Attila KIM Architects is the team led by the architect Attila Kim, an architect with extensive experience in the design of exhibitions and cultural events, restoration and architectural projects, nominated three times for the European Union Contemporary Architecture Award, the Mies van der Rohe Award, winner of several national awards at the Bucharest Architecture Biennale, Bucharest Architecture Annual, Transylvania Architecture Biennale, Arhitext Awards, and awarded in 2016 with the Arts and Society Leadership Award by the Aspen Institute for his contribution to Romanian culture.
Attila Kim is a founding member of the architecture workshops Studio Kim Bucșa Diaconu (SKBD) and Lundi et Demi. Since 2012 he has been working independently, leading a young and dynamic team, under the name of Attila KIM Architects. The team members are Attila Kim, Alexandru Szűz Pop, Adina Marin, Andreea Precup and Cristina Iordache.
Important projects include public buildings, residential buildings, showrooms, exhibitions and fairs, shops and restorations of historical monuments.
Starting from 2016, Attila Kim is the Commissioner of Romania at the Venice Biennale.
Project description in English
The apartment is located on the first floor of a house in the protected area of the municipality of Oradea. The building was built in the first part of the 20th century and has compositional and decorative characteristics to that period.
The apartment has a double orientation, towards the street front and towards the back garden of the house. The 90 square meter apartment originally consisted of two main rooms, a kitchen with a pantry and a storage room, a bathroom with two accesses, a service bathroom, distribution halls and a private terrace, that opens to the backyard.
The interior architecture project focuses on the functional rethinking of the apartment, the redefinition of the circulations, the connection between the spaces and the relationship with the outside, taking advantage of the double orientation of the apartment. By unifying the access hall with the distribution hall and by creating direct links with the private terrace through double-opening doors, the relocated kitchen becomes the epicenter of the apartment.
In place of the original kitchen, unified with the two adjacent storage spaces, a secondary bedroom was created, opening to the garden behind the building.
