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Ruxandra Maria Osiac ruxandra_osiac88@yahoo.com Bucharest, Romania +40726 268829

education

Bucharest, Romania //Ion Mincu// Bachelor’s Degree and Master’s Degree University of Architecture and 2007//2013 RIBA accredited

Urban Planning

Padua, Italy //DAUR//

Erasmus Scholarship Dipartimento march2012//june2012

di Architettura Urbanistica e Rilevamento

training

Bucharest, Romania GrasshopperKindergarten Grasshopper Training // http://gradinitagh.tumblr.com/ march2013//may2013 Bucharest, Romania RhinoKindergarten Rhino Training // http://gradinitagh.tumblr.com/ august2012//september2013

Padova, Italy Laboratorio stop motion animation technics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5a1EQPhBCM Bunesti, Romania traditional technologies workshop august 2011

di cinema d’animazione

Bunesti Summer School

Bucharest, Romania // PZP Architecture // dec 2014//iun 2015 OFFICE| Timpuri Noi SQUARE | DDE architect OFFICE| Glucoza Factory Offices, a story of place making | SF

Bucharest, Romania aug 2014//dec 2014

MASTERPLAN | Locuințe unifamiliale Tâncăbești | SF MASTERPLAN | Locuințe colective + Office + Retail | SF

// K-BOX //

Beijing, China // StandardArchitecture // As a junior architect, I was involved in several projects, including the schematic and detailed design for the Zhuanta february 2014//june 2014 Hutong Bookstore and the design development of the prosed 798 Art Museum. Also, I was involved in the concepjunior architect tual and schematic design team in several projects such as the Shanghai Pavilion and the Camerich Canteen and Campus. Another part of my responsibilities was initiate products for Camerich Furniture.

Berlin, Germany // GRAFTarchitects // september 2012//december2012 As an intern, I was involved in conceptual and schematic design in several projects: Erweiterung Mokabberi LP5, Charite PACU Innovation, Hotel Lofer Competition, Brioni Riviera Master Plan Study, Nobel Education Network and internship Filmpark Babelsberg.

Bucharest, Romania //Romanian Design Week// Student Gallery Exhibition 16-25 march 2014 diploma project The Mill.grinding for the people since 1854 Bucharest, Romania //mention Isover Student april 2012 Little Houses on a hillside Project

Competion 2012//

Bucharest, Romania //top 10 finalist Arhetipuri// august 2011 Slumbering Tower Project

skills technical drawing AutoCAD

3DStudioMax Rhinoceros rendering 3DStudioMax // Vray Rhinoceros // Vray AdobePhotoshop 3D modeling

presentation AdobePhotoshop

AdobeInDesign AdobeIlustrator

content

Bucharest, Romania theMill diploma project tutors: arch. Mario Kuibus ing. Mircea Crisan USA // eVolo 2013 Rainbow Ark competition entry jury: Vincent Callebaut, Julien De Smedt, Hernan Alonso, team: Razvan Dumitru, Vlad Osiac Mathias Hollwich, Marc Kushner, Francois Roche, Roland Snooks, Tuuli Sotamaa Kivi Sotamaa, Tom Wiscombe

Nottingham, UK // ISOVER 2012 competition entry // Honorable Mention team: Razvan Dumitru, Simona Meilescu

Little Houses on a Hill Side

jury: Rodica Crisan, Razvan Stefanescu, Cristina Ochinciuc, Mihaela Georgescu, Mihai Opreanu, Yavor Andreev

Padova, Italy // Scholarship Savonarola Gate academic project professor: arch. Enrico Pietrogrande Patio House professor: arch. Edoardo Narne

Bucharest, Romania Matache Hall Urban Regeneration academic project professor: arch. Dorin Stefan PhD, arch. Mario Kuibus

Bucharest, Romania re|view Dambovita academic project professor: arch. Dorin Stefan PhD, arch. Mario Kuibus

Slumbering Tower Bistrita, Romania // Archetypes 2011 top 10 finalist jury: Jacques Allard, Kai U. Bergmann, Carlos Jimenez, Robert team: Razvan Dumitru, Simona Meilescu, Vlad Osiac Kronenburg, Francoise Pamfil, Oana Rades, Eliza Yokina sample work Standard Architecture Beijing, China http://standardarchitecture.cn/

sample work Graft Berlin, Germany http://graftlab.com/

the MILL

grinding for the people since 1853

The main purpose was to create an attractive public space that could generate an active urban life. Through this kind of approach the ex-mill becomes an urban lobby who speaks about itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history and keeps offering people other types of products, recreation and an active social life translated into art and culture. If the steam engine represented the answer searched by so many scientists last century, nowadays this answer should be more complex. The mill will now grind ideas, art culture, business, learning and leisure serving the community at its best. The main silo, built in 1903 will become the principal piece of the ensemble, an urban lobby of cultural, artistic and leisure activities. Giving the esthetic power of the buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s architecture, I have decided to connect it to the public space through its basement, so that the integrity of the volume would not be destroyed by attaching elements that needed to belong to the entrance space. The access is facilitated through a buried pavilion that is in the same time connected to the underground parking lot. The pavilion is covered using a water mirror which symbolically represents the double purpose of the space: functional and historically charged.

