AV Residential Building

The AV residential building, strategically located in Cluj, addresses an essential urban challenge: negotiating the transition between an enclosed urban fabric and an open ribbon development area, a discontinuity generated by communist urbanization. The project resolves a pre-existing urban conflict through the logical extension of Nirajului Street, transforming a boundary into a connection. The volumetric design is articulated through a refined material palette: ceramic cladding, which variably captures and reflects light, and HPL accents in wood tones, which introduce a tactile warmth.
This chromatic and textural interaction contributes to a subtle visual integration into the urban landscape. The interior, contemporary and functional, is designed to generate an intimate residential atmosphere, centered around a protected inner courtyard. The intervention goes beyond merely completing an area, establishing a new urban coherence and a precedent for dialogue between disparate architectural histories.