Danish structure studio BIG has accomplished the EPIQ tower in Ecuador, which consists of L-shaped stacked blocks that curve as they meet on the construction’s centre.

EPIQ, which was created by BIG in partnership with Quito-based builders Uribe Schwarzkopf, is situated subsequent to La Carolina Park, an city inexperienced area within the centre of town.

The 24-storey tower sits on a nook intersection throughout from a metro entrance.

The bottom of the 101-metre-tall skyscraper has been divided into two sections that face the road.

Every part has curved edges that wrap inwards the place the 2 volumes meet, creating a gap that serves as the doorway to the constructing.

A vertical aspect sits on prime of every of the horizontal base volumes, with the broader base topped by a extra slender vertical quantity and vice versa. This creates a stacked design fashioned of interlocking L-shaped volumes.

The higher ranges have an analogous format, with two inverse L-shaped sections that slender as they rise on one facet, and widen as they rise on the opposite. The general construction is fashioned of 4 separate L-shaped blocks which were stacked and interlocked in varied configurations.

“The distinctive construction consists of two units of stacking blocks, which BIG describes as ‘buildings inside a constructing’, that create panoramic vignettes and out of doors terraces as they intersect,” stated Uribe Schwarzkopf.

Between all the particular person stacked parts are openings that resemble the doorway on the bottom ground. Right here, they create small platforms on the face of the construction which might be used as public out of doors area.

“BIG has prioritized inexperienced area in its creation of a vertical neighbourhood that exemplifies a brand new strategy to integrating out of doors area right into a high-density residential constructing,” stated Uribe Schwarzkopf.

The facades are made up of lengthy bars of pigmented concrete – meant to reference the “domed roofs of town’s cathedrals and previous colonial buildings lined with native tiles”, the developer stated.

Every block has a unique color, with 4 pigmented colors in whole used on the facade.

Glazing was positioned on the facade between the colored blocks. Between the vertical concrete facade parts, convex glazing was positioned to create areas for patios on every of the residential items within the constructing.

“The facade weaves between the inexperienced partitions to supply balconies of various sizes,” stated the studio, which had launched the unique designs for the challenge had been launched in 2019.

The unique renderings present inexperienced partitions on the gaps between the glass and ledge of particular person terraces, however it’s unclear if this can be applied within the constructed construction.

The developer stated that the general visible impact was meant to look like one mass from far-off and change into disintegrated visually upon strategy.

“The constructing seems as a unified silhouette from throughout the park, however at nearer vary, it dissolves increasingly more right into a stack of particular person volumes, clad in 4 completely different shades of pink cement tiles,” stated Uribe Schwarzkopf.

Inside, the foyer has a continuation of the outside tile, with a matte-pink reception desk and dramatic gray column rising to a reflective black ceiling.

Tiles seem elsewhere all through the constructing’s amenity areas, such because the green-tiled columns of the constructing’s spa.

Different widespread areas, corresponding to a lounge and a youngsters’s area, function wooden floors and white ceilings. Photos of the residences weren’t launched by the staff.

On the rooftop is a lap pool and patio hemmed in by a glass-filled extension of the gridded concrete facade.

Close by, BIG additionally just lately accomplished Quito’s tallest constructing in collaboration with Uribe Schwarzkopf, a developer that refers to itself as a “household architectural improvement agency” and has accomplished greater than 100 buildings in Quito.

Uribe Schwarzkopf additionally introduced final 12 months that it’s engaged on a skyscraper for Quito with Chinese language studio MAD, which would be the studio’s first challenge in Latin America.

The pictures is by Bicubik.