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axante raluca-elena #10, M. Cioranu St., Bl70B, apt.7, Bucharest, 050751 e-mail: r.axante@yahoo.com phone: +40 722 599 145 education 2007 - 2011 Bachelor of Architectural Studies Spiru Haret University of Architecture, Bucharest Diploma unit: Ice rink Floreasca Qualification: Accredited Architect 1998 - 2004 Bachelor of Urban Planning Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urban Studies, Bucharest Diploma unit: Urban reintegration of historical city center of Botosani Qualification: Accredited Urban Planner 03/2002-07/2002 - Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece Erasmus exchange program planning and employment experience 08/2004 - 03/2005, Alpha Studio, Bucharest, Romania junior urban planner urban planning design under the supervision of a senior architect 03/2005 - currently, Alpha Studio, Bucharest, Romania senior urban planner designing and managing urban planning projects, zonning projects, new urban developments design, city infrastructure design 03/2005 - currently, East Wind Arhitect, Bucharest, Romania senior urban planner designing and managing urban planning projects, zonning projects, new urban developments design, city infrastructure design memberships RUR - Romanian Planning Association OAR - Association of Romanian Architects languages Understanding Listening

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landscape design Sf. Gheorghe square

competitions Bucharest General Urban Plan

architecture Ice rink Floreasca

urban planning Willbrook platinum business & convention center Dragomiresti Industrial Park Esplanada Bucuresti-Ploiesti 1A Ford old warehouse rehabilitation Sintofarm residential development Valenii de Munte -landscape study -general urbanistic plan -design code

Baia Mare -landscape study -public spaces study -general urbanistic plan

Bucharest nord ring road Magurele developments Varvsstaden design project

Baia Mare -landscape study -public spaces study -general urbanistic plan

Bucharest nord ring road Magurele developments Varvsstaden design project

willbrook platinum business & convention center

Project type: zonning plan Location: #172-178 Bucuresti-Ploiesti Rd., Bucharest Designed: 2004 Total area: 29072.11sqm Details: There were a few planning restrictions imposed by the presence of a small forest, that requires its own protection area and the vicinity with a national road which imposes some traffic regulations. Thus, the office building is withdrawn from the street alignment by 75 m. Here are the urbanistic parameters for the site: POT = 35% (maximum land use percentage) CUT = 2.5 (maximum land use coefficient) H max = 1U+GF+5F (maximum height) raluca axante | portfolio

willbrook platinum business & convention center GROUNDFLOOR

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dragomiresti industrial park

Project type: zoning plan, master plan Location: Dragomiresti, Romania Designed: 2005 Total area: 67.5 ha Details: A zoning plan for an area of ~67.5ha, featuring an industrial park. The inner road is the back bone of the master plan. This road allows access to each warehouse. Also utilities were provided from independent sources: a power plant of 10MW, a water treatment station, a gas pressure reduction station, 4 wells of ~100m depth. raluca axante | portfolio

esplanada master plan

Project type: master plan, urban concept Location: Unirii Bvd, Bucharest Designed: 2006 Total area: 2.7ha Details: Unirii Bvd. was built during the communist era as an over imposed symmetric composition axe developed in front of the House of Parliament A totalitarian urban intervention like this one, developed on such a scale has resulted in big conflicts with the previous urban tissue. The historic frame was denied totally, ie behind the main buildings guarding the boulevard are numerous conflict areas, where low rise buildings are visually and physically aggressed by the new buildings. This can be divided into few segments defined by the main elements that generate the axis. (1 )first segment defined by the House of Parliament and Unirii Square . This axis is enhaced only by the high buildings with no other connexion to the urban frame (2 )Unirii square as a main jonction of the esplanade bvd. to the main Bucharest north -south axis (3) this segment was intended similar to the frist described segment, but never got to have its guarding buldings finished. Other massiv volumes part of the large scale totalitarian urban composition were never completed. This is also the case of this project location. (4) This ending segment seemes to be the most integrated functionally. Compositionally speaking it is an axis end, opposing the massiv volume of the House of Parliament on a distance of almost 3 km. Located very close to the centre of Bucharest the Esplanade site is an important real estate development oportunity. A new reglementation plan was necessary to translate the investor's development tendancies into the site. raluca axante | portfolio

esplanada master plan Project evolution: The project started as a trigger public-private investment in a central area and it was intended yo develop in a major city area reintegration. There were three phases of the project, one of them involving a concept by Helmut Jahn GmbH. The development of the project design was stopped by the begging of world economic crisis, thus the area is still waiting for an urban solution.

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esplanada master plan

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Bucharest-Ploiesti 1A

Project type: zoning plan Location: Bucharest, Romania Designed: 2007 Total area: 0.3 ha Details: A zoning plan for an area of ~3200sqm, featuring a class A office building. The site is located on the main entrance road to the capital city. The vicinity hosts other representative office buildings.

