Andrei Olteanu
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Andrei Olteanu date of birth june 12ᵗʰ 1990 nationality Romanian home address Mihai Bravu 96, Ploiești phone +40 726 77 11 42 e-mail andrei.olte@yahoo.ro
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Work background 2015
architect
2014
intern architect
Trend Furniture (Bucharest, Romania) Ensamble Studio (Madrid, Spain)
Educational background 2013-2014
École Nationale Superieure d’Architecture (Versailles, France) Erasmus programme
2009-2015
„Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urban Planning (Bucharest, Romania) bachelor + masters degree
2005-2009
„Ion Luca Caragiale” National College (Ploiești, Romania)
Workshops and other activities 2014
developped the entry pavilions at the 2014 Solar Decathlon (Versailles, France)
2013
Dynamic Fields, international workshop (Bucharest, Romania)
2013
exhibited at the Annual Architecture Convention (Bucharest, Romania)
2013
Parametric design and digital fabrication, course, UAUIM (Bucharest, Romania)
2013
Introduction to complex systems, course, Santa Fe Institute (online)
2013
Integrated planning and design for urban peripheries in Europe, ERASMUS International Workshop (Bucharest, Romania)
2013
speaker on Augmented Reality in Medicine II, National Students’ Congress (Bucharest, Romania)
2012
volunteer at Romanian Congress of Architecture and Design (Bucharest, Romania)
2012
speaker on Short History of Architecture from the Beginning to Tomorrow (Ploiești, Romania)
2012
speaker on Augmented Reality in Medicine, National Students’ Congress (Constanța, Romania)
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Introduction to Parametric Design and Digital Fabrication, workshop (Bucharest, Romania)
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speaker on Ploiești of the Future, Students’ Congress (Ploiești, Romania) 6
Skills BIM
Autodesk Revit
CAD
AutoCAD
3D modelling parametric
rendering environmental
image editing vector graphics
Rhinoceros 3D
3D engine
Grasshopper, Kangaroo, Galapagos vRay
practical
augmented reality
Ecotect
Languages romanian english french
native speaker proficient (A degree, University of Cambridge CAE) intermediate
portuguese
beginner
spanish
beginner
Interests 爱
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Adobe Photoshop Corel Draw, Adobe Illustrator Unity 3D model making, construction site abilities ARToolkit
Block Apartments Bucharest, Romania school project, UAUIM tutors: Ioan Lucăcel, Radu Negoiță team: Bogdan Tomuleț, Cătălin Mihai, Andrei Olteanu
Temporary Pavilion Brașov, Romania competition team: Silviu Papuc, Andrei Olteanu
Urban Development Bucharest, Romania integrated planning ERASMUS international workshop tutors: Axel Fisher, Simon Bell, Gabriel Pascariu team: Francesca Pedroni, Piret Rennit, Manuela Negrilă, Milkana Mladenova, Ilona Feklistova, Andrei Olteanu
Camelot Research Centre South Cadbury, England competition team: Eliza Tomescu, Răzvan-Ioan Molie, Andrei Olteanu
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Tourbillon Bucharest, Romania international workshop tutors: Patrik Schumacher, Hooman Talebi team: Orsolya Günthner, Eliza Culea, Sarah Safaoui, Irina Ilie, Andrei Olteanu
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Ploiești Hub Ploiești, Romania diploma project tutors: Ionuț Anton, Augustin Ioan
Blooming Gate Versailles, France constructed project project managers: Klaas de Rycke, Wendy Geeraert team: Ernest Bordoy, Neyda Moko Steadler, Laura Guimarães, Javier Montero
Suprablock
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Boston, USA proposal project managers: Anton Garcia Abril, Debora Mesa Molina team: Andrei Olteanu, Federica Zunino, Simone Cavallo, Massimo Loia
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Block Apartments Bucharest, Romania school project, UAUIM tutors: Ioan Lucăcel, Radu Negoiță team: Bogdan Tomuleț, Cătălin Mihai, Andrei Olteanu
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physical model This project is one of the most comprehensive tasks in UAUIM’s curriculum, as it encompasses all types of approach: the urban integration, architectural design and also the detailing part. The solution here is three dierent volumes that resonate with the heterogenous surroundings, opting for a playful geometry and combining personal space with the latest energy eicient technologies. All this is put together in such a way that it maximizes dwelling confort: semiprivate yard, a facade system that maximizes interior space, access to the roofs and so on.
northern facade
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Yona Friedman Mobile structures
cells + structure
all dierent
easy to optimize space
no two identical spaces
One of the primary concerns was how to integrate such an ensemble into this really diverse area. The major boulevard, the former industrial area and the old, low-rise urban fabric.
