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FILIP RADU EDUCATION BACHELORâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S DEGREE IN ARCHITECTURE UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM | ION MINCU | BUCHAREST FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE 12 SEMESTERS | 6 YEARS | FINISHED 10TH SEMESTER NATIONAL COLLEGE OF ARTS | DIMITRIE CUCLIN | GALATI 2008-2012 HIGH SCHOOL - ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN 2004-2008 SCHOOL- FINE ART

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EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES 24H INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION - 2ND EDITION 2014 - 1ST PRIZE A HOUSE FOR DAVID BOWIE - INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 2016 - SPECIAL MENTION PORTO ACADEMY SUMMER SCHOOL 2015 - ATELIER ANGELA DEUBER 120 HOURS - INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 2016 COMPETITION FOR CHURCH SITE REMODELLING - CRAIOVA - 2015 CAMIL RESSU NATIONAL DRAWING COMPETITION - GALATI - 2010 - 2ND PRIZE

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MORPHING INFRASTRUCTURE

STUDENT HOUSING

MNIR

A HOUSE FOR DAVID BOWIE

FABRIC

COLLECTIVE HOUSING

SUSPENSE

IN-FOLIE

FENCE-ING

DADA

THIS PORTFOLIO CONTAINS SELECTED PROJECTS FROM 2014-2017. THE FOLLOWING IS A COLLECTION OF PROJECTS THAT REFLECT MY PASSION, APPRECIATION AND ENTHUSIASM FOR ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN. I HOPE TO CONTRIBUTE THE SAME PASSION TO YOUR FIRM.

The brief requested developing a tower thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 200m tall for the tower-phobic bucharest. The first phase of design focuses on what defines this kind of city within the city. How does this kind of infrastructure operate and what is the mecanism.

The cityscape is defined in this area by the layers of infrastructure, production and maintenance, dwellings, socialist housing typologies and megashopping centers.

In the last couple of years a new layer is juxtaposed on this cityscape, a layer of office buildings for the developing IT sector.

The humanist expectation of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;honestyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is doomed; interior and exterior architectures become separate projects, one dealing with the instability of programmatic and iconographic needs, the other-agent of dis-information- offering the city the apparent stability of an object.

emotion

connection

purveyance

catalyst

landing

This kind of a city inside a city has itÂ´s own infrastructure. The base is the part which makes this hyperplace possible, it is the place of connection and purveyance, of socialising and exchange, of the most intesity and complexity. The upper part of the tower is very self oriented. In the first foray of this project we tried to explain in a morphological way the mechanism of an ideal tower structure upon which everyone of us should construct his own project.

Through contamination rather than purity and quantity rather than quality, only BIGNESS can support genuinely new relationships between functional entities that expand rather than limit their identities.

There is a strange contractual relantionship between guest and host while there is a strong interaction between removed information and localised information

The artiiciality and complexity of BIGNESS release function from its defensive armour to allow a kind of liquefaction; programmatic elements react with each other to create new events-BIGNESS returns to a model of programmatic alchemy.

A debate between a brutalist fantasy a flamboyant reality

connection

catalysts

emotion

infrastructure

In an urban enviroment unhappy with newnees, tower-phobic, nostalgic for the small traditional urban fabric, the brief requested designing a 200m tower. The default program was office space while every student had the oportunity of creating their own programmatic scenario. The proposal enquires on the theory of BIGNESS, on the essence of the concurrent city, a hyperplace that envelops a diversity of instances. In an attempt to recreate urban intesity, the tower concentrates numerous activities and programs. In the close proximity of the railways the tower also acts as a symbol for the city. The framework becomes infrastructure at the place of contact between networks of catalysts. The void engages with the cityscape, emerging as a place that escapes economical imperatives, becoming a lush loisir space. This opposition between activity and the tower acting as framework reflects upon the complex interactions and exchanges of contemporary society in the meantime creating a language for a brutalist way of creating identity for the tower and debating the idea of permanence and economic eficiency. A debate between emotion and sincerity. Between a brutalist fantasy and a flamboyant reality.

