Authors: gregorc/vrhovec arhitekti Photos: Damjan Švarc Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia Year of completion: 2018 Total area: 249 m2 Site area: 416 m2 We've designed and built the House Celovška 01 in Šentvid, north peripheral part of Ljubljana. What we did means huge distance from everything that is typical and known as a family house in Slovenia. It's a two-storey house with two housing units. It's 7m high, 40m long and 4m wide house. Urban House Celovška 01 is positioned near one of the main Ljubljana city roads – Celovška cesta. It's a busy road where you can find screamingly large and colorful advertising posters on one side and the forest in the backround. That's what dictated to choose the colors that balance all the oppposites. Black, as new white, seemed to be ideal. The volume melted seamlessly with the surroundings and always communicates with different kind of light in the day. Black coat changes from silvery white in the strong sunshine to carbon black in the evening. Narrow House is extremely narrow. The interior width measures from 3 to 3.5m. More typical for a parking lot that for a housing unit. The challenge was how to make an extremely narrow and long plot useful. Once upon a time there were many farms around Ljubljana and these proportions of the plots, long and narrow, were used for farming. As city was growing and expanding it became an attractive location worth to try impossible. Innovative Extreme location has demanded numerous innovations in terms
Beri dalje →

Authors: Sonja Radović Jelovac; Studio Synthesis architecture&design Collaborators: Radovan Radović, Milić Đerković Photos: Relja Ivanić Year of completion: 2017 Location: Kolašin, Montenegro Total area: 300 m2 Site area: 900 m2 Contemporary “Chalet Jelovac” is a family house for leisure and research work of architect Sonja Radovic Jelovac, PhD, Principal of Studio Synthesis Architecture & Design from Montenegro. This architectural realisation is example of successful integration into specific and sensitive landscape in the vicinity of Park Forest in Dulovine Village in Kolasin at the north of Montenegro, at altitude of 1000 m. Chalet is positioned along linear row of larch forest (lat. Betula alba verucosa) which gives this location special authenticity and colourful diversity generated through changes of seasons. Key to architectural concept was strengthening relationships of nature vs culture, and private vs public through adaptive resilient solution and different usage in extreme weather conditions, especially in winter time, indoor and outdoor, which can integrate different programmes and activities of socio-ecological significance. The Chalet is designed and realised as multi-purpose building to be used by the architect’s family during summer, winter and weekend holidays, but also for research work and architectural workshops during summer architecture schools.

Authors: Barna D. Kovács; Barna Architects Client: Csaba Antal Photos: Tamás Bata Location: Dörgicse, Hungary Year of completion: 2017 Total area: 70 m2 Site area: 1167 m2 The primary task of the design was to create a guest house that is connected to the local environment, which provides a native atmosphere by making use of modern architectural elements. The secondary task was to create a space for the terrace that is in connection with the interior and can be one of the main living areas of the house. The aim of the geometry and the materials of the building was to connect the design to the site and create a native atmosphere. We planned to use traditional materials with a modern sense of design. The load bearing structure is visible on the exterior of the building, that provides rhythm and arrangement to the facade system. The structural elements are enhanced to serve the architectural concept of the house. The pillars of the structure stand in pairs, with a 1.4 meter axis distance to each other. Between the pillars are the transparent doors and windows all along the facade, providing plenty of natural light to the interior, as well as upholding a continuous connection between the inhabitants and nature. The wood frame structure is self supporting, the isolation walls are placed behind the pillars. The main building and the terrace reflect the same system of design, with the difference that the isolation walls are not included in the terrace construction. The
Beri dalje →

Architecture: Dmitrii Petrov; linearchitects Photos: Bajura Oleg Year of completion: 2018 Location: Chisinau, Moldova Total area: 780 m2 Site area: 1400 m2 The sculptural form of the house of concrete, metal and glass was conceived as an art object among private buildings. The house is located on a small plot on a slope with panoramic views of the surroundings. Gallery space of the house with flowing areas filled with modern objects of art, which is more like a museum, rather than a private house in which you can wander passing from one zone to another. The interior and architecture of the house aims to make an abstract impression on guests and residents of the house. But despite this, the house has everything you need for a comfortable stay: a gym, a swimming pool, a home theater, an office, many bedrooms, technical and utility rooms ... In the center of the house is a single-front staircase, sandwiched between two walls, which connects all three levels and which is illuminated with natural light from the glass roof. The house has three levels: one underground and two above-ground floors. In the underground level are located: a home cinema, a gym and a large dressing room. On the first level - in the center of the house there is a secluded living room with a second light above the sofa group, where natural light comes from the glass roof. The kitchen and dining room are located in the same space, the facade of which
Beri dalje →

Architecure: DAAA (Dron and Ardelean Architects); Raul Ardelean, Simina Dron, Miruna Ardelean, Alexandru Apostol Photos: Arthur Tintu Year of completion: 2017 Location: Corbeanca, Romania Total area: 488 m2 Site area: 1108 m2 The project had to respond to an artist's needs and visions on a harmonious bonding between the inspiration and musical creation space, and the one for living. A studio‐home emerged, imaged by the artist, together with the architects, as very simple in form and architectural expression. The central and generating point of the house was the two‐storey living room, with its 3 essential elements: the piano, the library, and the fireplace. The white, simple and compact volume opens towards the courtyard and the forest through the general glazing of the south facade, with the interior continuing outside through the vegetation‐submerged terrace and pool. The other sides of the building have remained introvert, dominated by closed walls shapes with punctual gaps, thus ensuring, alongside the opaque enclosure wall, intimacy from the street and the neighbourhood.

Authors: Ina Elena Stoian Collaborator: Raluca Popa Structure: Vasilica Petrescu Garden Design: Mirela Dragoș Photos: Andrei Mărgulescu Year of completion: 2015 (exterior), 2017 (interior) Location: Galați, Romania Total area: 825 m2 Ground floor plan area: 322 m2 Site area: 1606 m2 The project reinterprets the lifestyle of three generations sharing the same site. The architect's suggestion of building the houses overlooking a common yard required solutions for the best layout and for defining private and semi-private spaces. The curved façades and the flared plan help to evade a direct view into the important spaces, and, in the same time, the houses open towards the south-orientated yard, which is organised as an outdoor living room. In a few years' time, the vegetation will allow only one free view: to the centre of the yard. The use of brick was suggested to client from the very first visit to the site, where the bricks from demolishing previous old houses and cellars had been deposited. The reuse of brick for the new constructions proved to be a great pretext to offer an alternative to the increasingly bland image of Galati city. The interior follows a simple design, while adding a few decorative elements at the client's request. The architect coordinated all the project phases and takes pride in the dialogue created between the garden and the interior, a scenario that was envisaged from the first sketches.