MM Apartment Building, Santiago Housing and Retail Units, Architecture Images
MM Apartment Building in Santiago
Contemporary Housing in Chile, South America – design by SML ARQUITECTOS
7 Oct 2019
MM Apartment Building
Design: SML ARQUITECTOS
Location: Santiago de Chile, Chile

The MM Apartment Building project is located on an important avenue of Santiago de Chile that has been undergoing an intense process of densification for the last few decades. On a site of 1823 sqm, we´ve proposed a mid-raised building consisting of 33 apartments over a commercial block which respond to the diversity of uses that characterizes this neighborhood.

The structure is conceived as an isolated 4 stories height volume mounted over a continuous block in the first floor that is intended to be part of an even bigger continuity when adjacent buildings are completed, according to the city hall master plan. This will result in an urban boulevard with wide sidewalks an urban furniture.
Deliberately, we?ve settled the façade 5 mts away from the property line in order to give to the public space almost 200 sqm of open space, which, as was mentioned before, is equipped with furniture and spots of vegetation as a sort of mini-plaza in front of the building. The design of the pavement in this zone is intended to reinforce the continuity between the private and public space, using exactly the same pavement that the city hall uses in the sidewalk and mix it with the one that comes from the interi...