Studio House

Corbeanca, Romania

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Studio House

Corbeanca, Romania

Firm

DAAA / Dron and Ardelean Architects

Type

Residential › Private House

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2017

SIZE

5000 sqft - 10,000 sqft

BUDGET

$100K - 500K

Photos

Arthur Tintu (39)

Design Team:
Raul Dan Ardelean, Simina Dron, Miruna Ardelean, Alexandru Apostol

The project had to respond to an artist's needs and visions on a harmonious bonding between the inspiration and musical creation space, and the one for living. A studio-home emerged, imaged by the artist, together with the architects, as very simple in form and architectural expression.

The suburban plot of land had an ideal orientation, being accessible from the north from a low‐traffic street, and opening to a bit of forest in the south. For this reason, the house was, as a general rule, to turn its major spaces towards the vegetal garden and the forest to the south, as well as to place the access and secondary spaces to the street and the mineral garden in the north.

In the hierarchy of interior spaces, the central and generating point of the house was the double-height living room, with its 3 essential elements: the piano, the library, and the fireplace. The rest of the spaces were articulated around it, with a flexible visual communication between the upstairs bedrooms and the entire living room area on the ground floor.

The white, simple and compact volume opens towards the courtyard through the general glazing of the south facade, with the interior continuing outside through the vegetation‐submerged terrace and pool. The other sides of the building have remained introvert, dominated by closed walls shapes with punctual gaps, thus ensuring, alongside the opaque enclosure wall, intimacy from the street and the neighborhood.

The house is also conceived as a sequence of visual frames: street, mineral garden, access corridor, living area, vegetal garden. Thus, from the street, the house is almost invisible as it is sheltered by the white, opaque enclosure wall. Once inside the front yard, the entrance to the white, simple, and hermetic volume is marked by the presence of the niche showcasing the black, massive, metal door. Beyond it, there is a corridor, separated from the living area by a vertical element - a transparent bookcase. From the double-height living room, the vegetal garden emerges and so does, in the background, the forest, and then again one can reach the exterior through the open terrace, extended by the swimming pool in the grass.

The color scheme played, at the exterior, on the contrast between the white of the big, full surfaces, and the black of the metal joinery, and at the interior, on the harmony between white walls and natural wood and travertine finishes, with punctual black insertions like the fireplace, plus the bright colors of the books and objects in the bookcase.

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