Anca Radu - Portfolio 2022 by Anca Radu

Anca Radu | architectural designer portfolio

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1Mixed-Use Development

Offices, Residential Professional | 04

Hybrid Building

Offices, Hotel, Fitness, Restaurant Professional | 22

7 selected projects

Mixed-Use Development

Offices, School, Retail, Hospitality Professional | 12

Police Station

Public Institution Professional | 18

High-Rise Housing

Residential, Retail Professional | 26

Rwanda Chapel

Religious Architecture Competition | 32

Ghost Town Refuge

Competition | 36

EcoRythmes

9 Temporary Installations

Urban Planning Competition | 40

Sketches

Traditional Wooden Church

Divers | 44

Mixed-Use Development Office and Residential Buildings

Superimposed Strata

D5 is a mixed-use development situated to the West of Paris, facing the Seine River. The buildings design establishes two distinct identities: a vege tal one addressing the skyline of the surrounding neighbo rhood and a evanescent one addressing the sky. The two layers are articulated by a han ging shared garden.

88 Housing Units

The fourth plot in the se quence, assigned to ECDM Architects, hosts a triangle shaped volume. An elliptical void is carved out from the triangular solid, creating a vertical lobby reminiscent of a monastery cloister. The apart ments are extended by vast exterior surfaces providing panoramic views.

Renault Headquarters

A competition for the Renault Headquarters for the first plot in the sequence was the occa sion to design the podium as a gentle slope, punctuated by expositional spaces. A vibrant mix of conference spaces, a fitness center, restaurants, a coffee shop, a cocktail bar and a Fab lab are enlivening the helical surface.

Professional | ECDM Architects | 2018 - ongoing Chartier Dalix ©

5 Volumetry EvolutionMaster Plan

6 Facade North1st Floor Plan Site 4 88 Housing Units

7 Transversal Section2nd Floor Plan

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Patio Walkthroughs Proposals

Luxigon © Renault

Diagrams Common SpacesCompetition 2018 - Renault Headquarters Site 4

Headquarters

11 Axonometry Common Spaces

Mixed-Use Development

Office, School, Retail and Hospitality Buildings

Building a Void

The project is a passageway, a connecting void framed by two volumes. Here, the geometry loses its authority and straight lines give way to balconies and terraces with flowing curves, creating setbacks and ove rhangs. Echoing the natural topography, the masses are rising taller as they progress towards the city.

Mixed-Use Development

Designed with sustainability as a focus, the multi-purpose buildings are blending a wide variety of activities, including multi-tenant offices, co-wor king spaces, a higher education school, an auditorium, a roof top bar, a supermarket, a café. The project aims to create a hub for working, meeting, lei sure, learning and relaxation

Fostering Biodiversity

The project offers a place of reconciliation between the na tural environment and the hu man beings, as well as having a positive environmental impact. Vegetation grows freely on the cascading terraces, blurring the boundaries between inside and outside, offering protection from sun and fostering biodi versity.

Professional | ECDM Architects | 2017 - ongoing

13 Metrochrome © Master PlanTerrace View

14 Longitudinal Section Offices1st Floor Plan

15 Longitudinal Section University2nd Floor Plan

16 Technical DetailsFacade Detail

17 Technical DetailsFacade Detail

Police Station

A Public Institution for the City

A landmark

The Torcy Police Station strives to answer to three indivisible challenges: to represent autho rity, to open to the community in order to foster the rela tionship with the public and to offer comfortable and safe working conditions to police officers. A compact concrete volume is conceived as a land mark in its landscape.

Fragmentation and Setbacks

The volume is sculpted fol lowing a system of fragmen tation and setbacks. The gaps between the volumes create space for windows that are removed from the street, increasing privacy and security. A setback emphasizes the entrance, while a central patio acts as en element of cohesion between different services.

A Rubick’s Cube

A Police Station is innately a complex program. Multiple cri tical civic programs and diffe rentiated circulation flows must be housed within the same building to create a unified point of service for the city. The programs are organized vertically, following a singlecorridor system, in order to retain all required adjacencies.

Professional | ECDM Architects | 2018

19 AxonometryProgram Diagram

East Facade

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First and Second Floor Plan

Transversal Section

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Third and Fourth Floor Plan

Hybrid Building

Offices, Hotel, Fitness Center and Restaurant

Professional | ECDM Architects | 2019

A Semi-Cylinder

Here, the traffic flow and the warehouses are generating the layout of voids and solids, of forms and masses. Shaped as a semicircle by the highway lanes and the tramlines, the plot is part of this narrative and so is the project we are proposing : a marker in a highway lands cape moulded by the traffic layout.

A Hybrid Building

Multiple uses are mixed to gether, interact with each other and enrich each other: multitenant offices, hotel, fitness center, restaurants. The buil ding aims to create synergies between its programs, in order to extend its utility hours, save space and become a key player which revitalises the urban scene.

Reversibility

A radial concrete structure, following normalized heights, defines a generic building, anticipating future needs and adapting to various uses.

Lightweight partitions and panel facades are providing the required specificity to each program: curtain wall, wire mesh, mirror-finished stainless-steel sheets.

Program : Mixed-Use | Location : Rungis, France | Surface : 94500 sq.ft. | Phases : Schematic Design |

Used programs : Autocad, Rhino, Adobe Suite

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Hybridisation Normalized heights Reversibility

Research

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Hotel, Offices and Rooftop Floor Plans Forum, Parking and Fitness Center Floor Plans

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High-Rise Housing

166 Housing Units and Small Retail Spaces

Professional | ECDM Architects 2022

Stacked Blocks

The project stands as a land mark for the city and serves as a gravitational point for the neighborhood. The masses are sculpted in a series of stacked blocks addressing the heights of the surrounding buildings. The earth tones on the lower levels gradually give way to lighter colors as the height progresses.

