Public Choice Award

For ten years, Beta has been awarding quality architectural initiatives and projects in Romania, Hungary and Serbia. The international jury for each edition is made up of renowned architects, and the awards reflect our determination to promote authors and projects with a beneficial impact on the built environment.

For the first time in this competition, we have introduced the People's Award, through which we aim to improve the connection between architects and the general public, emphasizing the importance of architecture that directly addresses the values and needs of society.

We all live in and use the city and the spaces that architects design, so we want the Beta Awards to recognize the preferences of the general public. The Public Award is our way of bringing quality architecture closer to the general public and promoting those architectural projects that make us proud of the cities we live in. Each person can vote for one project in the categories of Built Space, Interior Space, Public Space, Graduate Projects and Research.

The public vote will be open together with the awards exhibition and will run until the end of the competition, when the project with the most votes will be awarded at the Beta 2024 Awards Gala.

Interior Space

Interior Design

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Alexandra Berdan, Anca Spînu

Author(s) / Team representatives

Alexandra Berdan, Anca Spînu

Profession

Arhitect

Collective/office

A+noima

Project location

Sat Corhana, comuna Dulcești, județul Neamț, România

Budget în euros

36000 euro

Usable area

100 mp

Project start date

iulie 2022

Construction completion date

decembrie 2022

Client

Familia Olaru

Website

See Website

Photo credits

Alexandra Berdan, George Olaru

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Text presentation of the author/office in English

A+noima is an architecture studio founded in 2017 in Iași, Romania. Through simple gestures, bright ideas and a responsible approach towards resources, A+noima creates and shapes meaningful experiences that enrich people's lives. From „factories and mills” to cribs and dens, A+noima conceives spaces that offer, with generosity, more than a response to a given problem. They give more space, more light, more utility or simply joy.

Project description in English

The transformation of A Childhood Haven In Corhana is an exercise of preserving the family legacy along the modernization process of an adobe family house. All functional and aesthetic interventions entailed a blend of materials and traditional implementation methods driven by the desire to preserve the house's original character. We enhanced thermal comfort while keeping the original details of the walls intact. The attic was reclaimed and returned to the family as a versatile space for play and relaxation. The 'gentle' edges of the walls were repaired and finished with clay-based plasters. The ceilings were reverted to wooden paneling, and the ceramic tiles of the heated floors evoke the old stoves. Some of the family's handmade rug collection was used to upholster the cushions and the bench in the living room. All the custom-made furniture and the interior staircase to the attic were crafted in the household workshop, harmoniously blending with the new and reused pieces.

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