JSa and MTA+V turn the multifamily housing model inside out with Pedre, an undulating tower in Mexico City’s El Pedregal neighborhood

Rippling against a rigorously rectilinear Mexico City skyline, the Pedre residential tower stands apart. Designed by local firms JSa and MTA+V, the 14-story edifice is an amoeba-like, three-lobed structure with a circular atrium at its core. The overall effect is one of surprise and delight. Each of the 112 apartment units boasts its own outdoor space. The entire building is capped by a roof garden of fruit trees, and it’s navigable via a meandering path flanked by intimate seating areas. The product of a constrained, triangular site and the intention to capture as much daylight inside as possible, the sinuous form is also the result of JSa’s ongoing investigation

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