ANASTASIA BARBULESCU
ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
Name: Anastasia Barbulescu Birth: 06.07.1992 Nationality: Romanian Adress: Urwahlenstr. 36, 66679, Losheim am See, Germany Phone number: 0040736635603 Email adress: anastasia_barbulescu@yahoo.ro Personal statement: I see architecture as both a form of expression and a key way of understanding the world. While learning about it’s history and getting familiarized with it’s techniques I have also become more in touch with my context, with the places I live in. I like working in a team and seeing how a number of ideas grow into an unity and am excited about gathering new work experience and seeing how architecture is practiced and understood in different parts of the world.
CONTENTS
Biography University projects 1. Marketplace, Bucharest 2017 2. CIrcus School, Madrid 2016 3. Culinary School, Villafranca del Castillo 2015 4. Children Correction Centre, Bucharest 2014
Competition entries 5. Artisan Centre,Venice 2016 6. Cultural Centre, Bamiyan 2015 7. Preserving pyramiden, Norway 2015
BIOGRAPHY Education 2011-2017 Master in Architecture, “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism,Bucharest 2015-2016 Erasmus exchange, Architecture faculty from “Alfonso X el Sabio” Univeristy, Madrid 2013-2014 Erasmus exchange, Architecture faculty from “Lusiada” University, Lisbon
Work Experience 2017 Internship at Axa Architecture Studio, Bucharest 2014-2015 I am involved in project drafting and 3d modelling for studio projects and international competitions 2016
Internship at Traza Arquitectura Studio, Madrid I took part in both spanish and international architecture competitions and I assisted with the elaboration of the current studio projects, my main tasks being plan drafting, detailing and 3d modelling.
2016
Internship at Jerez Arquitectura y Urbanismo Studio, Madrid I assisted with the elaboration of the current projects, my main tasks being plan drafting, detailing and construction site supervising Internship
2014
Traditional Architecture and Restoration Workshop at Tibanesti, Romania I practiced traditional blacksmith, carpenter and plaster techniques as well as al fresco painting Traditional Architecture Workshop at Bunesti, Romania I practiced traditional wood, brick and clay construction techniques.
2013
Prizes, Publications and Exhibitions 2017 2016 2016 2013
Curator for the scenography exhibition MisTerre, with works by Elodie Chiper,Volum4 Bar, Bucharest The project Circus School in Palacio Duquesa de Sueca was exhibited in Espacio Universidades at COAM, College of Architects of Madrid First prize in Orona Get Up Competition for the project Circus School in Palacio Duquesa de Sueca, Madrid Two projects, Individual house in Bucharest and Housing for the Elderly in Bucharest exhibited on the online gallery of UAUIM https://www.uauim.ro/galerie/proiecte/1067/01.jpg https://www.uauim.ro/galerie/proiecte/1027/
Languagues
Computer Skills
Native - Romanian Fluent - English, Spanish Intermediate - Portuguese, French Basic - German
Advanced - Autocad, Archicad, Artlantis Studio, Photoshop Intermediate - Sketchup, Indesign, Basic - Revit, 3DSMax
Other Abilities
Hobbies Writing, Photography,Travelling, Music
Hand Drawing and Painting, Model Making Driving License B
MARKETPLACE Location: Bucharest Type: Diploma Project Year: 2017 Coordinator: Dorin Stefan Where: “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism When: February- July 2017
The project proposes a market on two building sites that surround Mosilor Street. This function is strangely lacking from the core of the city since the demolition of the Unirii Market in 1986. One of the stakes of the project was that of connecting the two building sites, maintaining in the same time a correct relation to their surroundings. This has been realized through the proposal of a sequence of structural stripes that cross Mosilor street, creating two symetrical hallways and two suspended walkways at the second floor. These structural volumes decide the order of the project. They hold between them market halls and through this sequence, a series of advancements and retreats of the facades is created.The site is thus ocuppied in a discontinuous manner,offering throughout it’s perimeter a generous public space. The building works intensely with the negative, the unbuilt, creating differentiated zones.This play is helped also by the inclination of the roads, that from the uppermost point of the site to the lowest reaches three meters. As such, the unbuilt perimeter of the project is organized in platforms of different heights and materials, some more mineral, some more vegetal. The height different between them, varying between one step and three steps, hosts occasional benches. This way a varied perimetral landscape in generated, one that gives a response to the slope of the site
Situation plan
Ground floor plan
First floor plan
Third floor plan
Underground parking plan level 1
Underground parking plan level 2
South Facade
Longitudinal Section
West Facade
Transversal Section, Mosilor Street
East Facade
Transversal Section
Details
CIRCUS SCHOOL Location: Madrid Type: 5th year project Coordinators: Francisco Munoz, Javier Jerez Where: Universidade “Alfonso X el Sabio�, Madrid
Scene from 8 1/2 by Federico Fellini A circus school in an old palace of Madrid. Only the exterior, perimetral walls of the palace are preserved and they are held together by a steel truss structure that also provides the roofing. These walls are not touched by the new intervention, instead all the objects are suspended from the upper structure. As such the structural and architectural elements blend with the circus equipment. Each part of the palace is seen and used as a large hall in which elements float at different levels and activities linked to them happen around ropes and staircases. The different parts of the school are brought together by two patios, a smaller one towards the entrance and a nigger, central one that is covered with a tensile structure reminding of a traditional circus tent. The two longitudinal naves to the north and south of this patio serve for the aerial and acrobatic training of the students. The western part of the buillding hosts a small theatre stage with seating for the public. The eastern part is the public circus hall where the students hold representations weekly. The buildings that surround the small entrance patio host public uses at the ground floor, a restaurant and a shop for circus equipment. Over these the circus school continues with various appliances for acrobatics. There are also a fitness room, a medical cabinet and various offices for the teachers and staff. The main feature of this project is the way it works as a superimposition of various layers of activities and equipment that coexist at different heights inside an open space.
