Architecture portfolio
Lorena Brează
Personal Information Name and surname: Lorena Antonia Brează Date and place of birth: 05.04.1992 Resita, Romania Telephone: +40727441656 Email: lorena.breaza@gmail.com Languages: Romanian, English, French Educational background 2016 - present - Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, Politechnica University of Timisoara 2015 - 2016 - architecture student Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels 2011-2015- Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, Politechnica University of Timisoara 2007-2011- National College Traian Lalescu Resita Work experience 2016 August - December - part of BETA ( The Timisoara architecture biennial - betacity.eu) - coordinating the Urban View campaign - www.privesteorasul.com 2015 October - present - design intern for Apex Coffe (Brussels, Belgium) 2015 July - September - architecture intern - Edit! ( Prague, Czech Republic) 2015 - June architecture intern - Vitamin Architects (Timisoara, Romania) - Europan 13 2014-2015- Volunteer teacher - ‘Playing architecture’, Timisoara Architectural competitions First Prize- Premio Piranesi Prix de Rome 2014 design of a museum at Villa Adriana, Tivoli Special Prize from Politehnica Timisoara- 95th anniversary - for extracurricular activities Honourable Mention- International competition ‘CASA’ 2013 Honourable mention- Baumit- Facade restauration 2015 Europan 13 - ‘Reclaiming Mollendal’ entry Clue Competition 2015- Light as Structure entry 120 hours - Pyramiden preservation 2015 - Fairy Tale entry Huet.Urban 2011- Reactivating an old square in Sibiu, Romania ‘Socializing hats’ entry Velux Light of Tomorrow 2014- ‘Light as structure’ Velux Design award 2014.
School Prizes and exhibited work C.A.S.A exhibition (Cluj, Timisoara, Bucuresti); C.A.S.A at Mokume Cafe - Timisoara. Extracurricular activity prize in 2013 - ‘All Eyes on Nadăs’; Discourse school prize - 2013; Nominee at THE CRIT- discusses on C.A.S.A project with teachers from Timisoara, Cluj and Budapest faculties of acrhitecture. Extracurricular activities Greendimple - accessories design - personal studio; Personal exhibition - accessories - in Bruiaj bar, Timisoara - 2014; Personal exhibition - bow ties - in Bruiaj bar, Timisoara -2013; www.greendimple.tumblr.com Volunteer at ‘De-a arhitectura’ - teaching program for the third grade children. www.de-a-arhitectura.ro Workshops Premio Piranesi Prix de Rome - 2014 - international workshop and architectural competition - designing a museum for Villa Adriana www.premiopiranesi.net Cartisoara 2014 - learning traditional building techniques and designing CUCA Festival stage; Sky Hill 2011 - building with natural materials; Hodoni 2013 - designing and building a wood pavillion with a given budget; Radical Islands 2014 - workshop of activating public space using different tools; ,, www.radicalislandtimisoara.tumblr.com Computer skills: ArchiCAD, AutoCAD, Rhino, Grasshopper, Sketch-up; Adobe IlIustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Indesign; Microsoft Office Suite.
Other skills leadership, teamwork, communication, analyzing data, attention to details.
Hobbies handmade art basketball
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WORKSHOP
Europan 13
Sky Hill
Saint Gilles Brussels
Hodoni Wooden Pavillion
Educational Center Vopsitorie
Cârțișoara
Apartment building 360 5 - days project fourth year C.A.S.A Hide from the city or live it!
Radical Islands Premio Piranesi Prix de Rome
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Greendimple
Villa Adriana brand design
accessories design
Book Cover design
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Greendimple Poster-exhibition
Leather
School event poster
Europan 13 The Adaptable City Bergen, Norway
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The Site The Enclosure The Water The Bergen Kommune The Bergen citizen The Immigrant The Children The Grandchildren The Grand-grand-...-grandchildren The Black Pavement Belsen The Sun The Kindergarten The Map of Common Spaces
Møllendal’s story awaits to be written. It has an infinity of possible endings. This is not one of them. This is an attempt at reconciliating all the forces that act upon the newly open neighbourhood, in time. Inhabitants can change, climate can change, functions can change, economy can change. All things come and go. Yet the structure and water remain simple, present, timeless.
A Story of Møllendal.
The Reclaiming Process
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Møllendal has been like a black hole on Bergen’s map. An enclosed, unwelcoming, unknown space
Cleaning the site, yet keeping the one valuable feature: Belsen
A black pavement appears to mark the site as a newly open entity providing it with a waterfront park and bathing areas towards Store Lungegårdsvannet. Møllendal is now fully open for the people, inviting them to get acquainted with it.
Belsen becomes ‘ the Sun ’ of the community, serving as a public space and lighting in the dark. It also becomes an active place which informs people about the future housing project in Møllendal. Meanwhile, the project is also promoted online.
