EDUCATION
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
RESEARCH SKILLS
Vereinsgasse 4 ap 12 1020 Vienna Austria ioana.binica@gmail.com 004368860783710 citizenship Romanian
Erasmus Scholarship - 2010-2011 -Aristotle University of Thessaloniki AUT – School of Architecture, Greece - Final grade 9.70 with excellent references available upon request
IOANA BINICA
CURRICULUM VITAE
2013-2016 Master in Advanced Architecture University of Applied Arts IoA, Vienna WS2013-WS2014 Design Studio Zaha Hadid SS2015 Design Studio Hani Rashid 2008-2014 Diploma Studies RIBA 2, Faculty of Architecture, University of Architecture and Urbanism “Ion Mincu”, Bucharest Diploma Project: Performance Art Center, Manhattan, New York Dissertation: “Digital Tectonic in Contemporary Architecture“ 2004-2008 National College “Dinicu Golescu”- mathematics informatics, Campulung Muscel (final grade 9.70) 2000-2004 School of Arts and Music, Campulung Muscel 2000-2004 Secondary School “Sf Iacob” - with English teaching – Campulung Muscel (final grade 10)
# Tutorials Maya/Rhino/Parametric Modelling - Design Studio Zaha Hadid - october 2013 - december 2014 # AllPlan Studio, Nemetschek, February-June 2013, # “XXL - Architectural Design and Digital Technologies” - Maya Studio, AUT, Greece, January- June 2011 # “CAD and Digital Representations” - Rhinoceros Studio, AUT, Greece, October - December 2010
COMPETITIONS AND EXHIBITIONS
# Create your Bucharest, MAK Museum, Vienna Biennale 2015 # FairyTale in Architecture, BlankSpace, NewYork, January 2014 # International Competition ISOVER, April 2013 # National Exhibition-Competition Icons “Rugamu-te Tie”, Archdiocese Arges Museum, 15th April- 6th June 2013 # National Competion for Summer School Arhitext “5 Places to ruin prejudices”, Dealu Frumos, Sibiu, June 2012 # International Competion AEEA “Housing, an unknown problem” – “New architecture for social engagement”, December 2011 # National Student Competion - “Detached house - Jean Louis Calderon”, Bucharest, January 2009 # Personal Exhibition Paintings and Visual Art, CityHall Campulung Muscel 2002-2006
WORKSHOPS
LANGUAGE SKILLS
* workshop [applied] Foreign Affairs [IoA / Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) / the Central University / the University of Cape Coast Ghana / 3+3STUDIO]- mapping program for the coastal village of Immuna - Ghana, September 2015 * workshop KUKA Robots [IoA and Association for Robots in Architecture], December 2014 * workshop DigitalDesign [IoA ,tutor Bollinger] - building and designing a wood and concrete pavilion, Vienna, December 2014 * workshop Advances in Architectural Geometry, [UCL, Dept. Computer Science / The Bartlett], London, 18th-21st September 2014 * workshop MOMA-MAK: “Uneven Growth: Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities“, Vienna, 10-14th June 2014 * workshop GrAB - “Growing as building BIOLAB intro experiments and bioreactors“, Vienna, 16-17th December 2013 * MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied ARts / Contemporary Art “The body as actuator“ - BARE CONDUCTIVE / Matt Johnson (GB), Sabine Seymour (AT/US), Vienna, 30th October 2013 * Nemetschek Summer School, University for Civil Constructions, Constanta, August 2013 * workshop Dynamic Fields [Parametrica School], Bucharest, July 2013 * International Workshop City Hall Campulung Muscel-Polytechnic University from Madrid- Foundation ProPatrimonio- urbanistic and landscape proposals for Campulung Muscel, 24th-28th June 2013 * 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, Bucharest, 13th June 2012
romanian (mother language) english (advanced) spanish (medium) french (medium) german (beginner) greek (beginner)
COMPUTER SKILLS
INTERESTS
WACOM tablet CAD: AutoCAD REVIT AllPlan Modelling: Rhinoceros 3D Maya Rendering: V-ray Rhino KeyShot Adobe: Illustrator CS6 Photoshop CS6 InDesign CS6 Parametric: Grasshopper Model: traditional techniques, 3D print, CNC Laser Informatics Certificate (C++ / Microsoft Office) elibetared by National College “Dinicu Golescu”
