Project
IF Tower

Category 
Best Project of Public Building or Facility

About the project (provided by the applicant)
The IF Tower is developed as a vertical city in a consolidated area of Quito. It is located on a lot in the former financial center, which had remained vacant for decades. This allowed the building to connect through a large public space at the front, leading to a medium-sized park, and to create an extensive pedestrian circuit that crosses the entire neighborhood and connects with the northern part of the city.
The tower is a 25-story volume with a 5-story extended base that houses all the public and communal areas donated to the city as part of the urban strategy for its integration. The translucent envelope acts as a solar filter, reducing the impact on the facade and controlling privacy towards work areas both during the day and at night by varying the pattern of perforations based on a computerized climate analysis. The structure itself functions as part of the envelope, unifying the volume and giving it a sense of lightness.

Location
Quito, Ecuador

Project design year
2023

Project website
https://www.instagram.com/p/C-BuDbHPYZ7/

Applicant
Cristhian Erazo

An architect and urban planner from the Central University of Ecuador, he specialized in Architectural and Urban Design at the Polytechnic of Milan, Italy, in 2005. Since 2007, he has developed several projects independently and in collaboration with leading Quito firms. He has won several competitions and, in 2013 and 2021, the Ornato Ciudad de Quito Award, a finalist in the Quito Architecture Biennial, and other international awards.

Author of the project
Cristhian Erazo

Visualization
Cristhian Erazo

Status of the project
Conceptual design