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How can these pressures be applied to the project?
reconcile fabrics three types of urban fabric
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The structure-cell idea enabled the appartments to bear a free approach in terms of space. Thus, even if there are some ďŹ xed points like the vertical circulations or the piping system, the spaces are composed in a free manner, as if their addition were natural.
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oor plan 3 bedroom apartment scale 1:50
The public space in front of the buildings, towards the boulevard is a take on the former market that used to be on the site. It is thought as a directional public space that reminds of the corridors in the old market, as well as sugesting a break in the velocity of the busy Grivița boulevard. This also constitutes an open junction. This junction brings together the private block buildings with their heavy presence and the ever-busy street, with high velocities and a changing dynamic, so this acts more like a filter. A filter between day-to-day private space and day-to-day outside world.
further info:
typical floor plan uauim.ro/galerie/ proiecte/956 15
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Time Pavilion Brașov, Romania competition team: Silviu Papuc, Andrei Olteanu
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A temporary pavilion can be more than a building. It can represent time passing, stating its purpose, comunicating its true existence to the people. temporary is from time A to time B
In this case, the structure is a forest of hourglasses, with a life span of exactly the amount of time it needs to serve the city: from May to October. For the summer months, it is a shadowy place, but it is slowly degrading to a translucent landmark, swapping the city and the sky altogether.
the city
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It is a meeting place that aknowledges its existence and it shows it by changing its nature over time. may
the sky
see time
june
july
interior view 18
august
september
street view
site plan
may to september 35 hourglasses a pavilion that starts with a full roof in may providing shade and gradually opens its roof throughout october
axonometric view
exploded view 19
as the sand falls to the base
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Urban Development Bucharest, Romania integrated planning ERASMUS international workshop tutors: Axel Fisher, Simon Bell, Gabriel Pascariu team: Francesca Pedroni, Piret Rennit, Manuela Negrilă, Milkana Mladenova, Ilona Feklistova, Andrei Olteanu
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The intensive programme explored integrated approaches to urban and landscape planning in urban fringe areas. Specific emphasis was on the integration of urban planning and landscape architecture in a process that called not only for thorough analysis, but also for a careful design. One of the main design generators was sustainability, because of the large area, the various actors involved and the diversity of the landscape. This called for a multidisciplinary approach, in an effort to attain a comprehensive response to the problems and opportunities of the area. Bucharest The solution here is a unique area in Bucharest, saving a green corridor by recycling its main negative influences.
There are five driving forces that can shape the development of the VăcăreștiDâmbovita zone:
and its river
administration transport
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and a soon-to-be natural reserve
community
By putting them in a hierarchy, or in an order of intervention, we can control the way they influence the future of the area. And by that we can also influence the future of the city.
economy
All this is done designing around the ’spine’ that is responsible for the identity: the Dâmbovita river.
ecology
Another important characteristic is its unique Văcărești lake, a protected area that can become a natural park right in the heart of Bucharest. 22
timeline of the intervention preparation phase
administration collaboration funding participation
technical phase RE-CREATE
RE-LANDSCAPE
RE-USE
lake, nature protection higher environment quality new open space recreation areas nicer neighborhoods
roads, infrastructure green public transport business opportunities higher property value nicer neighborhoods sustainable waste cycle renewable energy
lower electricity bills emotional connection community cohesion
Recycling applies not only to used materials, but also to buildings and existent structures, in order to raise the quality of life factor.
infrastructure management
complimentary green areas conversion of the agricultural segment
waste selection
Following the lines from the topography, a new green belt is created. This ensures a spatial unity to the site and permits a new spatial organization of the area.
phase 1 By changing the course of the river, a new, natural ambient is attained. The resulting public spaces and new visual characteristics help the site gain a diversity that contributes to establishing the new identity of the area.
participation in the process community gardens
Community is a very important driving force in the area, so participation is one of the leading concepts that helps shape the project. The creation of the two public spaces (near Lake Văcărești and near the green belt) help establish a new social cohesion for different segments of the community.
new public spaces
phase 2
ecological conversion conversion of the industrial zone
phase 3
The process of recycling, both for the waste and for the spaces, is done with the help of different communities, thus creating a synergy that helps change the site and the social bonds.
waste conversion
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Like every European capital, Bucharest is an everchanging city. Under the pressure of demographic and economic changes, new needs and contrasts emerge. The site in question is a clear example of these overlapping forces and the result of the coexistence of different necessities. The stake here is to find a compromise between the present identity and a broader scale of intervention.