EXPERIENCE * Research Assistant ’’Rhythm of Walking - Sound in Architecture‘‘
[cooperative research project between IoA and researchers from MIT Media Lab, MIT Senseable City Lab, AIT Dynamic Transportation Systems], Vienna, March 2015, on going. * Research Assistant GrAB LAB ‘‘Growing as Building’’, [University of Applied Arts Vienna / Liquifer System], Vienna, April 2015 on going * Voluntary Assistent Art Director “International Directing Film Festival“ - Campulung Muscel, August 2014 * Internship at “Individual Studio Office Catalin Stanciu“, Bucharest, July 2013-December 2013 * Voluntary work Art Teaching at “Day Care Center for Children Santa Sophia - art workshop „Share your creativity!” - Arhitext Design Foundation - Bucharest, November 2012, * Voluntary work at CINEPOLITICA (political film festival), Bucharest, 11-21th June 2012 Graphics Painting Photography Digital Paining
HOBBIES
mountain expeditions / team competitions alpinism / swimming * Ist place (team leader) - “Forest Trophy” - Romanian Sport Federation, Zarnesti, Piatra Craiului Mountains, 2007 * Ist place (team leader) - Regional Championship for high-schools,Buzau, Curvature Carpathians, 2007 * Ist place (team leader) - “Argessis Trophy” - National Sports Agency, Fagaras Mountains, 2006
SOCIAL SKILLS
creativity, sociability, communicability, good organizational skills, adaptability for teamwork
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TOURBILLON PARAMETRIC WORKSHOP pag 6-13
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TECTONIC ARTICULATION
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LOWTECH HOUSING BARCELONA
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RESEARCH BIOMIMETIC GRAB - GROWING AS BUILDING pag 36-39
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DIPLOMA PROJECT PERFORMANCE ART CENTER pag 41-63
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ISOVER INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION MULTICOMFORT HOUSING pag 64-73
HADID STUDIO WS2013
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OFFICE TOWER BUCHAREST, 2013 pag 74-89
RESIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL COMPLEX Uranus, Bucharest, 2012 pag 90-113
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ENERGY DESIGN MARCH2
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HOTEL&SPA COMPLEX Thessaloniki, Greece, 2011 pag 114-121
EDUCATIONAL BUILDING Tagaridis, Greece, 2011 pag 122-131
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PHOTOGRAPHY LIGHT STUDIES pag 150-159
ART / DRAWINGS / PAINTINGS pag 133-149
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TOURBILLON PARAMETRIC WORKSHOP
Team: Ioana Binica, Eliza Culea, Irina Ilie, Andrei Olteanu, Orsolya Gunthner, Sabin Serban, Andrei Mitisor, Mihai Aostacioaie, Katerina Ivanova, Sarah Safaoui
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. Objective: Vertical performance combined with geometry control Function: Reactive environment system
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. 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.
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CONTROLLED LANDSCAPE PAPER MODEL IN DYNAMIC FIELD
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conceptual diagrams PAPER MODEL ACTIVATED BY WIND
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ARTICLES REGARDING TOURBILLON PROTOTYPE http://www.archdaily.com/421143/innovative-prototyping-at-dynamic-fields-nil-responsive-architecture-workshop-results/ http://moodboards.ro/prototipuri-inovative-la-dynamic-fields/ http://www.archilovers.com/g129073/Parametrica-digi-fab-school http://arhitext.blogspot.ro/2013/09/5-prototipuri-inovative-dynamic-fields.html http://www.recitymagazine.com/project-909-dynamic-fields-parametrica-digi-fab-school-tourbillon
DIAGRAMS TOURBILLON CONCEPT
PLAN PAPER STRUCTURE PAPER MODEL ACTIVATED BY WIND
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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 – 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 – cutting, a single material – paper, and digital technologies.
