Avangarde / 05.08.2015
This real estate development had to deal with a simple design request: cheap inline houses, nicely ordered above the large plain in the periphery of Bucharest. Initially, the developer had alreary finished two similar projects, with identical houses placed in a row vis-à-vis the parking spots. The hope and the real stake of this engagement was the construction of similar houses regarding both the costs and the construction techniques already tested by the client, dressing it in a new “design” layer which could customize this development among the many recenly built gated ensembles and simultaneosly could emphase the need for differentiation of the future dwellers.
In spite of this, the enlarged geometry of the site, which allowed the configuration of two rows of houses back to back, inspired us a certain collective conviviality and, if not too much to say, the potential of an inceptive urbanity. This was the reason for designing a small central square, which could benefit from this potential and offer a minimum communal space for the remote periphery. So, every house had to have a small acces to this central space which could coagulate the 23 dwellings, but also reestablish the urban model as a valid cultural asset amidst the kaleidoscope of recently built gated communities.
Client: SC AVANGARDE FOREST SRL
Location: Voluntari, ILFOV
Building surface: 4356 m²
Building site: 4655 m²
Structure: Cadre si diafragme BA
Maximum height: 12m
Parking lot: 52
Inhabitants: 23 families
Programme: Locuire
Status: Finalizat
Design: Republic of Architects
Realisation: 2014-2015
Structure: RANTECH PROIECT
MEP: SMART DESIGN INSTALATII / CLIMA CONFORT
Photos: COSMIN DRAGOMIR