Onci Olimpia_ Architecture Portfolio 2016 by Pia Onci

architecture portfolio

Personal information: Name and surname: Olimpia Onci Adress: Timisoara, Romania Telephone: +40754555048 Email: onci.olimpia@gmail.com Languages: English C2, German A2, Spanish B2, Romanian Educational background: Faculty of Architecture, Master degree Polytechnic University Timişoara - Romania Work experience - Internships: Studio Mjölk architekti - Prague & Liberec, Czech Republic (2013) Atelier Thomas Pucher - Graz, Austria (2014-2015) - 1 year internship Architectural competitions: FIRST PRIZE: Local competition “Portile orasului” (2013) - project: “Timisoara City Gate”, a city gate for Lugojului Entrance. FIRST PRIZE: Local competition “Casa care-mi place”(2013) - architecture photograph: “Casa cu Logie”. FINALIST: International competition “The Shelter Student Architectural Design Competition” (2013) - project: “Time Shelter”. Published work: Project: “Timisoara City Gate” was published on local news. Project: “Casa care-mi place” published my winning photograph “Casa cu Logie” on “www.casacare-miplace.ro” Project: ’’Fresh garden studio’’ wa published in Casa si gradina magazine, on Freshome, Houseidea, etc. Social skills and competences: Dynamic and adventurous personality, good at team working, optimistic, friendly, patient, responsible, hardwork-ing and always searching for the best ideas. Skills and competences: Artistic: graphical visualisation, interior, exterior abstract and realistic renderings, plans, sections or any drawing that must look appealing for an original project presentation. Technical: drawing details, axonometries, technical floor/ceiling plans, sections, facades, etc Physical: Understanding and working with different materials, using natural textures, reusing good materials, building models. Driving licence: B Programs: Revit architecture - proficient, Archicad - begginer, Autocad- Begginer, Photoshop & PS plugins - proficient, Rhino 5, Microsoft Office programs. I am also enthusiastic and a fast learner when it comes to work in new architecture softwares.

Internship at Studio Mjรถlk architekti - Prague & Liberec, Czech Republic

PROJECTS

Status

PODRUMUL LUI HOMOLKA

Master project

SKYLIGHT HOUSE

Finalised

GARDEN HOUSE

Finalised

PARKHAUS

Finalised

HUNEDOARA LIVING MUSEUM

Project proposal

ARTISANAL GLASS WORKSHOPS

Project proposal

SINFONIA VARSOVIA

Under construction

U HOUSE

Under construction

MOSNITA HOUSE

Under construction

ATRIUM HOTEL

Faculty project

HIDDEN HOUSE

Faculty project

BALCESCU OFFICE & HOUSING

Faculty project

FINAL WOODEN HOUSE

Faculty project

ART EXPO PAVILION

Faculty project

MERLIN THEATRE

Faculty project

TIME SHELTER

Competition

TIMISOARA CITY GATE

Competition

ORADEA SQUARE

Competition

ABOVE THE CLOUDS

Proposal project

PHOTOGRAPHY

PODRUMUL LUI HOMOLKA Viziunea urmareşte reconversia fostului bastion din Cetatea Caransebeş intr-o mică fierbătorie de bere, amintind de funcţiunea prodrumului de bere pe care acesta a avut-o in urma cu 100 de ani cand aparţinea cehului Karol Homolka si sub a cărui nume a rămas in conştiinta locuitorilor. Intervenţia presupune in prima etapă identificarea celorlalte segmente de zid si o cartografiere a lor in vederea reconstituirii amprentei fostei cetăti pentru integrarea, intelegerea spaţiului in care se gaseste zona studiată, ca zona dintr-un teritoriu mai vast, caracterizat de realităti sociale si de o evoluţie istorică individuală. A doua etapă presupune analiza elementelor de pe sit avand in vedere factori pluridisciplinari precum : economic, social si ecologic si arhitectural. Urmatoarea etapă urmareşte conversia propriu-zisă, prin adiţia unor spaţii in interiorul zidurilor si in exterior in concordanţa cu funcţiunea de micro-berărie si punct de servire in urma unei analize pluridisciplinare, mentionată mai sus. Structura obiectului va fi independentă faţă de structura existentă , iar intervenţia va avea un caracter cat mai putin intruziv din punct de vedere fizic. Cunoscutul vechi cu caracter fragil si penetrabil, constant dominat de entitatea oraşul actual trebuie sa fie transformat, prin intenţii conştiente si design intr-unul nou necunoscut. Ca si element singular si fara sa aibe continuitatea unui complex de ziduri, a cetătii, el se afla in dezechilibru. Pentru a-l salva, propun reinventarea acestuia printr-o noua functiune, respectiv crearea unor noi spaţii si a unui echilibru intre elementele noi si cel vechi rămas.

