Damian Alexandru: Architecture Portfolio 2015 by Alexandru Damian

DAMIAN ALEXANDRU

Personal information: Name, surname: Alexandru Damian Date and place of birth: 12.04.1989, Timişoara, Romania Telephone: +40766600736 Email: damian.aleksandar@gmail.com Languages: English, Spanish, Romanian, Croatian, Serbian Educational background: Faculty of Architecture Polytechnic University Timişoara - Romania Superior Technical School of Architecture University of Seville - Spain Work experience: Atelier Thomas Pucher - Graz, Austria (July 2014 - August 2015) Studio Mjölk architekti - Prague & Liberec, Czech Republic (July 2013 - October 2013) Studio Tab - Timişoara, Romania (April 2013 - July 2013) Architectural competitions: FIRST PRIZE: Local competition “Timisoara City Gate”, project: a city gate for Torontalului Entracnce. THIRD PRIZE: National competition “CASA” (2010), project: “A Sculptor’s house” in Bucharest. FINALIST: International competition “The Shelter Student Architectural Design Competition” (2013), project: “Time Shelter”. NOMINATED: National competition “Arhetipuri”(2011), project: “Step On”, a transformation of a public space. NOMINATED: Arch. national competition “Inspired - architecture” (2010), project: “Info Pavilion”, in Timisoara. Published work: Project: “Timisoara City Gate” was published on “Igloo” online architecture magazine and on local news. Project: “Colective Housing - Lörrach, Germany” was published on Igloo online arhchitecture magazine. Project: “Museum of the Revolution ‘89” was exhibited in the Memorial of the Romanian Revolution, from Timişoara. Project: “Mansarda” was published on www.arhgora.com, interior design for the Annual Architecture of Timişoara. Project: “Transformable Stool” was publised on the sustainable design website “www.greenspotter.ro”. Project: “CASA - A Sculptor’s house” was publicated in the national magazine “Arhitectura” no. 22.

Social skills and competences: Communicative, a good team worker, optimistic, inspired, innovative, watchful during projects and workshops and always looking for new and the right solutions. Skills and competences: Artistic: graphical visualisations, interior - exterior renderings, axonometric & 2D schemes, hand sketches, hand drawings, conceptual design Technical: drawing large scale details, technical axonometries, plans, sections, facades. Physical: Understanding and working with different materials, using natural textures, reusing good materials, building conceptual models, 3D printing and assembling models Programs: REVIT Architecture, Autocad, Adobe Photoshop, Indesign, Lightroom, Microsoft Office programs, Prezi, Makerbot 3D printing Written studies: 1. “Dobrovic’s master piese: The Generastab complex” An elaborate study about the buildings of the former Federal Ministry of Defense of Yugoslavia, located in central Belgrade, Serbia. The reaserch follows the theories and the story of the famous serbian architect Nikola Dobrovic and his Generalstab project, since it’s creation to it’s destruction, bombed by NATO in 1999. Language: Romanian, Serbian (latin) 2. “Identity without space, space without identity” A case study about Romanian gypsies since their arrival to Europe, their life through the communist era, to their euromigrations since Romania became an EU member in 2007. The study concentartes on the transformation of the

Internship at Studio Mjölk architekti - Prague & Liberec, Czech Republic

PROJECTS

Status

FENCE TM - Romania

Realized

LOFT TM - Romania

Realized

GARDEN STUDIO - Romania

Realized

PARKHAUS SALZBURG - Austria

Realized - internship

SINFONIA VARSOVIA - Poland

Project in progress - internship

U HOUSE - Romania

Under contrsuction - internship

SKYLIGHT HOUSE - Romania

Realized

ARTISANAL GLASS WORKSHOPS - Romania

Project proposal

HUNEDOARA LIVING MUSEUM - Romania

Project proposal

BELGRADE NATO BOMBING MUSEUM - Serbia

Diploma - in progress

Lörrach HOUSING - Germany

Faculty project

WÜRZBURG KOPFKLINIK HOSPITAL - Germany

Competition - internship

MUSEUM OF THE REVOLUTION ‘89 - Romania

Faculty project

ABOVE THE CLOUDS - China

Project in progress - internship

TAOYUAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT - Taiwan

Competition - internship

HOUSE 123, Romania

Faculty project

NAKO CASTLE WOOD FRAMING - Romania

Faculty Project

TRANSFORMABLE STOOL

Faculty project

WOOD PAVILION

Faculty project

HOUSE & SHOP - Romania

Faculty Project

THRON HOUSE - Romania

Faculty Project

HOUSE MMM - Romania

Faculty Project

TIME SHELTER - Serbia

Competition

TIMISOARA CITY GATE - Romania

Competition

HIDE & SEEK - Romania

Competition

A SCULPOR’S HOUSE - Romania

Competition

DA PHOTOGRAPHY

Photography

Project published on: ZEPPELIN magazine (11.2015) Kuća Stil magazine (01.2016)

LOCATION: TIMISOARA, ROMANIA YEAR: 2013 STATUS: REALIZED

FENCE TM The project refers to a story of a fence in the Banat region of Romania, a region where people used to have and still have huge green gardens, due to its rich soil, giving me the opportunity to create a playful rhythm of lights and shadows, and to manipulate the pedestrian’s eye inside the garden of my client. While passing by, I wanted to show people a small part of its beauty through the tight space between the vertical wooden planks mounted on the fence’s steel structure and the three gates. Adopting this type of a limit between private space (garden) and public space (street), I wanted to create an example for the street and for the most of the neighbours who after the ‘89 revolution against communism changed dramatically their property psychology and limit perception (mostly fences) from transparent to opaque, changing the street’s initial perception. The street must regain its “transparency” and expand its space into the people’s gardens, and the people must feel a part of the street. The project involved family work from foundations to woodworking and frame painting. Due to its family work, this 17 meter long fence with three gates was finished without exceeding 2000 Euros.

Door hande design (exterior)

Street view

View into the garden through the vertical planks

Door hande design (interior)

Post office design (interior)

Post office design (exterior)

Total lenght: 17,1 m (2 x car gate = 2 x 3,4m, 1 pedestrian gate = 1,2m, fence = 9,1m

MANSARDA Project published on:

POVESTEACASEI.RO (10.2015) ARHGORA.RO (12.2011)

The concept was born from the desire to achieve a living space that preserves the atmosphere of the attic of a house (built in the 1930’s) in Timisoara, combined with a contemporary feeling and to continue supporting the lifestyle held in this house. I wanted to preserve the visibility of the original materials, seeking a continuation of the dialog with its past and also introducing new materials and habits in a way that the relation between new and old would be pleasant and harmonious. The warm presence of the wood, embraces the space, and the burned red brick is used as a chromatic accent in different places of the attic, the old chimney remaining the main node of the space. The attic space is harmoniously subdivided into several areas so that life in this space is warm and comfortable. Spatial fluidity, “home-made” objects, the manipulation of the visibility between the different areas and the playful natural and artificial light, transform the space into a dynamic but also relaxing shelter that responds correctly to all the needs of the client (living room, studying area, sleeping area, a place for reading and playing guitar and a bathroom). Because of the very limited budget, I relied on reusing as much as possible of the existing materials (planks, wood beams, truss wood, bricks, old doors etc.), reminding of the past memory of the attic. This project also involved family work because of the limited budget. 80% of the execution of the project was made by the family members, from thermal insulating and sanitary instalation to furnishing the last pieces of furniture.

