DAMIAN ALEXANDRU ARCHITECT
LOCATION: TIMISOARA, ROMANIA YEAR: 2013 STATUS: REALIZED
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WOODEN FENCE 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
Elevation - street view
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STREET
LOCATION: TIMISOARA, TM, ROMANIA YEAR: 2013 STATUS: FACULTY PROJECT
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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
Cu Transparenta DRAWINGS
TRANSFORMABLE STOOL 1:10 Cu Transparenta
88 CONNECTED PIECES
SECTIONS & PLANS
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PLAN - OPENED STOOL
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CONCEPT
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