Situation Plan
Ground floor plan
First floor plan
Section detail through southern volume
Longitudinal section through patio
Section detail through southern volume
Second floor plan
Transversal section through patio
Details
CULINARY SCHOOL Location:Villafrana del Castillo Type: 5th year project Coordinators: Francisco Munoz, Javier Jerez Where: Universidade “Alfonso X el Sabio”, Madrid
The project consists of a school that combines the study of cooking with open tasting for the public. The building is placed next to an eleventh century castle, whose presence it seeks to enhance. The building functions on two levels, a open, more airy part that hosts the restaurant and a heavier, more opaque one, that hosts the school. * The lower part of the building springs out as a block of stone from the earth. It follows the natural slope of the terrain and uses it to decide it’s internal organization and the use of ramps to connect the different levels. The monolithic character of the building is emphasized on the south-western facade through the use of vertical, thin windows and is contradicted, on in the case of the north-eastern facade, by a long window that opens the view towrds the landscape. The restaurant rests on this opaque as a glass box. Towards the castle, thanks to the slope of the terrain, it is at ground level, while it’s southern part is rised two levels from the ground, allowing for a nice panorama.
Situation Plan
Ground floor plan
-1 floor plan
South West elevation
South West section
-2 floor plan
North East elevation
North East section
North West elevation
South East section
Detail
CHILDREN CORRECTION CENTRE Location: Bucharest Type: 4th year project Coauthor: Andreea Nae Where: “Ion Mincu� University of Architecture and Urbanism When: November- December 2015
The site of the project is a barren terrain strangled between blocks of flats and a military base at a perifery of Bucharest. The nature of the programme required the creation of a clear border between the inside and the outside. We tried to diminish its impact by situating the building in the middle of a park with modular equipments and sport facility. The second step towards the integration inside the context was that of giving life to the necessarily opaque facade by providing a attractive silhouete, that of houses of different sizes emerging from a common white wall. The inside of the enclosed area develops on the following principle: an open ground-level that provides for all the activities that are to be done during the day and a series of first and second floor apartments for the children connected by individual stairways to the common area and. The apartments are surrounded by a green terrace.
Situation Plan
Ground floor plan
First floor plan
Second floor plan
East Facade
West facade
Longitudinal section
North Facade
North Facade
Transversal section
Detail
Detail
ARTISAN CENTRE Location: Venice Type: Competition Coauthor: Francisco Munoz Where: ¨Traza¨ Architecture Studio, Madrid When: October- January 2016
Situation plan Every project situated in Venice should aspire to condensate in one gesture something of the soul of the city. It is also the case with this project, where we chose to concentrate on the idea of successions of plazas and the differentiated light that follows each spatial change. Thus we propose a generous opening towards the street and the canal, opening which functions as a public space, a plaza.This space, at the same time part of the building and of the street, opens itself to two possible directions. One is the entry towards the first area of workshops and the other one consists in the ascent towards a second plaza, situated at the heart of the building. The two aforementioned plazas are separated by bleachers complete with stairs, thus ensuing a visual and functional connection. The second plaza, the more private one, satisfies two main purposes, that of exhibition space and that of exterior lobby for the auditorium. The auditorium itself intervenes in the shape of the building, permitting by its inclination the grandiose opening that the building shows towards the canal. At the most upper story lie the third workshop, the library and the bookshop, all of them beneficiating of zenithal lightning. The building is completed by the facade, whose finish material is alabaster. Its translucence and reflecting quality permits a play of light and image, lending to a noble and subtle appearance.
South facade
Ground floor plan
North Facade
First floor plan
East facade
Second floor plan
Longitudinal section
Third floor plan
CULTURAL CENTRE Location: Bamyian, Afghanistan Type: Competition Coauthor: Andreea Barbulescu Where: ¨Axa¨ Architecture Studio,Bucharest When: Spring 2015
The landscape and the cultural importance of the site provided the guidelines of the project. We designed the building as a natural extension of the arid landscape, seeking to create a simple, austere aesthetic that would give priority to the surroundings. The volumetric choice complies with local traditions in that it uses terraces and differentiated courtyards as it’s structuring rule. The volumes are connected through a core ramp that varies in height and in it’s openings, alternatively revealing and concealing courtyards and enclosures. The landscape and the cultural importance of the site provided the guidelines of the project. We designed the building as a natural extension of the arid landscape, seeking to create a simple, austere aesthetic that would give priority to the surroundings. The volumetric choice complies with local traditions in that it uses terraces and differentiated courtyards as it’s structuring rule. The volumes are connected through a core ramp that varies in height and in it’s openings, alternatively revealing and concealing courtyards and enclosures.
Situation plan
Floor plan
Floor plan
East Facade
West Facade
Sections
Detail
PRESERVING PYRAMIDEN Location: Pyramiden, Norway Type: 120h Student Competition Coauthors: Lavinia Xenofont, Dorin Nitescu When:Winter 2015
A conceptual project that discusses the theme of preservaytion0museification in a playful way. The site is a deserted coal0extraction town set in an arctitc climate, We proposed two complementary gestures - ways of seeing the old. An anulation of it’s previous way of being used through transforming the gorund level into an ice-rink and a proposal o a different, distanced perception from a bridge that surpasses the settlement. The tw gestures also symbolize the two ways of understanding the preservation of ruins. One is contemplative, it freezes the remains trying to keep the object in a forever unchanging state, while the other takes the object and reverses the point of view, the function, the intent....
Situation plan
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