morphing

hotel - 100 rooms

roof garden

restaurant hotel - 100 rooms

skyplaza hotel lobby gym

void

office

expo/conference halls

urban plaza

office lobby + shopping + conference halls

3. office

38.skyplaza

ground plaza

4-7. office 14-25

44.restaurant

8-12. office

45-49. hotel

25-35. office

39-43. hotel

1. expo center

-1. parking

North Façade

South Façade

East Façade

Facing the railroads on the northside, being surrounded by different industrial relics, the tower can exist without shading or affecting the housing fabric that lives on the south side of the site. The sit the tallest building in the country and a complex urban intensity that’s 24/7 operational, mutating the site from being an abandoned place in the city to one of the most atractive places in town Being served by a large number of transport ways and being in the close proximity of Gara de Nord, the tower doesn’t affect trafic. This tower would also function as an expo center for the city having a large hotel, expo spaces and conference halls and having a fast connection to the railways and In the plaza the neighborhood gains a space that can be used in a multitude of scenarios like a farmers market or different kind of events like concerts and

West Faรงade

te gains identity on a national scale by having n by being a tourist and business atraction.

d to the airport. so on.

The purpose of this competition was to select the best spatial and museographic concept for the New MNIR, suitable for the most representative museum at the national scale, and meaningful at the European level. The winner shall be awarded a mandate to develop the restoration plan for the building, redesign its spaces and flows, and display the museum collections in an attractive and innovative manner.

HOW open museum - free urban pedestrian passage through the museum attractive museum - belvedere platform over the city refreshed image - using 21st century technology and materials new icon – using special glass and surprising spatial morphology which aims at “a recuperation of the gothic in modernity”.

In order to bring the city and the public inside the Museum, we propose two public squares, which act as turntables, connected to each other both vertically and horizontally.

A pedestrian passage runs freely through the ground floor of the museum and connects Postei str. with Calea Victoriei, passing through the DOWN PLAZA, with a double function: it creates a both physycal and mental link between two historical phases of the city (the historical city-centre and the main street of the contemporary city); it allures the people to go to the heart of the museum in an unobstructed manner, in which people are not foced to visit the museum, but their will to visit it may arise.

There are two structural “legs” which support the SKY PLAZA which contains the : new reception hall of the museum, with info-point, ticketing, lockers, cafe-restaurant, belvedere over the city (free access, without any ticket). The circulation cores offer fast and varied connections to all floors of the museum; - the new distribution scheme, consisting of vertical circulation cores and bridges which are fed by the set of elevators, also functions as a short-cut visiting option to the perimetral circuit of the existing museum.

The strategy was to transform the museum in a place belonging to the city not only to the visitors of the museum, a place that is always open to the public. By obtaining an atrium, we created a unique kind of public space for Bucharest. This sort of closed courtyard can host a variety of events. Protected but open mineral landscape with the symbolic presence of three elements: the top of the Trajan's Column in a glass cylinder, the Dacian lacustric house and one tree, an oak. Gathering and crossing point for the city: the entrances from the Postei street and the main entrance from Calea Victoriei will be always open with a separated schedule from the museum’s, so it can work independently, permitting for other functions to have an independent schedule (like the cafeteria, the bookstore and the restaurant at the top). The subtractions in the stone volume of the public space have a double role: to open and bring closer the exhibition space for the Trajan's Columnand to engage a special relation with the historical building of the museum by revealing it’s basement wall, bringing in light and to boost the relations on multiple levels, both visual but also spatial. Seating is random since we propose metal chairs to be used and moved by the visitors as they please, or, in the case of a special event, organized as needed. Lighting is controlled in a “theatrical” fashion: different types of projectors will be used, hanged by the underside of the new structure.

