Bronze Architecture · 2024
Dot Sofia Event Space and Residential Architecture
- Bronze A' Design Award 2024 in Architecture
- CLIENT: I/O architects
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 15,009
- Verification code 44B6525F47 · Verify this award
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About Dot Sofia Event Space and Residential Architecture
Dot Sofia is a mixed use building for events and urban living in Sofia, Bulgaria. The two volume structure holds a contemporary art and events space, a signature restaurant and residential units. Dot Sofia stands in the historic market district, an area long linked to trade and neglected in recent decades. The facade is made of rusted steel and recalls the aged materiality of the neighborhood. Oversized shutters open and close, following the rhythm of market life. The building was completed in 2023 and has a gross floor area of 1576 square meters.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Dot Sofia Event Space and Residential Architecture is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Dot Sofia Event Space and Residential Architecture is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Dot Sofia Event Space and Residential Architecture splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
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- Unique Properties
- Embedded in the urban complexity of the biggest street market in Sofia the simple two volume structure of DOT Sofia building manifests unexpected different faces and scales from the possible viewpoints. The hybrid program of intertwined contemporary art and events space; signature restaurant and design urban living are injected in the rather neglected historic heart of the city with the clear ambition to redirect its inevitable transformation. The rusted steel facade preserves the characteristic aged materiality of the area while the dynamics of the oversized shutters follow the rhythm of the market life.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Gross Floor Area: 1576 m²;
Plot Area: 338 m² - Tags
- urban complexity, historical layers, steel facade; shutters; design urban living
- Production Technology
- Monolith Construction; Kinetic Façade Building
- Inspiration
- DOT Sofia is located in the heart of old Sofia. This historic part of the city has been home to trade and markets for centuries. Neglected for the past decades, it is now evolving into a multi-cultural melting pot. DOT Sofia aims to contribute to the rediscovery and evolution of this still hidden urban cultural area.
- Project Duration
- Location: Sofia, Bulgaria
Completion year: 2023 - Image Credits
- Assen Emilov