LOCATION: ESELNITA, MH, ROMANIA YEAR: 2014 STATUS: UNDER CONSTRUCTION TEAM WORKER: DAMIAN ALEXANDRU

Making the survey

Hallway

Old kitchen

Interior proposal: Kitchen (down), living room with a sky light (up)

RESULT: pictures from the owner

GARDEN STUDIO The project consists of a renovation and partial transformation of a small house in Timisoara from the 90s. The owner, wanted to chance and rethink the inner spatial organization of the house and the light situation of the building in order to convert its use for local tourism. Therefore, the existing house composed out of three rooms and one staircase, was split in two and just one part was taken into consideration for the new interior design project: the staircase and the room next to it. The staircase was transformed into a small modern kitchen with a wooden wall dividing it from the bathroom. With a generous window overlooking the lush greenery of the garden outside, the interior is characterized by a new minimalistic identity with a Scandinavian touch. Each elementwas carefully planned, thereby the duration for its completion extended to four months. The furniture was designed by the architects and then manufactured in a local carpentry shops. The concept of the studio was to create an intelligent mechanism that could ďŹ t into the available existing space and also to serve to as many people as possible without having enclosed spaces. The result was a bright open space where the main furniture pieces are built in.

LOCATION: SALZBURG, AUSTRIA YEAR: 2015 STATUS: FINALISED ATELIER THOMAS PUCHER, GRAZ

PARKHAUS SALK Parkhaus is a modern multi-storey car park from Salzburg, Austria, being part of a large new hospital project. It is the first building of the project to be completed in mid 2015, being followed by the laboratory building to be completed in the following years. What makes this building very special is its unique design dedicated to a car park, with its elegant and playful rhythm of the facades. The lamellas are complex curved surfaces, custom made for this project, offering the building the importance and severity that characterizes the city of Salzburg. Besides this, the new smart parking system is much more efficient than the classic car parks with side ramps, because the whole concept was based in making the building itself a huge and continuous ramp. By implementing this idea, more numbers of parking places were achieved, while the sloping floors can also be visible in the facades of the building creating a more dramatic scenery. The last design element of the building is the side facade with the mesh, which from a distance it recreates the imagesof a flower, composed out of small aluminum plates.

LOCATION: HUNEDOARA, HD, ROMANIA YEAR: 2013 STATUS: PROJECT PROPOSAL INTERSHIP AT: STUDIO TAB, ROMANIA COLABORATOR: STUDIO MODERNO, NORWAY

H LIVING MUSEUM Hunedoara Living Museum comes as an extension to the Corvin Castle surroundings, which by adding elements that support the atmosphere that the castle generates and recreates the image of a small traditional settlement adjacent to the castle walls. The project contains three elements that together create an object linked to the nearby castle but at the same time remains complete by itself, being able to generate itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own activity. The ďŹ rst element would be the exterior museum, consisting of traditional houses which are to be rehabilitated and brought to today standards of accommodation. This will offer a unique experience to the visitors, allowing them to re-live in a small measure, the life of a person who lived on those lands centuries ago. This experience would be completed by reenactments, workshops and other events. These events that usually take place inside the castle, now would take place in the courtyard of the museum also. The courtyard is a space located in the middle of the site, having the traditional houses in the background. It spreads across the rest of the site and on the top of the new construction, offering a viewpoint to the castle. The third element of the project is a new construction. From the porch of a one of the houses it is almost an invisible object, offering a continuous surface and extending the courtyard. The interior opens towards the castle, allowing the outdoor scenery to be a part of the indoor. Looking at it from the castle, it looks as a horizontal slice in the surface of the hill, blending into the environment.

