Multivacaciones
San Isidro, Lima (2005-2006)
Travel Agency

Our brief for this project, was to convert an abandoned house into a travel agency. However, the location of the project, within an emblematic site and between two monumental buildings, implied a much larger challenge than the design of the building itself; an opportunity to realise an urban reconfiguration. With this in mind, we inserted a series of devices that subvert the usual high security privatization that is found in Lima’s public spaces; benches instead of enclosures, larger setbacks from the street than required, necesarry pedestrian paths, and a ‘liquid plaza’.
Finally, in a city where it never rains, a low-tech ‘waterfall façade’, with artificial rain that flows from the cornices, creating a self-washing surface.