PORTFOLIO selected works 2010-2015
barsan claudia
PORTFOLIO selected works 2010-2015
barsan claudia
barsanclaudia91@gmail.com +40752182182 date of birth: 16.02.1991
RÉSUMÉ
EDUCATION 2010 - _ 2006 - 2010
“Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urban Planning, Bucharest, Romania “Octavian Goga” National College, Miercurea Ciuc, Romania
ACHIEVMENTS / WORKSHOPS / CONTESTS / EXPOSITIONS 2015 1st prize at National “Equal Design” Contest - “Architecture for all” 2015 International Workshop in Pianela, Pescara, Italy - “Interventions in Urban Gaps” 2015 Exposed project at UAUIM - Bucharest Philharmonic 2014 Exposed project at UAUIM - Public Spaces on Unirii Boulevard 2014 Participation on RIFF Anual Conference as listener and translator 2014 International VELUX Awards for students of architecture entry 2013 Participation on Contractor Anual Conference as listener and translator 2013 Member of the Hungarian Students Association from Bucharest 2012 Exposed project at Ansamblu Monastic Hurezi - Cultural Centre 2012 Exposed project at UAUIM - Collective Housing 2011 National Architecture Students Competition C.A.S.A. entry 2011 International VELUX Award for students of architecture entry SOFT SKILLS motivation creativity organisation teamplayer management
LANGUAGES hungarian romanian english french
PROFICIENCY Graphisoft ArchiCAD Graphisoft Artlantis Autodesk AutoCAD Adobe Photoshop Adobe InDesign Adobe Illustrator Drawing and modeling
TABLE OF CONTENTS
01. Urban Tissue / Re-thinking a neighborhood
02. Collective housing on Mantuleasa Street - The space between
03. Restoration ideea of Chiajna Monastery
04. Bucharest Philharmonic
05. Modular-dinamic Pavilion - Equal Design Contest
location: Bucharest, Romania function: cultural center semester: 9th 2015, academic project studio: Stefan Scafa Udriste, Gabriel Costachescu, Vlad Thiery 01. Urban Tissue / Re-thinking a neighborhood The cities of today are in a continuous process of theorization and mutation, influenced by essential events like agglomeration, segregation, mobility and rutine. These mechanisms are working simultaneously, especially between the division lines of different functional zones, which are in a continous conflict in the city. One of these limits is the North-South Diagonal (formed of Buzesti, Berzei, Vasile Parvan, Hasdeu and Calea Rahovei Streets) generated in the past few years many controversy. The internal organisation of Bucharest is generated by axes, as structural elements of the city. These axes correspond logically with the connection system of the central nodes, as links with important cities or regions. Along with the modernization of the city the route Berzei-Buzesti appeared as a dividing line between the urbanized and non-urbanized zones of Bucharest. As a result of continuous interventions in the urban tissue, the studied portion risks losing its identity and integrity. The project aims for urban regeneration and reintegration of zones with socio-economical problems, efficient circulation system, public spaces, providing a quality and healthy social climat.
The studied portion got layered and labeld, as part of the initial analisys. One basic layer is the traditional urban tissue along the Berzei-Buzesti route. One of the issues is the disproportion between the size of the street and the line of facades. Other layers like routines and habits of the place got materialized by proposing proper urban solutions, as pedestrian routes parralel with the bolevard, green areas linked with the residential and cutural ones. Also the proper interventions around the national monuments were carefully negotiated for proper protection and reservation of them.
- height(30m to 5m) streets The analisys of heights underline the disorganised character of the urban tissue from this zone. There is also a high amount of small constructions, these volumetries does not answer to the urbanistical necessieties of the zone/boulevard.
/ green area(public/private) / streets(main/secondary) The analisys of circulations underline a hierarchy of street structure in many categories of importance in the city. The role of theese is mostly reflected in size, irrigating a proportional area. The procent of green areas belonging to private domain are high.
/ / condition(good/average/bad) streets Mainly the condition of the constructions from the studied zone is average, with damages at the surface, but the value of theese buildings is low, as a result of non-strategical development and privat abuse of construction.
