WHP_portofoliu Bienala Veneția by Tamina Lolev

PORTFOLIO OF WORKS

This is the story of our projects showcasing complementary services and skills for creating exhibitions, community centered projects, urban design, masterplans.

CONTENT Exhibitions...........................................................................03 Iron Gates Museum Design - Comissioned Project Muzeu 3017 - Built Project Art-Touch Exhibition Design - Built Project Centered on Communities....................................................21 Vision for the Cotton Factory - Self-generated project Center for Creative Industries: Co-working - Built project The Materials Library - Built project Nod makerspace - Built project The Community Hub - Built project La Firul Ierbii - Built project Cartier Hub - Built Project Day Center in Berceni - Built Project Urban Design.......................................................................49 Public Space Design (Drumul Taberelor) - Built Project Deschis Gastrobar - Built Project Waterfront on the Danube - Comissioned project Râmnicu Vâlcea’s New Center - Competition Sibiel Public Space - Competition Masterplans.........................................................................71 Practical Urban Solutions for Ferentari - Comissioned Project Șimian Island Masterplan - Comissioned Project The Blue Line - Competition Ghimbav Masterplan - Competition

Iron Gates Museum Design Comissioned Project

Client: Mehedinţi County Council Date, location: 2014-2017, Drobeta-Turnu Severin Size / Investment: 6917 mp / €1.770.000 Services: Curatorial and Design Concept Lead team: Vlad Stoica, Tamina Lolev, Iulian Canov Collaborators: Iulia Săftoiu, Iris Popescu, Codruț Neguț, Florin Cobuz, Alexandru Tudose, Tudor Arsintescu

Awards: Nomination for „Architectural Projects/

Interior Design“, Ordinul Arhitecților din România Anuala OAR, 2019

The Iron Gates Museum is organized as a museum park, a set of buildings and archaeological objectives. The project consists of equipping and designing the museum’s interior hosting the permanent exhibitions of History, Archeology, Ethnography, Natural Sciences and the complementary spaces, in optimal conditions and according to the current standards. The concept is based on five key ideas:

1. The Danube as a Unifier. We propose the transition from a local perspective to a regional and crossborder perspective

2. The Danube as a Reading Thread, giving coherence to the museum’s experience.

3. The Multi-sensory Perception creates an inclusive and unique experience where seeing, hearing, touching, smelling and temperature act as experience enhancers.

4. The Museum organised as a Center for Culture and Leisure

5. The hyperlink Museum. The museum becomes the starting point for thematic touristic routes in the region.

Welcoming Area

The Natural Sciences Museum

The Etnography Museum

The Aquarium 7

The History Museum

Muzeu 3017 Built Project

Client: Rețeaua Națională a Muzeelor din România Date, location: 2017, Bucharest, RO Size / Investment: 150 sqm / €20.000 Services: Curatorial and Design Concept, Technical Project, Project Management Curatorial team: Simina Bădică, Iris Șerban, Vlad Stoica Technical team: Vlad Stoica, Tamina Lolev, Iulian Canov

Media:

People from the Future Learn How People from Bucharest Used to Live in the Present Scena9, Ionuț Dulămiță, Scena 9, 2017 Experiment muzeal - Muzeu 3017, Agerpres.ro, 2017 Șapte tipuri de a locui în București, Digi24.ro, 2017

Museum 3017 is a museal experiment from the future where visitors find out how Bucharest residents live today. In the year 3017, a mysterious “time capsule” is found: photographs, interviews with Bucharest people, objects, data, plans, all the results of an anthropological research on Bucharest living typologies. The curators from 3017 discover and publish with this exhibition not only the results of the research, but also some strange concepts that they try to explore: HOUSING, HOME, MUSEUM. Muzeu3017, Bucharest people and their homes at the beginning of the 21st century, offers us the opportunity to safely leave the familiar so that we can look at ourselves with the eyes of another and try to look at the other with his own eyes.

Entrance to the exhibition

The socialist appartement typology

Detail of exhibition modules

The socialist appartement typology - living area detail

The suburban living typology

Informal living typology

Bucharest interactive map

Exhibition Design Built Project

Client: Romanian National Art Museum Date, location: 2014, Bucharest, RO Size / Investment: 150 sqm / €20.000 Services: Design Concept, Technical Project, Implementation Team: Tamina Lolev, Iulian Canov, Cristian lolev

The National Art Museum of Romania has created the ART-Touch project in order to provide multi-sensory experiences in the museum tour. The project is aimed particularly at visually impaired and hearing impaired people, allowing participants to explore different works in the European Art Gallery. We joined the project as designers with the goal of creating the exhibition furniture for the multi-sensory materials: the multimedia and augmented reality applications, the tactile replicas of bas-relief, the textile samples, a “sound library” and an “olfactory library” to make accessible the works of famous artists and stories beyond the picture. The works accessible through digital technology are representative for the museum collections. Each work of art is approached from a new perspective and allows connections with other works in the museum’s collection.

