Andrei Olaru Portfolio
Andrei Olaru Portfolio
Contents Academic Experience Work Experience CV
Academic Experience
The Cloud* as an archive 1st prize - Think Space/Past Forward competition 2012 jurors: Charles Renfro, Ricardo Scofidio, Zaha Hadid, Patrick Schumacher, Antonio Zaera-Polo team project with Anna Gulinska, Elena Romagnoli, Pablo Roman
machinery (re)creating nature
change machinery operating plane
capture/archive Cloud*
Conceived as a follow-up of Diller-Scofidio+Renfro’s project for the Swiss Expo’01, our proposal aims to offer a new experience but at the same time refer to the project from 1999. The visitor will face something new and familiar at the same time. The cloud is no longer perceived as part of nature. It is contained in a laboratory like environment. This allows the visitor to explore it in detail and experience moments when he/ she is neither inside, nor outside the cloud, but somewhere in between.
Located on the lake shore, the 450 long structure of the Archive houses the Cloud. The Cloud’s composition and movements influence the visibility towards the surroundings, thus making the visitor’s experience different every time. A mobile machinery, travelling along the Archive’s 10 sectors generates the Cloud. Using the lake’s water, it constantly generates the Cloud, as it moves from one sector to another with a 1 day interval. The Cloud generator serves also as access platform. It carries the visitors from ground level up to level 02. At level 02 they have the cloud around and under them. They can then decide whether to continue exploring the upper level or go down to level 01. There, the Cloud is all around them. They can touch it as they move along suspended pathways. From level 01 they can go further down to level water level. Level 00 refers to the origin of the Cloud. It is also where the experience ends, at both ends of the 450 long structure.
Beirut port: Urban embarkment Strategies for tresspassing Diploma project/Urban Strategies/Die Angewandte The project investigates how POROSITY can be used as a design tool which would allow 2 activities that usually don’t meet to occupy the same territory Due to the accelerated and uncontrolled growth of the city, the harbour currently occupies one of the most soughtafter areas in Beirut. It is an off-limits area for most of the inhabitants. The goal is to make the shoreline accessible to the public while not disrupting the harbour activity.
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New border condition making the shoreline reachable for the inhabitants.
Transport capacity grows 3D while harbour storage capacity grows 2D. Harbour activity is determined by the size of the industrial equipment. The space that is not required for the industrial activity can be considered available.
buildable ground
linear park
program map
Poro/eco/logics workshop Proto/eco/logics Symposium, Rovinj, Croatia, 2011 tutors: Bruno Juricic, Robbie Eleazer team project with Joao Neves
The objective of the workshop was to investigate an abstract spatial concept and its potentials in architecture/urbanism. The present project focuses on the relationship between voids and solids and how one can create the other. Either term can assume the role of positive or negative.
Volume
Distribution
Aglomeration
Negative mass
2D mass densities/clustering
3D mass clustering
Contingent Structures workshop Urban Strategies/die Angewandte workshop, Vienna, 2011 tutors: Adrian Lahoud
The project was based on the idea of FRAGILITY and how it can make people react. The idea was to create an architectural object that would bring together different communities from Beirut by giving them a common goal. The goal would be to take care of an architectural intervention. To acheive this, the object should look as if it’s about to collapse. the architecture should capture the moment before the fall.
Porous Patterns Urban Strategies/die Angewandte
Intentional/Unintentional
politic of the ground hole
ground
- System of objects that don’t “fit” unintentional porosity and scale 1 - Larger voids (decisions) - intentional porosity and scale 2
void
void
underground hole
void
Organization: If a system is considered porous, that does not imply that the elements which shape it are themselves porous.
Subtraction Urban Strategies/die Angewandte
SUBSTRACTION: Create porous mass by modelling the negative. Void becomes matter.
Museum Centre UAUIM For my diploma project at UAUIM, I designed a museum center dedicated to one of Romania’s greatest painters, Nicolae Grigorescu. The artist lived in the 19th century, being heavily influenced by the french school of Barbizon. It is in Campina that he decided to live the last years of his life and where he has created some of his greatest paintings. The project has 2 major functions, it serves as a museum for some of the artist’s works and a research center for young artists. The volumes housing these separate functions are treated differently. Most of the exhibition space is underground, only 3 opaque glass volumes and the aparent concrete distribution core being visible from outside. The artist’s facilities are grouped in the lower part of the site, inside concrete volumes. The artists attending the seminaries organized by the museum should try and have an experience as close to Grigorescu’s as possible. This means that most of their activity would take place outdoors, the research center serving only as their base.
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Work Experience
Office Building Chalabi Architekten & Partner GmbH Veranstaltung
Location
Vienna, Austria
Year
2013
GFA
12.000sqm
Besprechung
BÜRO Besprechung
Hotel
The site is located at meeting point of 2 urban tissue types which are separated by a high traffic road. The building works as an urban attractor that would increase the timeframe during which the site is used by bringing in new activities. The new urban attractor is shaped as a half sunken arena offering the possibility for urban activity to happen and be observed from more angles. its different levels allow for different degrees of privacy. The urban space extends inside the building in the shape of a vertical garden that would serve as break areas for the people working in the upper floors. The visual connection between the plaza and the vertical garden make the participants part of the same cummunity but still allowing a comfortable degree of privacy.