LOCATION: TIMISOARA, TM, ROMANIA YEAR: 2012 STATUS: REALIZED

LOFT IN TIMISOARA The concept was born from the desire to achieve a living space that preserves the atmosphere of the attic of a house (built in the 1930â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s) in Timisoara, combined with a contemporary feeling and to continue supporting the lifestyle held in this house. I wanted to preserve the visibility of the original materials, seeking a continuation of the dialog with its past and also introducing new materials and habits in a way that the relation between new and old would be pleasant and harmonious. The warm presence of the wood, embraces the space, and the burned red brick is used as a chromatic accent in different places of the attic, the old chimney remaining the main node of the space. The attic space is harmoniously subdivided into several areas so that life in this space is warm and comfortable. Spatial fluidity, â&#x20AC;&#x153;home-madeâ&#x20AC;? objects, the manipulation of the visibility between the different areas and the playful natural and artificial light, transform the space into a dynamic but also relaxing shelter that responds correctly to all the needs of the client (living room, studying area, sleeping area, a place for reading and playing guitar and a bathroom). Because of the very limited budget, I relied on reusing as much as possible of the existing materials (planks, wood beams, truss wood, bricks, old doors etc.), reminding of the past memory of the attic. This project also involved family work because of the limited budget. 80% of the execution of the project was made by the family members, from thermal insulating and sanitary instalation to furnishing the last pieces of furniture.

wood metal. white

Table design

fabric. white The first view after opening the entrance door

pencil support

table

Old chimney

The attic before renovation

Future entrance door

Living room area

Background: entrance door chimney and wardrobe

Bedroom area

Insulating

Building the new floor

Panorama: Study area, living room area, bedroom area

Building the wardrobe

Pencil support

Bed

Bathroom

Chimney detail

Project published on: Freshome.com (11.2015) Myhouseidea.com (11.2015) POVESTEACASEI.RO (10.2015) Casa si Grădina magazine (12.2015) Kuća Stil magazine (01.2016) LOCATION: TIMISOARA, TM, ROMANIA YEAR: 2015 STATUS: REALIZED

GARDEN STUDIO The project consists of a renovation and partial transformation of a small house in Timisoara from the 90s. The owner, wanted to chance and rethink the inner spatial organization of the house and the light situation of the building in order to convert its use for local tourism. Therefore, the existing house composed out of three rooms and one staircase, was split in two and just one part was taken into consideration for the new interior design project: the staircase and the room next to it. The staircase was transformed into a small modern kitchen with a wooden wall dividing it from the bathroom. With a generous window overlooking the lush greenery of the garden outside, the interior is characterized by a new minimalistic identity with a Scandinavian touch. Each element was carefully planned, thereby the duration for its completion extended to four months. The furniture was designed by the architects and then manufactured in a local carpentry shops. The concept of the studio was to create an intelligent mechanism that could fit into the available existing space and also to serve to as many people as possible without having enclosed spaces. The result was a bright open space where the main furniture pieces are built in.

Pine wood has been used as a high-end finishing material with fine details for the bed, drawers, bathroom shelves and for the long bench beside the generous window. Kitchen and dinning area

The main attraction is the large podium, that can convert itself into a sitting and sleeping place when the mattresses are placed on, or it can become a small scene, when they are stored inside the podium, with a long wooden bench overlooking it.

Living room/bedroom area

Bathroom

Bookshelves

Small working/breakfast area

LOCATION: SALZBURG, AUSTRIA YEAR: 2015 STATUS: REALIZED INTERNSHIP AT: ATELIER THOMAS PUCHER, AUSTRIA

PARKHAUS SALZBURG SALK Parkhaus is a modern multi-storey car park from Salzburg, Austria, being part of a large new hospital project. It is the first building of the project to be completed in mid 2015, being followed by the laboratory building to be completed in the following years. What makes this building very special is its unique design dedicated to a car park, with its elegant and playful rhythm of the facades. The lamellas are complex curved surfaces, custom made for this project, offering the building the importance and severity that characterizes the city of Salzburg. Besides this, the new smart parking system is much more efficient than the classic car parks with side ramps, because the whole concept was based in making the building itself a huge and continuous ramp. By implementing this idea, more numbers of parking places were achieved, while the sloping floors can also be visible in the facades of the building creating a more dramatic scenery. The last design element of the building is the side facade with the mesh, which from a distance it recreates the images of a flower, composed out of small aluminum plates.

LOCATION: WARSAW, POLAND YEAR: 2010 - competition, 2015 - project STATUS: IN PROGRESS INTERNSHIP AT: ATELIER THOMAS PUCHER, AUSTRIA

SINFONIA VARSOVIA Text source from Archdaily: The 20,000m² cultural centre is housed on the site of a former Veterinary Institute with existing – yet dormant – buildings and a fairy-tale like park. The area occupies a 1,800 seat symphonic hall with first class acoustic properties, large rehearsal areas, merchandise facilities, musical workshops and a small hotel for artists in residence and music lovers on vacation. The project gives a precise answer meeting the demands of the orchestra as well as the given site with its historical buildings. By enveloping the entire site with a floating wall it serves as an indication to the park as its new centre and creates a distinctive place of silence – the basic principle for an orchestra to perform – full of ambience and drama. The park becomes an open public place and the wall the building that serves it. The symphonic hall including all rehearsal areas are found within the floating wall. Floating above the foyer it creates a seamless extension of the park into the building that holds several mysteries and miracles: hidden rooms and stairs, a narrow surveillance path at the top and a span of 140m without a single column. The Concert Hall is a fusion of a Shoebox Hall and an Arena. While the traditional shoe box hall is known for its excellent acoustics but often offers poor visual conditions, the Arena has its advantages with regards to visibility and is hardly applicable when it comes to its acoustic conditions. The hall for the Sinfonia Varsovia combines the advantages of both by choosing the main shape of a rectangular room with ideal acoustic dimensions and inserting seemingly free formed bands of balconies with perfect viewing angles for visitors into this volume. The three dimensional flow of the balconies and its specific relation to the rectangular volume enables the acoustic properties to be operated on a world class level.

The hall for the Sinfonia Varsovia combines the advantages of both by choosing the main shape of a rectangular room with ideal acoustic dimensions and inserting seemingly free formed bands of balconies with perfect viewing angles for visitors into this volume. The three dimensional flow of the balconies and its specific relation to the rectangular volume enables the acoustic properties to be operated on a world class level.

LOCATION: TIMISOARA, TM, ROMANIA YEAR: 2013 STATUS: UNDER CONSTRUCTION INTERSHIP AT: STUDIO TAB, ROMANIA

U HOUSE Giroc is suburb from Timisoara, that has develpoed like most of the Romanian suburbs, fast and randomly, with a strong disorganized and uncontrollable character. In such a place, on piece of architecture decided to completely turn it’s back on its chaotic surroundings, creating its own universe through extreamly private interior and exterior spaces. The house, shaped like a “U”, focuses its attention and openes its interior spaces toward the main central courtyard, containing a generous terrace in direct relation with the living room, dining room and kitchen. From this terrace, a long pool emerges that visualy connects the house’s interior to its garden located on the other side of the yard. A canteliver window floats above the pool water, where the owner can sit down during evenings, and admire the subtle water refletion of the night sky. Other two private courtyards are hidden between the walls of this house, being completly invisible from the outside, openening toward the sky. One has a strong relation with the living room and bathroom, the other communicating with the fitness room. Our task was to take this minimal architectural composition, that was left unfinished, in an unconceived urban texture, and design its interior and exterior spaces, including landscape design, strengthening the interior-exterior spatial relation. From finishes to furniture, we added and solved its details, completing this project in a manner that will satisfy the clients minimalistic passion and the house’s original spatiality and clean solid character. This project was developed during my internship at the architecture office “Studio Tab”, from Timisoara, Romania.

