Beros Abdul
J House
Bucharest, Romania
Date: 2016
Stage: Completed
Esenghiul Abdul, Christian Beros, Claudia Trufaș, Roxana Dumitriu, Iulian Bindar.
Bucharest, Romania
Date: 2016
Stage: Completed
Esenghiul Abdul, Christian Beros, Claudia Trufaș, Roxana Dumitriu, Iulian Bindar.
J House project started as the need to renovate a 1960’s house. However, during the design process the request evolved to a wider intervention, which meant to maintain only the walls of the ground floor, while a new structure was designed for the first floor.
One of the main desires of the client was to bring more light to the interior, being the fact that the original house lacked of a good orientation to sun light. On the other hand, there was the need for a better integration between the two floors in order to understand the levels of the house, and to give a sense of continuity and communication between spaces, while still maintaining a sense of privacy.
Two inner voids were proposed; the first one holds the staircase which communicates the new studio room with the kitchen and dining room. Its vertical line it’s accentuated with a skylight that lights up a thin white metal and wood stair, and generates a new meeting corner in a former left over space of the original house. The second void was proposed in top of the living room, communicating the “public” area of the house with the studio and the main bedroom in the top floor. This space was conceived as a large lightbox which not only illuminates the inner core of the house, but also articulates all the spaces in between, giving visual connection through the rooms and a sense of continuity and lightness.
The difference between the new and the old has been accentuated in the exterior envelope through the use of an anthracite fiber-cement panel as the skin for a ventilated façade, against and off-white render of the existing walls on the ground floor
Most of the brick walls and finishings that were removed, were recycled and upgraded, reused and reinstalled as finishings or furniture for the new project, reducing the resources and environmental impact of demolition, and rubble dumping.
Another request was the need of a sustainable solution for the energy resources. 40 sqm of solar panels were installed on the south side of the roof, which generates enough power for the whole house in clear days.
One of the main desires of the client was to bring more light to the interior, being the fact that the original house lacked of a good orientation to sun light. On the other hand, there was the need for a better integration between the two floors in order to understand the levels of the house, and to give a sense of continuity and communication between spaces, while still maintaining a sense of privacy.
Two inner voids were proposed; the first one holds the staircase which communicates the new studio room with the kitchen and dining room. Its vertical line it’s accentuated with a skylight that lights up a thin white metal and wood stair, and generates a new meeting corner in a former left over space of the original house. The second void was proposed in top of the living room, communicating the “public” area of the house with the studio and the main bedroom in the top floor. This space was conceived as a large lightbox which not only illuminates the inner core of the house, but also articulates all the spaces in between, giving visual connection through the rooms and a sense of continuity and lightness.
The difference between the new and the old has been accentuated in the exterior envelope through the use of an anthracite fiber-cement panel as the skin for a ventilated façade, against and off-white render of the existing walls on the ground floor
Most of the brick walls and finishings that were removed, were recycled and upgraded, reused and reinstalled as finishings or furniture for the new project, reducing the resources and environmental impact of demolition, and rubble dumping.
Another request was the need of a sustainable solution for the energy resources. 40 sqm of solar panels were installed on the south side of the roof, which generates enough power for the whole house in clear days.