has views to the valley and the Andes.

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The products exhibition is related to the visual experience of the site, the city and the valley, complementing the permanence in the building, where the clients come with enough time to buy specific products.

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The sequence of spaces and views is experienced through a set of stairs that differs in their sizes and materials. The continuity between the first and second level is achieved with a wide stair. After that, a lighter and vibrant metal stair is placed to link the terrace.

Sections

The relationship between parking spaces and use spaces is extremely required, forcing a set of operations to clear the ground, defining the project physics. A concrete base contains the building basement, organizing the first level and receiving a reticulated metal structure, passing over the cars and their circulations.

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The northern light is almost completely sealed, opening the building to indirect light of the south. A brightly interior is achieved, in which the objects are exhibited avoiding the glare of direct sunlight. The outside is directly illuminated, alternating inside and outside views.

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Vertical Walking movement. Image © Rombout Frieling Lab

Vertical Walking, an experimental prototype by Rombout Frieling Lab designed “to move ourselves between floors in a building,” exploits the potential of the human body, materials and intelligent design to require less than 10% of the effort required by taking a flight of stairs – and without the need for any sort of ancillary power supply. The ultimate aim of the designers is to allow people to “move harmoniously through our vertical habitats of the future.”

The designers acknowledge that the price of urban land is “skyrocketing.” With a further three billion people expected to move into urban environments in the decades to come, they argue that we will be forced to exploit vertical space: “more and taller towers [and] the use of attics and roofs.” At the same time, the global population is ageing; “staircases are becoming major bottlenecks.” Elevators, they state, rely on significant amounts of external power, while depriving us from daily exercise.

According to its designers the prototype has been successfully tested by a wide range of users, including those suffering from Multiple Sclerosis (MS).

Vertical Walking Integration. Image © Rombout Frieling Lab

Vertical Walking. Image © Rombout Frieling Lab

A prototype which was until recently stationed outside the Giardini at the Venice Architecture Biennale is currently on display at Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven. The designers have patents pending.

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