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EDUCATION 2010-2016 Bachlor and Master Degree in Architecture Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism Bucharest | Romania
2013-2014 Study Abroad Escola de Arquitectura de Lisboa| Universidade Lusofona de Humanidades e Tecnologias Lisbon | Portugal
E X P E R I E N C E Junior sustainability consultant| BuildGreen Romania
Bucharest | Romania oct 2016 - june2017
Intern architect | Sauerbruch Hutton Architects Berlin | Germany aug 2015 - ian 2016
Team officer | EFdeN - Bucharest competing team to Solar Dechatlon Europe
Bucharest | Romania oct 2014 - aug 2015
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Hallesches Ufer Quartier Sauerbruch Hutton Internship Berlin, Germany 2015
total area of the land: 25,172 m² rentable total area: 54,269 m²
A new quarter is to be built on the banks of the Halles around the former Postbank Tower. The tower, which is to be converted into a vertical village and thus turned into a residential tower with 1500 apartments by Eike Becker Architekten, is integrated into a urban district. The site is to become a mixed use urban development Sauerbruch Hutton Architects are responsible for the urban redevelopment area with mixed use of residential, retail, offices, hotel, children’s day-care center. Sauerbruch Hutton is working with Robert Neun to develop an urban development where singles and couples, families and professionals, pensioners and the youth feel at home in neighborly cooperation . Contribution to project: -the planning of the garage with parking spaces for 500 cars, bike storage and other additional storages. -3D modelling of the masterplan -section drawings -illustration and design facade of the masterplan -preparation of presentations and reports for the clients
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H A N h u b Bucharest, Romania Co-Working Hub
2017 Academic Project | Individual Project UAUIM Project duration: 10 weeks Mentor: prof. arh.Vasilica Tihan
The project aims to experiment a different design approach for a site that has a huge potential in the revitalization of a key area in Bucharest city centre. Calea Mosilor is a well known area of the Bucharest, with a rich history, but currently facing neglecting in terms of both political and urban strategies or social life interest. Massive deterioration of the historic built tissue and the lack of any strategic investment has turned the big potential of this part of the old city area into an unclear, unpredictable, unreliable and still developing context. This asks for an adaptable project, which aims to consider Calea Mosilor both now and in 50 years future. Such an approach does not aim to build as much as possible , but rather take full advantage of the site and give a drive to developing of the area. Building below ground level is more an investment in an infrastructure which represents the foundation of future possible development on the site.
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The large scale of the plot does not resemble the surroundings nor any other similar plots. Unification of the previous plots led to an out of scale site which breaks the historical urban built up. This brings up the question of whether such a project should be treated as an insert in a historic tissue when it is obviously not one. The site itself is almost an entire urban island accessed from four different streets.This urban island has gone over the years through extreme changes from one year to another not leading to any particular identity of the site. On the other hand, for the past 20 years the site has been a “ public empty� .
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There are two important pieces which define the project: -The Wall -The Megastructure “The Wall” is a result of the structural solution for consolidating site limits in order to carve the site. This infrastructure is fully populated by units whice have various functions: accommodation, meeting rooms, workshops, commercial units, offices and retail units. “The Wall” creates a sort of sunked courtyard which resembles an iconic space typology for the Bucharest City Center: ‘Hanul’
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“The Megastructure “ is a an independent element which helps fill the sunked courtyard, on one hand and controls the street level on the other hand. This megastructure is designed to be work as a street market by partially enclosing it. Eclosed modules along a circuit is a flexible sollution to populate the megastructure.
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Below, the megstructure shelters large scale spaces which add up to the variaty of spaced needed for a Co-Working Hub.
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e s p l a n a d a Bucharest, Romania Philarmonic
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2014 Academic Project | Team of two UAUIM Project duration: 8 weeks Mentor: prof. arh.Florin Biciusca With: Andrada Bulai
Unirii Square
National Library In the past few years Bucharest has built a strong reputation throughout musicians and people of culture all over the word, leading to the necesity of a multifunctional location mainly focused on a concert hall and other multifunctional, either reharsal or organisatory spaces, for different cultural events.For developing this project , Bucharest Cityhall has designated a central location on ’People’s House’ – ‘Alba Iulia Square’ axis , on Unirii Boulevard, called today ’Esplanada’. Todays Bucharest has a certain , unique beauty, result of its particular history. The communist period has irreversiblely marked the traditional urban tissue. Unthoughtful demolishing for the new boulevards have drasticly changed the city scale , leaving behind urban scars , residual spaces where the builtunbuilt relation does not exist..It is also the case of ‘Esplanada’ .location.
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The key point of the project was to understand the meaning and the consequences of such an architectural program but mostly the connection to the city and its inhabitants. Having this in mind we wanted to base aur approach on the representative, symbolic character of a philharmonic rather than just
follow the monochromatic image and spirit of the surroundings. Esplanada Masterplan (including Office Tower on the left, The Justice Palace on the right and the philharmonic in the middle, all following the same architectural languadge) is detaching itself from the nearby city image to creat a self-standing urban island ,
a city symbol.The fluidity of the lines also helps to integrate the public park in front of the philharmnic into the strict functional organization. While the shapes demand for authonomy , the materials chosen, apparent concrete, keep an anchor into the phantomatic history of this place.