Calea Victoriei

ground floor plan

section from Calea Victoriei to str.Postei

Postei street

We wanted to create an atractive museum, an emotional experience. Floating above the city an iconic spacial experience is found. We thought that this is usually the starting point for the Bucharest’s tourist tours that go from the museum towards the old town. By making the starting point a space where you get accustomed with the cityscape, an emotion is triggered. You start to have a different perception of the city and culture. A memory is formed. So we moved the starting point of the museum in the sky. The skyplaza acts as the distribution hub to the entire museum. It is the start and the break in the circuit. We turned the museum upside down. The skyplaza is the icon for the city and also for the old town. Is a unique spacial experience. At night it is a crown.

The skyplaza is what gives the museum identity and makes it one of the most desired spaces in town. It acts as an atractor for the museum but also for the city. It’s an atraction not only for Bucharest but for the entire world. It puts Bucharest on the map. It’s the “bilbao” effect.

Towards a de-mummification in muse

A commonplace of history museums is that despite the actual presence of the objects exposed, they somehow make history seem out of reach,almost virtual. Our proposal is to enhance the visitorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interest by means of new experiences, richer in contemporary interventions.

The concept of the exhibitions is that the presentation of th supported by art interventions like holograms, three dimens that would create an AUGMEN

eology. An augmented experience

he key historical moments and showpieces themselves, will be sional installations, head-mounted displays and touchscreens NTED EXPERIENCE for the visitor.

By introducing these virtual elements the idea of past and completely forgotten times becomes obsolete. A virtual artistic experience,complementary to the historical one. A symbiotic approach to the object museum and the interactive experience.

The University of Architecture was challenged to propose for the University of Building Services an expansion that would rethink the campus of the faculty for a post-work society. The new building would reflect a different educational approach, that would encourage self-development, experiment, collaboration and interdisciplinarity. This building should also act as an urban foyer for different socio-cultural activities and act as a comunity hub. The projects consists of alternating very traditional, one way learning spaces with the knowledge-exchange ones and with different types of working environments to fit a variety of needs.

Situated in an environment defined by important cultural actractors, being one of the educational poles, with renowed highschools, film and civil construction universities, we considered the neighbourhood acts like an open campus in which our project integrates.

An incubator is a space in which multinear organization) come together in a sort of atrium, vertical and horizontal movement ; an incubator is of connectivity wor

r elds (highly connected, yet indepedent, in a network , an area of concentration, as interface in shared places of s a system of physical proximity, visual connection, gradation rking in three (four dimensions)

Architecture as a supporting field, as a density of vectors, cluster of links, as an intesity of taking into account field forces. Instead of being located in front of the object, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re now located within the object. The spectator wil find it necessary to participate in and explore the space that contains him and the infrastructure.

Rethinking the agora. We aproached this project by exploring the idea of agora. The agora acts as an urban atrium, a space of informational exchange, a space of transfer, a space for the event. The stoa is metamorphosed in our project into a functional core/backbone that holds within all the necessities. Ideally the university would be a vast uncertain space interlaced with this tehnological backbone that acts as a supporting device, screen, limit, structure, function. By turning it inside out the stoa becomes a flux instead of a limit of the agora. They become intertwined and indispenesble one from the other. With the help of models we explored this kind of interlace between them.

the weight of all the electrons in motion that make up the internet at any one moment is equivalent to the weight of a large strawberry

fabric and

The fold separetes and unites interior and exterior. The fold of space superimposes elements very distinct in scale and separetes and pieces together what originally coexisted.

The fold produces a dislocation of the dialectic

In order for the project to go into the second phase of design, we started to place the established morphology on the site and use the cu The agora stoa system is going to be interpretated by each one of us inside th

folding

cal relation between figure and ground.

