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Apartment building on Sfinții Voievozi Street / Urban Spaces 5

Authors: arh. Andrei Șerbescu, arh. Adrian Untaru, arh. Bogdan Brădățeanu, arh. Petra Bodea, arh Valentina Țigâră, arh. Elena Zară, arh. Mihail Filipenco, arh. Adrian Bratu, arh. Traian Iacob, arh. Chan-Woo Park, arh. Diana Buța, arh. Ana Băbuș, arh. Radu Constantin
Firm: ADNBA

Collaborators:
Client: URBAN SPACES / SALZBURG DEVELOPMENT
Project management: Claudiu Guță (Vision Energy Partners)
Proiectare structură: Incona
Poiectare instalații: Alma Instal
Antreprenor general: Petcu Construct
Builder: Petcu Construct, Top Fațade, Allevo Aedifici
Execuție structură: Britt Structures Contractor
Execuție instalații: Insaterm, Triac Inst 96

Authors’ Comment

Like many other places in Bucharest, here too arises the need to somehow piece together mixed bits and pieces from the neighborhood, which overlapped throughout time.

This need is accompanied by an attempt to recover some of the either restrained or whimsical elegance of Bucharest's architecture where means such as the play on surfaces, textures, nuances of finishes, depth of folds or the emphasis of edges and creases were used in its creation. The overlapping enclosures as well as the mixture of materials and nuances could also be regarded as a different type of fragmentation.

The ground floor is taller and stays open to the street, which is not necessarily typical for this side of town or for Bucharest itself. That which can be referred to as typical, however, is the random encounter, on a street corner, crossroad, alley or in the courtyard of a more upscale house, of a shop or a small neighborhood bar. It is in this type of unordered, small scale, neighborhood that we imagine our opening towards the street, for the courtyard and the buildings on Sfintii Voievozi Street 20-24, to fit in.