Monday, 16 April 2012
Retirement Home - Timişoara (Soarelui area)
This multi-residence housing facility intended for senior citizens is designed as a comfortable hotel-like composition. My concept adopts the specific urban pattern of the area, reassembling it along a main axis, based on rules that generate hierarchy and privacy.
This spine-like compositional axis works as an interior street cutting through the building. The whole becomes "a city within the city"
An urban square lies in the northern part of the plot, so that is where I positioned the main access point.
The upper floors of all four main volumes are exclusively meant for housing, while additional facilities and services are located on their ground levels.
The ground level of the 1st volume includes the administration, the 2nd volume has dining and leisure, the 3rd volume stands for healthcare and the last one accommodates the elderly that require special attention.
The level of privacy increases as one navigates through the building. A key role in this hierarchy is played by the interior and intermediary courtyards, each provided with clearly defined uses, so that each one serves a designated category of users.
An urban square lies in the northern part of the plot, so that is where I positioned the main access point.
The upper floors of all four main volumes are exclusively meant for housing, while additional facilities and services are located on their ground levels.
The ground level of the 1st volume includes the administration, the 2nd volume has dining and leisure, the 3rd volume stands for healthcare and the last one accommodates the elderly that require special attention.
The level of privacy increases as one navigates through the building. A key role in this hierarchy is played by the interior and intermediary courtyards, each provided with clearly defined uses, so that each one serves a designated category of users.
B.L. Training Centre
The training center located Fârdea Village (Timiş County) is designed as a place for relaxing, bonding and developing team related skills.
The proposal consists of two wings intended for accommodation, headed to the woods, a dominant wing disposed perpendicularly that shelters the front desk, indoor leisure and training facilities, while the traditional rural houses at the street front have become the wing for dining and maintenance facilities.
The first and main yard of the complex has a more public profile, since it includes the parking and leads to every access.
The second yard is meant to stay closer to nature, isolated from the traffic, and to work as an outdoor "playground" for team-sports.
When scaling my proposal, one of my priorities was to not to step out of the local building proportion, in order to establish a dialogue between the building I "found" on the plot and the building I imagined there.
The proposal consists of two wings intended for accommodation, headed to the woods, a dominant wing disposed perpendicularly that shelters the front desk, indoor leisure and training facilities, while the traditional rural houses at the street front have become the wing for dining and maintenance facilities.The first and main yard of the complex has a more public profile, since it includes the parking and leads to every access.
The second yard is meant to stay closer to nature, isolated from the traffic, and to work as an outdoor "playground" for team-sports.
When scaling my proposal, one of my priorities was to not to step out of the local building proportion, in order to establish a dialogue between the building I "found" on the plot and the building I imagined there.
Recycled House
While not a true adaptive reuse project in that the given home mostly maintained its original use, the rehabilitation and extension proposal requalified old infrastructure elements throughout the new house, that includes an architect's home and studio as well.
The start point for this project was a poor condition one level home located in a quickly revitalizing neighborhood of Timişoara.Being intended for an architect, the new design solution aims, apart of the consolidation works, to promote catchy interventions like the volumetric play, the guiding elements on the facade or the comfortable shading devices.
From a functional point of view, in the new house the work zone and the living zone are organized on different floors, in order to keep services at the reach of clients and to respect the architect's everyday privacy.
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