One of the most interesting implications is the difficulty in distinguishing and situating ourselves clearly in space. Spaces pass from inside to outside, putting in crisis the concept of precinct, and of course, of permanence.

ut to determine the types of relationships with the buildings of the faculty with the help of the void (the courtyards) his morphology in order to expand the individual projects.

fabric as morphology A fabric presents, in principle, a certain number of characteristics that permits us to define it as the mix of agora and stoa. First it is constituted by two perpendicular elements: in the simplest case the horizontal and vertical yarns, which intertwine. Second, the two elements donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the same function; the vertical is fixed while the horizontal is passing above and beneath the fixed. Third, this kind of space is necessarily delimited, closed on one side: the fabric can be infinite in length, but not in width, which is determined by the frame of the warp. This sort of continuous space that can be obtained with fabric and folding, permits the rapid exchange by holding under the same roof diverse entities that act together using the same architectural language in this way obtaining unity and complexity. Educating consists in conveying logic, followed by processes, that lead to something. Order as a principle, and the result as the logical end of a process. An education structure is one which receives input from within itself forging new ideas, permanently challenging the status-quo and reflects those ideas towards the society. This medium based on informational exchange is in continuum transformation functioning 24/7, incased in a global network. Agora as freedom. Stoa as directed action.

ground floor plan

first floor plan

sports hall

new entrance/distribution library

bar

cafeteria multimedia-hall

makerspace start-up greenhouse

SUSPENSE | performant struc

4 weeks - in

WHAT WOULD AN EIFFEL T the Eiffel tower lives between:

the marginal and the prootable the valued and the alternative the peaceful and the connictive the connictive and paradisiacal the artiicial strange and the strangely natural

The projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aim was to questio to try to explain our vision of performa and to propose a structure that woul reading of the architect

The Eiffel tower started as a proof of engineering. As marvelous french performance. What made the Eiffel Tower such an iconic architecture marvel even though no architecture was involved, but only engineering? I think that it has to be the fact and that it created intrigue, it was supposed to be something profitable for Eiffel, it was supposed to be temporary, it was a spectacol, it offered a different view of the world, a unique one, it was alien to the world, it moved humanity further. PERFORMANCE it does not ask how a form looks like, but what it enables. it does not focus on what process was used to make a design, but on what the process was able to generate in the design. it shifts the focus from essence to the effect. the question is not what something is, but what it does.

THE EIFFEL TOWER WAS A SHIFT OF THE PARADIGM.

This kind of architecture should give places identity, make form our perception of what a public place is, they should and take a break. They should be iconic by being marvel available more than once b The performance of it is in changing our perception of w distant from others, s

ctures | 9th semester | bucharest | ndividual

TOWER DO TODAY ?

on the idea of performance, ance basing our study on Tour Eiffel, ld be based on the tower and our tural mechanism of it.

e them desired,give them purpose. They should transd create topography up in the sky and make us reflect lous simple, creating unforgetable experinces that are by achieving SUSPENSE. what a public plaza should be today, creating a place suspended, iconic.

A contemporary scenario puts our gaze on a constast state of alert, but also allows us to sense a space that resists labelling and that calls for,finally, the definitive transformation of those secular relantionships between reality and virtuality, between permanence and fleetingness, between routine and change, between city and landscape, blurred in this new geography of heterogeneous experiences.

A forgotten triangle piece of land trapped between fast moving cars, in the heart of the city .

In effect, in a constant state of suspense, of unstable equilibrium. between the expected and the unexpected, between predictability and surprise, order and chaos, control and chance, inertia and sudden shock. the everyday and the extraordinary

Investigating residential architecture as a mediation between privacy and togetherness. The brief requested designing an ansamble of 8 residential houses that would be developed by a group of friendly families on a budget.

We started investigating the site by trying to figure out how to insert a community inside a very introverted neighbourhoud that lives at the border of Bucharest.

The relationship with the street in this area itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s defined by the way every house hides behind a strong tall limit wall that acts as fence, many times creating a very confusing image.

Defined by this kind of camouflage we started to investigate how we can use the limit as a concept for the entire ansamble, We think that an urban plot that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have any special qualities in terms of views or aesthetic values or community, lives in this kind of strange place that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t offer an experince other than the exploration of the relantionship between the inside and the outside .

The process started by creating 8 plots of equal size that would permit this kind of intimacy and also using the void as the operative element. Fencing voids.

