IOANA BINICA
ARCHITECTURE / ART / DESIGN
BINICA IOANA
Grants and Fellowships Erasmus Scholarship - 2010-2011 -Aristotle University of The School of Architecture, Greece - Final grade 9.70 and excellent references available upon request
Research Skills # AllPlan Studio, Nemetschek, February-June 2013, # “XXL - Architectural Design and Digital Technologies” Greece, January- June 2011 # “CAD and Digital Representations” - Rhinoceros Studio, October - December 2010
Date of Birth 19.07.1989 Address G-ral Berthelot, nr. 19, Bucharest Cell Phone 0744 31 31 88 Email ioana.binica@gmail.com Citizenship Romanian
C U R R I C U L U M
V I TA E
Education 2013-2016 University of Applied Arts, Vienna, DESIGN STUD Master in Advanced Architecture 2008-2014 Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism “Ion Min (Admittance grade 8.52) 2004-2008 National College “Dinicu Golescu”- mathem Campulung Muscel (final grade 9.70) 2000-2004 School of Arts and Music, Campulung Musce Secondary School “Sf Iacob” - with English teac Campulung Muscel (final grade 10)
Competitions and exhibitions
#International Competition ISOVER, 20th April 2013 #National Exhibition-Contens Icons “Rugamu-te Tie” 12th Country Center for Preservation and Promotion Culture, Arges – County Museum Archdiocese A Muscel, 15th April- 6th June # Void to Space “Design the Next Office”, National Student Competion, 2012 # National Competion for Summer School Arhitext “5 Places to ruin prejudices”, Dealu Frumos, Sibiu
# International Competion AEEA “Housing, an unknown “New architecture for social engagement”, 20 # National Student Competion "Detached house - Jean Louis Calderon", 2010 # Graphics and Painting - Personal exhibition Hall, Campulung Muscel, 2002-2003-2004
DIO ZAHA HADID
ncu”, Bucharest
matics-informatics,
el (final grade 10) ching –
essaloniki AUT –
Maya Studio, AUT,
, AUT, Greece
Workshops and Study Tours #MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art”The body as actuator” - BARE CONDUCTIVE / MATT JOHNSON (GB), SABINE SEYMOUR (AT/US) 30. October 2013 #Nemetschek Summer School, University for Civil Constructions, Constanta, august 2013 # Dynamic Fields workshop July 2013, Parametrica [digi fab school] (Rhinoceros 3D 5.0 B. Grasshopper 3D -Latest Version C. ) Tutors: Patrik Schumacher (Director of Zaha Hadid Architects, founder of AA Design Research Lab London) Hooman Talebi (Lead Designer Zaha Hadid Architects) Farshad Mehdi’Zadeh (co-founder Tehran Architecture Studio, winner of 3rd place Middle East Architect) Mohsen Marizad (MArch IaaC, expert Parametric design) Arian Hakimi Nejad (MUrb.Arch Iaac, expert parametric design and partner at Parametrica [digi fab school]) # International Workshop City Hall Campulung Muscel-Polytechnic University from Madrid- Foundation ProPatrimonio- urbanistic and landscape proposals for Campulung Muscel, 24th-28th June 2013
Edition, of Traditional Arges and
# Training “Communication Challenge – “Negotiating Visions”, Arhitext Foundation, 1-3th November 2012 # Summer School “5 Places to ruin prejudices”, Arhitext Foundation, Dealu Frumos, Sibiu, 21-29th July 2012 # Bucharest Architecture Open Workshops “From city to metropolis” Nathan Starkman, French Institute, 13th June 2012
u, 2012
# Workshop "Architectural heritage and economic development", Romanian Cultural Institute, Bucharest, 29th May 2012 # Summer Course Science, Religion/ Philosophy vs Theism/ Atheism, Faculty of Philosophy, Bucharest, 3-7th Sept 2012
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# Study Tour Sibiu “History & Theory of Architecture and Heritage Conservation” (UAUIM), 20-22th April 2012 # Study Tour Peloponnese (AUT), Greece, 27-29th November 2011 # Workshop for Personal Development - Holcim Project "Build Your Future", Summer School “5 Places to ruin prejudices”, Arhitext Foundation, Dealu Frumos, Sibiu, 21-29th July 2012 Campulung Muscel, 2007
Computer Skills CAD: Modelling:
AutoCAD 2010 - Archicad 16 - AllPlan 2013 Rhinoceros 3D (V-ray for Render) - Maya 3D Modelling Grasshoper / Processing Adobe: Illustrator CS6 – Photoshop CS6 - Adobe InDesign CS6 Informatics Certification (C++ and Microsoft Office) elibetared by National College “Dinicu Golescu" Language Skills English Spanish French Greek
(advanced) (medium) (medium) (beginner)
Experience #Internship at Individual Studio Office ”Catalin Stanciu” #Voluntary work at “Day Care Center for Children - Santa Sophia art workshop „Share your creativity!” - organized by Victoria Foundation and Arhitext Design Foundation November 2012, Bucharest Interests
Graphics Painting Digital Painting (via Wacom tablet)
Photography
Hobbies mountain expeditions and team competitions (team leader) alpinism / swimming *first place (team leader) - “Forest Trophy” - Romanian Sport Federation, Zarnesti, Piatra Craiului Mountains, 2007 *first place (team leader) - Regional Championship for high-schools, Buzau, Curvature Carpathians, 2007 *first place (team leader) - “Argessis Trophy” - National Sports Agency, Fagaras Mountains, 2006 Social skills creativity, sociability, communicability, good organizational skills, adaptability for teamwork
ARCHITECTURE THEATRE acting&dancing SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL BUILDING SEASIDE HOTEL