A map of various common spaces is projected on site. People use the project’s website to position their apartments in relation to their favourite common space.
A part of the structure appears near the park. People start moving in.
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The expansion continues: the structure takes over Store Lungegårdsvannet. People may now live in apartments above the water.
The structure extends as a bridge over Store Lungegårdsvannet, connecting Møllendal with Fjellsiden Sør. There are both bycicle and pedestrian paths and apartments.
Water level rises due to global warming, the structure keeps hosting life. Because of terrain prices, the structure evolves vertically or goes under water.
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Les activer entre eux à travers l’architecture mais aussi par des événements ponctuels
8h & 17h : Nouvel accès pour l’école via la cour du centre culturel
Le weekend : Extension de la cour du centre culturel vers la cour de l’école pour des événements culturels
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entrées existantes terrain basketball reconversion- maison de quartier + mobiliers urbains differents
extension du l’espace public - continuité de Parvis espace public à deux niveaux - panorama
activer l’espace public par des activités /installations temporaires
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La semaine - Espace pour les habitantes Potagers, loisirs
Le weekend - public - Extension de la bibliothèque en exterieur, expositions
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Premio Piranesi Prix de Rome is an international competition that invites students to develop solutions on the topic of muzealisation on well-known archeological sites.Reversibility, and the idea of valorizing the ruin through a modern intervention are key elements that the workshop deals with every year.In the summer of 2014, the task was to design a modern museum of Villa Adriana, together with the branding of it.The designing process last three weeks and represented the competition itself, the whole event being held at Villa Adriana.The area we chose to operate on is Il Canopo, due to its reputation of ‘one of the most important axis of architecture’.The team was made out of seven member, 5 italian students from The Politechnic University of Milano, and two romanian studdents from The Politechnic University of Timisoara.
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The idea of the museum was to be built on an ancient building, dating from the Hadrian’s times, on the right side of the Canopo.The modern part was supposed to be a third layer added to the construction, due to the fact that another story was erected in the 17 th century. Our solution proposed to recreate what seemed to be a courtyard in the past, and to generate a path that respects the multitude of olives from the area, integrating them by transforming each one in a verritable exhibit. At the end of the exterior visiting path starts the actual museum, that is thought as a ‘route’ among the sculptures, gaining dynamism through it’s linear configuration. The reversibility of the structure is another issue that we focused on.Therefore, everything is made out of Corten Steel, which, besides its time-working process, offers the possibility of being taken of, at any time.
concept scheme - relations on the facade
coffee shop
permanent exhibition area
temporary exhibiti
existing situation initial phase
proposed strategy access ramp secular olive tree olive trees
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second floor circulations
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steel panels
new structure walking platform
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logo study
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italian
landing page design
exhibitions
the Villa
history
museum
shop
MUSEO VILLA ADRIANA
The villa was constructed at Tibur (modern-day Tivoli) as a retreat from Rome for Roman Emperor Hadrian during the second and third decades of the 2nd century AD. Hadrian was said to dislike the palace on the Palatine Hill in Rome, leading to the construction of the retreat. During the later years of his reign, he actually governed the empire from the villa. A large court therefore lived there permanently. The postal service kept it in contact with Rome 29 km (18 mi) away. After Hadrian, the villa was used by his various successors. During the decline of the Roman Empire, the villa fell into disuse and was partially ruined. In the 16th century, Cardinal Ippolito II d'Este had much of the marble and statues in Hadrian's Villa removed to decorate his own Villa d'Este located nearby. Hadrian's Villa was a complex of over 30 buildings, covering an area of at least 1 square kilometre (c. 250 acres) of which much is still unexcavated. The villa was the greatest Roman example of an Alexandrian garden, recreating a sacred landscape. The complex included palaces, several thermae, theatre, temples, libraries, state rooms, and quarters for courtiers, praetorians, and slaves. Many beautiful artifacts have been unearthed and restored at the Villa, such as marble statues of Antinous, Hadrian's deified lover, accidentally drowned in Egypt, and mosaics from the theatre and baths.[citation needed] A lifelike mosaic depicted a group of doves around a bowl, with one drinking, seems to be a copy of a work by Sosus of Pergamon as described by Pliny the Elder. It has in turn been widely copied.[3] Many copies of Greek statues (e.g. the Wounded Amazon) have been found, and even Egyptian-style interpretations of Roman gods and vice versa. Most of these have been taken to Rome for preservation and restoration, and can be seen at the Musei Capitolini or the Musei Vaticani. However, many were also excavated in the 18th century by antiquities dealers such as Piranesi and Gavin Hamilton to sell to Grand Tourists and antiquarians such as Charles Towneley, and so are in major antiquities collections elsewhere in Europe and North America.
first web page
objects for sale
explaining panels
VOPSITORIE
site plan
panoramic view of the site
The presence of an old dye house in the middle of one of the most populated neighbourhoods in Timisoara is a controversial subject that both the authorities and the inhabitants of the area have been trying to deal with for a long time. The dye house ceased to have any activity in 1992 and from then on, it evolved organically, gradually
‘developing life’ inside by becoming a shelter for homeless people. Being a sort of huge, separative presence in what can represent a ‘courtyard’ for the buildings around, the dye house is the reason for many of the community problems: lack of public space, blocked visual connections, lack of parking spots and fear of social interraction.
