Prior to its reconstruction, this house from the 1920’s was a romantic ruin surrounded by authentic and new-built fragments of ancient Augusta Traiana and rather isolated from the contemporary city, yet in its very centre.
The intervention continues the game of time offsets and brings the design to a contemporary interpretation of the avant-garde, at the time the house was built.
A new volume of white concrete complements the structure and the program of the old house. The composition of the openings, the ambiguous elements of the addition and the materiality blend the two distinctive entities. The space of the new stair and its design bring light into the centre of the entire composition. The new glossy white concrete slabs integrate and conceal all the contemporary technology of the house.
Credits
Interior
I/O architects; Georgi Katov, Viara Jeliazkova, Rositsa Hristova
Client
private
Year of completion
2017
Location
Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
Surface
425 m2
Photos
Assen Emilov
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Project Partners
OK Atelier s.r.o., MALANG s.r.o.