diploma project

This research led to a classification of the buildings according to their architectural importance and to develope a future intervention: //closing the area of houses from the East side of the site, facilitated the access and the possibility to return at the initial shape of the ensemble //underline the main axe of the site offered by its supply track, by locating two more buildings that would complete and close the ensemble. //clearing the area found behind the site according to the plan made by The Geographic Institute of the Army would facilitate the possibility of building a park //create an expansive area for the silo, by deploying a pavilion at the entrance. .

12 // the MILL // Bucharest

16 // the MILL // Bucharest

the Rainbow Ark eVolo

The power plant The main idea was to create a massive ring around the planet, which would generate large amounts of energy, to power up the earth. Now the plans needed to be adapted, as this was not sufficient to save the Planet. And it was done. Decade after decade, mankind came to see the huge ring floating around Earth as part of the natural landscape, many of them not remembering how it became, how it was created, or how it was sustaining all of Earthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s power supply. Where it became The Ark Huge savannas, creeks, ponds, mountains, rainforests, even an ocean came to be inside the ark. When one species was in danger of becoming extinct, we would move it onto the ark. With them, few colonists moved, most of them living in central small cities. They would live on the new world, taking care of what now was called our most precious possession: life. And final Finally it was our turn to move. By now, cities were already fully grown, and expecting the upcoming influx of citizens. Nowadays Earth lies barren, underneath our feet. Life still exists, but untouched by mankind. architectural competition

Little Houses on a hill side

The task was to design a sustainable community within the regeneration program of the Trent Basin area, Nottingham, UK. The project consist in developing a sustainable neighborhood, providing accommodation for 12-15 families and essential services to assure an effective live and work scheme, plus to develop a vision of regeneration for a larger area where this neighborhood is placed, in which infrastructure, offices, leisure and recreation are conceived to reuse existing buildings and to provide an effective integration to the city. After studying the morphology of the area we concluded that the suburbs are subordinated to the streets; they seem to have supremacy and create a sad and repetitive landscape that tends to alienate people. The suburbs are unable to keep up to the contemporary necessities of social life in public spaces. So, we proposed a structure of streets and squares with closed islands that can offer an alternative way of spending time, but also can create a private area for houses.

architectural competition

Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of ticky tacky, Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes all the same.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a green one and a pink one And blue one and a yellow one, And theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all made out of ticky tacky And they all look just the same

And they all play on the golf course And drink their martinis dry, And they all have pretty children And the children go to school

Erasmus Scholarship Padova, Italy

Savonarola Gate. Public space The fortification walls are fading in the city; they can only be seen in some areas. The walls lost their main function and they are neglected, so it is necessary to analyse and to find a new function that can remake them a symbol of the city. A function that is at the same time a recollection of the past and also meets the needs of the present: the urban life of the city. The new functions will be attached to the wall in the main existing points and extended, so that the fortification becomes a series of connected urban rooms. The project then focuses on the Savonarola Gate and creates an Urban Family Room, a place of gathering. Patio House We were assigned the task to create a contemporary patio house in an utopic environment, an urban development that is placed in an non-existing site. The briefing had only the dimensions of the site, the orientation and a common semipublic courtyard. Each garden had a natural element and so my project was in the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;fireâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;urban area.

academic project

Matache Hall Urban Regeneration Bucharest, Romania

The streets around Matache Hall were always well known as a central commercial area of Bucharest. In the last few years the quality of the area decreased a lot and the Bucharest City Hall has started demolishing the old houses on the Buzesti Boulevard to expand the street. The old tissue has been erased and along with it 4 historic buildings. The project of the new street represents the cities policies to facilitate a speedy transit route for personal cars. The project tries to offer an alternative way of handling the intervention, taking into consideration the city history without the demolition of the Matache Hall. We propose to create a pedestrian system that will balance the social impact of the new speedy street. A series of pedestrian streets and squares that create an interactive and animated space around the main attractor of the area, Matache Hall. The assigment was to find a place on this future street where we can develope a 20 storey office tower. The new building will become a second urban attractor that will bring around a new type of people. It will be developed at the crossroad of the 2 types of urban tissue, old and modern, in a point, where the tower will become a perspective end for the railway station boulevard. academic project