Situation plan

Ground ďŹ&#x201A;oor plan

Concept & volumetric design Relation with the landscape Visual relation with Corvin Castle and the natural slope of the terrain Hidden architecture

Basement ďŹ&#x201A;oor plan

Back courtyard

Multipurpose space

Restaurant, bar, ball room, exhibition space

H LIVING MUSEUM ARTISANAL GLASS WORKSHOPS The Romanian gypsy communities have always faced difďŹ culties in integrating with the general society. Even today little things are done that try to diminish this problem, leading to the total exclusion of gypsies from our society and life style. Poor or wealthy, this led gypsies to live in an almost parallel universes, but right beside us, living by their own laws of life, exluding ours. Gypsies never had a good reputation of being smart or â&#x20AC;&#x153;normalâ&#x20AC;?, but in the past they were among the best craftsman and artisans, every village or town was depending on their skilles of manual manufacturing. This project aims to try to reintegrad these communities in our society in a different way, keeping them together as a strong identity and to recreate what has been mainly lost, but still savable, the art of manual creation. The small town of Boldesti-Scaeni from Romania, contains a gypsy community that has been left unemployed - like most gypsy communities from Romania - due to the insolvency of an industrial glass factory where they have worked for many years. Using natural materials such as burned brick and wood, this project aimed to recreate this already mastered work with glass in a more artistical manner, where they can use, learn and regain their talent by following traditional methods for glass manufacturing. In this way they can continue practicing their skills and earn money honestly. Being located right next to the towns school and kindergarten the new construction also has an educational purpose, where workshops and organised visits can be held, teaching others about this old art, conecting Romanian or foreign citizens with this gypsy community. The main concept was to distribute all the necessary spaces for the new artisanal glass workshops around a central courtyard, being the main space for open air events. The pedestrian circulation was organised by attaching a porch along all sides of the new construction, becoming a buffer zone between the insde and the outside.

Ground ďŹ&#x201A;oor plan

Exterior dining room, porch

Exterior working terrace Workshop and oven 100 sqm Interior workshop 22 sqm Interior workshop 20 sqm Cloakroom, shower, toilets 37 sqm Projection room, multifunctional room 30 sqm Exterior dining room Interior dining room 33 sqm Kitchen and storage 37 sqm Reception and storage 24 sqm Store, exposition room and storage 30 sqm

In the bacground: Exterior work space, and oven chimney

SINFONIA VARSOVIA Text source from Archdaily: The 20,000m² cultural centreis housed on the site of a former Veterinary Institute with existing – yet dormant – buildings and a fairy-tale like park. The area occupies a 1,800 seat symphonic hall with first class acoustic properties, large rehearsal areas, merchandise facilities, musical workshops and a small hotel for artists in residence and music lovers on vacation. The project gives a precise answer meeting the demands of the orchestra as well as the given site with its historical buildings. By enveloping the entire site with a floating wall it serves as an indication to the park as its new centre and creates a distinctive place of silence – the basic principle for an orchestra to perform – full of ambience and drama. The park becomes an open public place and the wall the building that serves it. The symphonic hall including all rehearsal areas are found within the floating wall. Floating above the foyer it creates a seamless extension of the park into the building that holds several mysteries and miracles: hidden rooms and stairs, a narrow surveillance path at the top and a span of 140m without a single column. The Concert Hall is a fusion of a Shoebox Hall and an Arena. While the traditional shoe box hall is known for its excellent acoustics but often offers poor visual conditions,the Arena has its advantages with regards to visibility and is hardly applicable when it comes to its acoustic conditions. The hall for the Sinfonia Varsovia combines the advantagesof both by choosing the main shape of a rectangular with ideal acoustic dimensions and inserting seemingly free formed bands of balconies with perfect viewing angles for visitors into this volume.

