ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO Roxana Puris
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PERSONAL INFORMATION Name and surname: Roxana Puris Date and place of birth: 21. 01. 1993/ Timisoara, Romania Telephone: +40 720 340 139 E-mail: purisroxana@gmail.com EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND 2012 - present Faculty of Architecture, Politechnical University of Timisoara 2008 - 2012 National College C.D. Loga Timisoara, Romania INTERNSHIPS june-september 2016 cc-studio architecture office, Amsterdam, the Netherlands LANGUAGES Romanian - mother tongue English - C1 level (CAE Certificate) French - B2 level (DELF Certificate) Italian - B1 (ITASTRA Diploma) Spanish - B1 level ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITIONS Archimedium Berlin Residences - competition entry design a student residence bulding in Kreuzberg, Berlin Arquideas New York Summer Pavilion design a pavilion in Central Park, New York, 2016 Elba Competition - competition entry design the employees offices, 2014
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C.A.S.A. - competition entry design a house in a historical area in Baia Mare, Romania, 2014 School activity prize, 2012 WORKSHOPS Attic Restoration - A.Pacha street, Timisoara, Romania, 2015 PAO Summercamp, Potoc village, Romania, 2013 EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES Roxi’s Fine Cut - clothing design - personal studio www.roxisfinecut.com Fashion Show - personal clothing collection - at Filarmonica Banatul, 2013 Personal Exhibition - “Joia Culturala”, at Facultatea de Arhitectura Timisoara, 2015 Participation at Fashion Fairs at Zai Cafe Timisoara, 2013
at Bastion Timisoara, 2014 at Hotel Continental Timisoara, 2015 at Porto Arte Timisoara, 2015 WAMP International Fair, Vienna, Austria, 2016 Museum Market, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2016 100% Romanesc by Andreea Esca, Bucharest, Romania, 2016 Half is Free by Andreea Esca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2017
at Sabotage Festival, Timisoara, Romania, 2015
Personal Stand at Pop-up Stores at Electric Castle Festival, Cluj, Romania, 2015
SKILLS creativity, organizational skills, leadership, communication, punctuality; honesty, professionalism, energy. COMPUTER SKILLS ArchiCAD, AutoCAD, Artlantis, Rhino, Grasshopper, Sketchup; Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Indesign; Microsoft Office Suite. HOBBIES painting cello playing theatre cycling and other sports
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
FROM PHOTOGRAPH TO PAVILION 8 THE KITCHEN, THE CORE OF THE HOUSE 10 BERLIN STUDENT RESIDENCES 12 BUDAPEST RESIDENCES 16 HOSTEL IN PALAZZO CAFISI 18 THE COOLER TANK 24 ACCESIBLE PROJECT
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SUMMER PAVILION 38 ATTIC RESTORATION
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PAO SUMMERCAMP 54 ROXI’S FINE CUT 60 PERSONAL DRAWINGS AND PAINTINGS
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OTHER CRAFTS AND PROJECTS 82 MORE ABOUT ME 90
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FROM PHOTOGRAPH TO PAVILION FIRST YEAR PROJECT
During the first semester, students have been introduced to architecture with a stepby-step design exercise. We have firstly chosen a photograph from our personal archive. Then we studied it in terms of 2D composition, considering the main focus points, the ritm or sequences in the picture and the visual lines. Secondly, we had to turn the 2D composition into a 3D model, being careful that the main ideas remain untouched. The last part of the project was creating a pavilion-like space that can accomodate humans. My pavilion had two phases, in which the materials and also the interior spaces differ.
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THE KITCHEN, THE CORE OF THE HOUSE SECOND YEAR PROJECT
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In the second year, we had been given the topic of our first housing project. All of the students had to work together to create a community that could populate an old viilage of Timis county, Romania, that hadn’t been inhabited for a long time. Then, each student created their own housing project. My topic was creating a home for the cook of the village, a house that is properly designed for cooking and welcoming guests at dinner time. I created a house with an oven core. The oven has three openings, which provide three different utilities: the cooking stove, the chimney for the living room and the heating of the house.
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BERLIN STUDENT RESIDENCES FOURTH YEAR PROJECT WITH: BARBU THEODORA (student at the Polytechnic of Bucharest) ANITOWSKA SANDRA (student at Lods Politechnika) KATARINA KEDZIOR (student at Lods Politechnika) JOANNA SOBCZAK (student at the University of Warsaw)
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While in Budapest, during my fourth year of studies, I got the chance to work in a team with other Erasmus students, and participate to an international architecture ideas contest. The plot was in Kreuzberg, Berlin, right next to the wall where Banksy made a controversial antipolitics artwork and was erased, years ago. Our task was to create a residential building for students and young families, with all the extra functions needed to sustain such a program.
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BUDAPEST RESIDENCES FOURTH YEAR PROJECT
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In the fourth year of study, as an Erasmus student in Budapest, we got the project of a building in a residential area in Budapest. The main aim of the project was to create a greadual transition between the high historical building and the new small houses. My approach was to create an extraction from the whole building volume, as a subtle transition. The volume which lays right next to the historical building is white and very simple, in order to make a contrast with it; while the small volume has the shape of a typical family house. The materials have as well been chosen in order to integrate the building in the area.
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HOSTEL IN PALAZZO CAFISI - SICILY FIFTH YEAR PROJECT
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THE COOLER TANK FOURTH YEAR PROJECT
WITH: MONIKA MAJCHER JUSTYNA CICHOSZ (students at Lods Politechnika)
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We hadhad beenbeen givengiven a plot a in Ozd We plot city, in Hungary, Ozd city,with Hungary. The plot is an industrial site with disaffected factories. Each of us had to redesign the interior space of one building out of three. My building was a cooler tank for the other factories, and it has three reinforced concrete chimneys. My main conceptual idea was to keep the beautiful appearance of the chimneys as much as possible in the whole building.
