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.

Built Space

Residential / S

S

Selected

1

vote of the public

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vote of the public

Alt. Corp.

Author(s) / Team representatives

Alt. Corp.

Profession

architect

Collective/office

Cosmin Georgescu, Cosmin O. Gălățianu, Cristian Beșliu, Octavian Bîrsan, Andrei Theodor Ioniță

Co-authors/team members

Arhitectură - Horia Munteanu Structură - DI&A DESIGN CONSULTING Instalații - GLOBAL PROIECT

Project location

România, jud. Ilfov, Balotești

Budget in euros

400 000 euro

Usable area

205 sqm

Project start date

2021

Construction completion date

2023

Client

LORECO INVESTMENTS

Builder

ALLEVO AEDIFICIA

Website

See Website

Photo credits

Vlad Pătru

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Text presentation of the author/office in English

Alt. Corp. was established in 2018 at the initiative of architects Cosmin O. Gălățianu, Cosmin Georgescu, Cristian Beșliu, Octavian Bîrsan, and Andrei Theodor Ioniță. The co-founders of this group graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at IMUAU Bucharest.

Project description in English

The main focus of the house in Dumbrava Vlăsiei is emphasizing two fundamental elements that make up a home: the rooms and the garden. The project unfolded based on this simple limitation: the house should contract itself, freeing up as much land as possible. The importance of the garden determined the overall layout of the structure by stacking all the rooms one atop another. Consequently, the living room became an interior cavity determined by the outer limits of the plot, while the staircase acted as a buttress-like supporting element. The geometry claimed concrete as the only material capable of holding the building upright. The construction thus became a whole, a continuum of 15 cm. reinforced concrete both vertically and horizontally, the only exception being the metal structure of the pavilion that "dives" outwards and belongs to the garden. The house's relationship to the site is, in the end, a successive series of pseudo-parametric equations, a mere juxtaposition of constructive facts that seem to mathematically determine the building.

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