Living room

Kitchen Bathroom & Courtyard 2

Interior: living room

Pool

Exterior facade

Interior proposal: Dining room and kitchen

Exterior proposal

Ground floor

LOCATION: ESELNITA, MH, ROMANIA YEAR: 2014 STATUS: UNDER CONSTRUCTION TEAM WORKER: OLIMPIA ONCI

SKYLIGHT HOUSE The house from Eselnita, is located along the Danube river, in Southwestern Romania. This is where Danube is at its greatest beauty from its spring in the Black Forrest from Germany, on its way to the Black Sea. The little house, from this little village, wich me and my colleague Olimpia Onci had to transform into a comfortable vaccation home, is owned by a local czech person, who grew up there, sorrounded by a strong czech minority living in those lands for many generations. Our client wanted to have his vacation house as a refuge from his busy city life, where he could find his memories from his long passed childhood, spent among his grandparents. The exteior of the house was kept simple, as the way it was before, repainted in traditional white and green colours and paved with local stone. One thing that he was certainly sure of, is that he wanted a strong presence of old brick and especialy natural wood in the interior spaces. Wood reminded him of the old tools that he used to make as a child to sell for the local Romanians or Serbs on the other side of Danube river. From the 3 different rooms located in the central part of the house, we transformed them into one generous living room. The main challenge of this space was the lack of natural light due to the other rooms that were sourounding it on all sides. Our solution was to create a huge central skylight that would bring natural sunlight and moonlight, highlighting the old structral wooden beams.

Entrance

Entrance Living room

Making the survey with my collegue & team worker Olimpia Onci

Old storage room

Old kitchen

Interior proposal: Kitchen (down), living room with a sky light (up)

LOCATION: HUNEDOARA, HD, ROMANIA YEAR: 2013 STATUS: PROJECT PROPOSAL INTERSHIP AT: STUDIO TAB, ROMANIA COLABORATOR: STUDIO MODERNO, NORWAY

H LIVING MUSEUM Hunedoara Living Museum comes as an extension to the Corvin Castle surroundings, which by adding elements that support the atmosphere that the castle generates and recreates the image of a small traditional settlement adjacent to the castle walls. The project contains three elements that together create an object linked to the nearby castle but at the same time remains complete by itself, being able to generate itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own activity. The first element would be the exterior museum, consisting of traditional houses which are to be rehabilitated and brought to today standards of accommodation. This will offer a unique experience to the visitors, allowing them to re-live in a small measure, the life of a person who lived on those lands centuries ago. This experience would be completed by reenactments, workshops and other events. These events that usually take place inside the castle, now would take place in the courtyard of the museum also. The courtyard is a space located in the middle of the site, having the traditional houses in the background. It spreads across the rest of the site and on the top of the new construction, offering a viewpoint to the castle. The third element of the project is a new construction. From the porch of a one of the houses it is almost an invisible object, offering a continuous surface and extending the courtyard. The interior opens towards the castle, allowing the outdoor scenery to be a part of the indoor. Looking at it from the castle, it looks as a horizontal slice in the surface of the hill, blending into the environment.

Situation plan

Ground floor plan

Concept & volumetric design Relation with the landscape Visual relation with Corvin Castle and the natural slope of the terrain Hidden architecture

Basement floor plan

Back courtyard

Multipurpose space

Restaurant, bar, ball room, exhibition space

LOCATION: BOLDESTI-SCAENI, ROMANIA YEAR: 2013 STATUS: PROJECT PROPOSAL

H LIVING MUSEUM ARTISANAL GLASS WORKSHOPS The Romanian gypsy communities have always faced difficulties in integrating with the general society. Even today little things are done that try to diminish this problem, leading to the total exclusion of gypsies from our society and life style. Poor or wealthy, this led gypsies to live in an almost parallel universes, but right beside us, living by their own laws of life, exluding ours. Gypsies never had a good reputation of being smart or â&#x20AC;&#x153;normalâ&#x20AC;?, but in the past they were among the best craftsman and artisans, every village or town was depending on their skilles of manual manufacturing. This project aims to try to reintegrad these communities in our society in a different way, keeping them together as a strong identity and to recreate what has been mainly lost, but still savable, the art of manual creation. The small town of Boldesti-Scaeni from Romania, contains a gypsy community that has been left unemployed - like most gypsy communities from Romania - due to the insolvency of an industrial glass factory where they have worked for many years. Using natural materials such as burned brick and wood, this project aimed to recreate this already mastered work with glass in a more artistical manner, where they can use, learn and regain their talent by following traditional methods for glass manufacturing. In this way they can continue practicing their skills and earn money honestly. Being located right next to the towns school and kindergarten the new construction also has an educational purpose, where workshops and organised visits can be held, teaching others about this old art, conecting Romanian or foreign citizens with this gypsy community. The main concept was to distribute all the necessary spaces for the new artisanal glass workshops around a central courtyard, being the main space for open air events. The pedestrian circulation was organised by attaching a porch along all sides of the new construction, becoming a buffer zone between the insde and the outside.

Ground floor plan

Exterior dining room, porch

Exterior working terrace Workshop and oven 100 sqm Interior workshop 22 sqm Interior workshop 20 sqm Cloakroom, shower, toilets 37 sqm Projection room, multifunctional room 30 sqm Exterior dining room Interior dining room 33 sqm Kitchen and storage 37 sqm Reception and storage 24 sqm Store, exposition room and storage 30 sqm

In the bacground: Exterior work space, and oven chimney

Project published on: ARHITECTURA magazine (01.2016)

LOCATION: BELGRADE, SERBIA YEAR: 2014 STATUS: DIPLOMA PROJECT - in progress supervising professor: Drd. Arh. Cristian Blidariu

Year 2014 marks 15 years since one of the most tragical moments of Serbian modern history, the punitive 78 day NATO bombing, since 24 March untill 11 June 1999, led to the last act of phisical and ideological disintegration of Yugoslavia.

H LIVING MUSEUM BELGRADE BOMBING MUSEUM 1999 My study is based on the bomebed buildings of the former Federal Ministry of Defence of Yugoslavia from Belgrade(“Generalštab”), designed by serbian modernist architect Nikola Dobrović in 1953, being the symbol of progress and independence of the Iugoslav nation, but on the other hand, representing the moment of defeat and the end of this national project. The building that once represented the righ arm of freedom and sovereignty, for NATO was clasified as “the heart of the war machine”, bombing it together among other important architectural jewls, trying to put an end to the “new fascism” of the 90’s. This event introduced new meaning to these buildings, transforming NATO into an authentic architectural critic. As a multi-symbol of Serbian modern-progressive architecture, of destruction and of the surviving identity of the city, the ruins of “Generalštab” are in this sense, the most significant place we could start a discussion, based on the idea of creating a museum dedicated to the destruction and victims left beind by the NATO siege of Serbia. Ironically, the celebrity of these buildings “exploded” after they were bombed, becomeing one of the main attractions for foreign tourist, due to the “NATO sculptors”, wich had remodeled this masterpiece and introducing a new “aesthetic” and new meanings over the old ones. After 15 year of bombings, as Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss mentioned, the Generalštab buildings possess the folowing problem: “Wich void to identify with and witch void to remember, the one created by Nikola Dobrovic or the one created by NATO?”