The exercise was to operate on the existing building in order to create an education and community center in that place. We proposed a time-working mechanism, that can be developed with the implication of the community- a building able to change functions every time people need it.
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The theme of the third year project was to build a little community and try to incorporate everyo for an ideal apartment in the design of one’s ideas an apartment building, on a given site, in Timișoara.After a detailed analysis of the site and a social study on the members of the community that we created, the project became individual, and everyone gave a differnet solution. The idea was that of having a 360 degrees view from each apartment, therefore, the solution implied having two blocks with individual access, and only one apartment on each floor.All the apartments are accessible from the core of the building, directly from the elevator.The two buildings are connected by an exterior staircase that leads to a terrace. The courtyard is designed for children to play, and it incorporates ‘devices’ through which natural light is brought into the underground parking.
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structure : concrete core and steel beams
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language: romanian
This first-year project was thought as an invitation for people to socialize in Unirii Square from Timisoara.The idea was to use the existing benches, and to change the atmosphere of the space for a period of time.With a metallic structure covered by felt, each hat gets a different lifespan.People, wind, sun, rain and time become key characters in the way the project suffer changes, every day.
Radical Islands Blaster
The workshop was organized by Anuala Timișoareană de Arhitectură and was developed by Parasite 2.0, an italian architecture studio.The idea of the workshop was to build a device for transforming a certain, problematic public space into a workspace, to activate it by interacting with the passers-by, to inform them about the area and to let them express their wishes on what a public space should have in order to be used. We reused the device for another (school, this time) project, an analysis on how students live in the Student Campus from Timisoara. People’s reactions when seeing the ‘blaster’ (a sort of wheelbarrow on bicycle wheels) for the first time are amazing, reason why we intend to use it(or to build other devices) any time we have to deal with social studies.
anualadearhitectura.ro parasitelab.tumblr.com radicalislandtimisoara.tumblr.com
Sky Hill is an international summer workshop held in the west part of Romania, in a mountain region . Every summer, students are invited to learn traditional building techniques, and to live in nature for two weeks.Here, mornings are for taking baths in the river, days are for working and learning, and evenings are for conferrences and talking around the fire.
Sky Hill
The idea of the workshop was to design a pavillion near a beautiful mansion,in Hodoni,a village near Timisoara. The place is well-known for the weddings that are being held there during the summer.The process started at school, where we sketched our ideas, and continued on site, where we actually built it.With a budget of 900 euros, the client’s wish was to have a space for spending time with his friends during the summer.We created frames and used ropes to give the sensation of an inside of a space, but also as structural elements.The pavilion acts like a big lamp at night. http://www.conaculhodoni.ro/
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CÂRȚIȘOARA Being held in Cârțișoara, at the base of Făgăraș mountains, the workshop invites students from Europe to learn traditional building techniques and to experience two weeks of living in one of the most beautiful places in Romania.The purpose is to make different domains interract, by spending time in the nature.Cârțișoara is the last village before entering the Transfăgărășan road, one of the most spectacular in Europe.In 2014, another purpose was that of building a stage for the first edition of an art festival CUCA. https://www.facebook.com/FestivalCUCA
Preparing clay for the house
View towards the Făgăraș mountains
Project of the stage for the festival
The accommodation place
de-a arhitectura
As a volunteer at ‘De-a Arhitectura’ , I have to use simple words to explain children complex phenomena.It is the most challenging project that I’ve ever had the occasion to take part in.The class is optional for the third and fourth grade, in Romania, but due to the fact that more and more parents are interested in it, there is a strategy of extending it to other grades as well.Teaching becomes a reversible process, children’s creativity is often a source of learning for us. From expeditions of observing interesting things around, to communicating by drawing and feeling textures, everything is part of a well-thought process that materializes itself in a sort of guide that both architects and students of architecture use to teach. The program is not willing to invite kids to become architects, but to develop their creativity by getting to know how diverse are the tools they can use in order to obtain what they want. www.de-a-arhitectura.ro
Lorena Brează
lorena.breaza@gmail.com
greendimple.tumblr.com greendimple on Facebook handmade
school event poster
poster for Cloud Factory exhibition
book cover
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