MONOconcept

25/10/2024

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25/10/2024

The intervention is located in Bucharest, at 43 Papiu Ilarian Street. The site is part of a predominantly residential area in Sector 3, featuring a typical collage of houses with gardens, small collective buildings, and tall collective housing from the 1960s-1970s. The corner plot on which the block is proposed extends in depth and is bordered by a lateral blind wall, being visible from three different directions.
The insertion aims to address the challenge of creating a distinct living space within a typical Bucharest urban fabric, relating to the surroundings by fragmenting the building’s volume, covering the western blind wall, and setting back the façade from the street. The building serves as collective housing with a public ground floor, integrating into the specific character of the area.
Functionally, the ground floor space for public services is located towards Papiu Ilarian Street, while the residential area opens towards the courtyard in the northern part of the plot. Access to the building is through a recessed volume from the street, creating a distinction between the functional areas on the ground floor. On the upper floors, the living spaces are arranged around a central core of secondary functions. The apartments vary in size and layout but share the common feature of opening on to a loggia or terrace.
The relationship with the exterior is achieved through the large courtyard on the ground floor, the planted planters found at multiple levels, and the apartments that open on to these with large terraces bordered by metal railings and windows without parapets.

Imobil de apartamente pe strada Papiu Ilarian / Ilarian Urban Living – arh.Andra Ioana Dragan, arh.Alexandra Monoranu

30/12/2022

Bucharest has a considerable amount of resources: abandoned industrial sites, hostile and unbuild enclaves that have a visible effect on the life quality.
The 1588sqm land is situated in a crowded neighborhood in the near vicinity of apartment buildings, 8 and 10 stories high.
It presented itself as an unbuilt enclave, being flanked by Secondary School no. 307 and blocks built in different stages (with varied, uneven architecture), one of which was built illegally and is currently abandoned.
The project aims to bring back to a human scale a massive built context. Located on a corner lot, it easier to detach it stylistically from its neighbors buildings which have an undefined and parasitic architecture.
The new construction was built with individuality in an impersonal context, as a new way to develop an area.
The building houses a community of 29 apartments, and has a height regime of S+D+2 FLOORS +3 R.
Functionally, technical spaces and parking spaces are located in the basement, and the ground and upper floors are intended for living spaces.
In solving this project, diversity was key in terms of partition solutions. Each apartment has a terrace with a different shape, partially covered or with free areas.
The general shape of the building is broken down by terraces with different shapes and surfaces. They help create a rhythm on the facades, and enhance the building in relationship with the neighboring constructions.
The metal panels proposed on the facades have a double role. They visually unite the volumetric elements, and at the same time ensure privacy, being positioned so as to limit the view to the neighboring balconies.
The apartments situated on the ground floor have a private courtyard, and the apartments on the upper floors have access to a common courtyard where there is a playground for children.
The position and shape of the apartments is determined by the building structure, and their shape is clearly read from the outside. The building reflects the inner life of the residents through the open terraces and invites to a different kind of 'transparency'.
Each volumetric element is designed to complete the scenography of the building, creating an architectural object, a "landmark" that is gradually revealed to the viewer with each perspective point.

Moșilor Urban Residence – arh. Georgiana Alina Florea, arh. Simona Ionescu, arh. Alexandra Monoranu

27/12/2022

The desire to have a house made thousands of Bucharest residents migrate to the satellite towns situated near the city.
In Bragadiru, the real estate development was based on the 2005 General Urban Plan, dated back from a time when Bragadiru was a village.
Although the General Urban Plan has been updated, the city would have needed a development strategy much earlier, one which would establish new building rules, adapted to the increased needs.
The peripheral areas have become a laboratory for architectural experiments, in an inappropriately regulated context.
Most of the developed lots are former agricultural ones, brought into the inner-city limits in order to build single family houses and collective housing. These developments sites follow the geometry of the agricultural plots, narrow and deep. In order to make maximum use of the permitted urban planning parameters, they left little space dedicated to circulation or parking.
The current proposal aims to solve both the public utilities and the means of access and traffic decongestion.
The land opens onto two streets. Within the residential complex are proposed several circulation paths and pedestrian alleys. These alleys will serve all the constructions, ensuring interventions in case of emergency, as well as access to the parking spaces located on the ground level.
Of the total area of 8250 square meters, 1802 square meters were given to the public domain in order to expand the existing roads and build a new path that connects two existing ones.
The site is situated between the low-rise housing area and the medium-rise mixed area. The destination of this building complex is residential, as there are complementary functions and facilities 500 m from the site.
The premise that architecture is the art with the greatest impact on man, lead to an architectural style that draws simple lines, in harmony with the airy and green spaces.
The buildings are designed with horizontal registers and have put together three distinct elements, (characteristic of the development of the area) houses with a garden, houses "on the first floor" and "coupled houses” with terraces.
1st and 2nd floor becomes a register, a link between the garden houses (framed by the massiveness of the premises) and the "coupled individual" houses situated on the 3rd level (served by large individual terraces).
A monochrome color range was chosen to contrast and to enhance the colors of the planted areas. Each private garden on the ground floor is customized by the residents, thus each brings color to the residential complex, in its own way.
The ensemble presents a housing typology with small building height regime, with generous distances between buildings. Emphasis is placed on the quality of housing, maintaining a balanced ratio between private and semi-private green space and the number of housing units. At ground level, the delimitation between private and semi-private areas is made only with hedge, without any fences.

The 6 buildings have a height regime of P+2 FLOORS+3 RETRACT FLOOR, were placed on site considering the extension of the existing road. The orientation towards the cardinal points was also considered. Thus, the residential complex is a bright one, in harmony with nature.
The architecture of the complex is designed to give a better view on the common spaces of the condominium and to provide intimacy. The perspectives are open and ensure privacy for the residents. Each apartment on the ground floor benefits from a private garden, separated from the common garden, by a hedge.
The main goal of this residential complex was to solve the needs of the users and raise the housing quality, in an urban and economic context with poor supply.
There are 3 types of buildings, 45 types of partitioning, 90 spacious apartments, of which those on the 3rd floor have generous terraces and 108 parking spaces for tenants and visitors.
The external common space is partially occupied by the infrastructure necessary for road traffic and for common installations. In addition, an ample system of private and semi-private green spaces was added, to provide shade and tame the arid landscape. There is also children's playground, which brings even more color and serves the community.

Color Life Residence – arh. Andra Ioana Drăgan, arh. Georgiana Alina Florea, arh. Simona Ionescu, arh. Alexandra Monoranu, arh. Andra Elena Tiba

23/10/2022

23/10/2022