Initiatives / Experiments / Visions

THRESHOLD HOUSE

Principal author

PATRICIA BUS, CALIN CRISTESCU

Profession

ARHITECT

Architecture office

PROIECT LINIA B

Project year

2018

Location

Dumbrava Vlăsiei, Balotești, Iflov

Project description

A community in the middle of nature, a house with multiple thresholds, a constantly changing volume, found in a state of a perpetual waltz with nature, gardens with different stories, a sunken living room and a suspended hammock on the façade, which urges you to dream, are some of the elements that form a threshold-house. The house-community relationship is semi-private, in which the user decides the degree of intimacy of the house and of the gardens. The receiving garden is a public space assumed by the set back position of the house, and the perforated metal sheet filter-walls act as a mediator between public and private spaces, thus all the spaces behind these filters have a changing degree of intimacy depending on the user's preference, from a semi-private space to a private space. The user decides when he wants or when he does not want to open his living space to the community. Therefore the house changes according to the user's mood. The house-garden relationship. The garden is an extension of the interior spaces, each garden reflects the role and function of the space they are in touch with. The "receiving garden" is an augmented exterior vestibule, "the spice garden" is in connection with the kitchen area, "the garden of the sunken living room" maximizes the interior-exterior relationship, and the "leisure garden" is a second living room, completely exterior, with a hammock, fireplace and open-air projections wall, in the middle of nature. The house-nature relationship. The opening of the house to nature is mediated by the connection of the interior spaces to the outside, at ground level through the thematic gardens, and first floor level through the intermediate space that is created between the house and the green wall. This green façade is subject to changing seasons, thus the house lives and changes its appearance in the rhythm of nature.

Text description of the author

Patricia and Călin, alumni of the Polytechnic University of Timişoara - Faculty of Architecture, work in an office in Arad. Since 2017 they collaborate on projects whitin the architectural office and also in architectural competitions.

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