Housing
Badea Cartan 13
The project is developed around two square, urban and green courtyards, where we can imagine a growing community. Their clean cut brings order into an urban tissue that had grown organically in this central neighborhood of Bucharest.
We imagined the community life of this building centered
around two urban, yet private courtyards. BC 13 unfolds around these two
defining spaces, ensuring organic connections to its neighboring buildings. The
brick paved and planted courtyards offer opportunities of interaction. Both
access staircases as well as all the apartments benefit from a visual link with
these courtyards, provided by large loggias and sill-less windows.
There are two iconic finishes that define this construction
namely the brick cladding and the steel elements. The apparent brick is the
dominant finish that integrates the development into the neighborhood’s tradition.
BC 13 Residence is located amongst one of the city’s old neighborhoods, which was
a nucleus of craftmanship activities back in the day. This area combined
housing and crafts, and private spaces facing shared courtyards. The
neighborhood also had an industrial area mainly composed of small brick factories.
One of them, Tonola, was located on the current site of the Circus Park only
500 meters away. Starting with the year 1871, the first depot for horse drawn
trams functioned on the adjacent site, on Teilor Street – currently Vasile
Lascar.
The apartments vary in terms of dimension and layout – studios,
2 room apartments, 3 room apartments on a single level, duplex apartments and 4
room apartments with a large garden. The common feature is a generous well-lit
living room with direct access to a terrace or loggia, a semi-private space
where one can set a table and gather friends. Almost all apartments are built
along two façades, ensuring good light conditions all day long and optimal
ventilation. On the ground floor level there are 3 office spaces, or why not,
artist ateliers.

TEAM: Eliza Yokina, Adrian Soare, Anca Ionescu, Simina Ignat, Irina Plopeanu, Diana Iordache, Maria Oprea, Cosmin Anghelache, Andrei Cumpanasoiu, Mara Tomulescu, Alexandru Catauta
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