Urban Tissue / Re-thinking a neighborhood As part of the studied zone, a strategically posisioned neghborhood was designd/rethought for implementation and coagulation of the existent and new. Taking a zoom in, we observe that the neighborhood is in between the significant nodes(main street, hotel, cultural centre, residential areas) and passed by the main pedestrian routes. This centered position emphasize the need of a public space linked with a high cultural place, where all kind of events may occur. The main ideea was to reintegrate the old constructions from the site and link them with the new proposal which is in a contrasting relationship with the constructed environment, as a white skin for seeking attention.The volumetric settlement is placed between the new-built boulevard with all its architecture and the traditional urban tissue.
From the analyse of volumes and gaps along the penetrating streets in depth(from new boulevard-to traditional urban tissue) we observe the acces is mostly sideways and there is a high visibility because of these gaps between the buildings. The built-gap setting is quite rhythmical.
The different functions of the Cultural Center as public library, winery, modern art museum, coffe/souvenir shops and restaurants are linked together and whith the main public space, surrounding it. This main public space may be considered a small piazza, directing toward the points of interests and being a large event space for the whole studied zone.
The piazza/main public space is marked by a 30m high roof canopy with a fluid form accent. The rigid shell is supported only by four columns and formed by panels set within a diagrid of fins. The ideea of the roof has developed from the necessity of regularization of the volumes, appearing as a floating tissue above the whole.
Bird’s-eye view of the Cultural Center and the roof
The white roof element becomes an essential part of the whole, contributing at the contrasting relationship between the new architecture and the well placed old one.
location: Bucharest, Romania function: collective housing semester: 6th 2013, academic project-2 members studio: Haytam Zeki, Andra Panait, Melania Dulamea 02. Collective housing on Mantuleasa Street - The “space between� Mantuleasa is a representative core around which important elements of Bucharest were formed. Being a useful segment between two main areas of the city, became populated by merchants and landowners in the XIXth century. At the end of the same century the Mantuleasa neighborhood changes by increasing its density and by replacing the existent built stock gradually and in an inhomogenous way. These changes continue during the modernization of Bucharest and the comunist period. The Street is well defined in the structure of the city but also with a strong historical background, Mircea Eliade’s(romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher) school was once on the given plot for designing the Collective Housing project. The street and neighborhood may change, but the environment of the place is still dreamy, with diverse population and big gardens with apricot and sour cherry trees.
Mantuleasa appear on the scenery of the town at the end of the XVIIth century, as a place of wealthy merchants. Until the XIXth century it becomes a residential neighborhood.
Tipes of living on Mantuleasa street: collective housing twinned houses individual houses The area is mainly populated by colective and twinned houses, combined with comercial functions at the ground floor, the merchant character of the zone is still present. The transit street is circulated by cars almost the whole day, fact that generated the evolution of gardens with high amount of trees witch filter the visualy unattractive and noisy street. As a good spot of the area, de given plot is situated midway, next to Mantuleasa Church, kindergardens and schools. The design aimed to let visitors and residents see through the constructions via the settlelment of volumes and the gangways in them. This semi-transparecy reveal the back garden, making the passersby curious.
Acces to the house in the area: directly from the street sidewise through a courtyard frontally through a courtyard The acces to the houses is typical, green gardens form a transllucent layer between the private and public domain. The way of living in the area is heterogeneous with different levels of confort and intimacy.
Mantuleasa street is surrounded by many legends and stories, even Mircea Eliade was fascinated by this area, writing about it many times. The old school that existed on the plot was “a big and robust construction, guarded by chesnut trees with a wide courtyard in the back“(Eliade). The mentioned chesnut trees are still in the same place, telling the story of Mantuleasa. Also, the twigs have a history in this place, used for making wicker basets, wattle fence and straw roofs in the first period of existence of the neighborhood.
Starting from the confort of individual houses, the collective dwellings aims to offer the same quality space by gradually passing from public to semipublic and to private domain, and also by playing with the typologies of living in the same built area.
Habit
From public to private
Types of living
The volume of the collective dwelling can be translated as a spiral motion thus giving place to a central courtyard as an important event place. The trees from the site were kept and enriched with new ones.
The apartments are designed in a flexible way, divided to night zone and day zone, also ith the possibility of full detachment or free open space.
Ground floor. The gangways are closed with glass panels, so the acces to the back coourtyard is possible only for the residents. The front court is accessible for everyone, thus creating a green area for the whole neighborhood.
