Constantin Architecture Portfolio 2013

architecture_portfolio CONSTANTIN EUGEN COZMA

2013

NAME CONSTANTIN EUGEN COZMA BIRTHDATE 18-05-1982 BIRTHPLACE Bucharest, Romania

ni EDUCATION 2006 - 2012 : Architecture Master Degree at Ion Mincu University, Bucharest 2002 - 2006 : Philosophy and Journalism Bachelor`s Degree at Spiru Haret University, Bucharest 1997 - 2001 : Edmond Nicolau Highschool, Bucharest WORK EXPERIENCE

SKILLS Personality : Analytic, conceptual Computer : Rhino 3D, Grasshopper, Sketchup, Autocad, Archicad, 3DS Max, Vray, Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign Languages : English (advanced), Spanish, (beginner) French (beginner), German (beginner) AWARDS Shortlisted in 2010 international architecture contest “Upgrade: Continuity and Change” OTHER INTERESTS Science, Technology, Product design, Cardesign, Concept art, Music, Movies

RESUME

JAN 2013 - APR 2013 : Junior architect at Nabito Architects and Partners, Barcelona OCT 2011 - DEC 2011 : Internship architect at Zebra 3, Bucharest

PROFESSIONAL 01 02

Dubai Sports Loop

Internship at Nabito Architects, Barcelona

Frosinone residences

Internship at Nabito Architects, Barcelona

03

Green urban condensor

04

The missing link of the city

05

Bucharest creativity center

CONTENT

ACADEMIC

01

DUBAI SPORTS LOOP Concept proposal at Nabito Architects and Partners, Barcelona

The quest for a contemporary identity is very visible in Dubai, but most of the time the projects are focusing more on de shape than on the space itself. Many buildings which try to protect the people from the arid climate, end up by becoming isolated self-suficient objects. Dubai Sport Loop tries be a connection. Situated near one of the biggest shopping malls of the city, this project tries to recover the public space of the city by creating a sense of community around the central concept of sport. I started the analysis of the sport phenomenon, understanding it not as a particular activity or profession but as part of a lifestyle. Sport means something different for each and every person.

MUSIC PLAY CLIMATE

FOCUSING

FOOD

RECREATIGAME RELAXING

NUTRITION MIND

TEAM FAIRPLAY

HEALTH

FUN

a

MOVEMENT

COMPETITION

WHAT IS SPORT ?

SOCIAL

SPORT

b

BODY

c HEALTH

INTERGRATION

EQUIPEMENT

d e

FRIENDSHIP TRAINING EDUCATION

IDENTITY LIFESTYLE

BEAUTY

LEARNING EXERCISE

ART ASPIRATION

FASHION

DISCIPLINE

Site analysis

?

Education

Shopping

Living

Park

Unbuilt

Highway

Another big monolith cannot be the only answer

The close volumetry is translated into public space

The space is open for the city

OBJECT

SPACE

Accesibility

Indoor circuit

Outdoor circuit

LEGEND

The alternation of sport, leisure and shopping create a parcours of social events

LOUNGE

SPORT

SHOPPING

EDUCATION

LIVING

OFFICE

02

FROSINONE RESIDENCES

Concept proposal at Nabito Architects and Partners, Barcelona

The concept behind this project is the diversity of the singular apartments which reminds of the traditional urban typology that follows the geometry of the landscape.

The porosity of the shape creates multiple views and outdoor spaces for each apartment. On the other side of the building, the surfaces create a visual contrast

Monolithic

Porous

Layered

Comercial

2x 90 m²

8 x 75 m²

18 x 45 m²

450 m²

PROGRAM 90 m²

75 m²

45 m²

03

GREEN URBAN CONDENSOR Project team with Mihalea Gabriel Ioan; Competition entry in Isover 2011 contest

This project is an entry for ISOVER Eco Skyscraper contest. Located south to the World Trade Center, near Battery Park in NY the project proposes a mixed used tower wich links Washington St to Greenwich St and brings the Battery Park closer, with a series of terraces and public functions . It focuses on intense mixed of use (live, work together, play) by integrating the public activities from the park and surrounding streets. The sustainable strategy: A green spiral around the tower wich filters rain water and purifies the air, the Inner atrium, the pipe installation at the top of the building, the wind turbines.

Typical office plan

Typical fashion hotel

Typical student hotel

Typical residential

Linking autoway, designed to decongestionate traffic in the Greenwich area and achieve visual and functional links with the Battery Park and the surrounding buildings

Establishing a green lane and a promenade between the park and the volume and modelling the shape using a green spiral to provide a good ventilation and natural lighting

Making a green spiral promenade as an isolation between pedestrian and car traffic, along with planted areas wich establish physical connection between the park and the building

Splitting functions in major areas: public spaces, social cultural, office area, conference centers and fashion design hotel, student hotel, residential

Residential

Student Hotel

Fashion Hotel

Vegetation

Wind

Water

Facade Detail

Offices

Public

D1

Battery Tunnel

Water heating through the roof structure

04

THE MISSING LINK OF THE CITY Project team with Mihalea Gabriel Ioan; Shortlisted in 2010 “Upgrade : Continuity and change” competition

1911

2010

Future Pedestrians

Vehicles

The history of Bucharest city is marked by various moments when continuity has been altered by radical changes. During the middle of 1950`s a new urban axis into the very core of our city has been created : Ion C. Brătianu Boulevard. This urban axis is vital for the needs of a contemporary capital, but affects the historical center which has been splitted in two: the West side, with Lipscani street and Curtea Veche Museum and the East side, with Saint George Piazza and Bărăția church, where the urban life and activities are missing. How can we link the values of the Past to the identity of Present? We cannot turn back time nor can we recreate the buildings of yesterday. Instead we can try to integrate the historical center in the city life of today without losing the functional and visual axis of the I.C Bratianu Boulevard.

Future

Present

Past

Pedestrians

Vehicles

05

BUCHAREST CREATIVITY CENTER

The area wich i have chosen to study for my diploma project is in Bucharest, in a place with great potential, situated on the East side of Historical Center. Named Mosilor Path (Calea Mosilor), the area was an old commercial street of Romania and one of the most important structural axis of Bucharest city because it represented the main connection between Curtea Veche , the kernel of the city and the North of the country. During the 17 and 18 centuries this area prospered because of the commercial activities and the crafts and workshops wich were spread through both sides of the street. After the major urban interventions of the 19 century, the new urban axes wich were created, splitted the Historical Center in two and slowly isolated Calea Mosilor from the active areas of the city. The new axis - Bd Carol I, has taken most of Calea Mosilor functionality and activities and so transforming it into a simple transit route for the vehicles. Another cause of the situation is the new type of mass production economy wich evolved with the Industrial Revolution

The first segment connects the two areas and creates a continuum urban front wich links both sides of the city

The second segment completes the missing urban tissue by covering the existing blind walls and so creating an interior courtyard

Continuity is then transformed into rhytm and accents by marking the existing axes into to composition of the volumes

Pedestrian accessibility is amplified by routes and passages and so creating an porous urban tissue with walkways and courtyards

Ground

Level 1

Level 2

Level 4

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