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Location : Bucharest, Romania Program : Philharmonic Type : Academic | Team of two Year: 2014 Semester : 9th Project duration : 8 weeks Coordinator: Florin Biciusca
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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 built- unbuilt relation does not exist..It is also the case of ‘Esplanada’ .location. For us 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 we chose to use , apparent concrete, keep an anchor into the phantomatic history of this place. Right : Birdview perspective of Unirii Boulevard ‘Esplanada’ location right in the middle of the image
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21st century Bucharest reaveals a comunist city image- marked with masive buildings- Advertising panels are the only ones diminuishing the monochromatic landscape
Perspective over ‘Esplanada’ location
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Refugee for homeless people Esplanada zone has been in the 80â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s object to an ample project for Building Romanian Opera <<Cantarea Rmaniei>>. The construction was never finished and the area has been for the past two decades a nobodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s space forgotten by the capitalist city with postmodern expectations.
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Left : collage illustrating the main conceptual ideas in aproaching the project. Right : Birdview and plan of Esplanada Masterplan - including Office Tower on the left, The Justice Palace on the right and the philharmonic in the centre.
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Cuts in the volume , break the rigid volume and step into the rigid organisation of the interior spaces reducing the vast , public area to human scale and creating urban foyers. Left: Masterplan city skyline view Right: 1st floor plan -1. Main concert hall 2.Educational Centre 3. Comercial side area
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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, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;collectors of the city lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. These are a sort of inbetween spaces , belonging both to the philharmonic and to the city.
Left: Main entrance eyelevel perspecive Right: 2nd floor plan -from top right to bottom left: 1. Main auditorium 2.Main reharsal room 3. Exhibition Centre / Conference Rooms
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Left: 3nd floor plan -from top right to bottom left: 1. Main auditorium 2.Main reharsal room 3. Exhibition Centre / Conference Rooms Right: 4nd floor plan -from top right to bottom left: 1. Main auditorium 2.Second reharsal room 3. Exhibition Centre / Conference Rooms
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Above: Facade towards Unirii Boulevardmain entrance Below: Section through interior courtyard 3. Exhibition Centre/ Conference Rooms 4. Transition between backstage and wokers area with a cafeteria and press room
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Left: Central hallroom perspective towards exhibition and conference room
Right: a) South facade b) Vest facade c) Section through main concert hall - visibility curve d) East facade
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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.
Central hallroom perspecive towards the concert hallThe most important element of the central hall is the elicoidal staircaise leading to the concert hall
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Location : Cacilhas,Almada,Portugal Program : Hotel and transport interface Type : Academic | Individual project Year: 2014 Semester : 8th Project duration : 8 weeks Coordinator: Paulo Ant贸nio Figueiredo Santos
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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. 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 las 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. My 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 ake a glance at the raw local beauty. To discourage public transportation and encourage a strategy which works perfectly for the tourism of Lisbon - sight seeing - my pruposal is based on developing a pedestrian axis which would connect all this cultural touristic points and end up with a public space- a ‘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 thet 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.
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Location of the site - Sattelite view
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Comercial area surounding naval centre Hotel Transport interface
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View over the site
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Following this ideea i designed a small square , a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;functional â&#x20AC;&#x2DC; one that would give easy acces to the hotel , the interface and the housing along the hillside. 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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Ground floor plan - legend 1 - Public transportation station ( boat/ bus/ surface metro) 2 - Hotel 3 - Comercial area 4 - Existing nautic club
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2rd Floor plan 15 - Swimming pool / 16 - Locker room / 17 - Gym / 18 - Massage Room
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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 functional activites to work. 15
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Eye- level perspective Main entrance to the transport interface and view towards the hotel
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Eye- level perspective From the inner courtyard of the transport interface towards the hotel
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The interface is consisted in a pavement and a cover both in curved shapes folowing different paths and local closed spaces defining the atrium and the wating rooms that connect the both. The fluidity of the shapes creats a patio ending the sidewalk of the river .
