OCCIDENTULUI HOUSING

A typical street for the central area of Bucharest, with isolated villas in the middle of the yard, wagon-houses, buildings from the interwar period and insertions from the ‘60s and ‘70s.

Occidentului Housing

Bucharest, Romania

Client:
Dezvoltare Urbană
Project duration:
2013-2017
Gross area:
2.553,82 m²

Occidentului Street is a typical street for the central area of Bucharest, with isolated villas in the middle of the yard, wagon-houses, buildings from the interwar period and insertions from the ‘60s and ‘70s. The gerenal volume is decomposed through several movements and set-backs into a row of smaller houses with different heights that sequence the perception of the building and nuances the relationship to the neighbouring houses and the fragmentary surroundings.

Concept

The intervention proposes a community of 20 apartments and a commercial unit on the wide but relatively shallow plot. All units are transversal / double oriented and organized on split-levels. Instead of typical stacked general floors, here the floors and ceilings move and generate a series of staggered floors, level differences and variations in height and depth – lending the apartments something of the vertical dimension of dwelling.

Matrix of unit types

The open facades reflect the varied interior life of the building and seeks a certain kind of ‘transparency’; the apartment arrangement both defines and is defined by the structural order of the building and
clearly reveals itself outwards.

PROJECT TEAM:

Authors
Adrian Untaru
Bogdan Brădățeanu
Andrei Șerbescu

Co-authors:
Valentina Țigâră
Pavel Albu

Collaborators
Raluca Răescu