Excerpt: KR Apartments, designed by STARH, is a residential building situated in the historical center of the city of Varna, Bulgaria, neighboring The Sea Garden and The Black Sea. The building is terraced to the east façade, where the attached historical building is planned to be reconstructed and rebuilt. The main architectural concept is the creation of contemporary and functional dwellings with elegant and simple designs that fit the environment unobtrusively.
Project Description
[Text as submitted by Architect] KR is a residential building situated in the historical center of the city of Varna, Bulgaria, neighboring The Sea Garden and The Black Sea. The plot is small, on a quiet street with a minimal incline. The building is terraced to the east façade, where the attached historical building is planned to be reconstructed and rebuilt. The main architectural concept is the creation of contemporary and functional dwellings with elegant and simple designs that fit the environment unobtrusively.
KR is a very “silent” building. Its simplistic volume and minimal usage of diversity of materials give total respect to the surroundings. The façade materials are intended to be in one plane without any unnecessary details and ornaments.
The spatial-volumetric organization of the edifice is in seven storeys with a complicated orthogonal shape which is a result of the urban planning restrictions. The shuffling of openings and solid parts on the facades is a logical result of the geographical orientation of the respective façade wall.
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