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Riverview

Congo Brazzaville

2021

Riverview

As the name suggests, the Riverview Apartment Building is an existing apartment block located on an upscale site on the capital city of Brazzaville, enjoying magnificent views to towards the might Congo River. The existing building was a semi completed shell and core barrel shaped building with twisting terraces that wrap the round shaped plan.


The client wanted a preliminary proposal to overhaul the design including the external facades interior floor layouts, entrances, and others. The target was upmarket clients requiring medium t high-end large size apartment units in the area.

Locations

Congo Brazzaville

Size

16000

Year

2021

Status

Design

Services

  • Architecture & Landscape Design
  • Interior Design
  • Engineering Services

Our main target on the design level was to break the massive and humongous scale of the existing block to bring down to a more human scale, relevant for apartment and residential use. To do so, we envisioned re dividing the facades by a parametric and changing skin that connects each first and third floor together by vertical elements and continues on each floor horizontally and vertically.


The parametric design was inspired by the local weaving crafts, allowing the façade to look like a weaved lattice skins wrapping and diving the whole structure. Under this lattice the terraces were given a stepping wavy form to resonate to the water site.