BELGRADE. NATO BOMBING 1999

DISTRUCTION OF THE ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE

PROPOSAL 1 The first vision is focused on the keeping of the partialy destroyed parts of Generalstab by embedding them visualy and phisicaly into the museum. With it’s opened wounds, it will create a scenographic background and the memorial itself. This solution will concentrate on adopting and reinterpretating the main concept of the buildings: the relation between “solid” and “void” and on the creation of a new “visual tension” and “sensorial experiences”. The scenography of the museum will be contain 3 different acts. In the first act, visitors will experience the virtual world of the war, ascending from darkness to a better future. The first vision is focused on the keeping of the partialy destroyed parts of Generalstab by embedding them visualy and phisicaly into the museum. With it’s opened wounds, it will create a scenographic background and the memorial itself. This solution will concentrate on adopting and reinterpretating the main concept of the buildings: the relation between “solid” and “void” and on the creation of a new “visual tension” and “sensorial experiences”. The scenography of the museum will be contain 3 different acts. In the first act, visitors will experience the virtual world of the war, ascending from darkness to a better future.

Concept

Street Section CONCEPT

PROPOSAL 2 The architecture of the second possible intervention highlights the “underground” character of the museum and the “bunker” feeling wich characterized Belgrade and other cities from Serbia for 78 days of bombing. The museum is “present” through “absence”, while the history and memory of these moments are being locked up genuine Pandora’s box, carefully buried under the new city layers.

This absence that clears the space in front of the Generalstab complex, is announced only through subtle use of vegetation - the only natural element that remaind, was reborn, and cohabitated among the ruins of war. The undergorund bunker introduces itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s visitors in a hidden world, through the medium of a memorial courtyard containing 78 trees, wich symbolize the 78 days of bombing. The solution thus aiming toward a subtle and hidden presence, is adaptable to any future formal or functional reinterpretation of Dobrovicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s complex.

LOCATION: Lรถrrach, GERMANY YEAR: 2013 STATUS: FACULTY PROJECT

H LIVING MUSEUM LĂśrrach HOUSING Located in the South of Germany, the small town of Lorrach presented itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s desire to create a housing complex on a big empty lot, right at the base of the hill dominated by the presence of RĂśtteln castle. This new neighbourhood had to respect the natural surroundings and to fit in with the existent urban texture and streetscape in order to offer continues public spaces and opening views toward the hill behind the city. My proposal contains two different types of housing thereby manageing to create different micro-communities contained by a larger macro-community defined by the whole proposal. The two types of collective housing also define two different types of life styles, one based on 4-floor freestanding houses, and the other on 2-floor row houses, each containg a frontyard and a backyard with a terrace, related to the proposed small stream of water or to the green wild-looking landscape proposal in the public spaces between the buildings. Each freestanding house, contains 4-5 appartaments, some of them developed on one single floor, others being more spatialy dynamic, containing rooms also in upper or lower floors, like connecting with other appartaments like puzzle pieces. Each freestanding house is developed on a vertical axis, containing underground parking spaces, while row houses show a stronger connection with ground level, street and garden.

Situation plan: marked buildings

Freetstanding house Central Section

Neighbourhood proposal Situation plan Circulation plan Marking the detailed buildings 3 row houses

Freetstanding house Ground floor plan

Freetstanding house Second floor plan

Row houses Gournd floor plan

Visualisation Public space in between freestanding and row houses Background: Rรถtteln castle

Third floor plan Marking the detailed section

Detailed section Language: Romanian

Detailed section Marking detailed elements

West facade

Facade detail: plan

East facade Facade detail: view

ZUGANG VERWALTUNG

MAGISTRALE

NOTAUFNAHME

BESUCHER

ESPLANADE EINGANG PHASE II

ERWEITERUNG

PARK

ANLIEFERUNG

LOCATION: WÜRZBURG, GERMANY YEAR: 2014 STATUS: COMPETITION INTERNSHIP AT: ATELIER THOMAS PUCHER, AUSTRIA

H LIVING MUSEUM WÜRZBURG KOPFKLINIK HOSPITAL GREEN HEALING. Die Gärten, Parks und Freiräume des Kopfklinikums Würzburg werden unter dem Aspekt des “green healings” neu organisiert und gestaltet. “The charm of natural scenery is an influence of the highest curative value.” war sich bereits Frederick Law Olmsted, Landschaftsarchitekt des 19. Jahrhunderts in den USA, bewusst. Das Hauptaugenmerk liegt daher, neben einer klaren Strukturierung der Räume und Neuorganisation des Verkehrs, auf der Schaffung unterschiedlicher Landschaftsräume, die durch ihre Dimensionierung und Intensität eine unmittelbare Wirkung auf das allgemeine Wohlbefinden ausüben. Wichtigste öffentliche Landschaft bildet die Esplanade, über welche alle Teilbereiche erschlossen, die Anschlüsse an die Stadt verknüpft und die Gartenanlagen eingebunden werden. Der Begriff Achse wird dabei neu definiert und aufgeweitet. Dieser Landschaftsraum ist zugleich urbane Erschließungszone, Aufenthalts- und Begegnungsort für Krankenhauspersonal, Patienten und Stadtbevölkerung. Dabei wird auf eine Durchmischung aller Nutzergruppen Wert gelegt. Abwechslungsreiche Raumbildung und geringe Niveauunterschiede gliedern die gesamte Promenade in unterschiedliche Aufenthaltsbereiche. Freie Möblierung und kleine Wasserflächen schaffen darin kleine Sitzplätze und Rückzugsräume. Die nach Abbruch des Bestandes freigespielte Parklandschaft im Süden dient bis zur Realisierung der zukünftigen Erweiterung als großzügiger Parklandschaft, Spazier- und Rückzugsraum. Die weiteren Grün- und Freiflächen des Areals folgen diesem Konzept, werden zusammengefasst, von ihrer Kleinteiligkeit befreit und sind als großzügige, offen zu nutzende Freiräume mit einer lockeren Baumstruktur in den Gesamtfreiraum eingebunden.

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UNIVERSITÄTSKLINIKUM WÜRZBURG NEUBAU DER KOPFKLINIKEN

ANSICHT OSTEN M 1/200

Großgeräte werden über einen Schacht eingebracht. Dieser Schacht dient auch den Trafos zur Lüftung.

Ein Hauptkollektorgang bildet die „Versorgungsmagistrale„ in ihn münden die ankommenden Medien. Er dient als Hauptverteiler zu den Bestandshäusern, in die Phase II und zu einer Erweiterung im Süden.

2. UNTERGESCHOSS M 1/500

1. UNTERGESCHOSS M 1/500

Die Versorgungsmagistrale im UG 1 verbindet die Anlieferung mit der zentralen Liftgruppe und der Phase II. An ihr liegen alle Ver-und Entsorgungseinrichtungen.

UNIVERSITÄTSKLINIKUM WÜRZBURG NEUBAU DER KOPFKLINIKEN

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ANSICHT WESTEN M 1/200

Die Radiologie ist ringförmig um einen Lichthof angeordnet. Es besteht eine klare Trennung von Patient und Personal. Die Notaufnahme ist direkt, OP und Heliport sind über zentrale Liftgruppe mit der Radiologie verbunden.

Die Esplanade bildet das städtebauliche Rückgrad des Baufeldes. Gleich einer urbanen Magistrale verbindet sie zukünftige Erweiterungen im Süden mit der Kopfklinik und bildet somit eine platzartige MItte.

ERDGESCHOSS M 1/200

Vor der gesamten Südseite der Kopfklinik erstreckt sich ein streifenförmiger Platz - die Esplanade. Es ist eine große Terrasse mit hoher Aufenthaltsqualität. Von hier aus werden sämtliche Funktionen im EG erschlossen.

