Zurich is a city in which the buildings´ ground floor is characterized by its commercial typology. It is the differentiation of these first meters and the rest of the building that constitutes the seed of this project which is based on the typical housing facade surrounding the site.The 3D drawing is the result of a perspective view, which was interpreted first with a series of images and sketches and then with the modeling of the building in Grasshopper. The inclined facade was explored to see the different effects when looking one direction or another.
The project is the result of a perspective view caused by an inclination of the facade. This angle was explored with Grasshopper to see the different effects when looking one direction or another. The perspective is then the product of a new volume, different from the one in the ground floor, and which disappears gradually while going up, creating a series of terrace apartments. When looking at the floor plans, the fake windows appreciated in the GAN image organize the space by hiding the different restrooms; the terraces, as well, contribute to create a gradual transition between the more private areas and the exterior ones.
As the GAN image shows, the facade is made of concrete, more precisely, it is a prefabricated facade made out of sandwich concrete panels that have the insulation inside them. The fake windows are a folding of this facade into the interior, hiding some areas from the outside view while increasing the illumination of other spaces.