{"id":12219,"date":"2021-08-09T17:40:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T17:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-zeppelin.ro\/en\/?p=12219"},"modified":"2021-08-09T17:40:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T17:40:30","slug":"adn-ba-calderon-80-residence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-zeppelin.ro\/en\/adn-ba-calderon-80-residence\/","title":{"rendered":"ADN BA: Calderon 80 Residence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

ADN BA have had the opportunity to insert small buildings in sensitive urban areas before, but that has usually happened in the garden districts in the north side of Bucharest. In this case, the context has an older history, being part of the extended historical centre, more eclectic (a mixture of buildings of all styles and sizes), but also rich in landmarks and symbolic spaces of the city. <\/p>\n

Text: Ștefan Ghenciulecu<\/strong>
\nPhoto: Cosmin Dragomir, Vlad Pătru<\/strong><\/p>\n

If we look not further than the nearby neighbours, we have a the historical Icoanei Park on the other side of the street; to the left, a beautiful late 19th century villa with a raised ground floor and an attic; the neighbour on the right is a less valuable house (and strongly altered), but immediately after that comes a masterpiece of the Neo-Romanian movement, Ion Mincu’s Central School for Girls; the back of the lot borders on the school yard.<\/p>\n

$\"P00_CLD_Plan$ <\/a>*situation plan<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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In this difficult place they needed to squeeze in a building with few apartments, but with considerable occupation and land use. It was out of the question to imitate some historical style, and to comply with that awful trend -increasingly popular in Bucharest too -, justifying through a “classic” image brutal interventions in the backstage. The strategy was rather to interpret a solution pertaining to a timeless classicism, an adaptation of a model that has helped build the European city in the last hundred years. A simple body is born, marked by the orderliness of the French windows and of some profiles that lend depth and vibrationvto the façade.<\/p>\n

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Above the ground floor and the first three floors, another body with a two-level penthouse is pulled back. From the street, this body is almost invisible. Furthermore, the withdrawal and the different treatment (we will circle back to it) softens the height difference in relation to the neighbouring buildings.<\/p>\n

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