Birdview Towards interface inner courtyard
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Location : Bucharest, Romania Program : Colective housing Type : Academic | Team of two Year: 2013 Semester : 6th Project duration : 8 weeks Coordinator: Anca Mitrache
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Morphologically speaking, Bucharest is one of the most heterogeneous europen cities being composed of autonomous and self-referenced urban tissue fragments. We can find, for example, pieces of valuable traditional urban tissue being marked by totalitarian operations from the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;80, aswell as elements of infrastructure which act rather as a servitute than as an macro-urban connector , or big areas self-sufficient , with high density, but with no value regarding the quality of life, or recent speculative operations, indifferent or very often agressive towards the urban context. This character has conflicting valences, being at the same time one of the essential factors which generates the lack of life quality, and a creative challenge for those responsible for planning and developing the city. The notion of living is wide debated, and dense urban living especially, due to the significant change that had in the structure of cities through history. Living in the city is an alternative that can provide indisputable advantages. The only condition is that all aspect of living - to live, to have fun, to relax, to be a child, to learn, to be ill, to be old, to socialize, to communicate, and so on - to happen in close proximity. Housing in the city involves vertical overlap. This overlap has to combine the idea of single family housing with the concept of living in the city. Therefore the approach in designing collective housing involves both giving a response to the needs and research the implication that your insertion may have in the urban tissue. The second notion is especially important as the site is situated in a protected historical area. In a context with historical urban tissue that is valuable through a time evolution that shaped a distinctive charactere, our approach to this project is based on continuing the spirit of the place, keeping the atmosphere and urban image. Interpreting the architectural program, we wanted to keep the impresion of large houses divided into two, tree, four families. We wanted a small community strongly connected through the way of living. The volumes that I proposed follows the scale of the place, completes the front of the street and also shapes the outer space. They relate to each other and with the surrounding. Implementing collective housing on any sit inside the city , due to its scale , generates meaningful changes to the urban structure and, implicitly, to the social level. That is why our main objective in designing this project was its connection to the city and by this we mean simultaneously: a complex intervention , concieved as an element of continuity in the urban structure and a system capable to bring a plus to the quality of life.
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Above: Historical plans showing sit changes in time. From left to right Below Left- Birdview on Mantuleasa street Right- Birdview of project sit
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Left : Front analysis on Mantuleasa street. Photos from the neibourhood showing the unique character Right : Reference Carlsberg District Combination of existing and new buildings into meaningful clusters.
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Left : Strategy for natural continuity of the historical tissue Right : Conceptual process in developing the volumetry
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Above: Volumes study. Important view points . Perception of the intagrated volumetry. Below: Reconstruction of the Mantuleasa street front.
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Sketches from different angles from the marked area in the plan
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Sketches from different angles from the marked area in the plan
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Front view on Mantuleasa street Showing arhitectural language
As the site had a big opening to the street ( Mantuleasa street) , compering to the usually small plots of the neighbourhood, it was importants to carefully design the facade so that it would not change its character. Therefor , the volumetry is fragmented enought to not produce a shift of scale. The in-between of the volumes becomes a space for the comunity, composed of four main inner yards , each with its own character( green yard , wooden yard, water yard , concret yard)
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Left Perspective view from Mantuleasa street Right Perspective view to Wooden courtyard
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Location : Brasov, Romania Program : House for a family Type : Academic | Individual project Year: 2012 Semester : 4th Project duration : 7 weeks Coordinator: Anca Mitrache
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The plot, private property , is situated withing the buid-up areas of Brasov City, in Schei neighbourhood. The position, in the west flank of the neighbourhood , has a privileged orientation and a beautiful view. The purpose was to meet all the needs of a family without any excess and take advantage of the benefits the site has to offer.In approaching this project the main focus was on the duality between the house and the earth. As the plot has a harsh slope towards the back -almost six meters- the connection between architecture and landscape was the main path that led to the sollution. The house has two components: one strongly ancorated into the ground and the other following neighbourhood columetric typology and completing the street front image. The project wants to solve function necesities in the context of difficut sit conditions , as well as to normally complete the built tissue. The first component represents a struggle between the earth and the construction. The ground level digs into the ground to make room for a generous garden in front, that serves the daytime area ( living room / reading room). Some of the spaces connect to the exterior through courtyards. The night time area is consisted in the second component , on two levelsone designated to the cildren and the other to the parents. This volume opens up to a second, upper level garden which takes advantage of the wonderful panorama.
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Conceptual sketchProcess of developing the volumetry
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Top leftSite plan
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View over the neighbourhood volumetry integrated
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LeftUnderground plan - garage RightGround floor plan - daytime area
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B a t h r o o m a living space
Location : Bucharest, Romania Program : Function : Bathroom Type : Contest | Team of three Year: 2014 Project duration : 2 days
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The bahtroom is a space often reduced just to human necesity, left outside the suit of referential spaces of a house such as the living room or the bedroom. What if we tried to bring back the bathroom in a home , as a living space? On the supposition that an old house attic in centre Bucharest is remodeled , the bathroom becomes a unique space designed for the resting zone of the house. The night zone , although on another level , isolated from the rest of the house somehow , was designed as a suit of spaces , each of which contributes to creating an unitar bigger space. The bathroom is a mechanism and its components are distributed to each part of the resting zone. The bathroom structures the space without dominating it.
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Plan of designed area
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Left: Closet area Right: Tube integrated in the bedroom
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Model making Left page - Student housing Right page Above - Concert room for a neighbourhood Below - Public space
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