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ford old warehouse rehabilitation Project type: zoning plan / rehabilitation plan Location: +159 Floreasca St., Bucharest Designed: 2007 Total area: 2.7ha Details: Some of the well preserved examples of industrial architecture in Romania - the F O R D industry warehouse is now included in a rehabilitation project. It is an opportunity for the developer to rehabilitate this building and reintegrate it into the city circuit. Three different land uses will be integrated into the new buildings: residential, retailing and offices. The completion of such a project, consisting of a historical building restoration would place this development among the few to be elaborated in Bucharest, in the well appreciated trend of old industrial areas conversion process. The 2.7 ha area is located in the interference of three strong land uses areas, which makes it well suited for a mixture of those uses.

The northern area of the city has always been subject to real estate pressure; the demand for new buildings still defies the economic crisis mildly. The historical building is emphasized by the creation of public spaces that make a gradual passing from built areas to green areas; The residential buildings are located near the park, so that the inhabitants will benefit from the view to the park; The tall office building will become land mark for the area, just as a campanile tower to the historical building.

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ford old warehouse rehabilitation

land use

green area

flows

Offices, commercial galleries and other

The minimum 30% green space required by

The pedestrian flows are gradually

services are located on Floreaca Av.

the Regional Environmental Protection

distributed towards the park via the public

emphasising its commercial status.

Agency is provided on the site.

square and other space cells in between the buildings on site.

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ford old warehouse rehabilitation

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sintofarm residential development

Project type: master plan, urban concept developed by AS&P GmbH Location: 22-25 Ziduri intre Vii, Bucharest Designed: 2011 Total area: 88298 sqm Details: The basic planning principles for the urban design concept were as follows: - According to the overall town-planning strategy for the district, the location and quality of the site, as well as the prevailing market requirements, the property will be developed as a middle-class housing area. Depending on the future population of the site, it is quite likely that a smaller share of social services (kindergarden, small medical facilities) and a small number of shops and restaurants will support the residential area. - One of the mail design features is the open interior garden and a central plaza, shelltering off the traffic and creating an introvert neighbourhood. - The tall buildings are concentrated on the perimeter, grouped around the central garden to landmark the area. - The entire road system consists of a ring road at the property boundary, leaving the interior area traffic free. - The backbone of the urban development is the main road -Str. Ziduri intre Vii; at the intersection of this road with the central plaza the public functions are located. raluca axante | portfolio

sintofarm residential development

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valenii de munte

Project type: landscape study Location: town of Valenii de Munte, Romania Designed: 2011 Total area: 21.59 km2 Details: Valenii de Munte is a little town of about 13000 inhabitants in the south part of Romania. A landscape study for the town was done in order to establish the town landscape typology. Different criteria were applied based on natural factors, social, economic, cultural and perception factors. The town was divided into landscape territorial units. After establishing the category of the landscape, the final objective of the study was to enounce a few conclusions and directions for the new General Urbanistic Plan of the town.

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valenii de munte

Project type: general urbanistic plan Location: town of Valenii de Munte, Romania Designed: 2011, on going 2

Total area: 21.59 km Details:

Among the problems the town is facing this project has to find a solution for a ring road to eliminate the heavy traffic from the center of the town and to restructure the central area of the town.

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valenii de munte

Project type: design code Location: town of Valenii de Munte, Romania Designed: 2011 Total area: 21.59 km2 Details: The target of this project is to set a design code for residential areas of the town of Valenii de Munte. The distinctive character of a country fair town, developed in a pre-balcan area will be preserved by construction rules imposed on elements such as windows, roofs, facades, fences, land use regulations, volumes. raluca axante | portfolio

baia mare Project type: landscape study Location: town of Baia Mare, Romania Designed: 2011 Total area: 233.3 km2 Details: Baia Mare is a big town in the north part of Romania, the capital of the Maramures county. The town is a traditional mining centre ever since Middle Ages. The beautiful landscape with high hills on north of the crossing Sasar river and a plain on the souther bank of the river was seriously affected by the industrialized era, when big factories with high chimneys were built all over the town. Going green is a difficult process and a challenge to preserve and restore a traditional landscape.

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baia mare Project type: landscape study

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baia mare

Project type: General Urbanistic Plan Location: town of Baia Mare, Romania Designed: 2011, on going Total area: 233.3 km2 Details: Baia Mare, a town of about 115 000 inhabitants, has an old mining tradition, that raises major environmental problems due to gold and other metal extraction and processing. This is only one of the many challenges for the new General Urbanistic Plan. raluca axante | portfolio

baia mare

Project type: public spaces study Location: town of Baia Mare, Romania Designed: 2011 Total area: 233.3 km2 Details: The objective of the project is to identify and make an inventory of all existing public spaces from the town of Baia Mare: squares, parks, pedestrian streets, etc as well as potential new public spaces developments. The analysis was made on each town district.

