The first large-scale residential complex consisting exclusively of collective housing in the Cubic series covers an area of 4 hectares in the western part of Bucharest and comprises about 750 apartments grouped in two identical L-shaped buildings, which define an enclosure. The parallelogram shape of the site dictates the obtuse angle of the two buildings, and the access to the planted spaces in the centre of the site is strongly marked by the ridge between the long façade of the first building and the short façade of the second. The architecture of the two buildings is tubular, dominated by full and square-shaped voids across the full height of the level, to which a series of parallel white bands are applied that change the rule, introducing horizontal slots and full parapets. The arrangement of the parallel strips on both the incoming and outgoing corners and their variable lengths make the geometry dynamic by suggesting a succession in time of the two creative gestures: raising the tubular volumes and then unifying them by applying longitudinal finishes. The articulation of the two prisms that make up a body is done by means of parallel strips and the corresponding retraction of the last steps in the right corner to define as clearly as possible the compositional intention.
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