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APARTMENT BUILDING IN ACAPULCO

This project consists of a seven apartment building constructed on a plot of land located on the top
of a mountain that overlooks the Bay of Puerto Marques in Acapulco, Mexico. The program required
that each of the 250 sq. mt. apartments have a private terrace and pool. The client was to live in one
of the apartments and sell the remaining six. He gave us "carte blanche" in the architectural design
and decisions, with the only condition being, that the edifice take full advantage of the spectacular view.

We conceived each apartment in a box. Local height restrictions allowed a four-story-maximum development,
so we stacked the boxes in two separate piles standing side by side. We then applied horizontal forces in
opposite directions to "blend" the two piles and break the axis of symmetry. The boxes were then pushed
backwards to create terraces for each apartment. The clients´ apartment was given a double height as
a "hierarchic" gesture. Finally, the boxes were opened up frontally in their totality towards the view and
perforated with small random windows on their other sides.