SPLAY Office Building, Bucharest

Placed on a double-frontage plot within a triangular urban block, the Splay office building is inserted within a densely built environment, defined by a variety of architectural styles. The design fills the leftover space between a 20s Neo-Romanian building and a 60s rationalist one, completing the two street fronts that border the site. The façade’s architecture creates a dialogue with the immediate context through the long horizontal openings, the metal profiles, and the discrete assumption of neighbouring buildings\’ registers. The ground floor’s artificial stonework is a nod to the Modernist period aesthetics and finishes.The vertical circulations and technical spaces are placed along the blind walls, allowing for a variety of interior layouts and usage scenarios. To achieve this flexibility, each slab features 4 cross beams spanning the entire width of the plot. The ground floor opens a public pedestrian passage connecting the two boulevards, while efficiently solving the access towards semi-automated parking. The building’s top floor functions as an events space and steps back on three sides, making room for a large terrace.