Mixed Use Building _ Winning Proposal for a Private Competition

Status: Unbuilt

Supervisors: Manuel Pineda and Juan Gándara

Collaborators: Guillermo Castillo, Carlos Santis and Victor López

Offen means open in german, which is the name we chose for the building because we wanted the name to represent the building’s character. OfN is a residential project located in Zone 14, the most luxurious area of Guatemala City. Most buildings in the area are enclosed and have little to no contact to their surroundings, which is why we proposed a mixed-use building with di-rect contact to the street and open facades with full perimeter of balconies and terraces.  I was the project leader for this competition which we ultimately won, but unfortunately the project was put on hold.  My involvement in this project included concept, strategy, volumetric studies, structural grid studies, interior distributions, facade design, details, drawings, diagrams and the final presentation. Renderings by WStudio.