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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.

E+E House in Romania by Ene+Ene Arhitectura

 
August 1st, 2019 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: Ene+Ene Arhitectura

Imagine a house the way you want it to be”, this was the assignment of the Dumbrava Vlasiei architecture competition, in which we were invited to participate, and where the single constraints were the local urban regulations and a budget limit. For an architect, this can be the kind of moment which he dreams of, but when it eventually appears, he realizes that the inexistence of normal architectural impositions can be a deceptive trap. The lack of spatial, morphological, historical or cultural landmarks that characterizes interventions in a completely new neighbourhood, at the zero point of its becoming, is sometimes a more important obstacle than it may seem in starting and developing the creation process inherent to architecture. Consequently, lack of limits generates self-censorship, the conscious development of a personal set of values.

Image Courtesy © Cosmin Dragomir

  • Architects: Ene+Ene Arhitectura
  • Project: E+E House
  • Location: Balotești, Dumbrava Vlasiei, Lot. 120 P, Jud. Prahova, Romania
  • Photography: Cosmin Dragomir
  • Software used: Autocad, SketchUp
  • Authors: Mihai Ene, Adela Ene
  • Developer: Loreco Investments – Horia Balan
  • Structure: Profesional Construct Proiectare – ing. Paul Ioan, ing. Florin Nicolitov
  • HVAC: Alma Instal Pro – ing. Adrian Sandu
  • PM: Vision Property Partners – ing. Claudiu Guta, ing. Andrei Gagea
  • Contractor: Vlad Group – ing. Florin Vlad, ing. Bogdan Vlad

Image Courtesy © Cosmin Dragomir

Dumbrava Vlasiei prefigures to become an atypical residential district for the real estate developments in Romania. Less than an hour dive from Bucharest, surrounded by forest, with a an interesting urban design, with sinuous streets and green public spaces, with lots of different shapes and size, Dumbrava Vlasiei is slowly becoming a special place, and this is already evident from what has been built up to the present. A public park of remarkable scale and complexity is set right in the heart of the new neighbourhood. The elements that make up the specific equipment, the urban furniture, the roadway, the sidewalks, the street lighting are taken into account during the project phase and are put into operation with the utmost rigor.

Image Courtesy © Cosmin Dragomir

Image Courtesy © Cosmin Dragomir

The first idea was to develop a house on a single level, with more than just a visual connection with its own courtyard, each space having access to the exterior, but with a discreet relationship with the street front. A linear spatial development, perpendicular to the street, a succession of spatial sequences calibrated according to the functional necessities assigned to each of them. In order to free the inner spaces as much as possible, the rooms are delimited one from the other by functional walls, always of the same thickness, containing furniture and equipment – from wardrobes and shelves to kitchen countertops. Two external courtyards interrupt the linearity of the house, one that announces the access and another, more generous, in relation to the kitchen and the dining room. The house is divided into two areas, the one adjacent to the street, designed for the daily life, characterized by space fluidity, and the retracted, with a view to the opposite side, night area, which ensures privacy.

Image Courtesy © Cosmin Dragomir

Image Courtesy © Cosmin Dragomir

A possible reference was what, sometimes with contempt, is called the “wagon house”, which has a morphology characteristic of the rural area in question, and which, despite its apparent simplicity, has a spatial potential still insufficiently exploited in contemporary local architecture.

Image Courtesy © Cosmin Dragomir

Image Courtesy © Cosmin Dragomir

Image Courtesy © Cosmin Dragomir

Image Courtesy © Cosmin Dragomir

Image Courtesy © Cosmin Dragomir

Image Courtesy © Cosmin Dragomir

Image Courtesy © Cosmin Dragomir

Image Courtesy © Cosmin Dragomir

Image Courtesy © Cosmin Dragomir

Image Courtesy © Cosmin Dragomir

Image Courtesy © Cosmin Dragomir

Image Courtesy © Cosmin Dragomir

Image Courtesy © Cosmin Dragomir

Image Courtesy © Cosmin Dragomir

Image Courtesy © Cosmin Dragomir

Image Courtesy © Ene+Ene Arhitectura

Image Courtesy © Ene+Ene Arhitectura

Image Courtesy © Ene+Ene Arhitectura

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Categories: Apartments, Autocad, House, Interiors, Residential, SketchUp




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