The dwelling is a micro-city in and from which we work, shop, socialize and rest.

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mestic movement follows the pattern of an active day.

tire perception of your house is somehow as you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a direct relationship with et and you only discover your house from within.

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as an unifying element of the ansamble. a way of building and as a way of living, at the border of the wall or inside of it.

half house | full life

Shelter | 24H internationl competion | 1st place | anywhere | team of 5 - 24 hours

The concept of HALF HOUSE FULL LIFE, comes from our wish of creating a small space in which homeless people can regain their grasp on life. Our idea began with the thought of giving the homeless a sheltered place, without taking them out of the streets space. We know that homeless people live and sleep on the street and we thought of giving them the advantage of being sheltered without relocating them. We also gave a lot of thought to the resistence of them to go to one of NGO’s social dedicated spaces. Of course there is a economical side of the shelters. Brands could use this kind of billboards to also help and promote the problems that homeless people face. Having a very reduced cost of building and the fact that it’s modular and that it can be mass produced and it’s not site dependable makes it more feasibile. The form also carries this message forward by appealappeal ing to the public using the archetypical shape of the house and then slicing it in half. We want to use these structures to cover up blind walls in the city, forgotten, nobody’s spaces. This kinds of spaces will also raise awareness. The surface that it uses when closed is 0.6 square meters and when opened which we believe will happen mostly at night is about 3 square meters. Link towards short video animation: https://youtu.be/ApAdYX4PEvg

STUDENT HOUSING | 5th semester | bucharest | individual | 8 weeks

The brief was centered around the exploration of the city and how to choose a land and how to develop a program to create intensity. In this part of the center of Bucharest, there are a number of universities and highschools but in the part of the neighbourhood where this plot lives, the streetscape is defined by a number of closed down buildings, housing and underdeveloped plots. The decision process was based on an analysis of the urban environment and seeing that the community lacked a place in close range that could house outdoor activities, socialising and an alternative to working from home. I choosed this site because it has this irregular shape, it is surrounded by blind walls, it has the greatest opening to the street and it lives in close proximity to a school and the church which is a big atractor for the community. Students can make a place active 24/7 because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not only a place for living, but also for socializing, working, studying and fun and it will always bring people from the outside if it is a cool place to hang out and work with your colleagues.

Student housing typologies should be developed as an open invitation to dialogue, fun and questioning everything. Thinking about the way society nowadays questions the idea of ownership and renting, This kind of typology acts as an answer to afordable living. This kind of typology presents an interesting economical proposition, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an answer to capitalistic nomadism.

To make this a catalyst for the community the building will also house a cafeteria, a library, an open working space, a roof terrace, an outdoor cinema in the backgarden, and a small garden connected directly to the street. The blind walls of the entire plot would be an open invitation to everyone to express themselves. They will also act as an actractor for the community and the city as they would be always exposed to change and events. The walls act as an open canvas.

Roof terrace

outdoor

cinema

Cafeteria

PARKING

GA RD

Sleep

PLAY

In socialist student housings from bucharest the hallway has became the only place thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s used as a socializing space. It does everything. It is the kitchen, the party place, the smoking lounge, the distribution and it is trapped in the middle of the building and unventilated. It is what gives a student housing the feeling of neverending chatter. The rooms put all the people together without any privacy. The bathroom is shared with the entire oor.

STUDY

Trying to get the feeling that kind of a hallway does offer but also having designated areas for cooking, for relaxing, to have great light, to play pool and to party; the hallway becamed a kind of continuous living room that contains everything including ballconies. To be with your close mates when you are studying there is a second hallway that connects the rooms permiting all kind of mutations of the rooms. This second hallway exists only when the doors between rooms are open, in this way your room can transform from private to open.If all the doors are open the entire floor becomes this huge space. Of course thinking of the possibility of reconfigurations all the walls between adjacent rooms are designed so that they can be removed. The rooms contain a study, a bed with a mechanism that makes it possible to go up the wall and a huge mirror that hides a place to hold your most intimate stuff. Two adjacent rooms share the dressing and the bathroom.

view from acces of the workspace

This very rationalistic aproach of the project is centered around economical efficiency, rapid way of building, the instability of neighbouring sites and the urbanistic imperatives that come from that.

ground floor plan

underground floor plan

first floor plan

second floor plan

You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension - a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into the Twilight Zone.

