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The facade seen close up from the side street: the white grid of columns and beams, the deep loggias and the exposed brick infill, with a ground floor also in brick
ResidentialYear — 2023–In progressStatus — In progressLocation — Theodor Pallady Boulevard, Sector 3, Bucharest, Romania
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Pallady — Residential building, Bucharest

The building stands on Theodor Pallady Boulevard, in the east of Bucharest, on a 926 sqm plot surrounded by freely grown vegetation and the low blocks of the area. The site is small, and the building answers by compacting: a single body, clearly set down, with 3,241 sqm of floor area organised vertically.

A structure you can see

The facade is the structure itself: a white grid of columns and beams with square bays into which the loggias are set. Each bay becomes an outdoor space of its own, deep enough to shade in summer and still be usable. The rhythm is constant, and the building draws its expression from repetition rather than ornament.

The building seen from the birch garden: a compact body with loggias across its full height and a light steel structure, covered in plants, at the upper levels
Fig. 01
The depth of the loggias is sized for the high summer sun, without blocking the low winter light.
The long street facade: the field of exposed brick held within the white grid, next to the smooth white party wall of the volume
Fig. 02
The party wall is deliberately left white and smooth: it marks the plot boundary and lets the loggia facade read on its own.

The brick behind the grid

Behind the white grid, the enclosing plane is exposed brick in warm red-brown tones. The contrast between the pale grid and the warm background gives the facade depth and clearly separates what belongs to the structure from what belongs to the dwelling. The party walls stay white and smooth, so the volume reads whole from the street.

The building seen from the planting on the plot: the white party wall to the right, and to the left the loggias and the upper levels with climbing plants
Fig. 03
The compact footprint leaves most of the 926 sqm plot free.
The narrow end of the building from the intersection: the registers of loggias held in the white grid, with the lower wing set back behind
Fig. 04
The lower wing behind absorbs the difference in scale with the neighbouring buildings.

The upper levels, under a light frame

Towards the top, a light steel structure doubles the facade and carries climbing plants. The upper levels gain more generous loggias and a green filter that grows over time, and the building's silhouette ends more lightly than it begins.

The same view at dusk: the loggias, lit from within, draw out the grid, while discreet lighting marks the approach
Fig. 05
In the evening the structural grid becomes visible through the light in the loggias — the same drawing, read in reverse.

The ground stays open

The compact footprint leaves most of the plot unbuilt: spontaneous vegetation, birches and a carpet of low planting instead of paved surfaces. The ground floor opens directly onto this garden, and the approach runs through a planted strip.

In a context where densification usually means covering the whole plot, Pallady proposes the opposite: a compact body, a facade that owns up to its structure, and a plot that stays, for the most part, green.

The building seen from across the boulevard, through the trees: the compact body emerges from the screen of greenery, with the lower volume beyond
Fig. 06
The screen of trees along the boulevard filters the building at pedestrian level.
The white grid is not decoration: it is the structure itself, inhabited bay by bay.
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