PLAN PAPER STRUCTURE PAPER MODEL ACTIVATED BY WIND
> 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.
DIAGRAMS TOURBILLON CONCEPT
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TECTONIC ARTICULATION HADID STUDIO WS2013
Team: Ioana Binica / Jiri Vitek / Wang Lu Univ.-Prof. AADipl. Zaha M. HADID Guest Professor Dr. AADipl. Patrik SCHUMACHER AProf. Arch. Mag.arch. Mag.theol. Johann TRAUPMANN AProf.. Mag.arch. Dr.techn. Christian KRONAUS AProf. AADipl. Mascha VEECH AProf. Arch. Dipl.-Ing. Jens MEHLAN AProf. Dipl.-Ing. MArch. AA Dist. Robert NEUMAYR-BEELITZ AProf. Arch. Mag.arch. Mario GASSER
The demarcation between architecture and engineering rests on the distinction of the built environment’s social functioning from its technical functioning. While the technical functioning considers the physical integrity, constructability and physical performance of the building in relation to its users understood as physical-biological bodies, architecture must take into consideration that a building’s social function, i.e. its function as ordering and guiding communicative frame, functioning via its appearance and legibility. The core competency of architecture is thus the task of articulation. Legibility involves two aspects: the perceptual tractability/palpability and the semantic-informational charge. The relationship between the technical and the articulatory dimension of the build environment leads to the concept of tectonics, here understood as the architectural selection
and utilization of technically motivated, engineered forms and details for the sake of an articulation that aims at legibility for the sake of social communication. The adaptation of structural morphologies to the force distributionwithin a structural system offers a fantastic opportunity for architectural articulation. In turn the more complex architectural orders proposed within contemporary architecture are reflected and potentially accentuated by sophisticated, adaptive structures. Optimised shells structure with natural force flow and deformation are used for form finding. Deformation is analysed and recomputed for optimal material displacement and stress lines of shell are translated into the structure’s pattern. The optimal shape represents tectonic articulation of architectural structure and her behaviour.
SHELL STRUCTURE WITH NATURAL FORCE FLOW
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INTERIOR CONCEPT ELEVATION SHELL CONCEPT
INTERIOR CONCEPT ELEVATION SHELL CONCEPT
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MAYA 3D MODELLING SHELL FORM FINDING CONCEPT
MAYA 3D MODELLING CONCEPTUAL PATTERN STUDIES
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LOWTECH HOUSING BARCELONA ENERGY DESIGN MARCH2 Univ.-Prof. Arch: Brian COdy AProf. Arch. Dipl.-Ing. JBernard Sommer Team: Ioana Binica / Jiri Vitek
Statement (why is it...): For our proposal we choose to implement in a low-tech system with natural materials the cave concept, as we noticed that is the traditional way of living in Spain. Achieving this, we want to introduce for the global residential situation a new response, a new way of living. Strategies: Energy Demand -massing of building using ham concrete for construction -organization according the sun and wind siteâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s conditions -natural ventilation between the cave cells Energy Supply (how do you generate energy on site) -usage of massing - during a hot day the buildings absorbs energy and use this energy for warming the water -during winter time---good isolation, because of the natural massive material -self-sufficiency building - there are terraces on which people are planting vegetables
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3D PRINTED MODEL plans ground 0.00, p+1, p+2
3D PRINTED MODEL plans p+3, p+4, p+5
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3D Zprint Model
3D Zprint Model
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3D Zprint Model
3D Zprint Model
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LOWTECH HOUSING plan ground 0.00m
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RESEARCH BIOMIMETIC GRAB - GROWING AS BUILDING
Team: Barbara Imhof, project lead, architecture, LIQUIFER Systems Group, AT Petra Gruber, co-project lead, architecture, biomimetics, Waltraut Hoheneder, architecture, design, implementation, LIQUIFER Systems Group, AT Damjan Minovski, architecture, programming Viktor Gudenus, mechatronics, robotics Tanja Oberwinkler, biology, biomimetics Julian Vincent, biology, biomimetics, University of Bath, Biomimetics, Mechanical Engineering, UK