LOCATION: TIMISOARA, TM, ROMANIA YEAR: 2013 STATUS: UNDER CONSTRUCTION INTERSHIP AT: STUDIO TAB, ROMANIA

U HOUSE Giroc is suburb from Timisoara, that has develpoed like most of the Romanian suburbs, fast and randomly, with a strong disorganized and uncontrollable character. In such a place, on piece of architecture decided to completely turn it’s back on its chaotic surroundings, creating its own universe through extreamly private interior and exterior spaces. The house, shaped like a “U”, focuses its attention and openes its interior spaces toward the main central courtyard, containing a generous terrace in direct relation with the living room, dining room and kitchen. From this terrace, a long pool emerges that visualy connects the house’s interior to its garden located on the other side of the yard. A canteliver window floats above the pool water, where the owner can sit down during evenings, and admire the subtle water refletion of the night sky. Other two private courtyards are hidden between the walls of this house, being completly invisible from the outside, openening toward the sky. One has a strong relation with the living room and bathroom, the other communicating with the fitness room. Our task was to take this minimal architectural composition, that was left unfinished, in an unconceived urban texture, and design its interior and exterior spaces, including landscape design, strengthening the interior-exterior spatial relation. From finishes to furniture, we added and solved its details, completing this project in a manner that will satisfy the clients minimalistic passion and the house’s original spatiality and clean solid character. This project was developed, together with my colleague Damian Alexandru, during my internship at the architecture office “Studio Tab”, from Timisoara, Romania.

Interior proposal: Dining room and kitchen

Exterior proposal

Ground ďŹ&#x201A;oor

LOCATION: MOSNITA, TM, ROMANIA YEAR: 2016 STATUS: UNDER CONSTRUCTION PERSONAL PRACTICE

IV HOUSE Mosnita is suburb from Timisoara, that has develpoed like most of the Romanian suburbs, fast and randomly, with a strong disorganized and uncontrollable character. In such a place, on piece of architecture decided to completely turn it’s back on its chaotic surroundings, creating its own universe through extreamly private interior and exterior spaces. The house, build recently needed an urgently interior design. The kitchen, bathroom and the master bedroom already existed so what remained were the guestbedroom, the living room, hall entrance and the child’d bedroom. From ﬁnishes to furniture, I added and solved its details, completing this project in a manner that will satisfy the clients minimalistic passion and the house’s original spatiality and clean solid character. The client wanted an minimalistic appeareance and an coherent approach. With already bought furniture, I had to shape the space using it’s dimensions. The guest bedroom had to be ﬂexible, with a Murphy bed, oppened just when needed. This project was developed during three months and it is part of my personal practice.

Street view LOCATION: TIMSOARA, TM, ROMANIA YEAR: 2013 STATUS: FACULTY PROJECT

B. BUSINESS & HOUSING Balcescu Business and Housing Center is a project is located in of the most important urban commercial spaces of Timisoara, in the historical neighbourhood of Elizabetin / Elisabethstadt. The project aims of creating a mini business center combined with housing functions and a small public urban square between these two main functions of the project. At a larger scale, the new square gives birth to an intermediate point of interest located on the main road between two important commercial centers and squares, Piata Balcestu and Olimpia. Located in a historicaly protected area, surrounded on all sides by buildings from the 19th centrury, the new intervention, carrefuly relates to its neighbours, respecting their formal volumes, element rhythms, heights and cornices. As an “infill” project, the main facade alignes to the existing buildings, conecting their cornice lines from one end to the other. The prominent groundfloor levels and huge wooden doors that most of the neighbouring buildings have are reinterpreted in an almost absent ground floor, acting as an “opened gate” invinting everybody that passes inside, away from car traffic and tram lines, into a pleasant public square, with a bistro, cofee shop, small shops or other spaces that can be rented. This square contains a public life between the office building and the housing building. But a new space is being formed and hidden from the street view, located behing the housing building. It’s private, green and quite, offered to the owners that live in an active commercial zone, but also have a space of their one to manage and where to relax.