1st Floor The flats may change from one floor to another.
2nd Floor A main terrace is accessible for all residents at this floor.
3rd Floor The size of the flats may change from one floor to another.
4th Floor Duplex flats with a nice view toward the garden.
5th Floor
Underground parking Accessible only for the residents.
Details
Model of the Collective dwellings, bird’s-eye view from the back courtyard.
The facades of the houses were inspired by the history of twigs, thus a system of fix and mobile shutters are covering them. These shutters let the light infiltrate between the twig layer, and nightime, the private atmosphere from the inside is leaking out, generating a more local setting.
location: Bucharest, Romania function: church semester: 8th 2014, academic project-2 members studio: Stefan Balici 03. Restoration ideea of Chiajna Monastery The ruin of Chiajna Monastery is surrounded by many hypotheses, fact that place it in an unexplored historical region. The style differences and uncertainties, in comparsion with other similar constructions of the era, raises a number of questions that remain not answered. The church is mentioned in historical writings from the XVIth century and appear on two cartographic maps from 1770 and 1791(Schmidt). In time it was abandoned and later bombarded by the Turkish army. Were held two arheological excavations but the ruin were left untouched. “The church where no service ever held” may be a representative title. The dimensions of the ruin are 43.00m x 17.10 m with a 643m2 surface and 1-2m thick walls. It is built on a trefoiled plan with one dome above the nave, which was cnocked down during the earthquake from 1977. It had a large porch opened on three sides which also has fallen. The narthex has 9.70m in depth. The ruin is impressive, the church was made in the late period of feudalism. It’s unique and an original masterpiece of religious architecture from Romania.
The ruin of the Chiajna Monastery is situated on the outskirts of Bucharest being on a national heritage site. It is located in the immediate vicinity of the railway Bucharest Craiova and near the final approach path to Otopeni airport, the traffic on these routes hastening its degradation.
About the construction: The nave is 14.4m wide with two apses on the sides, in the narthex existed two massive pillars which supported the roof structure, similar pillars were supporting the tympanum inbetween the nave and narthex thus the two spaces were separated. There are no sighns of decorations on the interior walls.
The church was built in the same time with many wellknown Romanian churches, but there are no similar elements which could be used for the study. It is much bigger than any other church from that period, there are huge differences in plan, proportions and decorative elements.
The plan is typical for traditional churches from Romania, the decorations are post-brancovenesc(Wallachian Renaissance)styled, built in two stages in a neoclasical style, it is a hybrid of the middle XVIIIth century. After a detailed analysis which includes outside and inside elements, study of registers and holes, dimensions and reports of them, and a virtual reconstruction of elements of the church, the team found out a possible way of construction of the roof above the narthex. The construction details of the tower and doome are unknown, with no evidence of any height or form. The only thing that prooves the existence of a tower is the base of it.
Because the lack of information and historical documentation, the Chiajna Monastery is surrounded by ambiguity, so the idea of renovation starts from this fact, and tries to draw a mistical line around it. The team decided to strenghten the structure of the church by intervening in the wall structure with steel elements and for preservation of the masonry with same material additions. The narthex was covered with a glass panel, ower which was blasted the possible plan of the roof. The presence of the tower was mimed by thin steel elements, which seem to reach to the sky but never found an end.
Plan of the floor
Plan of the roof - the image blasted on the glass panel The team has chosen to interfere as little as possible ower the ruin of Chiajna Monastery, without clear evidence and historical documentation, the “blind“ reconstruction would be a lie, which would deny the past and alterate the identity of the monument.
The materials were chosen in a contrasting way, to make a diffrence between the new and old.
location: Bucharest, Romania function: Philharmonic semester: 9th 2014, academic project, 2 members studio: Stefan Scafa Udriste, Gabriel Costachescu, Vlad Thiery 04. Bucharest Philharmonic The architecture is petrified music. (Felix E. Schelling) Unirii Boulevard is the main axis of the Cenrtu Civic project, which began after the 1977 earthquake under the guise of reconstruction and repair of the damaged parts of Bucharest. Inspired by the architecture of the totalitarian regime the boulevard is a socialist Champs-Elysees, with a 3.5km length. The construction of this megaloman structure has caused destruction of many national monuments to make way for it. Unirii Boulevard is a particular example of forced urbanization and a problem of the capital, it splits the city in two, blocking any kind of contact between the two parts. However, it is a site with uniformity and large unbuilt areas, which give space for new projects, to solve this urban gap. Our project is located at the beginning of the boulevard, in vicinity of Unirii Square, next to the National Library and the General Court of Bucharest. It is a detalied part of the masterplan for a Cultural and Justice District of Bucharest (which include Office Buildings, Police Headquarters, National Court of Law). The main ideea was to make a connection between the splited city and the newly created functions.
