AWAD


Banco de Credito


Lima, Peru


Architects
Arquitectonica International
Corporation

Consulting Engineers
Gallegos, Rios, Casabonne,
Ucelli, Arango Ingenieros
Civiles
Friba Ingenieros
Lagomasino Vitale &
Associates

Landscape Architect
Mercedes Beale de Porcari

Lighting Consultant
Phillips Export B.V.
International Products Division

General Contractor
La Inmobiliaria, S.A.

Owner
Banco de Credito del Peru





 This building is a 530,000
square foot corporate head-
quarters for the largest private
bank in Peru. It is located at the
foot of the Sierra Mountains
outside Lima. The four-story
building is a broken courtyard
which has been raised on stain-
less steel piloti over white
marble ground level buildings
surrounding a landscaped gar-
den. The organization of the
building recalls a traditional
Spanish colonial courtyard
prototype with a formal public
facade on the exterior and an
informal interior facade. At
the same time, the building is a
modem prototype, with piloti
supporting a free-form interior
plan, user spaces on the roof,
sculptural facade elements and
a free-flowing terrain below.
 Cafeteria and auditorium are
beneath the building while
forms such the lobby and board
room slice through it. These
forms are clad in white marble
and white stucco. The ellipti-
cal entry space intersects the
building vertically and is made


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Photos by Tim Hursley and Paul Warchol


FLORIDA ARCHITECT September/October 1989