Credits
From ADNBA
The building occupies one of the few remaining lots in an old neighborhood of historical and architectural value in the central area of Bucharest.
The space-structure gives the urban presence of the proposed building a weight that counterbalances the extent of the glazed surfaces, while the retraction of the central span and the asymmetry of the cornice are aimed at dividing the house into two volumes closer to the neighboring scale.
The deep windows and loggias are read as substractions from the massive stone volume. The house structure is dematerialized vertically - the floors are gradually withdrawn and the windows are enlarged, the lateral structural walls being perforated to the limit of resistance. Gravitational force is transmitted in a continuous structural system, and the facade expresses this structural logic through the stereotomy of stone.
The side spans are intended for dwelling and the narrower central one accommodates the stairway. The 7 apartments benefit from beautiful urban panoramas, which become part of the interior, while the dwelling leaves the street see through wide windows, enriching the urban experience. Glass acts as a filter between the public and the private, through which content and contender continually change their roles, enriching each other.
„It is a privilege, as an architect, to have the chance to in-tervene in the garden neighbourhoods from the northern side of Bucharest.(..) While for the Dogarilor Street building, the poetry of fragmentation had been taken to the extreme, (first the volume, then the boundaries through cut-outs and projections, and finally through surfaces and materials), this time it seems that the ADN BA team have promised themselves a rigorous constraint. The building is silent: a simple volume, an implacable structural rhythm, a classical architectural language reduced to the essence. And yet the effect is not at all oppressive. (..)
Beyond any real or even conscious references, I would say that there is a familiar air, a spirit of obvious, yet still retained standing, cultivated and polite. Today and here, at least, luxury is generally pompous and noisy even when well designed. The building on London Street, on the other hand, is an example of cultured architecture.”
Chief Editor of Zeppelin Magazine Romania about the project
PROJECT TEAM
Architects: Adrian Untaru, Andrei Șerbescu, Carmen Petrea, Alexandru Apostol.
Collaborators: Raluca Răescu
Property Developer: Forte Partners
Video Production & Post-production: Foarfeca Studio
Photographers: ©Cosmin Dragomir ©Marius Vasile