ELENA

Housing block with offices and shops, Sofia, Borovo District, 2008-2010

The horizontal tube-like body which contains 30 apartments is set over a two storey platform of shops and office spaces. The black glass-ceramic platform consisting of the ground and the first floors, are playing the role of a base pedestal to the quadrangle in section tube of the white apartments block. The “tube” is directed along the force-lines of the “urban corridor” formed by the surrounding housing blocks. The top of the building is a terrace with two high (4,20 m.) penthouse apartments, enclosed by one steel vaulted structure covering 12,60 m. free space distance, and clad with zinc sheet surface. The plot is 900 sq.m. while the total floor area (TFA) of the building is 4200 sq.m