Application1: BUILD YOUR OWN BIOREACTOR
Application 2: MICELLIUM MOLDS
“The aim of the project GrAB is to develop architectural concepts for growing structures. Three main directions will be investigated: transfer of abstracted growth principles from nature to architecture, integration of biology into material systems and intervention of biological organisms and concepts with existing architecture. Key issues of investigation will be mechanisms of genetically-controlled and environmentally-informed, self-organised growth in organisms and the differentiation of tissues and materials.“ http://www.growingasbuilding. org/ “Build your own bioreactor“ is one experiment which is currently running in the GrAB lab, a photobioreactor closed system which incorporates some type of light source. Photobioreactors are used to grow small phototrophic organisms such as cyanobacteria, algae, or moss plants. These organisms use light through photosynthesis as their energy source and do not require sugars or lipids as energy source.
The coral is the main structure of each reef. Certain corals such as stone corals have the ability to harden out during a time-dependent process by storing calcium in their cells. While the top part keeps on growing the lower part dies and becomes the foundation for the new corals to grow on. This process makes the formation of reefs possible. Due to the adaptive flexibility of corals, their genotypic heterogeneity and the numerous factors that can potentially limit or inhibit coral growth,requires a close, genotype-specific fine-tuning between light supply, food supply, water movement, and DIC concentration. Hence, optimization can be achieved through large-scale multivariate interaction studies targeting individual species. Each species and each genotype will require a different combination of values to maximize its growth rate. Pattern - growth from independent points. Intersections create connections between points. I propose using the coral pattern for designing a wall made from mycellium, with a special irrigation, which will allow organisms to grow, for obtaining a natural material.
MICELLIUM MOLDS LAB GrAB samples
Micellium wall proposal CORAL Growing concept
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Biomimetic Research
Biomimetic Research
Storyboard Growing Mycellium
Storyboard Growing Mycellium
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Biomimetic search
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Storyboard Growing Mycellium
Storyboard Growing Mycellium
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Architectural Application Free Form Wood Waffle Structure - Urban Pavilion with Mycellium
Architectural ApplicaTipi Structure with Mycellium
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Architectural Application Free Form Wood Waffle Structure - Urban Pavilion with Mycellium
Architectural Application Free Form Structure - Urban Pavilion with Mycellium
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DIPLOMA STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM ION MINCU
The project, Performance Art Center, situated in Manhattan, is based on a detailed researched on urban and program fezability as you will discover in the next slides. First question that pop up into your mind when you have to develop a project like this, a diploma, when you have total freedom, are why? what? where? how? Why I choose this topic related with theatre, music, art, movement, spatial quality, lightining?! Because as growing up in a familly of musicians and artists, I discovered that art and culture is enhancing your quality life, even if we speek about building a theatre in Manhattan. Even more, as the high technology is more and more involved in our daily routine, I think it can be used for developing a new tyoe of performance, more vividly, more connected with the audience, which they can become part of the spectacle. Perception is very important in theatre, the relation developed between actors and auditorium, which rases the question iIs there an alternative tradition, an alternative paradigm of space or at least the theoretical possibility of defining space through movement alone, without an independent and prior system of reference? How do I design a system of circulation without presupposing points to be connected?
