Little garden house

Authors’ Comment

Located in the Town of Topoloveni, close to the town center, the Garden House is on the border between an urban and a rural way of life, therefore in contemporary terms we can almost talk about its location in a "rurban" context.
It is surrounded by low-rise buildings, an ensemble that turns into a continuous dialogue between typical houses dating back about a century, modified by successive interventions, ”modernized” as the owners say, on the other side being new houses, as if slightly out of scale.
In the immediate vicinity, viewed from the street or from the courtyard, the house is silhouetted against the building of the church, almost like a model raised on a pedestal, like a drawing in a contemporary exhibition that changes at every step, however at a slow pace, falling into a more rural than urban life context.
The first thought was that this house is part of the church ensemble and even if they are located in different courtyards, white, immaculate, a project almost like a restoration, the house can be visually in the same ensemble.
The connection of the house with the courtyard is made through large glazed surfaces, cut proportionally in volume, on a different scale, an accent being the exit from the kitchen. It goes down to the courtyard on steps painted white, as the whole house is in fact, white, in the whole of the church now, like a plaster model, built on a scale of 1:1, reinterpreted, but carefully preserving every essential element.
The courtyard is actually a garden, quite large, being 1000 square meters and showing an almost rural way of living, yet brought into contemporaneity to be easy to maintain in the case of a holiday home.
The house in the garden thus becomes an instance of memory, timeless, an exhibit along with the church and the hill in the background, a plaster model, immaculate white, integrated into the whole, living together with the courtyard.