Aaron Florian Housing | ADNBA

Aaron Florian Apartment Building, is an honest answer to a particular urban setting: an irregular plot, the closeness of the opposite building raising privacy issues, a blind wall to a difficult neighbour and an inflection of the street. All these produce an atypical configuration – a building with floors successively recessed, the upper floors providing more light to the narrow street and the exterior spaces directing the views along it.
Architects: ADNBA
Location: Romania
Architects in Charge: Adrian Untaru, Andrei Șerbescu Bogdan Brădățeanu, Valentina Țigâră, Carmen Petrea, Pavel Albu
Area: 2520.95 m2
Project: Year 2015
Photographs: Andrei Margulescu, Cosmin Dragomir
Manufacturers: CAPAROL, Shuco

The retracted plinth gives the building a lightsome, almost detached appearance, connected to the ground only by the tectonic effect of the stairs leading into the building. The transparency of the ground floor allows for commercial or office spaces to open themselves to the street, thus livening this rather narrow and trafficless blind alley.

Floors 1 to 3 comprise three apartments each, while the last floor contains two larger apartments with terraces both at their level and on the rooftop, that provide spectacular views of one of the most beautiful neighborhoods in Bucharest.