/re/view Dambovita

Bucharest has a quality that until now was completely ignored by the urban interventions: the presence of the Dambovita River. All European cities are embracing and using their rivers, gathering locals and tourists around through proper spaces and activities along the water. Bucharest on the other hand, ignores the river; it is just a part of a boulevard and of the infrastructure, closed within the streets, with no place to admire and enjoy the water. The project tries to study the evolution of the river within the city and to discover the turning point in the river’s evolution process and use this point to rethink the riverbanks. The history reveals that the river was flooding the city and so, during the communist period, the current solution was found. What the history also reveals is that the floods were not bad for all the locals. For the lower class the flood was the source of life, with fishes left in the basement and ‘‘goodies’’ brought by it. So the project takes this event as the last moment in time when the locals were truly using the river, and rethink the river using the ‘‘goods’’ to reshape the riverbank.

school project

the Slumbering Tower Archetypes

Arhetipuri is a Romanian international contest, aiming to revive the public space, by placing temporary pavilions in key areas of the large Romanian cities. In 2011, our team chose to build a pavilion in Bistrita. After researching the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history, we found out that, during the medieval ages, it had a defense system dominated by seven gate towers. Our site was on the former Wooden Gate, a landmark tower that was destroyed during the expansion of Bistrita. The goal was to create a monument pavilion dedicated to this fortification system that was lost. So, we took the general shape of the tower, simplified it, cut it on its four axes and placed it on the ground. The pavilion represents a gathering of urban rooms, with different activities for a wide range of people. A closed public space that is framed on the street, offering different kind of activities, each room atracts specific people.

architectural competition

the placement of the old tower in the center of Liviu Rebreanu street

the resurection of the old tower//a massive body that cannot interact with the new urban display

cutting the old tower on both itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s symmertry axes

the diversity of the human nature flows in the old tower defining itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spaces

scenographis reunionof shape, in form of a reflecting surface

Junior Architect // Standard Architecture // Beijing Internship // GRAFT Architects // Berlin

Zhuanta Hutong // Standard Architecture

location: Beijing, China program: bookstore area: 200 sqm phase: schematic and detailed design status: pending

The site is located in Zhuanta Hutong, one of the oldest and well-preserved hutongs from Beijing, and incorporates Zhuantaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most important landmark: the 700 years old brick tower. While the residents and the surrounding homes have evolved constantly, this single tower remains as a legacy to its long history: build for the first time in the 13th century it was rebuilt several times, last time in 1927. The owner of the space wanted to create a new building that can incorporate an information point for the tower, a bookstore and a small meeting space for cultural events. The project consist of a pavilion that unites the existing buildings and creates visual unity in the courtyard. Respecting the history of the tower, the new wooden pavillion takes into consideration the protected area around it and unfolds itself within the requiered boundaries and becomes a smooth background, so that the old pagoda will dominate the space.

798 Art Museum // Standard Architecture

location: Beijing, China program: museum area: 19 584sqm phase: design competition status: pending

The site is located in Chaoyang District, in a vast area of disused factories known as the 798 Art District, the leading concentration of contemporary art galleries in Beijing. As a mixture of arts, buildings, cultures, history and functions, this area evolved into a cultural hub which attracts lots of artists, locals and tourists. The office was invited to propose a design scheme for a future art museum in this area. The design strategy was to create a powerfull and massive object that can impose itself in the main square of the area. Starting with a simple rectagular shape, we extracted triangular, rooflike shapes and created space around the museum, creating a walkthrough and smaller squares in which the pedestrians can enjoy a more intimate space, inbetween old and new.

Parametrische (T)Raumgestaltung // GRAFT Architects

location: Charite, Berlin, Germany program: health care area: 48 sqm phase: schematic and detailed design status: build

The project Parametrische (T)Raumgestaltung is a research project that aims to answer a series of questions: can an intensive care room be anything other than cold, sterile and dominated by medical equipment? What impact does the atmosphere of the room have on the health of critically ill patients? Two new intensive care rooms were built at the Campus Virchow-Klinikum of the Charite. A central component of the interior room concept, designed by GRAFT Architects, is a large-format screen installed above the bed. The screen is curved down so that it fills the patientâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s field of vision. ART+COM developed the media content, based on scientific findings and theories, in close collaboration with the Department of Anaesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine at the CharitĂŠ. The media content is intended to help patients; it should be cognitively stimulating, as well as stress and anxiety relieving, enabling the dosages of pain medication and sedatives to be reduced and the healing process of patients to be improved.

Premium Gemeinwohl Resort // GRAFT Architects

location: Lofer, Austria program: resort phase: design competition status: first prize

The assignment was to develop a new premium resort that includes a hotel complex, a staff building, a workshop, a â&#x20AC;&#x153;cafĂŠ villaâ&#x20AC;? and a residence area. The proposed design takes into consideration the cultural landscape and the powerfull identity of the Alps. Therefore, the existing buildings are preserved and integrated into the new intervention and the new buildings are reminiscent of te traditional larch facades and the local traditional timber construction.

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