REBUCHAREST
Thus, the strategy is to work in three directions: landscape and public spaces, reusing and energy. All three take the Văcăreşti Lake as a starting point.
Public space
Green belt
2 powerplant
1 Văcărești lake
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In terms of public space, the idea is to create a new centrality and facilities for people that live next to the site by the implementation of new public spaces.
re-USE
As for the landscape, there is a need to reestablish the equilibrium between nature and the city. This is done by creating a new green zone that is designed both for the residents in the nearby area, and also for the people of Bucharest.
re-LANDSCAPE
re-CREATE
Community garden
Bio-Agriculture
Water
3 gypsy community bicycle pedestrian
4 landďŹ ll
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Camelot Research Centre South Cadbury, England competition team: Eliza Tomescu, Rﾄホvan-Ioan Molie, Andrei Olteanu
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Tales always come from the dimness of another time and place that somehow still feel present. That’s why the edge between story and reality is full of fringes and gradients, but the distance inbetween is always worth a journey. The Camelot Research and Visitors Center has to respond to its demands by suggesting a journey between light and darkness, between reality and tale, but in the same time creating a feasible collaboration between the public and the researchers, while preserving their ows and necessary spaces.
square plan centrality minimum extent
light route le : exhibition right: admin
enclosure exhibition encircling walls
unity rooms related to each other
towers grouping the functions
light luminous route separating spaces
axial orientation volumes towards the monument
rest waiting areas between spaces
up the museum extends vertically
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the elevators
the light
vertical circulation for every the spaces, from exhibitions to restaurants a luminous line is the conducting element, that lead the flows throughout the buildings
the castle
the volumes are placed in such a way that it resembles a medieval typology
the tower
the vertical axis is the gradient between the two worlds
the unity
the volumes ar all oriented towards the same central point, a preexisting King Arthur’s fountain
the route
on the le , public areas; on the right, administration areas; inbetween, rest areas.
first floor plan
ground floor plan
cross section Legend Tower 29
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Tourbillon Bucharest, Romania international workshop tutors: Patrik Schumacher, Hooman Talebi team: Orsolya G端nthner, Eliza Culea, Sarah Safaoui, Irina Ilie, Andrei Olteanu
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The Dynamic Fields – Responsive Architecture Workshop, which took place in Bucharest, July 16-29, resulted in five innovative prototypes. The workshop’s purpose was the understanding of how the advancement of digital technology is helping architects respond to the complexity of the environment surrounding them. The five prototypes (Turbillon, Interactive Field, Dynamic Muqarnas, Project 86 and Wind Mapper) are to be exposed in the near future at different fairs or events. Materials, technique and geometry were the research fields and Rhinoceros, Grasshopper şi Arduino were the digital tools. The workshop participants came from different educational experiences and cultural backgrounds: students or graduates, architects, interior, product and urban designers, and engineers. geometries exposed to dynamic fields
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We were given the task of designing a surface that performs in a field of constant flow – in our case air. The challenge was finding a simple and effective operation that would alter static behaviors into performant ones. The base material with which we have started and finished our study is paper. Using the childhood experience in the art of Kirigami, we have discovered how cuts and folds can modify the behavior of a paper sheet from a simple plane into a responsive three dimensional surface. During the course of our research, the "fold and cut system" was replaced by digital design and automated manufacturing, leaving us with the single and effective action of cutting. Through repetitive and alternative cuts applied on different geometries we have modeled multiple performance results and chose for our final presentation those shapes that offer two specific qualities – vertical performance combined with control. The gradual testing of the various shapes started with squares and went as far as interconnected spirals and each step has allowed us to fully comprehend the implications that the nature of the cut-line has on the final result. Our project has therefore crystallized under the form of a large scale responsive surface to air flow that fully exhibits the potential and synergy between a simple action – cutting, a single material – paper, and digital technologies.
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The final project is a long table, 380 x 80 cm, with various cuts, controlled in Grasshopper, that play with the wind flow in order to achieve different geometries. This table has a set of fans underneath, that are positioned in such a way that they make sure the air flow is uniform. With the help of Arduino, the fans can dose their power and the new ’topography’ can be modified in order to better study the effects of the dynamic field.
