ONE CHARLES DE GAULLE

Located in the historic protected area of Parcelarea Dorobanți 2 in the North of Bucharest, the One Charles de Gaulle residential development is discreetly set in the large circular square of the same name. The project is composed of two apartment buildings mirroring each other over an underground car park and separated by a landscaped inner courtyard, accessible exclusively to residents.  With a built-up area of almost 8000 sqm, the complex offers a variety of three-, four- and duplex apartments. Each building has a monolithic concrete structure and axially symmetrical thick slabs, wide overhangs and maximised openings that allow the rich vegetation typical of the Spring neighbourhood to extend into the residential spaces.
Based on initial studies by Prof. Arch. Dan Corneliu Șerban - DD Design, the XAE team developed the complete project documentation together with the exterior scheme by Spanish architect Edgar Bueso-Inchausti - Estudio de Arquitectura Bueso-Inchausti & Rein. Between the facades whose technical design was internally finalized by the Xarchitecture facade department, we constituted an experience simultaneously practical in building a reflective architectural imagining, thinking architecture together as a creative team starting from the client-architect and architect-project engineering relationships. Both in its geometric precision and tectonic aspects of collage, One Charles de Gaulle is a metamorphosis of the domestic, living space, and of its necessary enclosures: stone ventilated cladding, wide glazing and. The collaboration of the three design teams demonstrates the transformative accessibility of communication in architecture as a working method and spatial seduction.