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ACCESSIBLE PROJECT
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This project aimed the refurbishment of an existing apartment so that it can accomodate a person with motion impairment. The owner is a lawyer, so that an office also needed to be provided. The office and the bathroom for the clients are designed in order to properly serve visual, hearing or motion impaired persons.
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SUMMER PAVILION CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK WITH ALEXANDRA OPREA (STUDENT OF UPT TIMISOARA) The nature is the exact opposite of a city, yet it plays a major part in a city’s life. A park which is situated inside a city is a protecting shell that provides the perfect environment for leisure activities. Inside the Central Park, there is a multitude of attractions and activity spots displayed along the park alleys. All those functions are covered by the tree crowns who generate a protective skin for that area. Here we can see the biggest antithesis built mass - natural area; CONCEPT We chose to relate with this beautiful irregular pattern of the park and create not only one pavilion, but several. Thus, three major spots are linked together with a ribbon-like structure which is either lying on the walking plane, either vertical or suspended above the head, defining the limits of the pavilion; LOCATION The pavilion is situated in a pedestrian area of the park, but very close to its border and it creates a transition between the major road near the park (which signifies the massively built area) and the lake (which is the manifestation of nature in its most pure stage - as this lake had no other physical intervention so far). THE PAVILION The three main spots can accommodate different activities (cafe-bar, exhibitions, movie area, theatre/concert stage, fashion runway or relaxation areas) and are linked with three major stages of the nature-inside-the-city experience. Mirrors are displayed along the “ribbon” and emphasize each stage: firstly, people see the big city buildings reflected in the mirror, and they realize the architectural greatness surrounding them; then, another mirror is placed as though they see their own reflection - this is the stage of the introspective experience; finally, as they are approaching the last spot, people only see the nature reflected on the pavilion walls, and they are starting to be aware of nature’s grandeur. This last spot is the ending one, and it is deliberately placed on a suspended plan above the lake, to accentuate the relation with the nature.
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ATTIC RENOVATION SUMMER WORKSHOP
WITH: IONETE MIHAELA (student of UPT TIMISOARA) PURICE DAN (graduate of UPT TIMISOARA)
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During the summer of 2015 I took part of an interesting initiative. The owner of the attic located on A. Paha street, Timisoara, wanted to redesign the interior space of it, and to present our proposal to the mayor of the city. We had to work really carefully, being given that the site where the building is located belongs to a historical patrimony, and our main concern was to keep the overall appearance of the house. We created different apartments that keep the steepness of the roof of the outside part, and that open with nice green gardens to the courtyard.
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PAO SUMMERCAMP SUMMER WORKSHOP - CAMP
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In 2013 I took part in a two-week summer workshop in Potoc village, Romania. The main aim of this workshop was the restoration of the old school in Potoc, but we has many other activities: pavilion building (with Dutch sculptor Ivo Bakker), Kinder Pao (arts and crafts with children of the village), mosaic, restoration of the wooden facade of Studio Magazen, Oravita (300 years old), clay modeling. We also had the opportunity of finding a remote place in the village and change it so that it could help the village community. I have been attracted by a stone facade (the only remain of an old house), which had a beautiful garden behind it. I liked the fact that normally you wouldn’t enter there, which made the place somehow secret, so I created a relaxing space where you can be by yourself and gaze at the nature.
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ROXI’S FINE CUT
PERSONAL FASHION WORKSHOP
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PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS
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OTHER CRAFTS AND PROJECTS DECORATING THE APARTMENTS where I lived before
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HANDMADE DESK
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HANDMADE CARDBOARD CHAIR
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HANDMADE PICK-UP TRUCK CUPBOARD
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HANDMADE STRING PARTIYION WALL
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MORE ABOUT ME
STUDY AND SEEK FOR KNOWLEDGE I have always thought that the best achievement you can ever accomplish is studying and absorb information. I do not think that our studies (especially architectural studies) last only a couple of years, and I strongly believe that we learn as much as we live. That’s how it should be, in my view. I am always trying to get as much information as I can from different fields, because I believe that architecture is related to almost every other. This way, I am not only learning new thing, but also improving my architecture understanding. WORK AS HARD AS YOU CAN Once I decided what I liked and actually start doing it, I never stop working. There is no overnight succes or sudden brilliant idea. You have to work for it, search for it every day, and you will eventually succeed. What’s more is that the quality of your work is not something that you can compromise. Once I start working on something, I make sure that I am able to complete it in the best way possible; and I am also not stopping until it gets to the level that I desire.
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THINK LIKE YOU DESIGN Pursuing the Architecture school and also being a creative mind, I started to realise that there is no way that I can become an architect without blending my whole personalty in it. Therefore, I am always redecorating my apartment, I am searching for the best and most useful way of using a living space, and I am always trying to find the most creative solution to everything. In this way, Roxi’s Fine Cut also took place. I could’t imagine that I could design buildings, but I can’t design the clothes that I wear everyday and reflect my personality - this wouldn’t have been possible. BE HAPPY WITH YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS No matter how intensively you study, how hard yo work or how perfectly you merge your life with your career, you have to stop from time to time and allow yourself to be happy. There is no sadder thing then students who work day and night to achieve something, that are so tiren that they even forget what they aimed for in the beginning. I am always trying to balance all the things that I do, and I do think that breaks and holidays help you clear your mind and improve your effectiveness.
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