“As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.” Norman Foster
RESIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL COMPLEX TOWER OFFICE
Open your eyes + close your eyes = a scene The scene is the unit of the creative flash of a spectacle. Its temporal duration does not coincide with its emotional duration. It is made uo of a series of layers. All of them independent, yet simultaneous. They evolve individually, but coexiston stage. Its layers: textual, visual, musical, choreographic, cardiac, the audience. Layers that are syntonised in the mind of the spectator. It is very important to create advanced - new scenes rapidly. Reality is way ahead of us and time bests us. It seems easy: “An empty space, an action and an observer.� A small theatre in the centre of the Thessaloniki, which provides a space for scenery for 300 people with a removable scene, for different types of acting. As a result of variation and dynamic transformation , mutation is an evolutionary process produced by actions and generative animated movements to develop the concept of the volume.
Acting & dancing school
THEATRES CULTURAL SPACES
RHETHORICAL SPACE OVER
REACTIVE SPACE
DANCING DYNAMICAL GEOMETRY
ACTING AUDITORIUM
SOCIALIZING
CULTURE COMMUNICATIVE SPACES MULTIFUNCTIONAL BUILDING
INTERACTIVE COMPLEXITIES TRAJECTORIES
section A-A’
master p
ground floor plan
section B-B’
second floor
plan
THEATRE ACTING&DANCING SCHOOL
third floor
east facade
south facade
west facade
THEATRE ACTING&DANCING SCHOOL
“Learning, the first imaginable approach to the concept of space” We need to look for a form of learning space with a wider range of experience
CONTEXT The landscape is a structure often invisible, it can adapt to different situations without having to change itself. Leaf -organic element taken from nature, to express the experience of nature through learning (absorbing new insights that enlarges to this network) -as structure, describes the networks of our brain Space and Essence of learning -a space of breaking down framework -a sense of space as an universal dimension in our mind -links taking shape -three dimensional vision Another kind of school The school for less education and more learning A new school in which the experience of learning through nature will dominate the entire soace of the building. A school no longer restricted by the classroams walls Landscape - stimulates and incites LEARNING Social/ Climate- provokes exchange and confrontation intellectually, culturally and politically Low high constructions in Tagaridis - one floor for the school to keep the village’s atmosphere and to give to the children privacy and intiacy Functional organization - forging new links between centres: -a very clear separation between the primary and the secondary school through the public area for the community -central space- the multiuse area (for socializing, playing games, attending to spectacles) -roof garden - to accentuate the experience of LEARNING THROUGH NATURE -ORGANIC ROOF - to create the feeling of protection for the children (who are learning experiencing the nature)
Primary and secondary school
BUILTSCAPE LANDSCAPE
LEARNING through
NATURE DEVELOP
UNEARTH
DISCOVER EXPLORE
LANDSCAPE NETWORK LEAF
COMMUNITY ORGANIC
south facade
landscape view to the sou
north facade
landscape view to the eas
uth
st
Main entrance in the school to the multifunctional space
secondary school view from west
BUILTSCAPE LANDSCAPE
Primary and secondary school
secondary school view from north
primary school PLAN level +2.30m
SCHOOL PLAN 0.00m
PLAN administrative and multifunctional space area
west facade
east facade
BUILTSCAPE LANDSCAPE
Primary and secondary school
The enormous interest in landscape is taking the contemporary architectural debate by storm is clear sign that we can no longer rely on classical relationships between building and ground, or on the conventional definition of the ground as delimited, stable, horizontal, determined and homogeneus. But landscape is only interesting if we understand it in its more generic sense: as a kind of topographic operating system rather than as a category of the built environment: “a platform” rather than “a site”. The manipulation of the surface of the ground has been a constant, transforming an element that usually bears a flat coding into an active, complex, mutating field. The relation between the natural and the artificial, between the landscape and the builtscape. Broken composition showed in the arrangement of the hotel, the spa complex, in relation with the marine. REFLEXION As position, the hotel is very near to the marine, to advantage the volume and the colors. In the mean time, the hotel has protection from the north wind. LIGHT -Transparence and opacity A big wall: as a very strong structural element, as a very important gesture from the compositional organization The glass wall: -opposite to the opaque wall (from the east facade) -to improve the quality of the spectacle offered for the tourists by the ramps Movement - ramps as public space for the tourists to admire the nature and the view, a very strong characteristic of this landscape.