The two differnet functions of the complex (business and housing) are represented not only by two different types of spaces / courtyards, one public, the other one private, but also by different exterior appearances. First of all, the office building located at the main street, respects the historical neighbouring facades, inspired by their proportions and rhythms, but the interior facade of this building expreses trust and professionalism of the new firms that will populate these offices, through an elegant horizontal rhythm that also provides shading from the south sun. As well as the office building, the housing building is defined by two different skins. One subtly relates to facade of the office building and the public space, the other one, more private, is composed out wood, a material that brings warmth and calmness to the eye. Volumetric concept

Ground ﬂoor plan Street

Public courtyard

Private courtyard

Garden

LOCATION: LIPOVA, TM, ROMANIA YEAR: 2012 STATUS: FACULTY PROJECT

ATRIUM HOLTEL The site for the new hotel is located near the small city of Lipova, Romania, in the valley of Mureş river. It is a place surround by small hills with Şoimoş Castle on the highest peak, and an old monastery a few kilometers away. The “Atrium Hotel” is a project based on energy efﬁciency. The ecology is the most important feature of this project, and the way that its massive presence relates with the surround natural areas. It is a 4 star hotel with a capacity of 60 double rooms, a restaurant for 120 persons with an outside terrace (also used for weddings), a bar, a well proportioned atrium, penthouses with terraces on the last ﬂoor and exterior public spaces. The concept was to divide the hotel in two volumes, reducing its visual dimension, and forming the atrium that links them. Through the atrium enters a diffuse and interesting game of lights and shadows and it is the main space that links all the rooms and the other functions of the hotel. It visually relates with the hills on the horizontal axis and with the sky on the vertical axis.

Main Entrance

Backyard Atrium

Interior: hotel room

Hotel room

Restaurant

LOCATION: TIMISOARA, TM, ROMANIA YEAR: 2013 STATUS: FACULTY PROJECT

RESTAURANT The site for the new restaurant is located in Timisoara, Romania, in an old park near one of the remains of the city fortress. The concept follows the surroundings nearby. The structure is reversible with lamelar wood beams and pillars. The skin of the restaurant is made out of white poycarbonate plates.

Through the materials enters a diffuse and interesting game of lights and shadows and it is the main space that links all the other functions of the restaurant. It visually relates with the trees on the horizontal axis and with the sky on the vertical axis.

LOCATION: POIANA RUSCA MOUNTAINS, ROMANIA YEAR: 2013 STATUS: FACULTY PROJECT

HIDDEN HOUSE The “Hidden Hotel” pension located on the north bank of a lake in the Poiana Rusca mountains (Western Romania), not only that it connects itself with nature, but it also becomes part of it. It is located on a site that beneﬁts of a wonderful landscape and a south orientation of the interior spaces towards the lake. The concept started by creating a parallel volume with the lake and the road. Because of sunshine and spatial organizations reasons, the volume vas split in three parts: two areas of accommodation units and a third central area that links them and contains the access device, reception and a waiting room. To optimize the ventilation and illumination of the pension I created an interior courtyard, a small garden that creates a pleasant atmosphere when entering the building. From this hidden lower courtyard arises a tree and the access device that marks the entrance, and completes the hidden feature of the project’s composition.

Concept

Situation plan

Underground level

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LOCATION: TIMISOARA, TM, ROMANIA YEAR: 2013 STATUS: FACULTY PROJECT

EXPO PAVILION FINAL WOODEN HOUSE For a school project that was based on a very complex study of a Japanese contemporary house (that included hand drawings and a 3d model), I chose the Final Wooden House designed by Sou Fujimoto Architects in 20052006, Kumamoto, Japan. The model is built on a 1:20 scale and it is made completely out of wood. Every element respects the real proportions of the projects. It can be opened so that the interior space could be studied. The relation between the house and the real surrounding landscape was also studied.

Interior space photos

Strong relation with nature from the inside

Dynamic multipurpose space

Exterior photos

Interior - exterior relations

Night time photo studies

Detachable wooden model

LOCATION: TIMISOARA, TM, ROMANIA YEAR: 2013 STATUS: FACULTY PROJECT

EXPO ART EXPO PAVILION PAVILION At the very heart of the city, near the old historical center of Timisoara, a large abandoned space behind the Art Faculty, was dedicated for the proposal of an art pavilion, wich could house many and diverse art exhibitions from small to large sculptures or art events. This would enhance the city’s artistic importance as the main cultural city from Western Romania, currently competing for the title of “European Culture Capital 2021”. The purpose of this exercise was to create this pavilion in order to be a multipurpose space, defined by an organic design, inspired from a natural form of life. My concept was inspired by the aspect and movement of the human hand. The hand and it’s physical composition, for me, represented the most important intrument for the creating art of almost any kind. From its skin, to the many visual expresions of the fingers, my architecture is based on the visual reinterpretation of hand. The proposed building, openes toward it’s public space, and Art Faculty, as if all the fingers of a hand were raised from the table, creating the main entrance and allowing it “to grab” large scale pieces of art, introducing them in the main exhibition room. Once beside or inside the building, visitors can experience diferent colours, texture or shapes that the pavilion has, remind of the complexity of the hand and fingers that create art and also make up our daily life.