Cafe
Seminar
Restaurant Einkaufen
Besprechung
Auto
Fußgängerzone Restaurant
Radweg
Einkaufen
PARKING
Cafe
Rad Rast
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Josefs Straße
Auerspergstraße
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+33,30
+ 0,00
+32,30
-1,00
+33,30
+28,90 +26,00
+25,50
-1,00
+26,00
+22,10
+ 0,00
+18,70
+ 0,00
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B Stadiongasse
CAFE BAR
+15,30
-3,90
+11,90 +8,50 +5,10
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-3,90
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Doblhoffgasse
-1,00 -3,90
-0,50
-6,70 -9,60
-3,90
Rathausstraße -1,40
-12,20
-2,00
+4,50
+0,00
Mixed-Use High-RIse Chalabi Architekten & Partner GmbH Location
Doha, Qatar
Year
2013
GFA
93.000 sqm
This new addition to Doha’s skylineis part of the many developments taking place to celebrate Qatar’s hosting of the FIFA World Cup 2022. The 2 mixed use high rise buildings are percieved differently as you move along Doha’s Corniche road. From across the bay, the buildings look merged, as one. As you approach them, following the Corniche road, they appear to separate.
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RESIDENTIAL SERVICED APARTMENTS
OFFICE LOBBY HOTEL LOBBY
OFFICE HOTEL ENTRANCE LOBBY ENTRANCE LOBBY
Single Family House Chalabi Architekten & Partner GmbH Location
Dubai, UAE
Year
2012
GFA
1,200 sqm
The main objective of this design was to offer the client a new living experience while maintaining a very high standard and an increased level of privacy. The building is shaped so as to creat lots types of shaded outdoor spaces. Natural light is received mostly through openings facing the yard. Towards the street and future neighbours, the house is more closed, ensuring the desired level of prvacy.
ABOVE GROUND
BELOW GROUND
FREE GROUND FLOOR
SETBACK ALOWS LIGHT TO ENTER
Elementary School Chalabi Architekten & Partner GmbH Location
Salzburg, Austria
Year
2013
GFA
12.000sqm
+3.70
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-3.60
Schularzt 30 m²
-1.30 +0.00
VII.13
Bewegungsraum 60 m²
-1.30 -1.30
+0.00
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Sammlung 17 m²
-1.30
VII.7
Mediatek / Bibliothek 31 m²
VII.11 Sammlung 15 m²
VII.7
Multifunktionaler Unterrichtsraum 30 m²
VII.6
Leitung 35 m²
VII.10
-1.30
VII.3 +0.85
VII.9
B. zimmer 9 m²
3-3
VII.9
B. zimmer 9 m²
Besprechungsraum/Beratung 54 m²
VII.4
VII.5
Schulwart 10 m²
Toiletten 10 m²
Toiletten 14 m²
+0.00
+6.40
+0.85
Nachmittagsbetreuung 82 m²
+0.00
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-3.60
Luftraum Turnsaal klein
VI. 1
+10.90m
4-4
Gruppenraum für Integration 58 m²
+0.00
3-3
The building will house an elementary school, as part of a university complex. It is conceived as a space that allows for new forms of teaching to be applied. It is a place where children will learn as much from eachother as from their teachers, by sharing and using a new type of space. The main main axis of the building, accentuating the site’s direction, links the outdoor and indoor activity/sports areas. The 10 classrooms, varying in size and shape are organized along it. Because of the program distribution, the axis becomes more than circulation and ordering element. It is a threedimensional communication platform, where the activities from the surrounding functions spill-out, a place where evrybody meets
4-4
+10.30m
+6.40
+2.70
±0.00 -1.30
Corporate Headquarters Westfourth Architecture S.R.L./P.C. Location
Bucharest, Romania
Year
2009-2010
GFA
18.000sqm
This office building, situated in an area that is to be developped over a longer period in the future, is to house the headquarters of a major international company. Knowing from the start who will occupy the building meant that we could take into account their specific demands from an early stage of the project. I was involved, in this project from the earliest stages of its design, working alonside my colleagues from Westfourth Architecture. My responsabilities included elaborating the 2D drawings and preparing the documentation for the necessary permits.
Multifunctional Complex Westfourth Architecture S.R.L./P.C. Location
Riga,Latvia
Year
2008-2009
GFA
100.000sqm
This multifunctional complex which includes retail, office and residential spaces is situated in a protected area, in the historic center of Riga, Latvia. The site covers approximatively 32.000 sqm and it used to be occupied by a factory. The only reminder of that is the high chimney of the old factory. The idea was to build the empty spaces along the major streets in a contemporary manner, respecting the scale of the existing buildings and, inside, to create a modern pedestrian area, one that would remain active 7 days a week. The entire layout is organized along a promenade and a public square, the heart of the complex. We decided to keep the old chimney, and place the promenade along it, making it an important part of our proposal.