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developed with:
Rhinoceros 3D
Grasshopper
Arduino
further info:
archdaily.com/ 421143
parametrica.ro/ projects 35
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Ploiești Hub Ploiești, Romania diploma project tutors: Ionuț Anton, Augustin Ioan
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street level panorama
Ploiești is the ninth biggest city in Romania and it is going through a period of great economic success. It is one of the best performing cities in terms of startups and freelancing, and it relies on one of the most important universities in the country. The infrastructure of the city is also one of the most dynamic in the country. The heavily industrialised profile that marked the past of the city needs to evolve, and the long-term strategy focuses on the change to a more sustainable future.
community
logistics
HUB technologic field
business environment academic field
The industry is changing everywhere, shi ing the focus from industrialism. The fabrication methods are evolving and creation processes become more and more democratised. Freelancers and startups can’t find their place in office buildings that seem to have remained accessible only to big corporations. The need for more flexible offices determined the creation of coworking spaces, suitable for a more dynamic use. However, there is no coworking space in the entire Ploiești metropolitan area, which is estimated at around 350 000 inhabitants.
building must host different types of users the building shoud feature informal areas as well as office spaces
In its strive to find a new identity, the city must keep up with the new typologies that make the shi from the industrialism.
the building is to be connected to the most important resource: community
the building must be like a hub it should facilitate interchanges it should absorb and act as an attractor
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underground plan
ground oor plan 39 facade detail
street view The building features a gradient that aims to help its users: each level is designed for different types of business, from freelancing to teams of ten members. A specific type of segregation has been implemented in the building: noise oriented placement. There are quiet rooms for spontaneous meetings, regular office cubicles, silent office areas and also informal spaces for meetings. Serendipity can happen anywhere. It can happen while waiting in front of the elevator door or while boiling water for a cup of tea. Formal and informal areas in the building are interwoven but protected from one another. All these zones are placed around two vertical nodes, that are linked with a central circular corridor. Then, the informal zones cut through the office space to become more ubiquitous.
second floor plan
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informal areas
work space
As the facade can become more open or more ermetic, so does it’s permisiveness towards direct insolation. Although usable space has a rather regular shape, (a prism), it still is subject to different values of the insolation. Moreover, the openings in the second skin could act as a wind gauge in different types of weather. The performance of the second skin can leave efficiency as the sole criterion for the layers underneath. aerial view
facade panels before genetic optimisation
aerial view
concept stages
Ecotect insulation analysis 41
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Blooming Gate Versailles, France constructed project project managers: Klaas de Rycke, Wendy Geeraert team: Ernest Bordoy, Neyda Moko Steadler, Laura Guimar達es, Javier Montero
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The project is meant as an access gate to the Solar Decathlon international competition which was held in 2014 in Versailles. Wooden butteries act as bricks in this multiple arch structure and are locked together mechanically. Every single buttery is dierent and is actually a pair of two triangular wooden panels that are cut by a CNC machine and then are articulated together using metal pieces.
axonometric view
module A33
construction process 44
interlocking
interlocking detail
construction phase 2 joints view 45
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Suprablock Boston, Massachussetts proposal project managers: Anton Garcia Abril, Debora Mesa Molina team: Andrei Olteanu, Federica Zunino, Simone Cavallo, Massimo Loia
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Suprablock is thought as a multiperformative system that develops the urban grid in the three dimensions, detaching from the tyranny of the car. Optimizing the use of the air, the system defines aerial streets and public spaces, communicated by means of shared vertical cores. The spaces in between infrastructural lines become the empty “volumetric plots” to be filled over time and according to needs. The open system designed can be developed in many ways and incorporate manifold agents in the process, using urban planning strategies.
concept
In this prototype that can grow with the same freedom and logic in the horizontal and vertical dimensions, the concept of the “building” completely dilutes, creating a hybrid where architecture and infrastructure find a new balance, where isolated buildings are transformed into a hyper-connected network. The construction logic of this system follows that of the prefabrication and li ing operations required for its construction, so that an on-site factory can efficiently fabricate and position the material saving transportation and manipulation costs.
site plan
cross section
As a case study, Suprablock Boston, inserts itself over the easternmost segment of Massachusetts Turnpike (Interstate 90), connecting the neighborhoods divided by the highway, resolving a physical and acoustical barrier and feeding the city with new open spaces, facilities and programs. The functionality of the highway remains intact but the space it occupy is bridged and recovered for the city.
cross section
(text courtesy of Ensamble Studio)
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further info:
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Andrei Olteanu 2015
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