Flexible Floor Layouts

The project proposes a wide variety of housing units for different user groups. The load bearing grid facade gives rise to generic spaces that allow for flexible floor layouts, customi zing wall partitions according to evolving needs, combining several units to create larger residences or dividing a unit to create smaller residences.

An Extra Room

An extra room is a malleable space extended by an exterior surface, capable of adapting to the changes in family structure and rapidly assimilating the choices of modes of life, work and free time: preparing the arrival of a new family mem ber, hosting occasional guests, starting a business, developing a hobby.

Program : Housing | Location : Bagneux, France | Surface : 136650 sq.ft. | Phases : Schematic Design |

programs : Revit, Autocad, Adobe Suite

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Guest Bedroom

Home Ofﬁce

Guest Bedroom

Nursery

Guest Bedroom

Nursery

Home Ofﬁce Workshop

Workshop

Home office BBQ Guest bedroom Leisure Nursery Greenhouse Workshop Play area

Games Room

Kids Room

Family Room Home Gym

Kids Room

Dinning Room Library

Family Room Home Gym

Music Room

Kids Room

Dinning Room Library

Music Room

Nursery

Games Room

Dinning Room Library

Kids room Solarium Home gym Lounge Library Creative space

Music room Outdoor gym

Games Room

An Extra Room Scenarios

27 Family Room Home Gym Music Room

Single Studio 200 ft²

Single person working remotely + home office + play area 300 ft²

Couple

1 bedroom apartment 400 ft²

Elderly couple with carer

+ guest bedroom + greenhouse 500 ft²

Family of 3 2 bedroom apartment 600 ft²

Facades

Family expecting a second child

+ nursery + lounge

700 ft²

Family of 4

3 bedroom apartment 800 ft²

Family starting a business + workshop + BBQ 900 ft²

Family of 5

4 bedroom apartment 1000 ft²

Family renting a studio + studio + creative area 1100 ft²

29 Unit Typologies

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Single

Occasional

Remote

Single

Large

Flat

Family

Arrival

Longitudinal Section

parent

guest 700 ft² Couple

work 700 ft²

person

gatherings 700 ft² 2 people

sharing 800 ft² +++ ++

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of twins 800 ft² Wall Partitions Scenarios

Rwanda Chapel

An Open Place of Worship

A Search for Balance

With religious life comes a ceaseless search for a balance in the complexity of existence. What is the most important for the believer: Orthodoxy or to lerance? Community or self-in trospection? As we assess the need for the church, we realize that it must answer to the wish for a balance and become a place of conciliation.

An Existent Cloister

We understand that our pro ject must complete the existing situation and aim to become a meeting point for laypeople and religious orders, The church will be the expansion of the convent for the Clarisses of Rukomo. The Poor Clare Sisters have their cloister, insulated from outside and suited for their way of life.

An Open Place of Worship

We offer the obverse: a place of worship opened to its envi ronment. An open structure which shelters a massive sacred volume, essentially carved out to accept the outsider. It pro vides a clear path to gradually elevate from the prosaic to the spiritual, while allowing the possibilities to extend in order to welcome a wider audience.

Program : Religious Architecture | Location : Rukomo, Rwanda | Surface : 5490 sq.ft. | Used programs : Autocad, Rhino + V+ray, Adobe Suite | Team project

Competition | Young Architects Competitions | 2019

CENTRIPETAL CENTRIPETAL

DECONSTRUCTION

CENTRIFUGALINTROVERTI RECOMPOSITION

Recomposition

Outwards

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DECONSTRUCTION

CENTRIPETAL CENTRIPETAL

PEDESTAL

BELL

SIGNAL

Deconstruction Mass

CENTRIFUGALINTROVERTI RECOMPOSITION

DECONSTRUCTION

SHELTER SACRED MASS AISLE

NARTEX CENTRAL NAVE CHAPEL

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Pedestal Inwards Shelter Aisle

Floor planPlanimetric diagrams

West Facade - Nave South Facade - Narthex North Facade - Chapel

Nave View Chapel View

Ghost Town Refuge

Inhabiting the ruins

Preserving the Spirit

There is an elusive connection between life that has passed in a place and the fascination such space exerts once it has been abandoned. How can Craco become hospitable while retaining its distinctive spirit?

A Frugal Intervention

Our narrative is built on the statement that all is public, all is explorable. The private space become a hideout among the ruins, a dispersed system of emergency shelters inhabiting the voids of the city.

Echo to the Primitive Shelter

A niche archway echoes a pri mitive cave, a crater houses an emergency shelter, the fillings between the ruins mimic a familiar house. A shared Ser vice and Interpretation Center serves as a hub for all visitors.

37 Emergency Shelter View Master Plan

Eco-Rythmes

Creating an Adaptable Urban Campus

Balancing Town and Nature

Paris-Saclay Valley Campus is located within a natural savage landscape. We aim to establish a new balance in between town and nature, by offering the amenities of a town center wit hin a framework of high-quality natural spaces.

Revival through Openness

Despite its apparent openness in plan, the campus is herme tic. The question of attrac tiveness lies at the heart of our inquiry: “Can the creation of links between students and local people revitalize the Yvette Valley?

Promoting Urban Intensity

The campus is occupied, but underinhabited. Our inter vention focuses on increasing urban density on the site by drawing on the presence of student residences, as well as promoting a diversity of uses of interest to all.