2017 - 2023

Designed in 2017 by our firm, this is an ambitious intervention that crowns the roof of the original multi-family project conceived by the architect Edgar Bueno in 1963 and inaugurated by the firm Obregón and Valenzuela in 1967. The Seguros Bolívar Building is a tropical interpretation of L'Unité d´Habitation de Marseille, the emblematic project designed by Le Corbusier in 1947 to repopulate post-war Europe. The French project has a rooftop fully developed since its opening in 1952, equipped with a nursery, cafeteria, swimming pool, athletic track and other amenities that provided ample comfort to its 337 housing units. The Cartagena project, whose density of 60 apartments is 33% of the French project volume is substantially lower, has a completely virgin 1000 sqm roof and with enough bearing capacity to incorporate this contemporary addition. The program has a thermoacoustic cover, solar panels, bathrooms, a social room, a business center, panoramic terraces overlooking the Bay of Cartagena and the Caribbean Sea, and is topped with a heart-stopping gazebo. The proposal responds to the need expressed by the residents of the joint ownership, who have responded positively by approving in their ordinary assembly the purchase of two new elevators whose last stop is now the rooftop of the building. This is a long-term project that is in the financing stage and has an approximate value of $500,000 USD.