Die U-Förmige Anordnung der OP-Säle erzeugt kurze Wege und eine gute Übersicht. Die zentrale Umbettung liegt direkt an den OP Sälen und am Aufwachbereich.

1.OBERGESCHOSS M 1/200

UNIVERSITÄTSKLINIKUM WÜRZBURG NEUBAU DER KOPFKLINIKEN

ANSICHT SÜD M 1/200

Aussenluft und Fortluftausbringung sind Fassadenversetzt angeordnet.

Die Anordnung der Lüftungsgeräte direkt über den jeweiligen OP Sälen erspart lange Leitungswege.

2.OBERGESCHOSS M 1/200

Die Intensivstationen sind an einen zentralen Schleusentrakt angeordnet. Das ergibt kurze Wege und Übersichtlichkeit. Es ist auch möglich alle drei Intensivstationen innerhalb der Schleuse zu verbinden.

3.OBERGESCHOSS M 1/200

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UNIVERSITÄTSKLINIKUM WÜRZBURG NEUBAU DER KOPFKLINIKEN

ANSICHT NORDEN M 1/200

Durch die zentrale Anordnung der Stützpunkte verkürzen sich die W ege für das Pflegepersonal auf ein Minimum.

4.OBERGESCHOSS M 1/200

DACHAUFSICHT M 1/500

Die gemeinsamen Räume der Pflegestationen liegen im zentralen Verbindungstrakt direkt an den Stationseingängen und der Liftgruppe.

North Facade

South Facade

POCKET PARKS Die Pocket Parks des Kopfklinikums sind ganz besondere Landschaftsräume, die auf Grund ihrer Lage im Gebäude und ihrer Belichtungssituation unterschiedlichen Naturräumen entsprechen. Als Schluchtwälder, Baumhaine oder Blockhalden bilden sie vom Alltag entrückte Gärten, in die man kurzzeitig, im Vorbeigehen, eintauchen kann oder sich zur Entspannung zurückzieht. Sie stehen hauptsächlich dem Personal, aber auch Patienten und ihren Besuchern zur Verfügung. Gemeinsam ist allen Pocket Parks eine Grundstruktur aus künstlich geschaffener Felslandschaft unter sehr hoch aufgeasteten Bäumen. Die Aufastung lässt genügend Licht nach unten, im Bereich der oberen Geschoße und Pflegestationen bilden die Baumkronen jedoch vorgelagerte “grüne Gärten” beziehungsweise grüne Filter. Der Landschaftscharakter wird verstärkt durch die Möblierung, die üppige Unterpflanzung, künstlicher Nebel und die schmale verschmelzende Wegeführung. Die Dachebene des ersten Oberg schoßes wird durch eine horizontale Bepflanzung aus Taglilien, die mit immergrünen Strukturpflanzen durchsetzt ist, verstärkt. Sie kann aus den oberen Geschoßen eingesehen werden und bildet einen bunten dauerblühenden Teppich, in welche Patientenund Mitarbeiterterrassen eingeschnitten sind. Die unterschiedlichen Landschaftsräume unterstützen das Wohlbefinden der Mitarbeiter und den Gesundungsprozess der Patienten. Die starke Landschaftsachse der Lärchenpromenade und Aufwertung der historischen Gartenbereiche geben dem gesamten Areal eine neue Identität und darüber hinaus einen neuen Stellenwert im Stadtgefüge.

LOCATION: TIMISOARA, TM, ROMANIA YEAR: 2012 STATUS: FACULTY PROJECT

H LIVING MUSEUM MUSEUM OF THE REVOLUTION ‘89 The Romanian revolution against the communist regime started in December ‘89 15, in my hometown, Timişoara. It was the first city to proclaim its freedom. Nowadays, this event is perceived as a “whole” but it was actually felt differently by every single person or group of persons that took part to this fight for freedom. This fact challenged me to create a museum that would be “split” on days, and that it would show the most important events that happened every day. This way the concept of the “memorial calendar” gained life. The role of the “calendar” of the past is to manipulate the visitor ’s feelings and to make him relive the atmosphere of the events of revolution, even if he participated or not. Every space will describe a day of the revolution and it will be materialized in a form that expresses those events in the best way possible. The will be in a relation with the outside or introverted, designed to emotionally link the visitors with earth or sky. To emphasize the memory of the events I chose to bury the museum’s route and its spaces, interrupting the visitors visual contact with present reality and detaching them from the present time. In this way I wish to concentrate their attention to their past, the city’s memory and the way that it manifests and it continues living through us. The “burial” also symbolizes the passing time and generations which had a direct or indirect contact with the spark of the revolution. In the same time, the noise from the streets are free to flood this space of commemoration and create a better connection between the history and the city’s actual pulse.

Axonometries: museum & proposed housing

Transversal section

Longitudinal section

Street level Public space

Ground floor level

Interior

Library courtyard

Underground floor level Reception Shop

Museum courtyard memorial “Operei/Victory Square, Timisoara”

LOCATION: HONG KONG, CHINA YEAR: 2014 STATUS: PROJECT IN PROGRESS INTERNSHIP AT: ATELIER THOMAS PUCHER, AUSTRIA

ABOVE THE CLOUDS The concept was born from the desire to achieve an architecture that satisfies all the needs of the client, requesting a 260000 m2 building complex, composed out of housing, hotel, sport center and a commercial center, as well as to relate to the natural surroundings. It was requested for a high density on a small and very steep plot and to create an iconic architecture, near the city of Hong Kong, overlooking the Daya bay. One of the most important requests of the project was to assure that every apartment has sea view, from which the form of the buildings was created. After a complex study of forms, we have reached to these specific round forms in the shape of a crown, as being the best form in order to assure that every apartment has sea view, from any part of the facade. In order to keep this feature we have modeled the towers in order to obtain a unique and iconic design, recognizable even from the sea. Each tower has itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own semi-private plaza, being a shared space of the community. While most of the apartments are small studios or 1 & 2 bedroom apartments, the peaks of the towers include luxurious penthouses with amazing sea views. In between the towers, the commercial center is spreading over the natural slope of the area, composed out of a playful rhythm of platforms, shops and canopies. The canopies are covering the outdoor and indoor spaces, creating a spatial complexity where its dwellers and other visitors can meet, shop, relax and benefit from all the functions included in the commercial center.

STUDIES & RESEARCH

CONCEPTUAL PHASE

SEA VIEW 海景

SUN LIGHT 日照

FORMS

TOWER 4

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN

ABOVE THE CLOUDS PHASE 1: CONCEPTUAL DESIGN

SITE PLAN 1:1000 SITE PLAN 1:1000

Towers: Final shapes, based on the site charateristics, site positions, sun light and sea views

Level 3, South Unit 楼层3南部单元

Level 2, Core Unit 楼层2 核心筒单元

Level 3, Core Unit 楼层3 核心筒单元

Level 1, North Unit 楼层1 北部单元

Level 2, North Unit 楼层2 北部单元

Level 3, North Unit 楼层3 北部单元

Level 1, Core Unit 楼层1 核心筒单元

Level 2, South Unit 楼层2 南部单元

Apartment typologies & main cores 结构方案

主承重墙之间布置隔墙，每层的隔墙位置相同竖向贯穿，可灵活布承重短墙。

Load Bearing Walls 主承重墙

优点： 1）房间形状较为规则； 2）主承重墙之间可以布置短墙承重，结构简单，施工简单，工期短； 3）楼板较薄（估算约为20-22厘米），不需要下梁，两面立面均可到顶，视野通透； 4）面宽4米5，视野开阔，同时作为住宅，4米5的跨度非常经济理想； 5）主承重墙之间布置承重短墙，避免了室内出现柱子的同时可以大通非承重部分，使户型之间可以进行灵活组合。