A house for david bowie | internatinal competion | special mention | twilight zone | team of 2 - 24 hours

A house as a costume. A layer that protects,holds and defines you. responds to you. nurses you. We defined space the way Etienne Marey encaptured movement. Trough this process we Encaptured the sensations the feelings the tensions that are inside a home-like place. The soul of david bowie still lives with us.

Collective Housing | 70 apartments | 6th semester | bucharest | 10 weeks - team of 2 people

high density / low cost

Bucharest is one of Europeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most incongruous capital cities, as it is composed by autonomous and self-referential urban fragments. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history is in close relationship with price oriented design, individuality and extrude as way of building has lead to a market thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reticent to collective housing, generating urban sprawl. Our proposal wants to make the city atractive and more dense, to create intesity, identity and a more social way of living together. We directed our research towards a hybrid typology combining the house and the apartment. To answer to this kind of market we propose a new typology based on connection with outdoor spaces, common spaces, good urban position and apartments that want to obtain the benefits of living in an apartment without the feeling of being trapped in a socialist box that still dictates the romanian market. We want to give them the feeling of belonging to a place, to identify with the ansamble, to be part of a community. By using a system of entries and walkways that would act as streets in the ansamble also connecting common spaces we could obtain a network not seperated buildings. The streets will create connection between residents as they are a place of contact, to have the feeling of a house we proposed that you always enter from the outside and that everybody will have the kitchen and dining space connected with the walkway. Double orientation, duplex system, street connection and large outout door spaces and connection between every inside space with the outside, those where the things that dictated our design strategy. By using a duplex system for the apartments a complex system of spaces is obtained that permits this kind of strategy.

contemporary

socialist tower

COLLECTIVE HOUSING ON SITE industrial

socialist block

pre-war perimetral

pre-war

The siteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s locatian at the confluence of two urban fabrics which differ substantially in terms of scale or use, urbanism and architectural style, determined us to approach the project as a form of dialog between two tangent layers. This mediation is created through a third element, since our project refuses to adopt a neighbouring architectural typology.

Camouuage is the contemporary attitude of architecture that acquires intelligence and learns visually from the territory, from the site, from the cosmos it inhabits. There exists, therefore, a syntony between container and content. The second skin of the content reads the container and reacts. Architecture enters into symbiosis with the container producing a common will for a single image, as well as a single speed in the changing image. Attitude opposed to the struggle against the cityscape.

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al support+ circulation

The projects strategy was to create a large public place at the ground level where there will be a great open garden, and a typology of apartments that has a connected public space that can be a small office, a studio, a coffee shop, a small barber shop,etc. The apartments as a hole can easily be transformed in public places.

housing Thinking about the idea of an individual house and the industrial halls, we aproached this morphology as a giant framework with a very industrial presence that holds within small long houses like the traditional urban fabric.

common space - space for social events roof terrace open terrace

public garden The garden extends on the old street that connects the back of the socialist towers and the church and creates a walking area from a parking place. The lost parking spaces were integrated in the underground parking of our proposal. In so doing we created intensity at the ground level and a direct connection with the neighbourhood.

network of streets + skin

3 bedrooms

2 bedrooms

1 bedroom studio

1st floor plan

ground floor plan

2nd floor plan

4th floor plan

3rd floor plan

5th floor plan

there is a certain anonymity...a variety in the visual appearance that paradoxically acts to deemphasize the individual identity of each unit: â&#x20AC;&#x153; The composition of the units gives us some privacy, because no one can understand which part belongs to any given family â&#x20AC;?

