Architecture Portofolio Alexandra Stan by Alexandra Stan

P O R T O F O L I

AXANDRA STAN

I N F O

Personal information Name and Surname : Alexandra Stan Date and place of birth : 03.08.1994, Lugoj Romania Telephone number : +40 729108648 E-mail : allexandrastann@gmail.com

Languages English : C1 level, Cambridge Certificate German : B1 level French : A2 level Romanian : mother language

Educational Background 2013 - present Bachelor and integrated Master - Architecture Faculty - Polytehnical University Timisoara, Romania 2017-2018 Erasmus programme -one semester in Université catholique de Louvain, Tournai, Belgium 2009-2013 Highschool studies Matemathic - Informatic intensive class - “Coriolan Brediceanu” College Lugoj, Romania

Awards and Architecture Competitions 1ST PRIZE - Continental Hotel - student competition, will be implemented 1ST PRIZE - Baumit Contest for Collective Housing Facade Rehabilitation HONOURABLE MENTION - International contest of architecture students C | A | S | A 2015 COMPETITION ENTRY - Europan 14 COMPETITION ENTRY- VELUX International Award 2016 University Awards Prize for the best project (1st year, 1st semester and 2nd year, 1st semester) Special Prize - 1st year, 2nd semester

Publications Art Out Magazine, Nr. 47-48, 2017 - C | A | S | A | project Student Trends, Nr. 8, 2014 - 2015 -C | A | S | A | project Student Trends, Nr. 9, 2015 - 2016 - Collective housing project

Exhibitions 2017 - Vienna Design Week Pannel - The answering machine about migration among young architects from Romania, Wien, Austria 2017 - Povergina Wooden Church - Selected Restoration Projects, Timisoara, Romania

Proffessional Experience 2018 september - december

RDSign Studio, Timisoara, Romania, Architecture Intern

2018 july - september

Pedro Novo Architects, Lisbon, Portugal Architecture Intern

2017 june - july

In Lucru Studio Timisoara - Architecture Intern

2017 july - august

Vitamin Architects Timisoara -Architecture Intern collaboration for Europan 14 contest

2016 july - august

Parasite Studio Timisoara -Architecture Intern

2015 - 2017

De-a Arhitectura Volunteer Teacher

Workshops 2017 - Culture is smiling - Collaboration with Archeus Studio - light pavillion, Timisoara, Romania 2016 - Hai in Sinaia - Workshop during the LIGHT EDU Symposiom, Timisoara Romania 2016 - Restoration Workshop of Crivina Wooden Church - Biserici inlemnite din Banat, Crivina, Romania

Computer Sof twear Lumion V- Ray Office Suite

Archicad Autocad Photoshop Illustrator Indesign Rhinoceros

Other Interests

hiking

skiing

social projects

travelling

CONTENT

architecture projects 1. THE TIMELESS HOTEL - National Contest - Timisoara, Romania 2. CROMELEQUE - Graphic presentation Pannel, Bairro das Artes Contest- Lisbon, Portugal 3. 3 PAVILLIONS A LA MER - Faculty Project - Wimereux, France 4. C|A|S|A| International Competition for Archtitecture Students - Mention - Cluj Napoca, Romania 5. MONT DE PIETE, MUSEUM RESTAURATION - Faculty Project -Tournai, Belgium 6. EUROPAN14 - Competition Entry - Wien, Austira 7. THE ECHO OF LIGHT IN THE COMMUNITY LIFE - Velux International competition Entry architecture workshops 1. LIGHT EDU WORKSHOP -with Lupercales Studio from Barcelona,Timisoara, Romania 2.RESTORATION OF A WOODEN CHURCH -Biserici inleminte din Banat-Crivina,Romania 3. DE-A ARHITECTURA - teaching as a volunteer object design.interior design. model making.

HOTEL PROJECT UNDER AUTHORISATION

A TIMELESS HOTEL

1ST PRIZE

Year : 2018 Team Members: Alexandra Stan, Alexandra Vitan Task : Hotel Continental has been operating for almost half a decade in the heart of Timisoara, and has become a LANDMARK in the collective consciousness of the city and beyond. On the background of the Timisoara European Capital of Culture event 2021, the need for modernization and diversification of the current accommodation offer is born. North Star Continental Resort proposed the launch of the “Continental Hotel Extension” competition, a one-phase structured idea contest addressed to architectural students in the field of Architecture and Urbanism in Romania. The main objective of the competition was to discover innovative ways of extending the hotel to strengthen its identity and distinct character at the Timisoara scale.

