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Vasile Lascar Apartment Building
Vasile Lascar Apartment Building
Bucharest, Romania
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Vasile Lascar Apartment Building
Bucharest, Romania
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OWNER: S.C. PRIMA APARTMENTS S.R.L. ARCHITECTURE
ARCHITECTURE: S.C. MÂNADELUCRU S.R.L.
ARCHITECTS IN CHARGE: ARH. DORIN ŞTEFAN ADAM
ARH. MĂDĂLINA IFTIMI
APARTMENT BUILDING
14 Vasile Lascăr
The building’s main function consists of collective housing, with dwellings that span from the 1st floor up to the 3rd and with duplexes on the last two floors. The ground floor is destined for semi-public use, small shops or offices.
The site’s particular quality is represented by having access to two streets: Vasile Lascăr and Speranței street. The main access is located on the first street, at +1.50m above the sidewalk, thus creating a base which was extended along the ground floor’s entire height. Every building in the area has a similar finish for the elevated ground floor’s façade.
By raising the ground floor as such, the terraces and loggias become more intimate while at the same time the building’s inner spaces seem more comfortable away from the noise and distractions inherent to any busy street.
The dense fabric in which the building is inserted determined the successive retreat of the last two floors in order not to create an image that would have disturbed the surrounding context. The volume of the building gradually gets smaller from the 1st floor up. The ground floor is built right on the property line with a couple of terraces excavated into the building’s mass to improve the amount of natural light. In order to diminish a possible visual disconfort, the side façades have windows with railings, the only exceptions being those where the appartments open through terraces extended up to the property line.
The investor, S.C. Prima Apartments S.R.L. initiated the project together with S.C. Westfourth Architecture S.R.L., but ended the contractual agreement between parties due to some misunderstandings.
The owner turned to Mânadelucru architecture office, requesting a change of the building’s interior configuration by removing the initial loggias in order to increase the apartments’ area. The requested changes also implied the reconfiguration of the entire building’s exterior design. The solution our office proposed was given by a more subtle understanding of the urban context and surroundings.
One of the solutions for gaining extra square metres consisted in extending the building on Speranței street up to the bay windows of the building on the right. Thus, the 15 sqm gained were to be distributed on each floor between the exterior and interior similar to a filter between the façade and apartments. This transition took form by expanding the façade with “gills” that allow perspectives along the street, advancing up to the balconies of the neighbouring buildings. The newly created spaces served as extensions for the living and dining areas. The façade on the Speranței street has a different geometry that completes the volume for each floor, presenting shadows of various depths.
The “gills” have a smooth texture contrasting with the roughness of the rest of the building. Using different textures and angles on the main façades, the building which at first tended to appear as a monovolume, has become more slender and thus more appropriate for that specific context which was already much too dense.
Therefore, the volume respects the general typologies found in the area, while the retreated floors and the “gills” help open up the building to new street views and at the same time improve the amount of natural light received by the living rooms, dining rooms or kitchens.
The building’s contraction is also felt on the last two floors where the two duplexes are found. The façade’s alucobond profiles establish a rhythm of horizontal registers which don’t deny the overall massive volume in a radical way.
Depending on the point of view, the building can be perceived both as a continuation of the existing horizontal registers and as a presence of a massive volume which was inserted on a plot with two fronts, having two retreated floors which are aligned to the gable of an existing building.
OWNER: S.C. PRIMA APARTMENTS S.R.L. ARCHITECTURE
ARCHITECTURE: S.C. MÂNADELUCRU S.R.L.
ARCHITECTS IN CHARGE: ARH. DORIN ŞTEFAN ADAM
ARH. MĂDĂLINA IFTIMI
APARTMENT BUILDING
14 Vasile Lascăr
The building’s main function consists of collective housing, with dwellings that span from the 1st floor up to the 3rd and with duplexes on the last two floors. The ground floor is destined for semi-public use, small shops or offices.
The site’s particular quality is represented by having access to two streets: Vasile Lascăr and Speranței street. The main access is located on the first street, at +1.50m above the sidewalk, thus creating a base which was extended along the ground floor’s entire height. Every building in the area has a similar finish for the elevated ground floor’s façade.
By raising the ground floor as such, the terraces and loggias become more intimate while at the same time the building’s inner spaces seem more comfortable away from the noise and distractions inherent to any busy street.
The dense fabric in which the building is inserted determined the successive retreat of the last two floors in order not to create an image that would have disturbed the surrounding context. The volume of the building gradually gets smaller from the 1st floor up. The ground floor is built right on the property line with a couple of terraces excavated into the building’s mass to improve the amount of natural light. In order to diminish a possible visual disconfort, the side façades have windows with railings, the only exceptions being those where the appartments open through terraces extended up to the property line.
The investor, S.C. Prima Apartments S.R.L. initiated the project together with S.C. Westfourth Architecture S.R.L., but ended the contractual agreement between parties due to some misunderstandings.
The owner turned to Mânadelucru architecture office, requesting a change of the building’s interior configuration by removing the initial loggias in order to increase the apartments’ area. The requested changes also implied the reconfiguration of the entire building’s exterior design. The solution our office proposed was given by a more subtle understanding of the urban context and surroundings.
One of the solutions for gaining extra square metres consisted in extending the building on Speranței street up to the bay windows of the building on the right. Thus, the 15 sqm gained were to be distributed on each floor between the exterior and interior similar to a filter between the façade and apartments. This transition took form by expanding the façade with “gills” that allow perspectives along the street, advancing up to the balconies of the neighbouring buildings. The newly created spaces served as extensions for the living and dining areas. The façade on the Speranței street has a different geometry that completes the volume for each floor, presenting shadows of various depths.
The “gills” have a smooth texture contrasting with the roughness of the rest of the building. Using different textures and angles on the main façades, the building which at first tended to appear as a monovolume, has become more slender and thus more appropriate for that specific context which was already much too dense.
Therefore, the volume respects the general typologies found in the area, while the retreated floors and the “gills” help open up the building to new street views and at the same time improve the amount of natural light received by the living rooms, dining rooms or kitchens.
The building’s contraction is also felt on the last two floors where the two duplexes are found. The façade’s alucobond profiles establish a rhythm of horizontal registers which don’t deny the overall massive volume in a radical way.
Depending on the point of view, the building can be perceived both as a continuation of the existing horizontal registers and as a presence of a massive volume which was inserted on a plot with two fronts, having two retreated floors which are aligned to the gable of an existing building.
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