A system of connection that defines its points of destiny from within itself? The circulation-system runs in circles and turns into its opposite, a dance: a movement without motivation, ultimately to be understood as the escape from the architectonic system. How does the dance define itself and its space without cartesian grid? Everything seems to be shot through with movement. This dynamic thrust seems caught and fixed within the given cubic grid, yet it remains unsettling in as much as the cube itself is undermined and distorted by the thrust of the “movement”. This “topography” of movement deterritorializes - potentially - the hierarchical structure of the family as well as the related rigidity of the functional zoning can even utilize certain valences or latencies offered within the free-form morphology. Raising the building from the ground level...Articulation of the terrain with organic landscape Breaking the grid within the grid for activating the promenade and for attracting the audience Fight for light - interior courtyard Dynamic facade creates a differentiated pattern - which follow the curves of the surfaces / the geometry of the building.
AERIAL PERSPECTIVE MANHATTAN NIGHT VIEW
SOUTH-EAST FACADE EAST RIVER FRONT VIEW
AERIAL VIEW CULTURAL CLUSTER
SOUTH-EAST FACADE EAST RIVER FRONT VIEW
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detail curved wall theatre hall detailed plan theatre hall
sections and plan detail metalic structure
plan ground 0.00m plan level 1
plan level 2 plan level 3
INTERIOR VIEW MAIN LOBBY THEATRE HALL
INTERIOR VIEW EXHIBITION AREA
ENTRANCE VIEW PERFORMANCE ART CENTER
ENTRANCE VIEW PERFORMANCE ART CENTER
UrbanisticModel scale 1:2000 LaserCut Technology / wood workshop / Makerbot 3D print
UrbanisticModel scale 1:2000 LaserCut Technology / wood workshop / Makerbot 3D print
Physical factors - Manhattan The broad, flat topography which characterizes most of the Region dramatizes the major existing activity nodes which rise as peaks from it’s surface. From an urban point of view, the first and most striking impact of Manhattan probably is its physical appereance. Individual buildings are higher and more concentrated than in any other place in the world. Even on a regional scale, large clusters can have an aesthetic impact because improved regional transportation will enable more people to actually see and know the Region’s form. The form of clusters within clusters is revealed in Midtown, where Rockefeller Center, Penn Station and Grand Central United Nations plaza - an urban room near the waterfront and Tudor City stand out within the over-all cluster of Midtown. Moreover, the identity politics behind the city spectacle firmly connected the UN headquarters to the city of New York. Cityscapes and monumental architectural forms are orientating – they visually fix our geographical awareness, telling us where we are. The skyline of New York City has long provided a fixed reference point for defining cultural The UN headquarters complex actually incorporates a hybrid of iconic designs, with buildings both of skyscraper-stature, and low-lying monuments.
Forty Second Street from river to river shows the relationship of hights and lows and the variety in the type of clusters that make up Manhattan. In this case, the form response to proposed changes in
HISTORIAL RESEARCH UN HEADQUARTERS - ROCKEFELLER CENTER TUDOR CITY
the movement system that can be shown in detail. From an urban point of view, this street represents a significant exception to the cluster concept. The entire street, river to river, may
be regarded as an urban megastructure and is defined by continuity of movement, the interconnections of its activities, and its popular impression as a unit.
URBAN ANALYSIS OFFICE - GREEN - RESIDENTIAL - CUTURAL AREA
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ISOVER INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION MULTICOMFORT HOUSING Tutor: conf.dr.arh. Mihai Opreanu
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. 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. 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: • Residential: ground floor + 5 upper floors • 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. 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 overall scope of the task is to get actively involved in giving shape to future development of living in European cities.
FUNCTIONS
HIGH-COMFORT
LOW ENERGY SAVE NATURAL RESOURCES LIGHTNING LANDSCAPE
G R E E N WALL PREMIUM-QUALITY RESIDENTIAL NON-RESIDENTIAL
INTERACTION
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EXTERIOR PERSPECTIVE
EXTERIOR PERSPECTIVE
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OFFICE TOWER BUCHAREST, 2013 Tutor: conf.dr.arh.Takaci
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. 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”
URANUS VIEW AERIAL VIEW OFFICE TOWER
EAST FACADE ENTRANCE PERSPECTIVE
URBAN ANALYSIS HISTORICAL RESEARCH
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RESIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL COMPLEX Uranus, Bucharest, 2012 Tutor: conf.dr.arh. Radu Teaca
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.