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baia mare Project type: public spaces study

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Bucharest north ring road

Project type: infrastructure planning Location: Bucharest, Romania Designed: 2011, on going Total area: 282 ha Details: The development of city infrastructure system of roads and railways is a key element to the relief of traffic congestion in central area. A future north ring road of Bucharest of about 10km long was designed. The project was partitioned in 7 study areas. The new ring road has 3 lanes per direction and a back bone of urban train rails. The existing train rails are to be converted into urban train rails with two stations along the way. Designing the new project was also a good opportunity to reorganize the road system in the surrounding area and implement bicycle circuits connected with the green zones.

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Bucharest north ring road

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Bucharest north ring road

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magurele high-tech cluster DN1 Dj101C

Dj101C

H.Snagov Plaja

H.Scrovistea

Dj101B

Dj101C

DN1 Dj101B Dj101C

H.Snagov Sat

H.Peris DJ101

St.Greci DN1 DJ101A Dj200

St.Moara Vlasiei DJ101

St.Caciulati

Dj200 Dj200B

Dj200

St.Balotesti

DJ101

Dj200

accesibility

DJ101

St.Buftea

DN1A

Dj200B

DN1 Dj100

Dj100 DC77

DN7

DJ602

St.Sabareni

DN1A

St.Mogosoaia St.Otopeni

DJ602

DN2

DN7

administration boundary

Dj200

DN1A

DN2

Dj200B

railroads subway lines subway lines (proposal) railway station

St.Chitila

DN2

Dj300

Dj100

DN7

Dj300

A3 DN2

St.Pantelimon

St.Constantin David

Dj100

DJ601A

St.Pasarea

H.Cozieni

DN3

St.Branesti

Dj300 DN3 DJ602

subway station

DN3

A1 DJ601

H.Sabarul

Dj100

DJ401

DC201

road [DC]

DJ401

road [DJ]

DN4

national road [DN]

highway [A]

St.Domnestii de Sus AA22

DJ401

St.Cernica DJ401 DC121

DN6

DC128

DN4

St.VirtejuDC18 DN6

St. C.F.

ring road 1 [existing] ring road 2 [proposal] traffic airlines

DN4

H.PopestiLeordeni

DN5

St.Jilava

DN6

DN5

Mﾄトurele

DN4

St.Berceni

DJ401

h.Sintesti DN5

urban area DC83 DJ401

rural areapp

St. Vidra

DJ401A

Project type: master plan Location: Magurele, Romania Designed: 2012 Total area: ~168 ha Details: A master plan for an area of ~168ha, featuring a high-tech cluster. Located on the south-west of Bucharest the proposed high-tech cluster has to be integrated into the infrastructure network consisting of railroads, subway lines, connection to the city and the neareast airport. A new generation laser is to be built in this area for medical purposes and other types of research. raluca axante | portfolio

magurele high-tech cluster

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magurele new investments

Project type: master plan Location: Magurele, Romania Designed: 2012 Total area: ~120 ha Details: A master plan was created for an area of ~120ha, in order to support all the services necessary to support ~1000 science people who will be located in Magurele for the new generation laser research. There will be three different areas connected by the interior longitudinal road services, residential and public investments. raluca axante | portfolio

varvsstaden design project

Project type: design project Location: Malmo, Sweden Designed: 2013 Total area: ~18.5 ha Details: In this project WATER has been the main driven force of the design, from an esthetic point of view to technical aspects, preparing for possible floods as well as saving water. Different ways of experiencing water have been envisioned, water as an element that brings people together. There are different water features along the water edge and inland, visible or invisible: water amphitheater, inner harbor bath, restaurant on the water, fishing and promenade decks, water plaza, bridges and different other connections over the channel (sound pipes to transfer the sound across the other side of the canal in a playful way), an open workshop for ship building as a remembrance of the former Kockums shipyard, a bio diverse area with aquatic flora and fauna, an exhibition pavilion dedicated to water in connection to an underwater observatory. A former dry dock has been reopened for promenade and houses specialized in living by the water. raluca axante | portfolio

varvsstaden design project

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landscape design Sf. Gheorghe square

St. Gheorghe square park Project type: landscaping design Location: Bucharest, Romania Designed: 2004 Total area: 2ha Details: A landscape design for a square park located at the heart of the historical center of Bucharest. The approach was very neutral and non aggressive considering the fact that an old orthodox church of Saint. Gheorghe is located in this square as well as a monument that indicates KM 0 - the geometrical center of the city. The light system emphasizes the old monument as well as other anthropic and natural elements.

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competitions

bucharest

Project type: general urban plan Location: Bucharest, Romania Competition: 2012 Total area: 228 km 2 Details: The competition was set for the new general urban plan of the Romanian capital city - Bucharest. Five distinctive ideas for the future city character had to be developed after different layers of analysis. The concept presented in the competition was the result of an assiduous team work . A workshop was held in September 2012 with the participation of the reunited international team. raluca axante | portfolio

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