SPA & LEISURE ACTIVITIES From design to constrcution
SEASIDE HOTEL
TOPOGRAPHY LANDSCAPE
PLATFORM HORIZONTALITY BRAKE
COMPOSITION SURFACE MANIPULATION
REFLEXION LIGHTNING
MOVEMENT ENVELOPE
INTERACTION east facade
COMPLEXITIES TRAJECTORIES
first floor plan
ground floor plan
north facade
apartement detail plan
SEASIDE HOTEL
south facade
SPA & LEISURE ACTIVITIES From design to constrcution
underground spa plan
second floor plan
west facade
setion A-A’
setion B-B’
SEASIDE HOTEL
SPA & LEISURE ACTIVITIES From design to constrcution
E M LU O V
Housing is a permanent activity , highly sensitive to changes in the social environment and therefore this current theme constantly returns in the current debates, but also the phenomenon of existing buildings’ physical deterioration. So we should not ignore the living tradition while designing a complex of this amplitude, and we should keep in mind how to solve the housing, varying on the needs depending on the very different population groups. Regarding the house itself, it is studied the distribution of interior spaces and the grouping of apartments in residential units. So I got three different types of housing . The first and most used is the volumes tape type, namely A and B with North-South apartment orientation ( the night area – bedrooms-bathrooms- to the North side oriented , the day area –livingroom-dining room-kitchen- to the South). Regarding volume B, orientation is adapted to the urban concept, as the night-area returns to the ansamble’s inner courtyard. A second category of residential units is found in Volume C , where the second and third floor have studios that can be converted into offices. The top floors of each of these 3 volumes are penthouses that are resolved differently, withdrew from the front of the lower levels, thus obtaining terraces. The third category is identified in the 14-storey tower , where I designed 4 apartments per floor facing all directions. In the tower, housing starts on the 5th floor , as to the first 4 floor, the building is bordered on two sides by joint neighboring volumes ( A and C), therefore, it includes only public functions, such as office for architectural studios, cafeteria, a large conference room. Thus , the problem of housing dwelling itself , and its complex relationships with those outside the immediate or distant functional extensions that connect the city, includes the study of green spaces playgrounds, commercial endowments, services and parking spaces. On the ground floor there are shops at all volumes , as well as on the 1st floor , except the tower. In this case, to materialize the conceptual idea , on the 1st volume is interrupted by a public open space , continued by a concrete platform that outlines the ensemble’s triangle shape in plan. Regarding the C volume, on the 1st floor there is a library and a bookshop, serving studios and offices on the upper floors. Floors second, third and fourth from thetape volumes (A, B, C) are living spaces as shown above. In the tower, the identified spaces are architectural offices related by public stairs only until the fourth floor, where there is a conference room that can serve the functions of the floors below. Fifth floor is accessible only by residents through the central node, having again a release of the tower by the walkable terrace , outlining the corner volume and highlighting the urban approach and the fact that this complex, in terms of urban and architectural aspects, the tower acts as an "accident " very well controlled, that highlights the intersection and promenade feature PUZ . From the promenade down to underground level, to underground galleries lit zenith through some glass cubes that give promenade rhythm track and visuality. Galleries can be accessed directly from the center of the complex, climbing on the cafeteria’s roof, meaning the ramp from the underground level of courtyard. I have obtained an attractive route for both continuous public space and for private households.
VO LU M E
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INTERIOR COURTYARD Bucharest, POlizu, 10000sqm
RESIDENTIAL& COMMERCIAL COMPLEX
ME B VOLU
facade detail
first floor
curent plan
ground floor
volume c
ground floor (commercial)`
first floor (offices)
current floor (student dwellings)
RESIDENTIAL& COMMERCIAL COMPLEX fourth floor (appartment)v
INSIDE COURTYARD VIEW
basement floor cafeteria
basement floor commercial
basement floor gallery
fourth floor (complex assembly)
current floor VOLUME A/C (appartments 2 / 3 bedrooms)
ground floor VOLUME A/B (commercial spaces)
RESIDENTIAL& COMMERCIAL COMPLEX
tower office third floor
tower office third floor Living room
Kitchen
current floor TOWER (appartments one bedroom) bedroom
teracce appartment
RESIDENTIAL& COMMERCIAL COMPLEX
G R O U N D
FL O O R
PL AN
BA SE M EN T PL AN
BUCHAREST/ URANUS
OFFICE TOWER
“It’s very atmospheric. It’s not a building that is a severe statement in the skyline. We need the height; otherwise, the building almost disappears because it is so slender.” Santiago Calatrava
OR LO DF N CO SE
OR FLO ST R I F
IR TH
OR FLO IRD
Taking the idea of evolution and sustainability of Bucharest, I proposed an office tower with 30 floors and an audiovisual building. In the mediateque there are there following functions: booksellers, playground for children, audio-visual center, documentary archive, small theater, gallery, cafe. In the office building, on the first 3 levels there are 2 large conference halls.
