White Concrete Old House

Project Details

Project Name
White Concrete Old House
Architect
I/O Architects
Project Types
Single Family
Shared By
Ayda Ayoubi
Project Status
Built
Year Completed
2017
Size
4,575 ft²
Team

Project Description

FROM THE ARCHITECTS:

Prior to its reconstruction, this house from the 1920-ties was a romantic ruin surrounded by authentic and new-built fragments of ancient Augusta Traiana and rather isolated from the contemporary city, yet in its very center.

The intervention continues the game of time offsets and brings the design to a contemporary interpretation of the avant-garde, at the time the house was built.

A new volume of white concrete complements the structure and the program of the old house. The composition of the openings, the ambiguous elements of the addition and the materiality blend the two distinctive entities. The space of the new stair and its design bring light into the center of the entire composition. The new glossy white concrete slabs integrate and conceal all the contemporary technology of the house.

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