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17.10.2024
BRICK HOUSE - 1st PRIZE WINNER FOR “BUILT ARCHITECTURE / INDIVIDUAL DWELLING ARCHITECTURE” @ AAB2024



The Reclaimed Brick House represents an accurate response to the urban context and the urban planning constraints of the area that shaped this volume on a difficult-to-build lot. The design process involved obtaining several urban planning certificates and strictly respect of all setbacks and regulations of the area, as well as legal requirements


Status: Built
Year: 2016-2023
Location: Bucharest, Romania
Client: Private
Built area: 250 sqm;
Footprint : 75 sqm; 
Budget: 350.000 euro
Chief arhitect: arh.Eliza Yokina
Team: arh. Alexandru Cătăuță, interior: arh. Andrada Tarau
Render: Alexandru Cătăuță, Ioana Penescu; Razvan Malancoiu
General designer: Cumulus Architecture
Height: S+P+2ER
Instalation: Deteco; Alyates; Decolight
Structure: Series Consulting





At the same time, the client's desire for an industrial-looking house with a brick facade led to the solutions of creating an identity built on reclaimed brick, metalwork, and thin-framed windows. Bricl is used as mono material for facades and pavement in the courtyard and terraces. The interior layout is functional, with minimal spaces resulting from the building's configuration and surface limitations. The main facade faces north, and the need for direct natural light throughout the day led to the creation of a skylight above the staircase, whose light reaches the basement through the transparency of the metal staircases of the three levels. The house's interior aims to enhance light, featuring light colors, transparent partitions, and warm finishes.




The house has large glazed openings and also brick latticework to allow for interior privacy while filtering both exterior light during the day and interior light at night. The house is organized around a courtyard which become a second living space during the warm period while the upper stair set back terraces offer views of the neighborhood. Thus, the house negotiates each corner in relation to the blind walls around it, on which it sits.


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08.11.2024
Brasserie at Mita Biciclista
is now open

Cumulus imagined the Brasserie, part of the La Mița Biciclista Creative Establishment as a place open to the city where people can read part of the Mita Biciclista’s personality and the brilliance of the beginning of the century.

17.10.2024
Brick House  1rst prize winner for “Built Architecture/Individual Dwelling Architecture” at AAB2024

The Reclaimed Brick House represents an accurate response to the urban context and the urban planning constraints of the area that shaped this volume on a difficult-to-build lot. The design process involved obtaining several urban planning certificates and strictly respect of all setbacks and regulations of the area, as well as legal requirements

18.09.2024
Cumulus wins 3rd prize @ ”Colentina Lakes” Competition

The competition aimed to develop the landscaping of the Colentina lakeshores over the entire length comprised in the 2nd District. By analyzing the geographical context we discover that Bucharest is not a flat city. Actually, the flat does not exist, there is always a slope of a few centimeters, of a few meters or sometimes of even 10 meters. Therefore, our proposal follows to rediscover the subtle slopes.

09.09.2024
Swisôtel Poiana Brasov is officially open

Eliza Yokina and Cumulus team vision for the design is to bring Transylvanian interiors into the present day:  „To embrace an identity that already exist and to bring into guests experience a connection with it – was one of the main pillars of our design approach. It is not only about what you see but also what you feel and about the connection with a certain culture and tradition in Transilvania, about valuing what we have.”