PORTFOLIO Stefan Florescu
STEFAN FLORESCU BSc Architecture Graduate Bartlett School of Architecture UCL Nationality: Romanian, EU National Insurance Number: Yes Address: 32 Market Road, London N7 9AW Mobile: +44 7597 514 106 E-mail Address: stefanflorescu15@gmail.com curriculum vitae Education 2013 - 2016:
BSc Architecture, Bartlett School of Architecture UCL Tutors: Christine Hawley, Paolo Zaide, Thomas Hillier, Pascal Bronner, Frosso Pimenides, Patrick Weber
Professional Experience July-September 2015: July-September 2014:
AHMM - Student Intern Foster+Partners - Studio4 Student Intern
Exhibitions The 2015 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (Hong Kong) - group exhibition
CAD Skills Rhinoceros Microstation Adobe CC Suite ECDL Certificate
PORTFOLIO Stefan Florescu
PORTFOLIO Stefan Florescu
Y3 Project 1 / The 1961 Space Easter Egg Final Drawing Perspective image (Rhinoceros+Photoshop) Print 594x1000 mm
Level 3 - "CONQUERING THE SPACE " “I saw for the first time the earth’s shape. I could easily see the shores of continents, islands, great rivers, folds of the terrain, large bodies of water. The horizon is dark blue, smoothly turning to black… the feelings which filled me I can express with one word - joy.” Yuri A. Gagarin, 21 April 1961.
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Y3 Project 1 / The 1961 Space Easter Egg
The 1961 Space Easter Egg Exploring the typology of the ‘archive’ and challenging the idea of ‘archiving’, my project reimagines a Fabergé Easter Egg, an iconic master piece of Russian culture. With a profound and poetic Russian soul, Fabergé’s works of art, like the stories they tell, continue to exert a powerful fascination as hypnotic today as it ever was. This project tries to imagine and create the Fabergé Easter Egg of year 1961. As the original Imperial Easter Eggs, this project preserves the initial principles and tries to archive one of the most astonishing events in the human history, the first human space flight. The project also aims to encapsulate and restore trough its design what people felt when they found out that man entered space.
ПРОХОДЫ, ТРАПЫ И ЦИРКУЛЯЦИЯ Passageways, Gangways and Circulation
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Y3 Project 1 / The 1961 Space Easter Egg
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ST. PETERSBURG 24 Bolshaya Morskaya Ulitsa TEL: 8.812.234-56-78
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1961 SPACE IMPERIAL EGG Drawing Title / Location:
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The first level provides all the spaces and facilities needed for building and preparing the rocket and the space-capsules for the spaceflight. The design contains: 8 Fuelling Tanks, 4 Supporting Legs acting as rocket launching pad, platforms and working stations.
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Level 1: The Hangar This level provides all the spaces and facilities needed for building and preparing the rocket and the space-capsules for the space-flight. The design contains: 8 Fuelling Capsules, 4 Legged stand acting as rocket launching pad, platforms and working stations and the cosmodrome railway.
Level 2: Preparing for a New Era The second level symbolises all the research, tests and training done by the russian in their preparation for the first manned spaceflight, event that opened a new chapter in human history. Here are: the top part of Mechanism A(symbolising the beginning of a new era), Sputnik2 Spaceship, the Astronomical Observatory and the Living Spaces Complex.
Level 3: Conquering the Space The top level of the egg represents the grandeur of the event of sending a human into space. This was transposed into the design by describing the journey of Vostok-1 and its stages around the Earth. Also here we can find Mechanism B, the Sputnik-1 Satellite and the Command Centre.
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Final Section Sectional drawing (Rhinoceros+Illustrator) Print 594x1000 mm
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Final Plans 1&2 Plan drawings (Rhinoceros+Illustrator+SketchUp) Print 594x1000 mm
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Уровень 3 : Покорение пространства Level 3: Conquering the Space
The top level of the egg represents the grandeur of the event of sending a human into space. This was transposed into the design by describing the journey of Vostok-1 and its stages around the Earth. Also here we can find Mechanism B, the Sputnik-1 Satellite and the Command Centre.
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ST. PETERSBURG 24 Bolshaya Morskaya Ulitsa TEL: 8.812.234-56-78
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1961 SPACE IMPERIAL EGG Drawing Title / Location:
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Y3 Project 1 / The 1961 Space Easter Egg
Level 1 - "THE HANGAR " “To set foot on the soil of the asteroids, to lift by hand a rock from the Moon, to observe Mars from a distance of several tens of kilometers, to land on its satellite or even on its surface, what can be more fantastic? From the moment of using rocket devices a new great era will begin in astronomy: the epoch of the more intensive study of the firmament..� Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, father of russian astronautics.
