Corner House

Authors’ Comment

Our proposal raises the issue of the boundary as a starting point for the whole project. The boundary as a working tool.
In our image, the theme proposed by the competition brings into question the realization of the sheltered, protected, but open place. A veritable "hearth" of the community in full formation in Dumbrava Vlasiei. As such, the first step was to work, rather, with the limit. A boundary that can become, in fact, an opportunity to gather and protect.
Our approach is contextual in that the project seeks to work with the whole plot. The point of origin, the opportunity to position the building on a corner of the lot, represents in our view the opportunity to propose a building that fulfils its original purpose, that of being a corner house. Therefore, in the hypothesis proposed by the theme, that this house is later repositioned in the cluster, it will always occupy a corner of the lot.
Based on the immanent nature of the corner house, the building extends its "wall-furniture" beyond its built-up area. This containing wall, for example, turns the "back" of the house towards the street. This so-called "back of the house" represents an act of transgression expressed through an opaque façade to the street. A parsimonious act, which aims to further emphasize the act of turning the building inwards towards the land. Towards the hearth.
I have chosen this wall at the border between public and private, which mirrors the viewer's image and at the same time brings into question the issue of the diffuse boundary, to define the ambiguous limit that separates and brings together in equal measure. Using the 'boundary' as a tool, the resulting garden can provide the occasion for film evenings, or any form of performance. A recovery of the agora, through the Cartesian and judicious marking of its boundaries.