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The philarmonic design , focuses mostly on the relationship between this program and the people. A concert hall in the city lives exclusivly through its inhabitants, and we wanted people to feel like they belong here and the space is theirs. Therefor, in designing it we used curved cuts into a rectangular volume in order to bring the space closer to human scale and provide welcoming entries for the visitors. These holes into the volume function as urban foyers meant to be gathering points for people, ‘collectors of the city life’. These are a sort of inbetween spaces , belonging both to the philharmonic and to the city.
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The interior of the philharmonic is truthfull to its pupose and follows the rectangular lines of the original volume, while the urban foyers are the only curved accents , which produce the functional division to a logical organisation of spaces. The hall is the main element of the phillharmonic , designed to creat an impact on the visitor . Its rectangular space , directly connected to the urban foyers , with maximum visibility towards the outside city and two elements that reveal the main funtional zones it provides acces to : the masive staircase and the passage betwwn the educational centre and the exhibition zone.
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c a c i l h a s Cacilhas, Portugal Hotel and Transport Interface
2014 Academic Project | Individual Project Escola de Arquitectura de Lisboa
Comercial Square
Project duration: 8weeks
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Cacilhas is a former civil parish in the Municipality of Almada, Lisbon metropotitan area, Portugal.Situated in the south bank of the river Tagus Cacilhas is facing the city of Lisbon offering an extraordinary view.
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This area can be defined in terms of evolution of Ciy of Almada more as ‘forgotten areas’ than as abandoned areas. Semirural structures without any significant economic exploitation, progressively surrounded throughout the 20th century by the urban networks from the edge of the water to the historic core of Almada village, have given way to urban continuum of Almada City, constituing the area of Almarez. The last one turns now north, faces Lisbon and borders the riverside landscape as one of the few tears of significant size in a heterogeneous, but generally dense, poor and cultural urban event. This is the context in which the area, with its historical charge, its location and its privileged landscape appears as an obvious integral meant for a revitalization strategy. The strategy begins with exploiting at most the pedestrian along the river bank. This walking route seems to have a valuable potential as it comes from what is considered to be the main attraction on this side of the river, ‘The statue of Christ’ , passes a viewpoint elevator and goes along all historical areas to take a glance at the raw local beauty.
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To discourage public transportation and encourage a strategy which works perfectly for the tourism of Lisbon sight seeing - the pruposal is based on developing a pedestrian axis which would connect all this cultural touristic points and end up with a public spacea ‘praça’ as is is called in portughese. The main challange for this pruposal was the relationship between the pedestrian public space and the public transportation matter that would need to be reorganised. To do so, my strategy was to completly separate them and litterally draw a line between the two. The public space develops itself in the very corner of the archipelago, in direct connection to te comercial street coming from the heart of the comunity. The hotel draws the end line of the square. On the other side of the hotel , a little , more ‘functional’ square is the end point of the public transportation of Cacilhas. Following this ideea, a small square , a ‘functional ‘ one that would give easy acces to the hotel , the interface and the promanade area of the hillside was designed. The placement of hotel makes it a connection between the public space and the little square . The hotel has a key role in both stoping the main circulation to the interface and creating a fluid connection between the two squares.A comercial era is developed around the Nautic Centre to support the public space and a sidewalk along the river leading to the interface.
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The shape of the hotel is a very rational with a portic connecting the public spaces , a long rectengular volume drawing the limit and another volume above it dedicated exclusivly to the hotel rooms . The reception is a wide space with a fluid staircase . On the first level all the events rooms are placed and two of them have an individual access making possible eventually large events that my function a little bit more independent. A cafeteria and the restaurants above the kitcken highlight the entrance on two levels. The rooms of the hotel creat a piece of the building whose shape follows more the organicity of the interface. Seperate circulations are created for the guests and the personal of the hotel,making daily activites work. Above: Facade detail Below: Hotel rooms plan
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s t u d e n t h u b Bucharest, Romania student housing
2012 Academic Project | Team of two UAUIM Project duration: 8weeks Mentor: prof.arh.Anca Mitrache With: Anfrada Bulai
Approach on this project follows two key paths. One is acknowledging site value by enhancing its caractheristics and be aware of its constrains and the other is understanding the reality of such a programm and its social implication.
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A sympathetic view on the programm requries a wider notion of ”accommodation”.A formula which is specific to such an age users’ needs and activities. The building should be an assembly of complex “living spaces” capable of providing optimum conditions for a youth comunity. Social-cultural interections and personal space are just as important. The site is located in the old city centre which explains its long, narrow shape. Several dead walls and a narrow opening to the street build a set of constrains that should turn into unique features of the design. Site Plan
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EFdeN Bucharest, Romania Solar Decathlon Competition
2015 Volunteering Website www.efden.org/ EFdeN is a multidisciplinary team of passionate young people studying architecture, engineering, communication or management. In 2014 the team represented Romania in the final of Solar Decathlon Competition which took place in France among 19 other teams from 16 different countries. The prototype was rebuilt in Bucharest and is now the first Centre for Living Confort Research Contribution to project: -helping to rebuild the ptototype in Bucharest on the worksite for 5 months -coordinating the architecture team on the worksite -drawing of construction details -designing the outdoor terace of the house
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