1 bedroom apartment

2 bedroom apartment

break of the rule 2nd floor plan 1/200

a rationalist morphology for the everchanging environment. the difference between the living floors and the sleeping floors permits a more open feeling for the outdoor spaces at the same time obtaining a more industrial appereance and connection between inhabitants. this sistem also permits efficiency in terms of shading and cooling. we used wood wall panels to accentuate the dihotomy between house and industrial. being a modular design the cost is reduced since the walls can be built and finished off site. 1 bedroom apartment

2 bedroom apartment

break of the rule 3rd floor plan 1/200

In-folie | fun palace for bucharest in 2067 | 10th semester | 4 weeks - team of 10 people - phase 1 of design

Information, madness, society

[…] this new, moral and spiritual, social structure of the year 2067, shows itself as a series of instable systems, in a continuous transformation, it rearranges, reorganising itself in a perpetual movement of contraction and dilatation, the pulse that conjures the basis of a new circulation, a new path for experience and in fact of the experiment;

[…] this new society divided into bits of information, the pillars of the new infrastructure, develops together with the landscape a new form of intensity – a osmotic membrane that disolves and reconfigures the static, the material, the permanence; thus the residual character of the interstitial enviornment gathers a new dimension: of a space as a mirage; in this newly created dimension, that sum of spaces that we may call the city, loses its boundaries and becomes a sum of time-actions, a non-space;

[…] the process of creation, simulation, design, is altered by this new spatial framework where time becomes a forth dimensional component of the city;

[…] this new society, witnesses a new vocabulary in a state of permanent change; architecture folds itself in an assemblage, defined by these unstable parameters of this new social structure, it assumes a risk, it offers us a chance, it holds us in a excited state and it offers us in the end this perpetual process, always in-progress…

link towards the full manifesto> http://infolie.tumblr.com

“fun is in the eye of the beholder”…What is in fact fun? – a process defined by an input, a field of actions augmented by layers of sensations, stimuli, colours, spontaneity, unpredictability, suspense;

link towards the full manifesto> http://infolie.tumblr.com

the substance becomes ‘’ flow ‘’ controlled by a disciplined and choreographed movement of a culture of exchange where education and entertainment become edutainment- the main conductor of the osmotic membrane which generates the ephemeral character of the interstitial - the zipspace.

part of the project consisted in a instalation in which we closed half of the studio and filled it with garbage bags full of air. inside this amoebous space we placed several stimuli: music, coloured lights, a hologram and inbetween it was vapor obtained using carbonic ice.

In-folie | Immanence | fun palace for bucharest in 2067 | 10th semester | - team of 3 people - phase 2 of design

Immanence is one of those concepts upon which future architecture leans. Architecture of immanence is at the mercy of events, but carries with it terible consequences. It does not have an inside or an outside, but is loose. Its materials are lent by camouflage, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s structure plans dispersion of the multitude and the contrariety between number and nature. Perhaps, immanence represents the permanent effort of signifying force of the savage, of what does not yet have a name, nor word. That which is before discourse.

Calea Victoriei - main street of the modern city Entertainment

Academiei Street - the educational pole of the city Education

efficient hotel

nomad housing

posh hotel

nostalgia hotel

university of bucharest

university of architecture

top view of 1/500 model - 3d printing | clay modelling | baloons |

After developing the socio-politico-cultural fame of 2067 and several principles and emotions of how the space of the palace works, we split into four teams with the aim of invading the site and evolving the project.

FAST LANE

SLOW LANE

edutainment We imagined our structure defined by three layers that interpolate in some points, which we called lanes. In this cummulous of emotions and events, the users can be classified as creators and spectators, which are encouraged to collaborate with each other and exchange roles.