OFFICE TOWER
BUCHAREST/ URANUS
FOURTH FLOOR
FIFTH FLOOR
OFFICE TOWER
BUCHAREST/ URANUS
ANALISING THE AREA URANUS-VAMA ANTREPOZITE STRENGHTS Physical Environment -the presence of Parc Carol in the vicinity- it is a noise and air pollution barrier -various means of transport -quick links to the center of the capital and to major traffic routes -homogenization and linking residential areas Social environment: Carol Park-present in the immediate vicinity offers: identity, recreational space for residents of the area and possible pedestrian flow that occurs in the area -presence of cultural buildings Economic environment: -undeveloped land and proximity of existing central area increased capital value of land and buildings -presence of important institutions and companies WEAKNESS Physical Environment: -industrial buildings and their annexes that generates a bad image of the area, pollution and fractured urban silhouette -lindustrial buildings destructuring fronts and surfaces -poor quality of the area (size and construction), the conditions in which it develops and will have to pay an increasingly intense traffic Social environment: -lack of educational institutions -unsafe pedestrian areas at night poorly and inactive streets Economic environment: -fewer legal and banking services -unproductive industrial spaces -functional destructuring -fewer commercial services OPPORTUNITIES Physical Environment: -increasing the quality of the area due to development of residential and commercial complexes rather than unproductive or disused industrial spaces -increasing the supply of housing -the possibility of making a functional variety -restructuring of the industrial site - allows new streets to streamline traffic and better connect the park’s "islands" Social environment -development and trade services, increase the quality of living in the zone, considering the development, realization of cultural spaces becoming increasingly justified Economic environment -developing residential complexes and office buildings - it attracts growth and diversification -the possibility of building with a height greater land-use efficiency, thus more profit for investors and for mayor because of taxes HAZARDS Physical Environment: -risk of chaotic development of the island unless they are imposed and observed a number of rules urbansitice -darkening traffic where new buildings are not accompanied by infrastructure development
OFFICE TOWER
BUCHAREST/ URANUS
COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN PARAMETRICA
TOURBILLON PROTOTYPE “Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.” Eliel Saarinen
RHINO MODELLING
The Innovative Prototyping @ Dynamic Fields – Responsive Architecture Workshop, which took place in Bucharest, Romania July 16-29, resulted in five innovative prototypes. The workshop was benefited by the presence of Patrik Schumacher, Director of Zaha Hadid Architects, founder of AA Design Research Lab London and one of the most important figures in the world of computational design. The workshop’s purpose was the understanding of how the advancement of digital technology is helping architects respond to the complexity of the environment surrounding them. The five prototypes (Turbillon, Interactive Field, Dynamic Muqarnas, Project 86 and Wind Mapper) are to be exposed in the near future at different fairs or events. The 14 Day workshop had a fast paced rhythm for the 55 participants, led by tutors with experience in working with dynamic fields and digital tools. Materials, technique and geometry were the research fields and Rhinoceros, Grasshopper şi Arduino were the digital tools. The workshop participants came from different educational experiences and cultural backgrounds: students or graduates, architects, interior, product and urban designers, and engineers, aged between 25 to 35 years old, from Romania, Egipt, Italy, Russia, France, Denmark, Belgium, Dubai, New York, Uganda. The tutor’s team was formed of highly experienced specialists: · Hooman Talebi, Lead Designer Zaha Hadid Architects · Farshad Mehdi’Zadeh, co-founder Tehran Architecture Studio, winner of 3rd place Middle East Architect · Mohsen Marizad, MArch IaaC, expert Parametric design · Arian Hakimi Nejad, MUrb.Arch Iaac, expert parametric design and partner at Parametrica [digi fab school]
Project Title: Tourbillon Objective: Vertical performance combined with geometry control Function: Reactive environment system Technology: Rhinoceros + Grasshopper + Arduino + Laser cutter + Low tech fabrication (cutting techniques) Team: Eliza Culea, Irina Ilie, Ioana Binica, Andrei Olteanu, Orsolya Gunthner, Sabin Serban, Andrei Mitisor, Mihai Aostacioaie, Katerina Ivanova, Sarah Safaoui The challenge was finding a simple and effective operation that would alter static behaviors into performant ones. The base material of this study is paper. Using the childhood experience in the art of Kirigami, the participants discovered how cuts and folds can modify the behavior of a paper sheet from a simple plane into a responsive three dimensional surface. The ‘fold and cut system’ was replaced by digital design and automated manufacturing. The project goal was to obtain a geometry control landscape through cutting and surface optimization with an expected performance in a dynamic field and to transform a planar surface in 3D landscape under the force of wind making a volume from a plane.