Motto : “Therefore, the places in which we have experienced daydreaming reconstitute themselves in a new daydream, and it is because our memories of former dwelling-places are relived as daydreams that these dwelling-places of the past remain in us for all time.” Gaston Bachelard The proposal ... From an urban point of view, the proposal aims to link the new addition to the existing body of Continental Hotel. Thus, the addition is made up of two bodies, one horizontal and one vertical. Their positioning, the distances from what already exists, make a balanced composition in which the elements do not compete with each other. The existing body was thought from the outset as an urban landmark, withdrawn from urban alignments, an isolated element, representative of modernist architecture. The proposal does not want to cancel this character, but to complete it. It operates on both the human scale and the approach - through the horizontal body and the urban scale through the vertical body. The facades are divided into horizontal slices that articulate the intersection with the horizontal body and relate to the existing body. The last horizontal sequence hosts the restaurant function and is detached to mark the hotel as an urban landmark. This top volume is a day that is hard to see, thanks to the diaphanous texture, but at night it becomes a bright light on the skyline of Timisoara.

Juliaan Lampens interior

moodboard

Juliaan Lampens interior

ART INSTALATION LISBON, PORTUGAL PROJECT PRESENTATION

ENTRY

CROMELEQUE Year : 2018 Team : Pedro Novo Arquitectos Location : Lisbon, Portugal Task : The main task I had in this project was to create the graphic illustration of the project, strating from surrealist concepts, and following an abstract way of presenting the instalation. Therefore, I created the drawings and the composition of the pannel that was sent to Bairro das Artes Contest. The Bairro das Artes is an organization of “Isto não é um Cachimbo Associação”, being an event of annual frequency, created in 2010, that aims to promote the Contemporary Art in the Seventh Hill of Lisbon. The proposal ... is a tripartite mechanism of chaining mirrors and projections of the user in correlation with their environment. Operating as a living frame in which the narrative is defined by the observer reflected as a character in the urban space, the piece enhances the cognitive relation about the experience of inhabiting a body and the one of existing, seeing and being seen. In this latent game, an immanent quality manifests itself in which the visual apprehension becomes interpretive, from which may result the hypothetical field of the dream about the doubt of being outside and being inside. The production of anamorphoses on the mirror surface produces a new code on the urban, on the contemporary, where the perceptible reality is distorted and encoded in overlapping reflexes. The recognition of “truth” occurs in chance, in the fragmented reflection of the opposite! This exercise of urban fragmentation through reflexes questions the surrounding city. The use of anamorphoses allows, in distortion, to organize the subject in the spectrum of his rational nature. 19

TOURISM. LEISURE WIMEREUX, FRANCE Faculty project

3 pavillions a la mer Year : 2017 Tutors : Ludovic Blanckaert and Emanuelle Weiss Location : Wimereux, France Task : The prerequisite of the project will be the search for a relevant implementation strategy, oriented towards a sustainable development. And at the same time, the definition of an “open”, “available” equipment, intended for all audiences, based on complementary themes: the memory,a great attention to the landscape, the perception, the human scale. We search for a“a project apart”, a hybrid, an alternative, a project that can “build knowledge”, poetically register in an emblematic site, suggest reflections, provoke emotions

L’homme et la mer Homme libre, toujours tu chériras la mer ! La mer est ton miroir ; tu contemples ton âme Dans le déroulement infini de sa lame, Et ton esprit n’est pas un gouffre moins amer. The proposal ... seeks to bring a new perspective for the things that are specific to the site. Wimereux has been a tourist attraction since the 18th century, and summer leisure activites are the main activites that keep the place full of life. The project is situated on the sea shore, but not on the beach. It gives a new life to the only parking that accomodates the nearby beach. It creates a new oasis. The three pavillions that are used as changing cabines, cafe, and multiporpose space, define a closed space, whose heart is the swimmingpool craved in the natural small hill. It is a place where both mind and body unwind, where nature and human meet, a concession between rectangular and organic, between antropic and nature. 23

