We start from the understanding that a building of monumental value has several layers of history, the result of multiple renovations over the years and that our intervention is another layer in that density.

© Tomas Kjaervik

Mas Uno Studio: Mas Uno Studio

Location: San Martín 160, Distrito de Lima 15067, Perú

Project Architects: Peter Seinfeld?, María Paz Ballén

Collaborator: Carlos Navarro

Project Area: 600.0 m2

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Tomas Kjaervik

Structural Engineer: Iván Zapata Rojas

Construction: Ernesto Mosqueira

© Tomas Kjaervik

From the architect. We start from the understanding that a building of monumental value has several layers of history, the result of multiple renovations over the years and that our intervention is another layer in that density.
Section 2

Apesteguia House was originally a single floor ranch made of adobe to which was added a second floor of quincha as a playground, which was then transformed into a two-family dwelling. In 1986 the architect Juvenal Baracco transformed the house into 8 duplex apartments with mezzanines. The apartments were organized as a gear around a vertical circulation axis located in the central bay, consolidating a triple height that...