INOVATIVE PROTOTYPING@DYNAMIC FIELDS PARAMTETRICA RESPONSIVE ARCHITECTURE WORKSHOP
TOURBILLON PROTOTYPE
RESPONSIVE ARCHITECTURE DYNAMIC
FIELD - AIR DIGITAL
TECHNOLOGY MATERIALS TECHNIQUE
GEOMETRY RHINOCEROS
GRASSHOPER
ARDUINO VERTICAL
PERFORMANT BEHAVIOR
KIRIGAMI
3D LANDSCAPE
ALTERNATIVE CUTS
ARTICLES REGARDING TOURBILLON PROTOTYPE http://www.archdaily.com/ 421143/innovative-prototyping -at-dynamic-fields-nil-responsive -architecture-workshop-results/ http://moodboards.ro/prototipuriinovative-la-dynamic-fields/ http://www.archilovers.com/g129 073/Parametrica-digi-fab-school http://arhitext.blogspot.ro/2013/ 09/5-prototipuri-inovative-dynamic -fields.html http://www.recitymagazine.com /project-909-dynamic-fieldsparametrica-digi-fab-schooltourbillon
one attractor point
2 attractor points
one attractor point
2 attractor points
one attractor point
2 attractor points
TOURBILLON PROTOTYPE
INOVATIVE PROTOTYPING@DYNAMIC FIELDS PARAMTETRICA RESPONSIVE ARCHITECTURE WORKSHOP
2 symmetrical axis
3 symmetrical axis
Within the context of the Dynamic Fields Workshop that took place in July 2013 in Bucharest, we were given the task of designing a surface that performs in a field of constant flow – in our case air. The challenge was finding a simple and effective operation that would alter static behaviors into performant ones. The base material with which we have started and finished our study is paper. Using the childhood experience in the art of Kirigami, we have discovered how cuts and folds can modify the behavior of a paper sheet from a simple plane into a responsive three dimensional surface. During the course of our research, the ‘fold and cut system’ was replaced by digital design and automated manufacturing, leaving us with the single and effective action of cutting.
TOURBILLON PROTOTYPE
INOVATIVE PROTOTYPING@DYNAMIC FIELDS PARAMTETRICA RESPONSIVE ARCHITECTURE WORKSHOP
infinite symmetrical axis
Through repetitive and alternative cuts applied on different geometries we have modeled multiple performance results and for our final presentation those shapes that offer two specific qualities â&#x20AC;&#x201C; vertical performance combined with control. The gradual testing of the various shapes started with squares and went as far as interconnected spirals and each step has allowed us to fully comprehend the implications that the nature of the cut-line has on the final result. Our project has therefore crystallized under the form of a large scale responsive surface to air flow that fully exhibits the potential and synergy between a simple action â&#x20AC;&#x201C; cutting, a single material â&#x20AC;&#x201C; paper, and digital technologies. > Project goal < Obtain a geometry control landscape through cutting and surface optimization with an expected performance in a dynamic field. > Function < Reactive environment system that succeeds in transforming a planar surface in 3D landscape under the force of wind making a volume from a plane. > System < A system of contorted and connected spirals through whose geometry the design performs optimally. > Materials < Metallic coated paper, fans, Arduino.
TOURBILLON PROTOTYPE
INOVATIVE PROTOTYPING@DYNAMIC FIELDS PARAMTETRICA RESPONSIVE ARCHITECTURE WORKSHOP
WORKSHOP ARHITEXT “5 PLACES TO RUIN PREJUDICES”
“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.” Frank Lloyd Wright
LANDSCAPE & URBANISM PROPOSALS CAMPULUNG
The stereotype is like a stamp that multiplies several times after a single template one image. Creating stereotypes can be dangerous. Cultural stereotypes lead to prejudices, the negative opinions of others. Stereotypes and prejudices are major obstacles in communication and , more importantly, the causes of actions and negative emotions . Prejudices that are based on simplyfing any race of people in a narrow and negative stereotype can have tragic consequences such as discrimination, violence and in extreme cases, genocide. With the instalation that I propose , I want to ruin one of the most common misconceptions, namely racial, regarding minorities. I integrate and disintegrate the cube as a symbol of the Romes minority stereotypes (as special case ), in a variety of pieces of sensations, visions , feelings, contradictions, fragments of shadows a nd lights. The structure is made of wood boards folding left and right sides of the cube , and up and down to the upper and lower faces, thus decomposing the cube . Each plate has on one side a picture or drawing that represents the bits of the world and life of Rome children's faces and tears of mothers, thus capturing the factors that cause stereotypes causing negative emotions and feelings towards this community. Plates can be folded at different distances and in this way "the cube " is ruined , leaving light to penetrate the structure and intensifing meditative moments . On the other side of each plate there is a mirror as a symbol of knowledge, literature and art metaphor , the starting point of all duplications and dedublations, which signifies a reflected knowledge, made under the incidence of the moon, water, night and the feminine principle. The instalation represents a place where you should stop and meditate, with a dynamic character, thus proposing two scenarios involving the occurrence of different sensations . The first scenario in which "the character" (me) is the culprit, having prejudices, is facing a multitude of images, photos , stories. As the desire to give up rises, to "ruin" these biases is amplified , "the defendant" can â&#x20AC;&#x153;play " with wooden plates and replace misconceptions " with mirrors, with the symbol for "I" and will try to understand that no one is less important, that we are all equal, in the mean time visualizing the essence. Continuing with the second scenario, when hopefully all the negative plates to be turned inward , "I" will now try the feeling of a person inside the structure followed by the prejudices of others, watching and learning from other's perspective and understanding what it really means the profile and culture of people different from us , to be able to neutralize, to " ruin" stereotypes when he encounters them. Also this time, the light invades the atmosphere of meditation.