1900-1920

3 PAVILLIONS A LA MER -

ANTROPIC VS ORGANIC

COHOUSING HONOURABLE MENTION

|C|A|S|A|

NATIONAL COMPETITION

Year : 2015 Co-autors : Ioana Stan Tutors : Claudiu Toma, Oana Rupacici Location : Cluj-Napoca, Romania Task : In Cluj-Napoca, Someșului Street 15-19, on an empty site, with a surface of approx. 3000 m2 a proposal for houses for eight families will be made. These will be thought in such a manner as to offer a living quality as close to individual houses as possible, while using the relatively modest means of the closely knit houses, but also the advantages of living in a community. The proposal : The main theme of the project is the square, understood as a protected space, that favors meeting and comunication between people. These squares will be discovered on the route, between the houses, and are meant to be reminiscences of the public spaces in the city. As a result of the public space study, we concluded that the squares are a constat in the city of Cluj Napoca. Through our project we inted to do a reevaluation of the public’s space meaning, and to recreate the relationships between people. Taking as a model the traditional form of Cluj Napoca’s house, formed by a groundfloor, a basement and a story (where the groundfloor was usually a public space, and the basement offered space for storage), we propose a solution in which the groundfloor is divided in two areas : the public, common space that opens into the nearby square and the semiprivate space, the livingroom, that opens in a private garden. The common space varies from house to house and is addapting to the particularities of the site (flower-shop, game-room, common library,etc). The structure of the house is given by three tubes, which are also designed to divide the space in “small squares”. These tubes provide vertical circulation, sanitary services, and one of them retrieves the characteristics of the common space that is found in the house.

MUSEUM. RESTORATION TOURNAI, BELGIUM

MONT DE PIETE - ARCHEOLOGY MUSEUM

Year : 2017 Co-autors : Justine Lecomte, Alexandre Olivier Location : Tournai, Belgium Task : The old Mont Piete building, serves as the archeology museum of Tournai. Unfortunately, the building is in a very bad condition, and also the exhibitions lack a proper design and strategy. Therefore, the task of the project was to restaurate the building, to make it more attractive and open to the city, to think a strategy for the objects display, and to put Tournai again on the map of important Archeology attractions of Belgium The proposal : The project proposed tries to solve most of the problems that were identified during the investigation of the building. The most important part of the project is the opening of an Experimentative Chantier, on the place of the old house of the guardian, which was demolished several years ago. This way, the activity of the museum becomes more visible and attractive. There are two entrances proposed, one that goes through the chantier, and it is the one for the tourists, and the second one reserved for the personal of the museum. The garden works as an outdoor exhibition, and the terrace looks to the cathedral, and opens the museum to the other side of the city. On the other side of the site, we propose a cafe and an auditorium. Inside of the building, the objects are presented in a chronologial order. An important addition is the double floor, which on one hand permits the display of object also on the floor (reminding of the way that they were discovered) and on the other hand, creates space for the addition of new and modern instalations.

INDUSTRY WIEN, AUSTRIA

ENTRY

Europan 14 Year : 2017 Co-autors : VITAMIN ARCHITECTS, Mircea Braje, Alexandru Maduta, Alexandra Marin, Ioana Stan, Alexandra Vitan Location : Wien, Austria Task : The industrial area Liesing, is the city’s largest productive are. Since 2011 a neighbourhood management scheme has been supporting the area’s development, aiming at unique options for synergies between businesses, supportive infrastructure, and above all, the development of an “Industrial city”: the integration of sustainable mobility, public spaces and new types of buildings shall create new synergies between low-rise production and stacked forms of productive businesses with a higher density of workplaces. Europan shall be the pilot for this ambition. The proposal ... is an exercise of imagination. Imagine a hub of infinite iterations, an auto sustainable organism that evolves and adapts reflecting the context and being embedded in it. We take a leap of fate supporting the process on five pylons of quality: mobility, flexibility, variety, social inclusion and integration. They facilitate the INDUSTRIAL CITY and offer the framework for an immense variety of patterns, cultures and ideas. THE FRAMEWORK is composed of five different elements. The Vienesse Café has a unique prestige. As a coagulant for society it brought together thinkers and intellectuals, innovators and craftsmen, ideas and technology. The vegetation stands between industry and café as the green space Liesing deserves and also needs right now. As a buffer zone it brings quality of living in the industrial site. It’s role is doubled by the intimate gardens where firms and individuals form bonds interacting and exchanging experiences. The Fab Lab Towers connect and share. They offer complementary functions to industry and artisans such as meeting rooms, multidisciplinary workshops or sport grounds. The structural role is both physical and conceptual.. Finally the last piece that brings and binds them together. A self-sustaining business system composed of 3 entities of different complexion: start-ups, incubators and industry.

