San Paolo Bank in Baia Mare, Romania by Baltasarh & Parasite Studio

The new office of San Paolo Bank in Baia Mare is located on the Unirii Boulevard, line connecting the new center with the south entrance of the city and featuring newly built buildings, as well as currently under construction ones.

The structure is fairly simple, extracting its power from the tension between two main volumes, a basic one, covered with stone, and a second one, partially supported by the first and suspended, processed more easily, with glass and plastered areas. The consequential image is dual, the two bodies conveying the robustness of the program, as well the fineness of an insertion in a stressed context.

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Despite the fact that the building does not propose a new function in the context, it brings unusual urbanistic and formal coherence. The proposed scale contradicts the trend of forcing the height and the land take, risking to become a rule in urban areas facing densification.

Architects: Baltasarh & Parasite Studio
Project year: 2007
Photographs: Andrei Margulescu