A Home Design In Bucharest, Romania (Pics)

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Contemporary Architecture Style in Buchares, Romania
Bucharest, Romania: We designed this contemporary-architecture style house on a narrow street with small homes on one side and four-story blocks of flats on the other.

My colleague, Costin, who is also an architect, has shot these awesome images of this home we designed back in 2013.

Our contemporary design for this small home
We played with the textures for this house. The ground floor is plated with wooden planks, contrasting with the pure white volume of the first floor. In the close corner, there is a small home office for our client, who is an IT genius. In the same register, there is the front door flanked by large windows. Facing the street is the largest bedroom.

I am very pleased to finally show a set of pictures of this house that I designed in 2013, and that was built last year.
This is a small home, no larger than 1900 square feet (167 square meters). Its structure was conceived in reinforced concrete, a very usual solution for the seismic hazard of the Bucharest area. The structural design was also made by my company.
We had to wait from December till now, in April, to have the green grass for this photo shoot.

The rear windows of the house are faceing the green garden
I have to admit that we photoshopped the balcony`s parapet and also the yellow paint of the sole steel column of the house. We tried as much as we could to keep the garden as large as possible, despite city codes that would allow us to build close to the rear fence of the yard.

Contemporary and modern architectural styles for houses are not very popular in Romania. This is why I am more than pleased that our client, a very fine young family, took the courage not only to let me and my team design in such a manner but also, as they learned to love the design, to guard the quality of the construction works.
I also thank the general contractor for the quality we all expected from him.

Contemporary architectural design is more and more trendy in my country. I can bet that in the not-too-far future, more and more clients will ask for this type of design.
As more and more quality homes are built, more people will embrace the simplicity and elegance of our times.
Back in 1930-1940, the golden decade of the modern style in Romania, many beautiful homes were built and are still considered good architecture.
But it is hard to believe that everybody has embraced almost all new technologies and gadgets but is still conservative regarding architecture.
Romania is again a different case. The Romanian traditional styles are not suitable for the modern era. Also, what is a wide beautiful conservative style in the American suburbs, can not be imported into Romania because we also lack the arts and crafts necessary to build such homes.
So the large number of houses built in the last 25 years is most of the time ugly and lacks almost all kinds of innovation.
But most of the time, the one-family homes are developed and built directly by the owners. This makes tens of thousands of owners each year deal with architects.
I think that only contemporary architecture could fill the unspoken need for good design.
The fact that more and more Romanian architects manage to design more and more better homes will end in a critical mass at a certain time. After that moment, the quality design will be the rule, not the exception.