Level 1, Ring B 1:500 N

Level 1, South Unit 楼层1 南部单元

The Roof The roof syste m provides shade under sun and shelter in the rain, ensures the facilities keep running all year long. The strategy of placing boxes under the roof gives us the possibility to mix and merge outdoor and indoor spaces, pours the mountain into the area, makes a extremely interesting and rich recreational space. 屋顶屋顶系统遮阳、挡雨，以保证商业设施全年不间断的运行；同时使得屋顶下相对独立的商业空间可以通过中庭，连廊，檐廊等等不同的元素创造出丰富有致的室内外空间关系，使游客坐观海景的同时最大程度的容入山林中，从而形成极为有趣、独一无二的休闲体验。

The Platform The platfor m system adapts the rising landscape, optimizes the sea view, and creates rich space relations. 错层平台错层平台系统可以自然的随着山地上升，通过高差最大限度地优化海景，并创造了丰富有致的空间关系。

Commercial Center Concept

Hot Air 热空气上升

Passive Ventilation 自然通风被动冷却

Easy Rain Collection 屋顶自然集雨易于排水

104 Raised Platform Reserves the Vegetation 升高的平台最大限度减少对山体植被的破坏

ROOFTOP

屋顶

BOXES 商铺

PLATFORM 平台

More energy and water efficient means less cost to run, these types of architecture works with the local climate better and will be worth more in the long run. 环保节能、适宜当地气候的建筑形式意味着未来运营维护费用的降低，这样的建筑在长远看来更加经济可行。

Retail areas are arranged through the axes of major flows that connect the beach (via bridge, the towers, the hotel and entrance of the site). The platforms are connected with shaded slops and stairs which form a shopping street with sea views, while escalators are also provided to enable a faster walk through. 零售商业空间分布在连接基地主入口、酒店、通往海滩的步行桥以及住宅群的主轴线上。住商业空间所在的错层平台之间有斜坡或台阶相连，形成错落有致的景观步行商业街，同时，平台之间有自动扶梯直接连接，提供更快捷的通行路径。

Commercial Center Concept

Tower Central Courtyard Concept

General road view of the Housing Complex, Hotel & Commercial Center

Sample of the Facade: Slidding wooden panels

Facade details: Commercial Center

General sea view of the Housing Complex, Hotel & Commercial Center

Facade details: Housing Towers

Balcony partitions & folding wooden panels: Housing Towers

LOCATION: TAOYUAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, TAIWAN YEAR: 2015 STATUS: INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION INTERNSHIP AT: ATELIER THOMAS PUCHER, AUSTRIA

H LIVING MUSEUM TAOYAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Taoyan International Airport has an enormous ambition to become the main airport city of Eastern Asia and the new Taiwan’s national gateway, welcoming millions of visitors every year and awaiting for its completion until 2020. The project consisted in planning of the new mega-Terminal 3 building, along with boarding gates, concourses and a “Multi-Function Building” that will connect with the airport’s existing Terminals 1 and 2. A complex functional, social and formal research has been made in order to have an overview of all the possibilities of the airport of the future and how can we change and improve the way that airports work today, transforming the airport into small ‘cities’, with a complexity of functions.

RECENT AIRPORT PROJECTS STUDY

EXPLORING POSSIBILITIES EXPLORING CONCEPTS

SKETCHING IDEAS

EXPLORING POSSIBILITIES EXPLORING CONCEPTS

SKETCHING IDEAS DEBATING

CHOOSING THE CONCEPT

DEVELOPING THE CONCEPT

From CONECTIVITY to INTERSECTIVITY

An airport of STAYING-IN

image

From MONO-FUNCTIONING To CITY-SCAPE

commercial

transportation administration accomodation

job hub

service

waterfall

artist residence

studios galleries

magic

From GATE OF TAIWAN To CHAMBER OF TAIWAN

arts

atelier

luna park

temple

biennale

beauty

praying room

wind canal

karaoke

entertainment

nail

wedding chaple

image

light festival

cinema

concert hall

kidscanon

spa

care center

activitiy room

betelhot

betel nut shop

kids

special shops

commercial

club

festival phyco therapyst

street shop

performance

party future house

livehouse

copz shop speakers corner

petting yoo

duty free

outlet

conference talks

support zone

stage

salon

transportation

living farming

outdoor stage cowork space

playground

activity groups

napping room

sleep capsule

glasshouse

love

market

hotel

livingroom

strip club lover hotel

instant show video game

shops

lego world

senior

phyco therapyst

livehouse

circus

special shops

wedding

hair

spiritual

health center

blind dating

bar

park

workshop

livingroom

ring shop

treatre

salon

fountain

standup comedy

total makeup

An airport of ENCOUNTER

rent room

disco

think tank

catwalk phyco therapyst

spa

meeting lounge

work

birthday

bath boarding

case study house

landscape

living room

museum

aquafarm

socialisation

theater

fun farm

accomodation

spa

temporary exhibition

culture

diet center

hobby room

codining

dropin class

forum

relax

tch center

masiane

tea room

clubs

food

pharmacy

sculpture

team building

coaching

food market

health center dj station

loading actenactive medicine

nature

private room dining

music

cooking show

tv show

cafeteria

cooking show

jam room

phyco therapyst

yoga

team sport

shop

health

beach

waterfall

classroom

digital librarz

cafe

zen garden

lake

education

oasis

library

meditation

studio

gallery

relax

silent room

transcation center

administration

shared kitchen

job hub

app

game hall

comic store news lounge

micro stone

service

thematic garden

workstation

sport hall

loading mediothek concert hall

lab

forest pool

science forum

museum

sports

climbing

classroom

library

stadium

biking track

media

geeks

hot spot cosplay

digital world

art studio

parcour

magazine

game hall

pringting

robot workshop

shop

tv show

hold deck

workstation

radio station

From INFRASTRUCTURE to CUSTOMER SERVICE & PASSENGER EXPERIENCE

An airport NEVER SO CLOSE CHECKIN

MRT

SECURITY

CUSTOM

MRT

INTERNET/MOBILE CHECKIN MRT CHECKIN

A12

AUTOMATIC CONTROL SECURITY

AUTOMATIC CONTROL CUSTOM

GROUP CHECKIN

A12

A13 A14

A13 TRADITIONAL CHECKIN

A14

SELF-HELP CHECKIN

TRADITIONAL SECURITY

HOTEL CHECKIN

A18

TRADITIONAL CUSTOM

A18

LUGGAGE DROPIN

HOTEL

BIO-SCAN SYSTEM

REMOTE ID CONTROL SYSTEM

From CONNECTION FROM THE CITY to CONNECTION IN THE CITY

Proposal for the new Mega Terminal T3

Existing Terminal 2

Existing T1 Existing T2

New Mega Terminal T3

LOCATION: TIMISOARA, TM, ROMANIA YEAR: 2011 STATUS: FACULTY PROJECT

H LIVING123 HOUSE MUSEUM House 123 was designed as an “infill” in a very quiet and rural neighborhood from Timişoara where once stood an old little corner house that was demolished. The provocation was to create a new form of architecture that will relate to it’s existing neighbors. That meant decent interior space in a small volume for a family with one child. The task was also to create the opportunity to rent the basement or to be used as a small family business. It was also necessary to offer a small court yard for the basement to be used as semipublic space for exhibition/ relaxation for the future business that will be conducted in the basement level. In other words the house had to entrances, on from the ground floor, connected with the house, and one from the basement connected with the working area. The two were also connected through an interior stair. This is how the concept of 123 was born, by offering a different exterior appearance for every level of the house, that had different functions. 1: Basement - working area 2: Ground floor - day spaces (living room, dining, kitchen) 3: Night spaces - Bedrooms and a terrace.

