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ENCIAM + Hans Kenning have built the Ambassador Business Center in Santa Cruz De La Sierra, Bolivia.
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The building is in front of the San Martín avenue, an active boulevard full of urban life.
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The architectural challenge was to develop the potential conditions of the site about the city.
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The goal is to integrate the autonomous form of an office building, with the particular characteristics of the site and the climatic conditions of the tropical savannah.
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In front of the building an open space articulate the height of the tower with the horizontality of the surroundings.
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That continuous void is designed as a pedestrian surface that release all the outdoor spaces to public use.
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As a plinth, this square draws the limits of the site providing a sense of scale and grace to the project and it’s context.
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The exposed concrete structure and the glass facade are enveloped with a system of linear balconies and aluminium lattice skin.
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This balconies, while providing sun protection, maintains a high level of transparency, that increase the interaction between workplace and the city landscape. Source by ENCIAM + Hans Kenning.
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- Location: Av. San Martín 155, Santa Cruz De La Sierra, Bolivia
- Architect: ENCIAM + Hans Kenning arquitectos
- Contractors: TOTAL
- Project management: Edgar Puch, Mario Parada
- Structural Engineering: TESS
- Client: Constructora NH3
- Size & Program: 26.480 m2 mixed-use
- Completion: 2017
- Photographs: Leonardo Finotti, Courtesy of ENCIAM + Hans Kenning
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