Articles by Bianca Valentina Roșescu

McCloy + Muchemwa has designed and renovated a dilapidated and asbestos-riddled garage in Norwich with self-build clients. The existing garage was dark, dusty, cluttered, and had issues with pests; making it virtually unusable as well as being visibly unattractive. With weekends-away and holidays cancelled during the Covid-19 pandemic pent-up energy was released onto the garden and into making the garage safer, functioning better, and be a more enjoyable space with generous and considered storage solutions.

House between the walls concept idea came along with the restriction of the site context which provided a long rectangular shape place beside the street on the property.  The facade of the house looks bold and solid in the simple form of the box to prevent the sight approach around this area but on the opposite, it makes the interior space scenic and relaxed by the result of privacy and lighting effect.

Radius House is a context-specific, architectural residence and the first ground-up residential project by the Los Angeles-based design studio, Pentagon in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles. The 3700 sqft, 4 bedroom, 4.5 bathroom residence features sculptural interior spaces and articulated facades, giving it a distinctive presence in an area recognized for expressive residential designs. Crisp angles, curved surfaces, and large picture windows throughout the two-story structure create unique moments of dialogue between indoor and outdoor.

This land has an area of 4m x 17m. There are 3 floors in the house. First floor has garage, living room, kitchen and dining room; the bedrooms and common room are on the 2nd floor and 3th floor.

The work is built where the current landscape has diverse terrain with many perennial trees that need to be kept. The design poses the problem of minimizing interference with the natural ecosystem, retaining trees, soil and water as the main factors, developing works in continuity with the landscape.