Interior visualisations

Concept sketches

Exterior skin - transparent plastic panels covered by perforated steel sheets

Steel structure

Ground ﬂoor plan

Exterior expositional space

First ﬂoor plan

LOCATION: TIMISOARA, TM, ROMANIA YEAR: 2012 STATUS: WORKSHOP

EXPO PAVILION MERLIN THEATRE The Merlin Theatre from TimiĹ&#x;oara is located in IoseďŹ n / Josephstadt neighborhood and it is an architectural historical monument built during the occupation of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It is the only Puppet theatre in the western part of the country with a juridical statute. The building is in a serious stage of degradation and the purpose of this project was to identify all its problems and the causes that led to its present conditions, along with the correct rehabilitation solutions. My job was to analyze the main facade of the building and to survey its framing from the attic and identify all the problems or missing elements. The second part of the project was a research for the best solutions to stop the advanced degradations and start its rehabilitation.

Main Facade Study of degrated elements

LOCATION: CARSKA BARA LAKES, SERBIA YEAR: 2013 STATUS: COMPETITION

TIME SHELTER H LIVING MUSEUM

Located in Vojvodina Province, Serbia, on the water surface of Belo Jezero (White Lake) from Carska Bara, this shelter is in the heart of the old Pannonian sea wich today stands as a vast plain with a neutral landscape where space loses its limits to man, and man looses scale to its surroundings. Here the sky acts as a curved surface covering this “inﬁnite” horizontal space from east to west, surrounded by the sounds of wind and rain, offers you a strong presence of time, in a continuously changing landscape. Our concept is to enclose a small space in this vast horizontal land, lift it from the ground and position it on water to emphasize the absence of any kind of natural landscape, or any type of connection to society. Therefore, in this space you lose every presence of your daily life and gain the presence of the moment, the true expression of present time, where abstract elements as light and sound, guide your way to the roots of life. It is here where me and my team worker Damian Alexandru, chose to create a vertical axis, penetrating our shelter by a circular void, and creating a connection between earth and sky through water. From the vast horizontal axis you use to arrive to the shelter, it suddenly changes to a vertical void, and under the entrance of the shelter you are being right at the intersection of these two axis.

The only way getting to the shelter is by using a boat, making the visitors from Carska Bara curios about the lonely freestanding wooden structure seen from the surrounding shores. Once inside the view over the plains disappears, and you enter inside a space that celebrates itself. You take part of a ceremony of silence where the only thing you can see is the changing colors of the sky and it’s reﬂection in the water surface through this circular void where time itself seems tangible.

Here we wanted to create a space where time exists at its own scale and isn’t inﬂuenced by anything from our everyday lives. We wanted modern day people or any kind of people to experience the opposite relation with time, where times scale isn’t inﬂuenced by people, no matter what, and the only thing that transforms are the wooden elements and their texture being exposed to all natural elements and having their own lifetime. All the wood used for the structure is from local trees and

its exterior facade is made out of local wooden shingles creating a pleasant relationship with its exterior surroundings. They create an interesting texture of lights and shades and age beautifully by changing their color in time. The round facade makes the shelter have the same aspect and proportions seen from any side of the lake, gaining a neutral expression towards the landscape and acting as a space deďŹ ning element capturing the viewers attention and curiosity who mainly try to

retreat from their daily city life. We speak of this shelter as an instrument capable of creating a connection between man and pure time, without an imposed scale, only expressions of sudden moments, where your everyday life stands outside the shelter walls and where time relates to you and links you with the architecture you are standing in and its lifetime. Out of 251 international projects we succeded being among the ďŹ nalists, being in the top 10 projects.

