2019 // Hotel by the sea
2019 // Hotel by the sea
2019 // Hotel by the sea
2019 // Hotel by the sea
2018 // STUDIO HOUSE
2018 // STUDIO HOUSE
2018 // STUDIO HOUSE
2018 // STUDIO HOUSE
2018 // STUDIO HOUSE
HISTORY
Architects Simina Dron and Raul Ardelean began working together at the end of 2012 in order to deliver a project with a very tight deadline and reached the conclusion that 'daaa is more', founding DAAA (Dron and Ardelean Architects).
SPECIFIC
The studio, founded by architects Simina Dron and Raul Ardelean, approaches each kind of project with the same passion and concern that the two architects share for simplicity, expressivity and functionality.
ROMANIAN DESIGN WEEK APPEARANCES
2019 // Hotel by the sea
Part of a zoning in Mamaia Nord with an initial maximum height of three levels, the site had an ideal position in the front row overlooking the sea, adjacent to a green area and served by two parallel streets. As a result, the hotel was configured as a compact volume with rooms facing the sea to the east, the green area to the south and the access area to the west, with the parking and service accesses on the north side. At the same time, the double access and the elevation difference between the two streets were speculated by the two-level arrangement of the reception, bar, restaurant and conference room. The external aspect relied on the shading effect given to the plain white volume by the depth of the loggias uniformly distributed over the facades. However, the current state is deeply affected by the lack of infrastructure, as well as by the new urban planning regulation which has allowed the construction of very high and dense buildings in the former protection area of the shore.
2018 // STUDIO HOUSE / THE PIANO, THE BOOKCASE AND THE FIREPLACE Architects Simina Dron and Raul Ardelean began working together at the end of 2012 in order to deliver a project with a very tight deadline and reached the conclusion that 'daaa is more', founding DAAA (Dron and Ardelean Architects).
SPECIFIC
The studio, founded by architects Simina Dron and Raul Ardelean, approaches each kind of project with the same passion and concern that the two architects share for simplicity, expressivity and functionality.
ROMANIAN DESIGN WEEK APPEARANCES
2019 // Hotel by the sea
Part of a zoning in Mamaia Nord with an initial maximum height of three levels, the site had an ideal position in the front row overlooking the sea, adjacent to a green area and served by two parallel streets. As a result, the hotel was configured as a compact volume with rooms facing the sea to the east, the green area to the south and the access area to the west, with the parking and service accesses on the north side. At the same time, the double access and the elevation difference between the two streets were speculated by the two-level arrangement of the reception, bar, restaurant and conference room. The external aspect relied on the shading effect given to the plain white volume by the depth of the loggias uniformly distributed over the facades. However, the current state is deeply affected by the lack of infrastructure, as well as by the new urban planning regulation which has allowed the construction of very high and dense buildings in the former protection area of the shore.
The project was a challenge to fulfil due to the vision of an artist, who wanted to harmoniously combine the space of musical inspiration and creation with the living space. For this reason, the central and generating point of the house became the two-story living room with its three essential elements: the piano, the library and the fireplace.
All the other spaces articulate and subordinate themselves around it, having as a general rule the orientation and opening of the main spaces to the vegetation yard and the forest, as well as the arrangement of the accesses and secondary areas to the north and the street. The simple and compact volume opens to the courtyard through the general glazing of the southern facade and the interior space is extending outward through the terrace and the swimming pool, both submerged into vegetation, while the other sides of the building remain introverted, dominated by small fillings, thus ensuring, along with the enclosure wall, intimacy towards neighborhoods.
