New renders show Aquarela, a high-rise apartment complex designed by French practice Ateliers Jean Nouvel for Cumbaya?, Ecuador, which will be covered in planted balconies.
Phase one, comprising of three terraced towers called Terra, Aqua and Cielo, completed in December 2020 along with the communal facilities. The next six towers will complete in three phases between 2021 and 2023.
Three out of nine towers have completed
The high-rise apartment towers, arranged around a greenery-filled courtyard, will contain 573 apartments when the development is finished.
Architecture studios Alberto MEDEM and Humboldt Arquitectos are collaborating with Ateliers Jean Nouvel on the design, and Ecuadorian developer Uribe Schwarzkopf is creating the interiors for the first set of towers. High-rise blocks will be separated by a long courtyard
Aquarela is designed to complement its surroundings. Cumbaya? sits in a lush valley on the side of a volcano, east of the capital Quito in the Tumbaco Valley.
New renders show how the apartment towers, each between seven and ten stories high, will be clad in stone and covered in native plants. The high-rise buildings are designed to echo the steep mountains, with the courtyard forming a pass between them.
Vertical gardens planted with trees and other plants will stud the face of the towers, along with decorative crevices for holding more greenery.
The apartment buildings will be covered in planted balconies
A large array of residents' amenities will inc...