DETAIL FACADE SHADOW SYSTEM
PROMENADE EXTERIOR PERSPECTIVE
INTERIOR COURTYARD ENTRANCE INTO THE INTERIOR COURTYARD
INTERIOR SPACES AERIAL VIEW RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX
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HOTEL&SPA COMPLEX Thessaloniki, Greece, 2011 Tutor: prof.arh. Sarandis Zafeiropolous
PLAN LEVEL +0.00 PLAN LEVEL 1
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 thevolume 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.
AERIAL VIEW EAST FACADE
AERIAL VIEW SPA ENTRANCE PERSPECTIVE
MARINE PERSPECTIVE SOUTH FACADE
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EDUCATIONAL BUILDING Tagaridis, Greece, 2011 Tutor: prof.arh.Sarandis Zafeiropolous
“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 -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)
S U R FACE MOVEMENT
DEVELOP LEARNING through NATURE TOPOGRAPHY LANDSCAPE
L I G H T NING
UNEARTH DISCOVER
EXPLORE LEAF
COMMUNITY
ORGANIC
COURTYARD PERSPECTIVE EAST FACADE
ENTRANCE PERSPECTIVE SOUTH FACADE 115
ENTRANCE PERSPECTIVE SOUTH FACADE
INTERIOR MAIN HALL NORTH FACADE 117
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plan level 1
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ART / DRAWINGS / PAINTINGS
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Building ART is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring it under the same hat, not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.â&#x20AC;&#x153; Alvar Aalto
NATURA MORTA MATERIALITY STUDY - WOOD - PAPER - GLASS
NATURA MORTA MATERIALITY STUDY - WOOD - PAPER HOUSE OF CARDS
RELIGIOUS ROMANIAN ARCHITECTURE MONASTERY DEALU - CTITOR RADU THE GREAT 1499-1501
HISTORY RESEARCH EGYPTIAN ARCHITECTURE - ANCIENT TEMPLE GREEK ARCHITECTURE - ERECHTEION ATHENA
HISTORY RESEARCH MODERN ROMANIAN ARCHITECTURE arch HORIA CREANGA arch HARALAMB GEORGESCU
HISTORY RESEARCH MODERNIST ROMANIAN ARCHITECTURE 1950-1970 arch HORIA CREANGA arch HARALAMB GEORGESCU
HISTORY RESEARCH TRADITIONAL ROMANIAN RESIDENCES arch ION MINCU
HISTORY RESEARCH TRADITIONAL ROMANIAN RESIDENCES 1860-1920 arch ION MINCU
GEOMETRICAL STUDIES
GEOMETRICAL STUDIES
GEOMETRICAL STUDIES
GEOMETRICAL STUDIES
“THE SWAN“ / “SAILING“ ACRILIC ON CANVAS 30’ X 30’, 2013
“TELURIC“ ACRILIC ON CARDBOARD 10’ X 15‘, 2013
LIGHTING STUDY WAX / MATERIALITY / OBSCURE
LIGHTING STUDY WAX / MATERIALITY / OBSCURE
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PHOTOGRAPHY LIGHT STUDIES
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. Last two panels represent a combination between light and materialization of wax, for creating a layered, obscured atmosphere in interior spaces. I used as inspiration the art work of Matthew Barney.
LIGHTING STUDY LAYERING / COLOR / TRANSPARENCY
“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)
LIGHTING STUDY LAYERING / COLOR / TRANSPARENCY
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 LAYERING / COLOR / TRANSPARENCY
Thank you “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” Mahatma Gandhi