Bucharest Philharmonic
At the given site for the project once was planed to be the Esplanada Bussines Center and mall, which has not built after all. The masterplan for the site contain three major parts, the Justice District, the Business Center and the Bucharest Philharmonic. Our team developed the Bucharest Philharmonic Project, which also contain two undergrould parking lots, a main comercial area, lecture halls, clasrooms, artist studios, conference centers, leisure spaces and the Music Hall. The site is easily accessible from Unirii and Octavian Goga Boulevards. The shape of the Bucharest Philharmonic has to be iconic, to represent the highest cultural level of the city, that’s why the team has chosen to use a “golden rock� as simbol of it.
The Philharmonic, surrounded by the grey uniformity of the zone is standing out as a light bulb, attracting the citizens and creating a large space of happenings, encounters and social events. It was important to create a strong simbol for Bucharest, which can represent the highest cultural level.
-3.50m story. The “golden rock” is placed on a plate (+3.5m) which seem to float above the ground because of the seclued column sistem. The accesses are made with large ramps which lead to the rised plate and the lowered “English yard”.
+3.5m story. The Philharmonic is accessible for anyone, as a main public space, but the entrance to the Hall is only allowed to the audience.
The “golden rock� structure of the Philharmonic is composed by a curved steel beam system with strong joints between them. The cover is made of texlon membranes. The steel structure suports the ET-FE pillows which are filled with low pressure air. This material is solid enough to stop the UV-light. Therefore through this facade is achieved the manipulation of light and the manipulation of visual transparency of the building.
+6.5m story.
+11.5m story.
+16.5m story.
-8.0m and -12.5 underground parking lot.
The foyer of the Philharmonic tends to expand beyond the limits of a usual Concert Hall foyer, and it became a “urban foyer� which comunicate with the outside and takes place on multiple levels.
05. Modular dinamic Pavilion - Equal Design Contest The Equal Design Architecture for all is a national contest for students and young graduates, organized by “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism and FIABA Italia Association - Romania. The theme “architecture for all” startted from the concern of professionals and investors for configuration of architectural spaces. In a global political context and in a society which promotes human rights there are a high amount of issues, we talk about gender equality, equality in ages, soccial status but not about an actual equality: accessibility for everyone and everywhere. From this point of view, the individual is different from his fellow through the relation held with the architectural spaces. The contest aims to select the best solutions for adjusting an expositional pavilion placed in an urban area and built after “universal design”. The pavilion have to fit in a 5x6x3m gauge and it will be rised with 35-50cm from the ground. Functions: main expositional area, minimal infopoint and a toilet. Also 1/4 from its surface will be covered. The design for the exposition has to be flexible, answering for all kind of activities and the building process must be feasible.
The Modular-dinamic Pavilion is built from recicled wood pallets. The pallets are split in two groups fixed(wood texture) and movable(bue color). The blue ones are also distinguished by texture, to be easyer to recognize them not just visualy but tactile. These wood pallets can serve multiple roles: (1) sustain the expositional panels (2) can become sitting spots by sliding them out; positioned at different heights the sitting spots are easily accessible for all sized people (3) can be a cover for something.
The expositional panel is realised with a pulley sistem above which is placed a canvas. The canvas can be moved up and down by holding it from the leather edges and pulling it until it is leveled with the viewers eye level. The texture of the panel is designed through 3D print technique and Braille alphabet, to make it readable for everyone. The toilet is designed according to the “gender neutral� restrooms, which allows anyone to use it, regardless of their gender, identity or expression.
The exposition zone was designed in an inside-out way, thereby the exposition can be held on the outside of the actual pavilion. In this way people with integration issues or phobias like claustrophobia, agoraphobia can attend to the event without feeling threatened or constrained.
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