Designed by Handel Architects, Alto El Golf is a 312,000 sq. ft. (29,000 m²) office building, recently completed in the El Golf section of Santiago. For this project, we strove to rethink the standard office typology. Santiago has a mild climate and the Chileans embrace nature and the outdoors. In addition, the site is surrounded by streets on three of its sides, generating an idle condition with ideal sun and visual exposures.
photography by © Nico Saieh
The resultant design is a series of irregularly scaled, shifted volumes that replace the static hierarchies of the hermetic box, creating a variety of outdoor terraces that allow for greenery and social interaction. The building also represents our thinking on the changing nature of the workplace environment, where utilizing these types of spaces is an integral part of daily life.
photography by © Nico Saieh
Santiago is an incredibly vibrant metropolitan city with a great appreciation for culture, arts, and nature. Surrounded by the mountains of the Andes, the city has slowly grown its commercial and residential projects vertically, taking advantage of the unprecedented views. Most of this growth has occurred over the past 20 years and the architecture has been contemporary in style.
photography by © Nico Saieh
Alto El Golf is in an area that has realized this growth and the project is very much in keeping with the modern style and scale that the area is known for. The exterior skin of the project is constructed as a floor-to-ceiling curtain wall system which allows for maximizing the infiltration of natural light and capturing as many unobstructed views as possible.
The fenestration on the glass wall is delineated in a very contemporary expression of vertical fins on two varying rhythmic patterns, creating visual interest across the pattern. Alto El Golf is certified LEED Silver by the USGBC.
photography by © Nico Saieh
Project Info:
Architects: Handel Architects
Project Year: 2014
Photographs: Nico Saieh
Project Area: 29000.0 sqm
Project Manager: Jim Hakes
Project Designer: Michael Lin
Project Architect: Maximiliano Noguera
Architect in Charge: Glenn Rescalvo, AIA
Project Location: Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
Project Name: Alto El Golf