LOCATION: TIMISOARA, TM, ROMANIA YEAR: 2013 STATUS: COMPETITION

TIMISOARA CITY GATE H LIVING MUSEUM

The concept was born from an ecological vision of Timisoara, a vision that has the capacity to describe the city in one single word: “green”. To activate this concept we must strat with the most important urban component: its people - the source that keeps the city alive. In order to make people feel good about their urban teritory, we must not ignore nature, that must be found within and outside the city limits, in a manner that pedestrians, drivers, cyclists and public transport cohabitate positively. As much as the city is proud with its historical and inovation achievements through time, it has a severe dust problem, being one of the most dust-poluted cities from Eastern Europe. The ideal solution for this problem would be to propose a “forest wall” wich would embrace the city, offering protection, cleaner air, green spaces and a promenade along the new “green ring” dedicated to pedestrians and cyclists. From this vision, I proposed to create a series of city gates, avoiding to create static “sculpture” objects, dedicated only to drivers. As a result, I created bridge-gates, that represent the continuity of the “green ring” proposed through that new “forest wall”, being located above the main road entrances of the city. These bridge-gates unite many pedestrian and bicycle lanes from the forest, offering ﬂuidity and protection. The new structure will be coverd in perforated metal sheets, that can create a certain light rhythm, expresing the city’s identity and image as a future European Capital of Culture.

Current city plan

Concept

Proposal

Aerial diagrame

Cohabitation

Bridge-gate sketch

LOCATION: ORADEA, OR, ROMANIA YEAR: 2013 STATUS: COMPETITION COLABORATOR: ARCHEUS FOUNDATION

ORADEA POET CAFE H LIVING MUSEUM

Oradea, the largest city from Northwestern Romania, is one of the most beautiful cities from the country with a strong cultural activity. Despite its beauty, right opposite to the main city square, on the other side of the river “Crisul Repede”, was an urban space that was completely forgotten by time,occupied by an old bar and public toilets. Our task was to redesign this central urban space and transform it intro a small city square, wich will be included in the promenade along the river, becoming also a leisure place in the heart of Oradea. Keeping its past commercial fuction, we proposed a mix-use of coffee shop, restaurant & bar, where citizens and tourists can make a small cofee or snack break, relaxing and admiring the historical city skyline. The name “Poet cafe” is refered to peotry, becoming the main theme of the project, exploring and highlighting the cultural reputation of the city. The new proposed volume, inspired by the river’s horizontality and tranparency, shapes its clean presence, creating a panorama of the center from the inside, as well as reﬂecting its interior activity on the water surface. Surrounded by an urban birch forest and local poetry, it becomes a pleasant buffer zone between the large paved city square and the green promenade along the “Crisul Repede” river.

Site Situation plan - Proposal

Paving detail - cubic stone

Site Cris River

Main square

City center situation plan

View toward the city center

Poetry wall

Restaurant & bar proposal

Longitudinal Section

Main Facade

Concept Sketches

ABOVE THE CLOUDS

LIVING MUSEUM

The concept was born from the desire to achieve an architecture that satisfies all the needs of the client, requesting a 260000 m2 building complex, composed out of housing, hotel, sport center and a commercial center, as well as to relate to the natural surroundings. It was requested for a high density on a small and very steep plot and to create an iconic architecture, near the city of Hong Kong, overlooking the Daya bay. One of the most important requests of the project was to assure that every apartment has sea view, from which the form of the buildings was created. After a complex study of forms, we have reached to these specific round forms in the shape of a crown, as being the best form in order to assure that every apartment has sea view, from any part of the facade. In order to keep this feature we have modeled the towers in order to obtain a unique and iconic design, recognizable even from the sea. Each tower has it’s own semi-private plaza, being a shared space of the community. While most of the apartments are small studios or 1 & 2 bedroom apartments, the peaks of the towers include luxurious penthouses with amazing sea views. In between the towers, the commercial center is spreading over the natural slope of the area, composed out of a playful rhythm of platforms, shops and canopies. The canopies are covering the outdoor and indoor spaces, creating a spatial complexity where its dwellers and other visitors can meet, shop, relax and benefit from all the functions included in the commercial center.

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