LANE

1/500 model

A series of parameters are changed within the system and so entropy is created in certain spaces that permit a specific kind of behavior atributed to each parameter. Therefore, the space molds itself based on user-user exchange which defines the user-object i n t e r a c t i o n

NO LANE BACK TO BASICS

savage nature takes over the ground floor of the site

the existing buildings on the site donÂ´t have a ground floor a n y m o r e We wanted to eliminate the streets, asphalt and concrete and let everything breathe. There is no need to consume ground floor space, nature should be free and wild In a flat city like Bucharest we wanted to introduce this landscape to obtain intensity and a unique experience , creating an atractor for the entire city. Being in the city center, which is very artificial, the wilderness acts as an urban oasis With the help of the ever-changing slow-lane this space becomes very special and e p h e m e r a l

SLOW LANE frenzy - madness

If we think about the f u t u r e we can not ignore the augmented reality. There no longer exists the need for predictability in the way a building functions. When time is a component of the building and the ideea of permanence is long gone the slow lane becomes a complex network that acts as a maze. There are a number of ways in which you can explore the p a l a c e 1. You know the activity that you want to participate so the A.I guides you to it 2. You want to have some fun but donÂ´t know what to do. The A.I because it knows what kind of activities you are into creates a personalized rute for y o u 3. You just want to explore without any knowledge. If you get scared/lost the A.I is a touch/thought away and it will help you.

the slow lane represents a three dimensional network of streets that also functions as the backbone for the entire p a l a c e . the buildings that are kept on the island are the ones of which function still exist in 2067: h o t e l e d u c a t i o n e n t e r t a i n m e n t

You can and should live in the Fun Palace.

FAST LANE speed - vertigo

spectate and decide in the changing topography r o l l e r c o a s t e r

this lane acts as an urban p l a t e a u . from here you can specatate whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happening in the slowlane, you can cross the entire island, and participate at e v e n t s . With the help of the digital membrane that covers the palace, the entire plateau can be a c t i v a t e d . The entire plateau can hold events destined to very large c r o w d s . it can hold events for up to 30000 people maybe even more.

the Cuuleesh

The three layers come into contact in a vertical cross section through four helixes that form at the articulation of different textures in the NoLane. Those crucial points work together with the old passages, that used to cross the urban island and gave character to the site, to form a new identity. In those places of instant joy and wonder, the Palace unravels itself. We thought of the particular spaces as some kind of mediums, microclimates that could easily be changed, shaped and transformed by the users. To do so the space is predisposed to a certain state by devices that act as catalysts, placed in the proximity of the helixes, that act as an infrastructure for the tools necessary for an activity to manifest.

utility swarm

Some of the remaining structures that carry forward the identity of the site are used as nomad housing. The cuttlefish is the only permanent space inside the Fun Palace, except the existing structures, which is not shaped by the users alone. It is a big scale space designed for a great number of people and it is fulled by them through the Fast Lane that acts as an urban plateau and from one of the helixes that lives underneath.

We called Utility Swarm the new drone infrastructure of 2067 that acts inside the palace in the Fast Lane and around the Cuttlefish, which plays the role of the hive.

DADA | a ¨house¨ for Tristan Tzara - 100 years of DADA | 8th semester | bucharest | 3 weeks - individual

This projects was a fast exercise to design an instalation for the celebration of 100 years of DADA in the birthplace of the movement: Calea Victoriei - Bucharest The project’s aim was to foray into chaos in an architectural way and to reflect that in a process. Many Dadaists believed that the 'reason' and 'logic' of bourgeois capitalist society had led people into war. They expressed their rejection of that ideology in artistic expression that appeared to reject logic and embrace chaos and irrationality. Cut-OUT was a Dada way of creating disorder out of rational. Superimposing this structure on one of the most used public spaces in town creates disconfort, shock and intrigue. It creates an event.

Hotel Capsa - the place where DADA was originally born by Iancu brothers and Tristan Tzara

Calea Victoriei

Dada is about the moment, the feeling, the intrigue. That is achieved in this project by a scene with no programatic use that lives for a couple of days and that does not come with any explanation. Dada is about NOW WHAT?

Adolf Loos Maison Tristan Tzara ground floor

1st floor

2nd floor

longitudinal section

elevation road building

3rd floor

4rd floor