In March 2014, Tecto Arhitectura was appointed to design the new office building for HSR factory in Reci, Covasna, as the first large-scale project with CLT structure in south-east Europe. The main challenge was to create an office building for around sixty people that had to provide also a visual interface between two antagonistic spaces ? an industrial platform used for production and a natural landscape with strong horizontal lines. The project purpose was to design a flag-ship two-storey office building with a massive timber structure (according to the Austrian and Romanian building regulations), that follows also the standards for Multi-Comfort criteria (according to the guidelines enlisted by Saint Gobain).

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Architects: Tecto

Location: Reci, Covasna County, Romania
Architect In Charge: Sergiu C. Petrea

Team: Cristina Petrea, Sabrina Ene, Sebastian Apostol, Tania Bancila

Area: 1655.0 m2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Cosmin Dragomir

Collaborating Engineers: Kurt Theiss, Armand C. Daneliuc, Nicu Curcudel, George Popescu, Vali Scutaru, Andrei Toma, Roman Chistol

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Text description provided by the architects. In March 2014, Tecto Arhitectura was appointed to design the new office building for HSR factory in Reci, Covasna, as the first large-scale project with CLT structure in south-east Europe. The main challenge was to create an off...