Lighthouse Fagaras Mountain in Romania Building, Sibiu, Romanian Architecture Images
Lighthouse on F?g?ra? Mountains
Take a(l)titude – Hilltop Residence in Ploie?ti, Romania ? design by Archaeus ltd.
11 Jan 2017
Take a(l)titude – Lighthouse on Fagaras Mountains in Romania
Design: Archaeus ltd.
Location: Ploie?ti, Romania
The F?g?ra? Mountains are the highest mountains of the Southern Carpathians, in Romania.
Take a(l)titude
A “lighthouse” in the Fagaras mountains, on the most dangerous (and the most beautiful) places….

photo © Dan Purice
For an architect, the challenge is the fuel that subtle keeps him alive…

photo © Marius Miclaus
The architects had a vague idea about what it meant accepting the challenge to design a shelter at 2,100 m within a restricted budget, especially since they asked to build it themselves, based on the 10 year experience of workshops with students at Sky Hill workshop platform.
photo © Marius Miclaus
A lighthouse in the Fagaras mountains… at Ca?lt?un, in Romania, this was to be the theme of study. Along with all the other sub-themes ? the transport by helicopter which became defining for design (more than 4 hours of talks with the pilots mapped the execution technology and project implementation), it was also discussed the execution under extreme conditions, the careful choice of materials for a special space and the induction of an attitude … at a(l)ttitude … Everyone involved was to l...