The building is situated on the corner of the streets “Zdrave” and “Rodosto”, the new intervention takes
the place of two single-family homes. The location is also in close proximity to one of the wings of the Medical
Academy Hospital, which gives the building a functional mix by providing residential units on the upper floors
and office and medical practices on the ground and up to the third floor. The two functional zones are divided
by a broken horizon line that matches that of the lower wing of the Medical Academy Hospital and gives a
different character to the two parts of the facade mostly by their appearance. The lower public level is entirely glazed and demarcated only by unevenly spaced verticals of the suspended façade. On the upper part of the façade directly under the “horizon”, the verticals pop out and are treated with gold, like the horizon line itself. The bottom end of the verticals are also used in order to outline the silhouette of the previously existing houses in order to preserve their memory.
Above the horizon, the residential part of the façade is composed of two types of modules. Several
variations are achieved by rotating and mirroring the modules, which gives off the impression of a realistic
pulse of the building. The pixilation of the modules and their additional articulation is aiming to reconcile the
two scales, the one of the new seven story building and the old disappearing scale of the previously existing
houses that is however, still present in the interior of the new residential building. It is exactly this pieced interior
structure of dwelling that is brought out in the façade by its pixilation. The treatment of the lower part of the building and it being entirely glazed is in order to connect it to the largest scale, that of the Medical Academy Hospital.
Although the “horizon” is a primary element for the aesthetic of the building, in some part it is broken by
the upper volumes and at the entrances, because two of the modules “fall” from its bottom part and accept the
color of the horizon. On the upper levels the volumes are darker, and some of the are treated with a “gold” core
of clinker bricks. The theme of pixilation on the upper floors is completed by dark sheet metal that is cut with a repeating
motif in front of the windows. Other openings within the scale of the windows are shown by horizontal and
vertical pergolas by the roof with which a geometric finish is given to the modules.
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