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Y3 Project 1 / The 1961 Space Easter Egg
Level 2 - "PREPARING FOR A NEW ERA " “ Spaceflights cannot be stopped. This is not the work of any one man or even a group of men. It is a historical process which mankind is carrying out in accordance with the natural laws of human development.� Yuri Gagarin, the first man to fly into space, 1961
Final Drawing Perspective image (Rhinoceros+Photoshop) Print 594x1000 mm 8
Y3 Project 1 / The 1961 Space Easter Egg
Железнодорожная Cистема
Восток- 1 Ракета
The miniature train model spins inside the egg while the Mechanism A is twisted.
Vostok-1 was designed to carry a single cosmonaut into space. The flight was divided into eight stages, each represented by the separation of one of the rocket parts. In the egg design, the Vostok-1 journey represents the core of the 3rd level, named “Conquering the Space”.
The Railway System
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Открытие МеханизМ тест МОдель Opening Mechanism Test Model scale 3:1
Portfolio pages (Rhinoceros+Photoshop+SketchUp) Print 594x1000 mm
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Y3 Project 2 / The Saint Petersburg Museum of Holography
Final Model Cardboard, plaster and Copper (Rhinoceros+Lasercut) Scale 1:100 650x350mm
1:100 Sectional Model The model illustrates the key moments of the visits: the eye accommodation area (the entrance device), the distribution room (light guides you), a corridor (ambient and guided light, an exhibition room (light makes the holograms visible) and the dome.
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The model illustrates the key moments of the visits: the eye accommodation area (the entrance device), the distribution room (light guides you), a corridor (ambient and guided light, an exhibition room (light makes the holograms visible) and the dome.
Y3 Project 2 / The Saint Petersburg Museum of Holography
The Module Sectional drawing of the exhibition space (natural light+ventilation) (Rhinoceros+Illustrator+SketchUp)
The Saint Petersburg Museum of Holography Known worldwide for the White Nights, when the sun does not descend below the horizon enough for the sky to grow dark, and with the sun staying up more than 18 hours a day in summer, Saint Petersburg is a very particular city, full of Russian history and culture, a place where museums represent a characteristic architectural program. And what kind of museum could use the particularities of the Saint Petersburg natural light in order to present exhibits which are being revealed also by light in a very specific way? Being designed in perfect synchronisation with the specific Saint Petersburg sunlight, the Museum of Holography gives the whole picture about what holography and holographic images mean: from visiting renown works to seeing the making process and in the end the way in which they are being archived. The natural light represents the key element that shaped the building, being used under three valences: directed light, for activating the holographic images, diffused light for ambient illumination and guiding light for showing the right way to meander through the museum in order to see the according holograms to your time visit.
Final Drawing Isometric drawing + Moments (Rhinoceros+Photoshop+SketchUp) Moments The Museum of Holography Saint Petersburg Print 594x1280 mm
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9. Holograms Archive and Storage space 10. Small Hologram Storage Shelf 11. Big Hologram Storage Space 12. Lift Lobby for Basement Access 13. Amphitheatre 14. Access Corridor 15. Basement Access 16. Viewing Platform Access
17. Dome Balcony 18. Souvenir Shop 19. Storage Space 20. Lobby 21. Waiting Room 22. Toilet 23. Exit
Observing the Solar Eclipse 2061 Total Solar Eclipse
Final Drawings Ground and first floor plans (Rhinoceros+Illustrator+Photoshop) Scale 1:100 594x1280mm
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The Museum provides a platform on top of the dome orientated towards the solar eclipse which will take place on the 18th of August 2061, thus giving a unique opportunity to the Saint Petersburg citizens to see the celestial event this century
Render image of the building proposal depicting the solar terrace, designed to frame the solar eclipse in 2061 (Rhinoceros+SketchUp+Photoshop)
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10. All year Light Catcher for the Distribution Room 11. Winter Light Catchers 12. Summer Light Catchers 13. Light Corridor 14. Holograms 15. Souvenir Shop 16. Amphitheatre 17. Viewing Platform Access 18. Viewing Platform 19. Terrace 20. Eclipse Platform
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Final Drawing 1:100 Section (Rhinoceros+Illustrator+Photoshop) Print 594x1280 mm
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Y3 Project 2 / The Saint Petersburg Museum of Holography
The Entrance Device
The Entrance Device Channelling the sunlight - Study Model Channelling the sunlight (Cardboard Model) Scale 1:200 1:100 Cardboard Model
Study Models Channelling the sunlight (Cardboard Model) Scale 1:200
Study Models and Light Test
Channelling the sunlight
The entrance device is very important. Apart form its ceremonial role in a museum, here the entering device prepares the visitor for the low illumination environment of the exhibition spaces. The bright staircase continues with a space which gradually reduces light in order to help the eye to accommodate quicker.
