HERITAGE RESIDENTIAL

Maltarie

History always finds a way to repeat itself

After the factory ceased to produce the Gambrinus beer, Maltarie waited for 17 years to be seen again, when the idea of conversion to lofts emerged.

During the World War II exactly 17 bombs fell on Luther Factory (under new ownership and new name at that time). Today the address of the sales office is 17 Fluviului Street.

When Luther family started to build Maltarie it took three permits to finish it. In present times we have received a third permit to continue the works.

Some walls were so thick, up to 2.8 meters in some areas, that we could not get an accurate reading. To the east, the Malting Plant (Maltaria) includes a segment of a metal-framed building – rare for the era in which it was built, it is believed to be the first metal-framed industrial building in Romania identified so far. Barley was sold there, and it was built following the principles of the Venturi effect, in order to be able to sell tons of grain naturally. You will find this structure in the lobby, where the circles that once were used for the technological process of beer production are still preserved.

Built in the Art Deco style, AFTER 1920

Works on Maltarie started much later, considering that the factory was founded in 1869 and Maltarie architecture is Art Deco, which appeared in the 20s. When the first teams entered the site to scan the building it was hard to get a good reading.

In recent years, the term has been rendered meaningless by its use in the context of the promotion of penthouses, or simply apartments with large surface areas.

Essentially lofts didn’t have many walls, it was more of an open-space, and in this sense the most loft-like of all the lofts in the Malting Plant (Maltarie) are the triplexes – a huge volume up to 15 meters high, with overhangs.

The Malting Plant (Maltaria) is truly a loft building, the only one of its kind, which proposes a living space that requires a certain perception of space.

Strong identity elements – diamond windows, art deco cuts in the shape of an ear of wheat, malt cones of 9 tons each, original apparent brick, heights of 4, 5 and 6 meters in the spaces, huge windows.

It takes 22 tons of self-compacting concrete to frame a single window. The Malthouse will receive custom made, mesh, steel windows that retain the stereotomy of industrial windows, incorporating all the innovations in glass quality, steel window production techniques and, of course, heat curtains. More than 900t of iron is needed to reinforce the mullions and other elements, as the building has only 5 floors.

Loft definition:
an industrial space converted into living space

There are 31 lofts
in the Malting Plant (Maltarie), starting from the 1st floor.

It also includes four micro-lofts, with 75 square meters usable are and a single bedroom, enjoying a spectacular six-meter-high window, as well as lofts with 4 bedrooms and loggias, on two levels, of over 200 square meters.

Although it will take some time before the Tecon design office’s vision for the Malting Plant (Maltarie) materializes, it was the first building that was permitted and the main reason why the developer wanted to buy what was left of the Luther Factory, to consolidate the monuments.