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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.

Eclipse house in Sofia, Bulgaria by I/O architects

 
February 3rd, 2020 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: I/O architects 

Utterly introvert, this house is located on the last plot of a desired neighbourhood in the outskirts of Sofia, Bulgaria. The complexity of the program confronts the size of the site thus determining the tree structure of the house. Each of the three stories differs in both size and concealment strategy. The vastest first story is underground yet naturally lit and directly connected to the street and the garden. The compressed and mostly open ground floor together with the small garden is hidden behind the hedge. The privacy and sunlight of the large upper floor are meticulously controlled by big scale sliding panels. Only the simple hovering pigmented zinc volume and the blind entrance are exposed to the street while the rest of the complex structure remains unrevealed. The spaces inside are integrated around the light of the central atrium and pierced by unexpected space connections. The reflective roof of the deep veranda brings back garden view to the interior. The linear underground space of the swimming pool has visual and physical contact with the garden while the bright garage is connected to the rest of the house through an under-stair periscope space.

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  • Architects: I/O architects
  • Project: Eclipse house
  • Location: Sofia, Bulgaria
  • Photography: Assen Emilov
  • Design team: Viara Jeliazkova, Rositsa Hristova, Georgi Katov, Stefan Apostolov
  • Structural Engineering: Neo Desk – Petar Chernev
  • Gross Floor Area: 805 sq.m
  • Plot Area: 840 sq.m.
  • Project: 2015-2016
  • Construction: 2016-2019

Image Courtesy © Assen Emilov

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Image Courtesy © Assen Emilov

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Image Courtesy © Assen Emilov

Image Courtesy © Assen Emilov

Image Courtesy © Assen Emilov

Image Courtesy © Assen Emilov

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Image Courtesy © I/O architects

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Categories: House, Residential, Villa




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