Main street view

Basement: comercial/for rent, office Ground floor: House, living room, dining room & kitchen First floor: Bedrooms & terraces

Concept sketches

Neighbourâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house Street house tipology Aligning to cornice & roof

Secondary street view

Creating 3 different zones for: ground floor, 1st floor and basement

Creating 3 different volumes for ground floor, 1st floor and basement

LOCATION: SANICOLAU MARE, ROMANIA YEAR: 2012 STATUS: FACULTY PROJECT

H LIVING Nakó CASTLE MUSEUM The Nakó castle is situated in the center of Sânnicolau Mare town, in western Romania near the Serbo-Hungarian border. Built by count Kálmán Nakó in 1864, during the Austro-Hunagrian empire. Today it is the main attarcyion of this small town, but it’s lack of protection in the past decades brought structural degradation to it’s wooden roof frame, exterior walls, ceilings etc. My task was to study and survey the upper roof of the castle including the tower, and detect all the structural problems of the beams, poles, rafters and other structural elements including brick walls and chimney structures. It was also very important to understand the way this complex wooden structure works from top to bottom, to understand the complexity of the wooden joints and the way they connect to the exterior structural brick walls. After the survey, structural meseaures were taken for the degrated elements, studying and proposing modern techiniques to repair and to protect the original wooden frame as musch as possible. This project was developed by different teams of students, each team acting on different parts or places of the castle, from roof, walls, ceilings, interior rooms, basement to the original garden plan proposal.

Structural axonometries

Marking structural problems of the wooden frame

Wooden frame plan Height: frame base

Wooden frame plan Height: 1/2

Wooden frame transversal sections

Wooden frame longitudinal sections

Project published on: GREENSPOTER.COM (09.2013) ZEPPELIN MAGAZINE (11.2015)

LOCATION: TIMISOARA, TM, ROMANIA YEAR: 2013 STATUS: FACULTY PROJECT

H LIVING MUSEUM STOOL TRANSFORMABLE “Reuse” is the principle that stood behind the creation of this transformable stool, composed out of 88 wooden modules which resulted from the shortening of the battens of a fence. These small modules are connected with threaded rods, nuts and washers, contributing to the stool’s mechanical design, through which it can change its geometrical shape, being able to completely open itself and to be used as a small table, picnic pad or anything that would be useful at a certain moment. Easy to build, easy to pack and fun to use... a transformable wooden stool made out of tinny wooden battens can shape up your day!

Pad

Pack

Shape it how you like

Joint system

Work in progress

90% complete

Use it as a pad

...or as chair

Mechanical system threaded rods, nuts and washers Shape it in a cube

LOCATION: TIMISOARA, TM, ROMANIA YEAR: 2009 STATUS: FACULTY PROJECT

H LIVINGPAVILION WOOD MUSEUM A wooden pavilion was constructed over an utopian site far away from planet Earth. The site was covered by a surface of perfectly smoothed rock, with a carved whole in the middle of it, wich had to become the buffer zone between the underground carved spaces and the wooden frame construction. Man had nowhere else to go, because all that was left is a small cylindrical shaped volume with a smooth slope in which he could excavate to create his main spaces for living. A bedroom, kitchen and a bathroom. Then he created a wooden pavilion that was connected to the monolithic excavated spaces, by a system of stairs. It was used as an observatory during day time, and this way â&#x20AC;&#x153;manâ&#x20AC;? could spend his every day and night watching the past glory of planet Earth .

Stairs & balcony

Model, scale 1:50

Wooden pavilion Section

Wooden pavilion Facade & underground section

H LIVING MUSEUM The drawings were made using hard â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hâ&#x20AC;? pencils for the light grey textures combined with black pastel pencils.

Wooden pavilion & underground Section

LOCATION: MOSNITA, TM, ROMANIA YEAR: 2011 STATUS: FACULTY PROJECT

H LIVING&MUSEUM HOUSE SHOP The house is located in a central part of the village MoĹ&#x;niĹŁa, a typical village from the Banat region. The empty site was for the construction of a modern house for a family with two children. The aim of the project was also to create a small market or a multi-product shop on the ground floor which would serve the residents of the village and would bring a higher profit for the family. The challange of this project was how could these two functions (housing and commercial) work together under the same roof and how to separate them in the best way possible, to avoid unpleasant situations between the public space of the shop and the private space of the house and backyard. The solution was the creation of an artificial hill behind the house and under the living room terrace, that will block the view towards the private yard, but also create a pleasant view from inside the shop, a small rocky garden. These small relations between public and private space were essential to this project.

Back yard, terrace & pool

Street view Ground floor - shop Upper floors - house

Street facade

Transversal Section

Conceptual sketches

Back yard & terrace

LOCATION: TIMISOARA, TM, ROMANIA YEAR: 2009 STATUS: FACULTY PROJECT

H LIVINGHOUSE THORN MUSEUM A “house in nature” located only ten kilometers away from Timişoara took shape in a place surrounded by wild vegetation, animals and old forests. It’s main goal was to relate with nature and it’s surrounding landscape. The concept of the house was inspired by a thorny plant that I stepped on flatten it to the ground. That is why I decided to situate the house in the most inconvenient place of the field, in “the field of thorns”, and to spear the beautiful parts and offer them as landscape panoramas or framing the landscape from inside the house. Every “day” space is oriented towards the forest, and every “night” space is oriented towards the small hill from the back of the house. The structure of the house is mainly made out of cast-in-situ concrete. As a plant, the house has its roots in the ground, buried in the hill, and it opens its eyes towards the sun and natural beauty.

Conceptual sketches

Situation plan

Interior spaces: Day spaces - opened toward the landscape and light Night spaces - opened toward the backyard

Connecting the house with the the natural souroundings, making possible to walk to the rooftop from the small hill behind it.

LOCATION: POIENILE DE SUB MUNTE, MM, ROMANIA YEAR: 2012 STATUS: COMPETITION

H LIVING MMM HOUSES MUSEUM Maramures Mountain House. The Story: By choosing a mystical place that still retains the core and the symbols of the past, I wanted to create a sincere, friendly and playful architecture that would continue the process of traditional ukranian “maramureşan” creation and respect the local laws of nature. Thus, the home from “Poienile de sub Munte” - ”Meadows beneath the Mountain” - a small urkainian town, was shaped by different methods underlying visual, tactile, and acoustic memory of this corner of Romania, where the lives of people, animals and nature are one with architecture, and each object has its own ‘s story. Therefore, MMMhouse concept aims to highlight these values and offer to the local residents hope that this is not the last chapter of their story. The story will continue in the coming years by new ones with new events and new characters that will give life forgotten place. The connection between old and new will arise, the village will continue living, and the tradition will continue to flourish. The forest will become a symbol of nature and freedom, it will adopt a more important meaning, and people will talk about the past, present and future with the same faith as before.

