Ants House / Studio MIOLK

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• Architects: Studio MIOLK
• Location: Iași, Romania
• Lead Architects: Adriana Gheorghiescu, Alexandra Berdan
• Area: 170.0 m2
• Project Year: 2017
• Photographs: Laurian Ghinitoiu

• Collaborators: Ramona Costea, Tiberiu Teodor-Stanciu, Ancuța Costandache, Daniel Miroțoi, Oana Păsălău, Andreea Radu

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Text description provided by the architects. Ants House is a one-family home in Iasi, Romania, which proposes experimenting with a new way of living together. In a rigid and relatively small volume, the house shows the spatial richness that results from careful work with space.

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Sculpted in a compact form, with a footprint of 8m x 8m and a 160 sqm surface, the interior spaces take up the slope of the land and work with the half-tiers.

Beneficiaries are a sociable family, with great dearness for urban and comfortable outdoor spaces. The house treats the interior as an urban space, where the living area becomes an intimate square.

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It receives the light from the top and the windows of the night spaces, which are assimilated to some houses on the slope, oriented towards it. The internal staircase is a trembling amphladage that links several points.

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