The ground floor follows a different way than the upper ones. Together with the parkings bellow they work as a structural base for the production on top. It’s meant to be called “The Mall of Workshops and Repair”. the public space flows through it and reaches the far back of the plot. alleys cross it for one end to another breaking the limits of public and private, and reaching inward “glades” that signal the makers’ towers. here one can acces a world of unlimited imagination, being able to create or leave requests for products of all kinds and materials. The heavy logistics penetrate the plot C and round the central garden, to the main logistic area that distributes all goods.

LIGHT DESIGN VELUX INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

ENTRY

THE ECHO OF LIGHT IN THE COMMUNITY LIFE Year : 2016, 3rd Yeaar Tutors : CLAUDIU TOMA (PARASITE STUDIO) Location : SCARISOARA, ROMANIA The proposal : In our project we chose as reference a particular isolated village, Scarisoara in Caras Severin. Its name (a little Ladder) is strongly related to the location and the way it can be accesed - by a hidden forty years old ladder which is leaning against the mountain’s cliffs. Part of the proposal was to highlight the path between the center of the village (the school), and the isolated houses that already exist. At the moment there are a lot of children that walk this path very early in the morning, in complete darkness. In addition, the proposed community center reinterprets the layered organisation of the traditional village space. The main column becomes the “axis mundi”of the village. Lights is used as a tool to improve the meanung of the church bell - a gethering element, that brings people together. Light is used as an element of hope, protection and the joy of being together.

LIGHT DESIGN BY LUPERCALES STUDIO, BARCELONA

LIGHT EDU WORKSHOP “Lighting is an essential and ubiquitous part of the urban landscape” Susanne Seitinger

Year : 2018 Workshop leaders : Lupercales, Barcelona Location : Timisoara The workshop’s aim was that the participants, under the creative and didactic coordination of Lupercales lighting design team from Barcelona, will improve the perception of the area around and on the Pedestrian Iron Bridge in Timisoara by creating temporary lighting installations made after a personalized place concept. Therefore, during the 4 days of the workshop we received teorethical information about lighting design, and were introduced in the tehnical aspects of the discipline. Afterwards, divided in 3 teams, started to work on the illumination concept of the bridge, the public space around it, and the abandonded pool in the proximity. The athmosphere that was proposed meant to offer a security, warm and uniform feeling on the bridge. As for the pool, the concept wanted to fill the pool with light, evoking the fact that it is no longer used, and people slowly start to forget about the fact that it was ever used. 57

RESTORATION CRIVINA DE SUS, ROMANIA

WOODEN CHURCH RESTORATION WORKSHOP

Year : 2016 Workshop Leaders : Biserici Inlemnite din Banat Location : Crivina de Sus, Romania

Wooden Church of Banat, is a group of architects and landscape architects, who have been working for 4 years on the interventions for the Church in Crivina. Focusing also on the context, the village life and social aspect of a restauration project, the workshop takes place during summer, and grows every year. Since 2015, the church received a protection structure, as the roof was badly damaged, and rain affected the interior of the church. The workshop of 2016 focused on removing the wood of the roof, in order to be replaced. In addition itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been done a very close analysis of the elements of the church, their form and signs, to understand better the way they were put together, and the kind of traditional tools that were used. 59

TEACHING TIMISOARA AND LUGOJ, ROMANIA

DE-A ARHITECTURA Year : 2016-2017 / 2016-2017 Locations : Scoala nr. 16 Timisoara, Romania : 4th grade Clubul Copiilor, Lugoj, Romania : clasa a 3rd grade

For two consecutive years, I teached together with an educator, the â&#x20AC;&#x153;De-a arhitecturaâ&#x20AC;? ( Playing arhictecture) optional course for the 4th and 3rd grade. The purpose of the course is to introduce architectural and environmental education built for children into the curriculum, as well as encouraging and instructing teachers to use the built environment and architecture as learning resources for other subjects. Also it focuses on promoting architectural and environmental education built for children in schools, teachers, and architects guild. Promoting in the school environment the idea of a quality environment built as civic responsibility, to increase the involvement of future citizens in the planning and design processes 61

OBJECT DESIGN. INTERIOR DESIGN. MODEL MAKING.

CHESS GAME DESIGN

FURNITURE DESIGN

INTERIOR DESIGN

OBJECT DESIGN - TIMISOARA CAPITAL OF CULTURE 2021 - LOGO FOLDABLE CHAIR

1st YEAR FACULTY Cinder Block MODEL

GUNA HOUSE - PEZZO VON ELRICHSCHAUSEN - FACULTY MODEL

R E C O M M A N D A T I O N S

T H A N K Y O U

allexandrastann@gmail.com