Hobby space

Sleepling space Approaching the cooking/dining space

Cooking/dining space

Interior: Resting/hobby space

Exterior: Resting/hobby space

Section

Form inspiration - Poienile de Sub Munte

Your needs = no. of treehouses

LOCATION: CARSKA BARA LAKES, SERBIA YEAR: 2013 STATUS: COMPETITION

TIME SHELTER H LIVING MUSEUM

Located in Vojvodina Province, Serbia, on the water surface of Belo Jezero (White Lake) from Carska Bara, this shelter is in the heart of the old Pannonian sea wich today stands as a vast plain with a neutral landscape where space loses its limits to man, and man looses scale to its surroundings. Here the sky acts as a curved surface covering this â&#x20AC;&#x153;infiniteâ&#x20AC;? horizontal space from east to west, surrounded by the sounds of wind and rain, offers you a strong presence of time, in a continuously changing landscape. Our concept is to enclose a small space in this vast horizontal land, lift it from the ground and position it on water to emphasize the absence of any kind of natural landscape, or any type of connection to society. Therefore, in this space you lose every presence of your daily life and gain the presence of the moment, the true expression of present time, where abstract elements as light and sound, guide your way to the roots of life. It is here where me and my team worker Olimpia Onci, chose to create a vertical axis, penetrating our shelter by a circular void, and creating a connection between earth and sky through water. From the vast horizontal axis you use to arrive to the shelter, it suddenly changes to a vertical void, and under the entrance of the shelter you are being right at the intersection of these two axis.

The only way getting to the shelter is by using a boat, making the visitors from Carska Bara curios about the lonely freestanding wooden structure seen from the surrounding shores. Once inside the view over the plains disappears, and you enter inside a space that celebrates itself. You take part of a ceremony of silence where the only thing you can see is the changing colors of the sky and it’s reflection in the water surface through this circular void where time itself seems tangible.

Here we wanted to create a space where time exists at its own scale and isn’t influenced by anything from our everyday lives. We wanted modern day people or any kind of people to experience the opposite relation with time, where times scale isn’t influenced by people, no matter what, and the only thing that transforms are the wooden elements and their texture being exposed to all natural elements and having their own lifetime. All the wood used for the structure is from local trees and

its exterior facade is made out of local wooden shingles creating a pleasant relationship with its exterior surroundings. They create an interesting texture of lights and shades and age beautifully by changing their color in time. The round facade makes the shelter have the same aspect and proportions seen from any side of the lake, gaining a neutral expression towards the landscape and acting as a space defining element capturing the viewers attention and curiosity who mainly try to

retreat from their daily city life. We speak of this shelter as an instrument capable of creating a connection between man and pure time, without an imposed scale, only expressions of sudden moments, where your everyday life stands outside the shelter walls and where time relates to you and links you with the architecture you are standing in and its lifetime. Out of 251 international projects we succeded being among the finalists, being in the top 10 projects.

LOCATION: TIMISOARA, TM, ROMANIA YEAR: 2013 STATUS: COMPETITION

TIMISOARA CITY GATE H LIVING MUSEUM

The concept was inspired by the desire to inform drivers and pasangers from the entrance of the city what “Timisoara” means, what it has to offer and what can be visited. This solution proposes to highlight the main attractions and events of the city wich many times can be hard to reach after entering from the main roads. The porpuse of this project is to introduce drivers and pasangers in this beautiful city’s story in an infant manner. If in the past, the “gate” had the role tu enclose and protect a city, today it can be used as a source of information. The gate - a “digital summary” dedicated for those who enter the city, a rich lesson and presentation of the past, present and future wich describe Timisoara’s glory and succes, inviting the curious ones to explore it. Because of a large number of information that will be desplayed I chose to create a sequence of panels, made out of corten, dividing the information on different important themes. Every theme / subject will be displayed on a different panel, composing a unitary composition through a vertical rhythm, each of them having a different story about my city’s life. The panels are slightely offsetted and rotated, placed at the right distance one from another, in order to be able to see, read, and remember the presented information. My proposal wone the first prize for the “Calea Torontalului” entrance from Timisoara, a multi-cultural city, waiting to be discovered, with great stories to tell.

Concept

Panel rotation

perforated letters

digital screens

LOCATION: ARAD, AR, ROMANIA YEAR: 2012 STATUS: COMPETITION

HIDE & SEEK H LIVING MUSEUM

The principles behind the concept is preserving and emphasizing specific details of traditional wooden houses from Arad region. The house shows only a few details to the exterior and the only ones who benefit of the whole beauty of the house are those who step inside it - the house is â&#x20AC;&#x153;hidingâ&#x20AC;? from the rest of the people who are outside. The proximate exterior becomes interior by attaching modules to the old house and articulated by a transparent roof, the house becomes an exhibit. All the circulations are moved in this area linking all the other functions between them. The entrance in the house is made by keeping the old principle of using a step (up or down). The old porch is extended to the interior space managing functional and metaphorical relations between the two day spaces - exterior and interior. The transfer of powers between the old main living space (the kitchen) to living room (the old sleeping room) is realized by reorientation the fireplace. The version of the house fits with the natural environment, but it is also suitable with more urbanized areas of the villages from the region. This typology is for families with two children who want to live in a rural area or who wish to preserve the typical architecture and to save a traditional house or build a new one based on the same principles, but without compromising the contemporary comfort with generous spaces.

Old house facades & sections

Proposed plans Ground floor (up) Attic (down)

Proposed details

Plant courtyard

Bedroom view

Cherry courtyard

Bathroom Bedroom

Facades

Section C1

Rammed earth exterior walls

Section D1

LOCATION: BUCHAREST, ROMANIA YEAR: 2010 STATUS: COMPETITION

A SCULPTOR’S HOUSE H LIVING MUSEUM

Bucharest, a city of two million inhabitants, where the public space is staring to disappear more and more every day, and the streets from the city center become occupied by cars. This was the location of a future house and workshop of a famous Romanian sculptor. The first decision was to offer a small part of its property to the street, to activate a public space by creating a small sitting area in front of the house. The house is divided in 3 volumes, creating interesting spaces between them with different degrees of privacy, depending on the space’s purpose. The highest volume is the sculptor’s workshop; it has its own entrance from the street so that visitors may have an easy access to it. It is also related with a semi-private courtyard which is the exterior working place of the sculptor and an area for exhibitions. Its win is that it can be easily opened for the public, without disturbing the privacy of the family. The other 2 volumes are for the family life in relation with a private back yard connected with the living room. All these 3 volumes that compose the house, are articulated in such ways that the interior and exterior space bind perfectly together and form a positive spaces. My project won the 3rd prize of the student national competition CASA, during my second year of faculty.

Street view

Site

Backyard facade & terrace

Main facade

Backyard

Site: street view

Main facade

Ground floor plan

Section private

private

Situation plan

Concept: 3 volumes

public

living dining kitchen

bedrooms workshop

Sahara desert, Morroco

DA PHOTOGRAPHY H LIVING MUSEUM

Through my photographs I try expressing primordial elements that compose architecture, such as textures, colors, rhythm, materials, lights or shadows. I also take shots of random people when I feel that they are relating in a certain way with architecture, as well as animals that gain a powerful human behavior relating to everyday architectural elements. I also use a method that i like to call “framing the frame”, framing urban or natural landscapes through every day openings such as doors or windows. When I’m traveling, I always carry my camera with me, and when the right moment and oportunity occurs to photograph interesting buildings, urban contexts or life scenes, through my photos they expand and develop into something else that reality shows it to be. Sometimes it can become whatever runs through the viewers mind.

Amsterdam, Holland

Wroclaw, Poland

Berlin, Germany

Madrid, Spain

Zagreb, Croatia

Hermanice, Czech Republic

Alcala de Guadaira, Spain

Wien, Austria

Wroclaw, Poland

Seville, Spain

Cordoba, Spain

Sumita, Romania

Madinat al Zahra, Spain

Seville, Spain Sumita, Romania

Ghiroda, Romania

Prague, Czech Republic

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