This is the essay I signed up for participating at this workshop. With a team of 5, we have developed, merging the ideas of each member, a modern trinity, placed at the intersection of 3 paths, next to the main road of the village, crossing the boundary to the Old Citadel.
“5 PLACES TO RUIN PREJUDICES”
ARHITEXT WORKSHOP
STEREOTYPE PREJUDICE MINORITIES
THE CUBE
SENSATIONS
MODERN TRINITY FEELINGS CONTRADICTIONS
MEDITATION MIRROR
NATURAL ANTROPIC
EARTH - SKY SPECTACLE
COMMUNITY CHILDREN
AXIS MUNDI
Câmpulung Muscel, is a city in the Argeş County, Muntenia, Romania. It is situated among the outlying hills of the Carpathian mountains, at the head of a long well-wooded glen traversed by the Râul Târgului, a tributary of the Argeş. Its pure air and fine scenery render Câmpulung a popular summer resort. In the city there are more than twenty churches, besides a monastery and a cathedral, which both claim to have been founded in the 13th century by Radu Negru, legendary first Prince of Wallachia. Câmpulung was one of the earliest urban settlements in Wallachia, the Transylvanian Saxons contributing to its development by bringing the German urban culture. The earliest written evidence of the town's existence is dated 1300, and is to be found in the Câmpulung church. It as the first capital of the feudal state of Wallachia, until succeeded by Curtea de Argeş in the 14th century.
Following a 5-day workshop organized in collaboration with students and teachers from the Polytechnic of Milan, with object of study the down-town, from the main street to the station area, we proposed, at the conceptual level, greening the city and highlighting the longitudinal character in terms of parceling and street system, main streets parallel to the river . As a Result of field visits, we observed numerous passages, unmatching their value, but through arrangement with vertical green walls, urban furniture item and lighting, it can highlight the crossconnections between the boulevard and the river line. I pointed these proposals by developing different collages. For the Royal Plaza, we propose to develop a green leisure area, a plaza in the true sense of the word, that by cancelling the traffic and regaining pedestrian territory, fact which will increase the historical value of the Royal Palace, built by King Charles I.
Prop
PROPOSALS FOR CAMULUNG
URBANISTIC LANDSCAPE Proposal boulevard
posal Royal Plaza
Proposal green passage next to the train station
Master Plan
PASSAGE PARALLEL
GREEN WALL
LEISURE
HISTORICAL VALUE
COMPETITIONS ““For us, creating a building is a research process. We call it a journey.” Herzog &de Meuron
ISOVER MULTICOMFORT HOUSE DETACHED HOUSE
Under the Kyoto Protocol, more than 140 industrial nations have made a commitment to reduce their CO2 emissions drastically and agreed that the usage of energy-saving technologies it is a top priority in order to save our natural resources. Overall, the building sector is responsible for 40% of the total energy consumption and CO2 emissions in the world demanding a new way of designing each new project and each new renovation. As the world is becoming increasingly urban, and cities are becoming larger and more densely populated thus increasing our energy consumption as well as the CO2 emission. Reacting to this situation, more and more local authorities are demanding for their new development projects, designs that fulfil the highest requirements in terms of energy efficiency while providing the highest comfort possible for their inhabitants. It is the case of the new “Gluckstein Quartier” development in Mannheim, Germany. The urban administration decided that for this new project the development should provide the highest degree of comfort with the lowest possible energy consumption for the future inhabitants of the building. The project will require the development of residential function based on the SaintGobain Multi Comfort principle that will assure a natural extension of the existing neighbourhood to the North. In addition, the development shall improve the usage of the green area while creating a link with the existing housing stock of the so called Lindenhof. Mannheim is a city with huge potential for development. Together with Heidelberg and Ludwigshafen, Mannheim forms the backbone of the Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar. The structure of the city is characterized by the inner-city, which is surrounded by the main street circle. At the south-western end adjacent to the palace of Mannheim (a copy of Versailles) the ICE railway line can be found. The development area set for this contest contains the area directly opposite to train station. It has the highest priority in regards to the town planning as it is the connection between the neighbourhood of Lindenhof-Area and Inner-City. In 2001 a high-rise building (“Victoria Turm”) was completed at the western end of this area. The road planning determines the relocation of the main development road between the historic structures and the park.
