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Bucharest Apartments
Bucharest Residence ? design by ADN Birou de Arhitectur?
page updated 16 Oct 2016 with new images ; 8 Jul 2014
Bucharest Apartments in Romania
Design: ADN Birou de Arhitectur?
Location: Str. Dogarilor 26?30, Bucure?ti / 26?30, Dogarilor Street, Bucharest, Romania
Bucharest Apartments in Romania

One of the most important and problematic aspects of nowadays Bucharest is the fast densification of the central area.

While the architects believe that density can, and many times must be seen as a form of sustainability, they also admit that the often fragile relationship between habitation within an old neighborhood and the increase of density could many times alter the place and reduce its existing qualities.
The project is looking for an appropriate answer to this problem. It tries to mediate between different sizes and densities, in a quite central neighborhood characterized by small streets, long, narrow plots and a puzzle of old and new buildings of all types and scales.

The building searches to preserve, at its own scale, the porosity and ?profoundness? of the deep, narrow plots, while also trying to capture part of the ?collage?-like appearance of the surroundings.

The volumetric proposal seeks to partially open the building to the street, in the depth of the plot. Because of this, the volume facing the street is less compact and the ground floor is more transparent, in order ...