Art&Facts is an architecture and art office from Suceava, founded in 2016, by Larisa-Georgiana Popa, PhDarch. and high school Art teacher, and Sergiu Popa, architect and visual artist, aiming at imagining and producing art, design and architecture objects. Starting from sculpture and graphic design works, the office's activity has recently focused on residential architecture, working with experimental space, surprising interior paths and the intimate relationship between architecture and nature.
Founded in 1998, Prodomus is a promoter of innovative and sustainable architectural design, specializing in creating functional and aesthetic spaces in the residential, commercial, and public sectors, integrating eco-friendly practices and energy-efficient technologies.
Project description in English
In a wooden valley on the edge of Voroneț town, the house was designed as a refuge for a young couple, returned in the country in a popular area amoung tourist. The main challenge was to create an intimate atmosphere but also a respite to look at the imposing surroundings from inside a mysterious volume, closed like a box. The volumes layout starts from the need to provide an answer to the location characteristics. A series of concrete diaphragms embedded in the slope places the house in steps, following the downhill and taking the curved shape of the road. The steeply sloping land limited the design process to a horizontal footprint developed along the road over which the house functions were placed in a stack, on semi levels, in a natural functional path from the reception - entrance area, to the living areas, then through atrium, to the guest room and the office, to the uppermost space - the bedroom with terrace.
The simplicity of the exposed concrete infrastructure was offset by the materiality of the exterior walls both through their organic, textured quality (tree bark) and through the chromatic warmth of the corten. Also, the homogenous approach to the volumes by using dark black treated wood, like a tree bark for the exterior walls, has the role of completing the appearance of the mystery box volume from the outside in contrast to the warmth and abundance of light from the inside.