STUDENTS CONTEST 2013 EDITION VISION & REALITY GLUKSTEIN QUARTIER
COMFORT HOUSE
ISOVER MULTI-
A number of maximum 4 buildings with a maximum height level of ground floor + 4 floors shall be constructed in this area. The final buildings should provide altogether a gross floor area of approximately 10.440 sq. m. As a premium-quality residential development is planned, the size of the flats shall be above average. The estimated number of flats is estimated below 150 apartments. To create a master plan and a design for the building shapes, facades and the exterior green taken in to account office, service and science functions as well as residential function. The height level for this area is: â&#x20AC;˘ Residential: ground floor + 5 upper floors â&#x20AC;˘ Non-residential: ground-floor + 5 upper floors These 4 buildings are conected with vertical corculation, and every apartement is south oriented, on the north side being a cursive, doubled by a green wall, as a buffer space for the crowded area from the train station.
climate diagrams study
boundary parkhistorical area
tape volume continuous front
south oriented dwellings
penetrating the tape volume
sloping roof
groundfloor conexion main street-green area
vertical circulation
relation main streat green area
CONCEPTUAL DIAGRAMS
SOUTH FACADE
ISOVER MULTINORTH FACADE
COMFORT HOUSE
STUDENTS CONTEST 2013 EDITION VISION & REALITY GLUKSTEIN QUARTIER
sunny study
Beside constructional, the social and economic aspects also have to be considered and respected and the buildings designed should give a new impulse to the existing urban area. The architecture of the neighbourhood has to fit in the surrounding of the site. Urban space solutions for the immediate surroundings of the site will be proposed. The overall scope of the task is to get actively involved in giving shape to future development of living in European cities.
CURRENT DWELLING PLAN
MASTER PLAN
ISOVER MULTICOMFORT HOUSE
STUDENTS CONTEST 2013 EDITION VISION & REALITY GLUKSTEIN QUARTIER
EVOLUTION OF COMMUNITY Improving living standards by building sustainable housing, with local materials south oriented. Sloping residential type are inspired by local architecture with high roofs and fireplace, which is the center of the house. Dwellings take from the local architecture the idea of the porch, closely related with the gypsies way of spending most of their time outside. Encouraging local production by building craft workshops for metal, glass, brass, wood (manufacture of spoons, cotton, reel). The existence of an open area between the gypsy community and the tourist area for pilgrims who climb to the monastery “Cetatuia”. I propose public recreational spaces, cafeteria or social center, cultural center (gypsies having music and dance in their blood),a small educational center, library (to learn to read and write, the rate of illiteracy being very high among gypsies). Initially these spaces will be used as temporary shelters for those whose houses are under construction, being demolished in advance in order to revitalize the area. The buffer space between the gypsy community and the one for tourists can be defined with natural elements: plants,trees, rocks. According to tradition, the community’s center remains the church.
HOUSING as an UNKNOWN problem
“NEW ARCHITECTURE FOR SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT” INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION AEEA
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EDUCATIONAL BUILDING
first floor
SOCIAL CENTER
section A-A’
SHELTER FOR WORKSHOPS
HOUSING as an UNKNOWN problem
“NEW ARCHITECTURE FOR SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT” INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION AEEA
1.Elements taken from local architecture -traditional Muscelean-porch modern rehabilitation -high-slope roofs (hill and mountain architecture for retrieving water and snow), -stove (fire house) -local materials: wood and stone 2. Elements inspired by nomadic gypsyparticipative architecture, -proximity to nature -fire (various uses: cooking in nature, dancing around the fire, to craft metal and copper) -tent 3 Simple architecture ecology, close to nature , do not give them the feeling of claustrophobia, open architecture. The possibility of using non-conventional energy specific to this site, 1. CULTURAL ASPECT 2. SOCIALASPECT 3. TOURISM ASPECT Evolution - a better life for the socially disadvantaged, for future generations, while learning to adapt to actual conditions, favoring social reinstatement and reconstruction of a social community, done in stages,gypsies being actively involved in the demolition and reconstruction of dwellings and workshops.
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local materials
prispa_inspirational architecture
SOUTH FACADE DWELLING ENSEMBLE
pillar detaill
vernacular furniture detail
HOUSING as an UNKNOWN problem
“NEW ARCHITECTURE FOR SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT” INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION AEEA
RESTORATION â&#x20AC;&#x153;"Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin."
Antoni Gaudi
CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURAL STUDY
For this old building from the center of city Sibiu, located in Small Plaza, before beeing an administrative institution for the city hall, I propose as a re-use function a center for architectural studies with a small library at the ground floor.
