PANORAMA – Collective Housing

Panorama is the second building in a two-tower ensemble positioned at the extremities of the same plot, sharing two underground parking levels with its counterpart, Sisesti Skyline. Together, they define a coherent urban block on the northern edge of Bucharest – each tower distinct in character, both grounded in the same material and spatial logic.

The building rises twelve floors and contains 115 apartments, ranging from studios to four-bedroom units. The design is organized around a single clear ambition: to orient as much of the interior as possible toward the lake. Façade openings are generous and deliberate. Loggias are cropped rather than extruded – a move that keeps the volume monolithic while giving each apartment a threshold between inside and outside.

The base of the building establishes its character. Brick and dark metal finishes ground the lower floors, creating a weight and material presence that the upper levels resolve into lighter, more horizontal planes. The entrance passage – covered, framed, lit from above by a circular pendant – is conceived as an arrival sequence rather than a threshold to cross quickly.

The ground floor is the project’s most unconventional move. Rather than standard units, four apartments are designed as a hybrid between a house and a loft: individual outdoor access from the street, a private yard, and inside, a double-height day area with bedrooms positioned on an intermediate mezzanine level. They live like houses. They are part of a collective building. The tension between those two facts is what makes them interesting.

Total floor area: 15,500 sqm.

Architecture: Piano: Terra