HILL HOUSE | MUSA Studio

House area – 380 sqm
Lot area – 900 sqm
Location – Chișinău, Moldova
Client - A beautiful, creative family, consisting of a musician, an art-passionate lawyer and their daughter - a future actress.
Task - Beside the standard requirements of a comfortable, ergonomic, and stylish house, with all the supposed zones, such as bedrooms, kitchen, living room together with dining room, and a fireplace zone, we had to provide a musical studio, which would be isolated from the rest of the house.

Stylistically it should be a modern, minimal but luxurious with a sustainable design house.
Initially the site was smaller, as the pool terrace area has been attached later. So, the challenge consisted in fitting a big number of zones, which require a large space, into a long and narrow site.

The house is located on a sloped site in a residential area in Chișinău, Moldova, and its rear facade is facing a park with a lake downhill. As we design from the inside out – the client’s space requirements shaped the volume and surface of the house. The main body of the house has resulted from the site’s shape. So, it all started with a narrow, L-shaped site, where we projected the house. The pool terrace area has been annexed later. The green fence shields the house from the street view. Conversely, the opposite side of the house opens with floor-to-ceiling glazing to the swimming pool terrace at the first story and to the park side at the second. The house has 380sqm and it is organized on two floors, divided in two blocks. The main one hosts residential area, with a day zone at the first floor, and three bedrooms at the second floor. The small block connects to the main volume through a glass passage, and it provides a garage, a kitchen at the ground floor and an isolated from the rest of the house musical studio at the second floor. The glass gallery has also an exit to the 2nd floor terrace that is also accessible from each bedroom located on the second story.