The house is built in a residential area in the north of Timisoara, Romania. Nearby, there is another house I designed 13 years ago, which develops the same idea of a „house on a houseâ€. It has to do with a social phenomena typical also for Italy and Greece, where young members of the family live with the parents and. This coexistence was sincerely expressed in both cases: the „young house†on the „old oneâ€.
Wood means young, fresh, stone has to do with the roots, the long time... A wood house on a bigger stone house. READ MORE
The house is built in a residential area in the north of Timisoara, Romania. Nearby, there is another house I designed 13 years ago, which develops the same idea of a „house on a houseâ€. It has to do with a social phenomena typical also for Italy and Greece, where young members of the family live with the parents and. This coexistence was sincerely expressed in both cases: the „young house†on the „old oneâ€.
Wood means young, fresh, stone has to do with the roots, the long time... A wood house on a bigger stone house.
More than that, this juxtaposition has to do with a public/private dialectics. Stone solid walls „defend†and close a little the private area. In AB house, this character of fence house is equilibrated by the subtraction of a typical traditional „grey†space of public/private interaction at the entrance. Behind the house, the theme of intermediary it is represented by the patio and the covered terrace, „the outside eating roomâ€.
Inside the house there is a two direction topology: the horizontal one, of the parents area, which embraces also the patio; and the vertical one which juxtaposes the spaces of the „two housesâ€. This juxtaposition is happening on the living room area, where a typical “raum-plan†pattern is developed.
The living room is developed as a “theatreâ€, you can observe it from different levels. There is also a private part, on the first floor, like the “women’s room †in traditional oriental dwellings, a space from where you can observe but you are not observed. It is a space for a future library, a space for smoking.
The apartment contained in the wooden house from above is enough also for a young couple. The inside/outside relation is also developed here, without dismantling the unity of the box: an intermediary space to the south behind wooden louvres, a thin balcony to the west, to observe the atrium and the dawn and a vertical incision to the east, to directionate the rising sun.
Architect: Vlad Gaivoronschi
Colaborator: Dan Damian, Alexandru Malaescu, Andreea Simici
Location: Timisoara, Romania
Structural engineering: Misca Gherasim
Design period: 2006
Building period: 2006 - 2013
Total built area: 300 sqm
Photography: Ovidiu Micșa
2014: Bienala de Arhitectura Bucuresti - shortlisted