House in Sabinelor Street

Project Denomination.

Project location: 34F Sabinelor Str., corp A, ap. 2, sector 5, București, Bucharest, Romania

Beneficiary: Mariana Pârloagă

Author: Dragoș Mihai Dordea

Collaborators, consultants . Vasile Grigoraș / Installations: eng. Georgian Ivan / Photographs: Radu Mălășincu

Height H: P+1

Floor area: 95,94^m2

Useful surface: 82,85^m2

POT: 83%

CUT: 1,66

The intervention in a dense fabric of houses shows the qualities of an architectural project. Its premises are outlined by the old, small building, with two complete and one partial calcans, the low budget (300 euro/sq.m) and the need for rehabilitation and attic to be able to function as a family dwelling.

The survey and analysis of the existing building revealed three stages of construction. The initial stage has two rooms on the ground floor and a vaulted brick cellar in the basement. Subsequently, the large room was extended into the driveway, and in the third stage the building was enlarged with a smaller room in the corner, which leads into the house. The succession of these stages was also signaled by the type of foundation or the quality and thickness of the walls.

The spatial structure of the ground floor was easily modified by joining the two main rooms, resulting in a unitary space, but divided into the living room and the living area. The connection between the ground floor and the first floor is the main element that defines the interior. We chose to build the staircase in the darkest corner of the room, in the corner with the treads, and through the stairwell we brought the light from a window in the roof to the ground floor. The upstairs bathroom is also lighted by a loft window. The two rooms upstairs - a study space and a bedroom - thus benefit from views of the alley.

Both the studio and the bedroom open onto a loggia. This marks the only visible corner of the house, rising higher than the attic's slope break line, which exactly echoes the roof profile of the neighboring house. The design elements described work carefully with the neighborhoods and the history of the house, the new identity being extracted from the constraints of the context and expressed through the two events - the staircase on the inside and the loggia on the outside.