The Entrance Light - Dark Eye Accommodation (Rhinoceros+Photoshop) The Entrance
Light - Dark Eye Accommodation Device
In my building project, natural light will have three valences: directed light, for activating the holographic images, diffused light for ambient illumination and guiding light for showing the right way to meander through the museum in order to see the according holograms to your time visit.
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Y3 Project 2 / The Saint Petersburg Museum of Holography
Renders Channelling the sunlight (Rhinoceros+SketchUp+Photoshop) Print 420x594mm
Visit Routes Distribution Room
Natural Light: Summer Morning/Summer Evening/Winter Morning/Winter Evening
Visiting the Museum Visiting the Activating theMuseum holograms with natural light (Rhinoceros+SketchUp+Photoshop) Print 420x594mm
Activating the holograms with natural light
The Exhibition Spaces
Activating the holograms with natural light
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Y3 Project 2 / The Saint Petersburg Museum of Holography
The Dome
A Holographic Spectacle
Final Model Cardboard, plaster and Copper (Rhinoceros+Lasercut) Scale 1:100 650x350mm 1:100 Sectional Model The model illustrates the key moments of the visits: the eye accomodation area (the entrance device), the distribution room (light guides you), a corridor (ambiental and guided light, an exhbition room (light makes the holgrams visible) and the dome.
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Renders of the Dome Illustrating the architecture of the central space of my building proposal (Rhinoceros+SketchUp+Photoshop) Print 420x594mm
The Dome
The Dance of light or How holograms are being produced
Y3 Project 2 / The Saint Petersburg Museum of Holography
Final Drawing (Rhinoceros+Illustrator+Photoshop) Print 594x1280 mm
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Sectional Model Render
Y2 Project 2 / The Hong Kong Bamboo Centre
Final Renders ( top + left ) Renders of my building proposal (Rhinoceros+3DS Max) Print 420x594mm Detail (bottom) Construction detail of the bamboo structure (Rhinoceros+Illustrator) 1:25 Detailed Section: Print 420x594mm
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Sectional Model Render
Y2 Project 2 / The Hong Kong Bamboo Centre
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Key 1. Bending the bamboo poles 2. Floor Structure 3. The rack 4. Metal joints 5. Metal structure for elevators 6. Cantilevered bamboo structure 7. Concrete base 8. The staircase - public access 9. Student’s staircase a. Bamboo garden - study b. Bamboo garden - workshop c. Bamboo garden - recreation d. Auditorium seats e. Students access from the musical workshop into the auditorium
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Taking under consideration today’s upward trend of bamboo usage in Asia, especially in Hong Kong, I have anticipated that in 50 years time bamboo will represent an indispensable source of raw material, used in all fields: construction, art, music, gastronomy, medicine, fabrics etc. In the coming decades, bamboo industries will grow exponentially, together with the need for experts. Schools will introduce Bamboo Science in the curricula, preparing students for the future jobs. ‘Mong Kok Bamboo Centre’ is a building proposal, linked to an existing High School, that provides all the necessary spaces for students to study the bamboo (laboratories, classrooms, bamboo gardens, workshops, a sugarcane juice factory). The building also contains public spaces (exhibition spaces, an open bamboo garden and an auditorium). ‘Mong Kok Bamboo Centre’ combines the public and the private functions, making both students and visitors to know and understand all the aspects of the bamboo.
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Sectional Model + Moments view from one of the next building apartments
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Y2 Project 1 / East Kawloon Ferry Terminal
Final Drawing and Render Moments, Access, Render view (Rhinoceros+Sketchup+Illustrator+Photoshop+3DS Max)
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Y2 Project 1 / East Kawloon Ferry Terminal
East Kawloon Ferry Terminal I visited Hong Kong in November 2014. As in any city of its size, connections and public transport are extremely important, prominent for the proper functioning of the metropolis. I have noticed several distinctive attributes for Hong Kong, like its density and verticality, but the most important feature for me was the under- ground connections between lines. To- tally different than those in Europe, in the connection stations different lines arrive at the same platform, facilitating a fast and prompt interchange. Based on this, I have found a site which can become a major connection point. Thus, I have reconsidered this area by transforming three separate means transport routes (pedestrian, bus, local ferry) in a single interchange node: the East Kawloon Ferry Terminal - a local ferry terminal with a bus station and public promenade on top.
Final Drawings Final Section and Plan (Rhinoceros+Illustrator+Photoshop) Print 420x1088 mm
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Personal Work
Photo from the 2015 Hong Kong Architecture\Urbanism Biennale Group exhibition
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Personal Work Pencil Free-hand Drawings
P O R T F O L I O Stefan Florescu