SSAT+ is a dynamic and youthful team focused on energizing communities around its projects, adapting to market challenges and client demands in the current context. With an innovative approach and a passion for design, our architecture firm aims to create spaces that inspire and enhance the lives of their users. We focus on customized solutions that seamlessly integrate aesthetics, functionality, and cutting-edge technology.
Our projects range from the restoration of historic buildings to the development of modern, energy-efficient structures. Each project is handled with deep respect for its urban and cultural context, ensuring that our interventions add value to local communities.
Project description in English
The site is located at the intersection of Calea Moșilor and Părintele Stăniloae Street, in a historic area developed over multiple stages of the modern period. The project is based on a dialogue with the monument, the former Popp-Bunescu house, and the historical context of the central area of the capital. Thus, the proposal was developed in two major directions: transforming the Popp-Bunescu house into an office building and constructing the new residential building. One of the functional constants of the entire ensemble is the commercial ground floor, characteristic of the historical identity of Calea Moșilor.
The residential building is set back from the alignment to enhance the presence of the monument on the street. The adjacency of the two buildings is reduced to a glass articulation. This volumetric setback reflects the external zoning, with a portico designed for public passage and a terrace that serves as a buffer space between access to the residences and the public space.
The solution aimed for a diverse layout of the 27 apartments across the 5 levels. The individuality of each unit is defined, on the one hand, by the variety of floor plans, ranging from 2 to 4 rooms and studios arranged on one, two, or three levels. On the other hand, this factor is emphasized in the approach to exterior spaces, solved through generous balconies, loggias, and terraces. These enhance the view towards the panorama of the historic center. Similarly, the roof terrace was divided by planters designed to create intimate exterior spaces for each apartment, compensating for the lack of green spaces, a reverse of the built density of the historic center.
The upper closures of the volume are part of integrating the building into the area's profile, as well as a compositional method to reconcile the levels of intimacy on the terraces of the set-back levels. The lower facades have a regular composition, bringing visual coherence to the ensemble, enlivened by materials compatible with those of the former Popp-Bunescu house, such as exposed brick and multi-layer plaster in pale shades.
The intermediate spaces at the access level complete the pedestrian path and commercial spaces, contributing to the enrichment of the urban circuit and the urban dynamics of the area.
