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Garden View
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Context
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Stair
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Kitchen
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Basement
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Site Plan
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Plan level 1
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Plan level 2
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Section
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Detail
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Axonometric schemes
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A2 Panel
white concrete old house
I/O architects. Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
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Name of work in English
white concrete old house
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Name of work in original language
стара къща с бял бетон
Prize year
EUmies Awards 2019
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Work Location
Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
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Studio
I/O architects
EUmies Awards 2019 Nominees
White Concrete Old House
Collaborators
Structural engineering: Petar Chernev (Neo Desk)
Program
Single house
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Labels
Isolated · Family
Site area
414 m²
Total gross floor
425 m²
Completion
2017
Prior to its reconstruction, this house from the 1920s 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 center. 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 center of the entire composition. The new glossy white concrete slabs integrate and conceal all the contemporary technology of the house.
white concrete, steel structure roof