ISSUES • black crust • metal corrosion • wood decay • Increased moisture in the plaster signs • surface cracks • no material • alteration ccromatica • degradation phenomena analysis performed patio • masonry discovered • twentieth century plaster • Further evidence of a masonry • traces of windows or doors voids created later (assuming the twentieth century) • Roofing - drain water through drains / eaves degraded / covers degraded • joinery - wood degraded • cursive wood - structurally weak, unstable rail • Building pathology problems (insufficient ventilation of the building) Proposals for the main facade • reconditioning without losing authenticity • a wide choice of color in keeping with the other buildings on the market • highlighting the last stage of restoration by overlaying concrete piles (wood for building) • highlighting the portico columns by marking them in plaster • highlighting the facade decorations, under windows with different color • restoring old arches framing the portico with their characteristics by surveying • cleaning and repainting original joinery (reconditioning) • cleaning and repainting the main entrance door in the courtyard (reconditioning) • remove moisture from the building (better insulation) • cleaning cornices and framing elements restoration of the roof, where there are problems
ANALISIS
Proposal main FACADE
RESTORATION PROPOSAL
NEW CENTER ARCHITECTURAL STUDIES
elevation VE-south
elevation NS-west
painting exhibition
section VE-
office
secretariat
restaured objects exhibition
sculpture exhibition
sculpture exhibition
studio studio
restaured objects exhibition studio
Basement floor Plan
Ground floor Plan
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gallery
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SECTION
A-A’
NEW CENTER ARCHITECTURAL STUDIES
RESTORATION PROPOSAL
ART / GRAPHICS â&#x20AC;&#x153;Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.â&#x20AC;? Alvar Aalto
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GEOMETRY STUDY
AXONOMETRY STUDY
GEOMETRICAL COMPOSITIONS
COMPOSITIONS
GRAPHIC COMPOSITION
GREEK & EGYPTIAN ARCHITECTURE & ROMANIAN ORTHODOX CHURCHES
HISTORY STUDY
ARCH. ION MINCU TRADITIONAL ROMANIAN RESIDENCES
NEO-ROMANIAN ARCHITECTURE
ROMANIAN MODERNIST ARCHITECTS
HARALAMB H.GEORGESCU
HORIA CREANGA
MODERN ROMANIAN ARCHITECTURE
ARCH. RADU TEACA
MODERN ROMANIAN ARCHITECTURE
HERTZOG &DE MEURON
BEIJING NATIONAL STADIUM
PERSPECTIVE STUDY
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
FALLINGWATER KAUFMAN RESIDENCE
religoious & abstract
PAINTING “Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.” Pablo Picasso
“EARTHLY” (right)
“EARTHLY”
“THE SWAN (rig “SAILING” (left)
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“SAILING” “THE SWAN”
“DESCENT TO HELL”
NATIONAL EXHIBITION CONTEST ICONS
lighting study
PHOTOGRAPHY “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
“All matter is light... it does not stop being light, when it becomes matter. In silence there is a tendency towards expression, in light one towards a work.” Louis Kahn (1901–1974)
Today’s images and traditional architecture come together in light, every image, being those days, LIGHT (in the cinema, in the commercial night, on TV, in computers). Now, light it isn’t made with forms or volume, it can only be artificial. Architecture was the “the magnificent meeting of volumes in the light”. No-day is the discourse of the nocturnal city that also helps transform architecture’s structure of interior and exterior space. Differences are produced above all by disintegration, foreign to any composite hierarchy between plans and sections. The space of the nocturnal city is a new space that, makes suggestions to design, and thus constitutes a reference for architecture. In any event, no-day does not leave off being a fictional space, cheated by the signs and dematerialization of architecture itself.
In the next three panels, I present some studies of light, concerning the color, intensity, shape, translucence, reflexion, refraction, on different types of materials through different shapes and volumes.
TRANSLUCENCE / COLOR / TRNSPAENCY
LIGHTING STUDY
KINETIC ARCHITECTURE DESINTEGRATION
COLORS OVERLAPING
TRANSPARENCY MATERIALS METAL
MINIATURE GLASS
EXPRESSIONISM
LIGHT
YELLOW
RELATION DISTANCES
SCALE
PLASTIC CARDBOARD
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Natural light is not simply everything. It is more important to vary the light sources, to play with light and shade, to direct natural or artificial lighting.â&#x20AC;? Jean Nouvel, Architekt (1988)
When we do not perceive the limit between reality, miniature and larger scenario, rendering, we are talkig about kinetic architecture, which evolves new realities, new technologies, new velocities and new sensitivities. On the other hand, when reality is light and spaces are volume of light, perhaps architecture can be created with the movement of the actor, of the inhabitant in real time. The scale and relation between distances are modified, bringing to the discourse of the city and public building a language of signs that have nothing to do with the figuration of the expressionist city.
LIGHTING STUDY
TRANSLUCENCE / COLOR / TRNSPAENCY
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Architecture is the wise and correct play of bodies in light.â&#x20AC;? Le Corbusier (1923) The process of visual perception operates throughout our waking hours, continually seeking to make sense of the flow of information, being delivered to the brain through the sense of vision. It is obvious that lighting is necessary for vision to operate, and there is a substantial amount of knowledge on ways in which lighting may influence how well the visual process is able to operate. However, this study is more concerned with how lighting may influence our perceptions of our surroundings. There is far less reliable knowledge, and it takes careful observation to identify the aspects of appearance that we rely on to form our perceptions and how they may be affected by LIGHT.
LIGHTING STUDY
TRANSLUCENCE / COLOR / TRNSPAENCY