Centered on Communities

Vision for the Cotton Factory Self-generated project

Beneficiary: Bucharest’s Creative Industries, Timpuri Noi neighbourhood Date, location: 2016, Bucharest Size: L / 2.1 ha Team: Iulian Canov, Tamina Lolev, Vlad Stoica, Cristina Zlota Illustration: Bruno Pint da Cruz Awards: Vision for Industria Bumbacului – Nomination at the National Annual of Architecture Bucharest for ”Cercetări și viziuni de arhitectură, intervenții și experimente de arhitectură”, 2017 Media: Cum a fost transformata o cladire industriala intrun loc de joaca pentru designeri, inventatori si antreprenori, IQads, 2016

The vision project created for the Cotton Industry talks about pace by pace cluttering of a creative industry center, as Bucharest needs. “Step by step” is a very important rhythm in our vision, so that the target community can advance and undertake urban development. Visible, dynamic organizations – such as Nod makerspace – are the engines of this vision that attracts and inspires other creative groups to participate in the effort to transform the former factory into the center for the creative industry, as illustrated in the axonometric view.

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Center for Creative Industries: Co-working Built project

The Mater project carries forward the Cotton Factory’s urban renewal vision with a reconversion of the industrial hall into the only materials library in SouthEastern Europe. A valuable resource for continuous study of local architects and designers, the space is divided into three main functions: the materials library, a multifunctional area and a co-working. The three spaces correspond to different characters having as common elements the industrial reinforced concrete structure and the original ceramic mosaic, restored. The clear glass and multicameral polycarbonate enclosures provide a satisfying natural lighting for the workspaces with surprising visual relationships between the spaces. Exploiting the generous height of the hall makes each area have an intermediate level, with a special destination: reading space, archive and naproom above a meeting room. The new elements (glass, polycarbonate, polyurethane floor, plants) are juxtaposed with the original ones (concrete, ceramics) in order to enhance each other and carry forward the values of an industrial pragmatic organization in a present of openness, comfort and creativity.

Axonometry showing the distribution of spaces

The meeting room and the industrial mosaic

Lobby area

The co-working

The Materials Library Built project

Client: Nod makerspace Date, location: 2017, Bucharest, RO Size: 1024 mp Services: concept design, technical design, building site assistance, project management Team: arch. Tamina Lolev, arch. Vlad Stoica, urb. Iulian Canov, arch. Irina Mateescu Awards: Urban Design Prize „Mobilizăm Excelența”, by Porsche România Media: Next big thing in innovation – design a library of materials, Business Review, 2017 O fostă platformă industrială din București devine prima bibliotecă de materiale din Europa de Sud-Est, Vocea Biz, 2017

The materials library is a curated collection of materials, constantly renewed, organised in categories such as concrete, stone, glass, composites, ceramics, textiles, stone, metal, wood, experimental. Each category is exhibited in a mobile module, while each module contains aproximately 150 material samples, that the visitor may handle, study in the light, compare with others. Each sample is accompanied by a technical extract written in the casual language, details on sustainability, industry fields etc. The exhibition modules are designed to be flexible wheeled, to have the optimal height for a confortable use, to be friendly, woode and easy to build in the local makerspace. Each exhibition module is organised to accomodate material samples of 15x15cm - the optimal dimensions for assuring a free transportation from the producer and also the ease of use for the visitors.

The materials exhibition module

Illustration of the materials exhibition module (artist: Irina Mateescu)

The materials exhibition during technical classes

Manipulating the materials

Center for Creative Industries: Nod makerspace Built project

Client: Nod makerspace Date, location: 2017, Bucharest, RO Size: 1024 mp Services: concept design, technical design, building site assistance, project management Team: arch. Tamina Lolev, arch. Vlad Stoica, urb. Iulian Canov, Nod community Awards: Best coworking space in Romania 2016 - 2019, by CEE startup awards Media: Cum arată primul spațiu dedicat “makerilor”, Adevărul, 2015 Nod makerspace, locul unde creativii se întâlnesc și lucrează împreună, revista Forbes, 2015 „Birouri din România. Design Interior”, Igloo Media, 2016 Revista „Zeppelin” #133, #135, 2015 Revista „Igloo. Arhitectură”, #153, 2016

Nod Makerspace is a space that strives to offer support to design start-up and young desingers. The project makes the best of the existant qualitiesof the former industrial space it occupies, near the Dîmbovița riverbank. In this sense, large windows and transparent divisions were needed to bring the natural light inside the varied workspaces, along with keeping the industrial character of the space to which we juxtaposed natural birch plywood, soft textiles and plenty of plants to provide a pleasant work environment for the users.

The Community Hub La Firul Ierbii Built Project

Date, location: 2016, Bucharest, RO Size: 230 sqm Team: urb. Iulian Canov, arch. Vlad Stoica, arch. Iris Popescu, arch. Mihaela Șerban Awards: „Best Architectural Conversion“, Ordinul Arhitecților din România Anuala OAR (2017) Media: De la firul ierbii se naște o comunitate civică urbană, IQads, 2016 S-a deschis La Firul Ierbii, primul centru pentru dezbateri publice și inițiative civice din Capitală, Business Cover, 2016

La Firul Ierbii is an instrument-space, a space for public debates, for civic initiatives nad NGO’s and a connector between the local creative community and the neighbourhood. The community center is designed around the concepts of transparency towards the street, maximum flexibility of all the spaces and pieces of furniture, and also adaptation of the interior for all categories of users, including disabilities. Working on a very tight budget, we used a minimum of means. The result is a series of ingenious technical solutions in order to accomodate a confortable, flexible and representative space.

Cartier Hub Built Project

Client: Ceetrus Romania Date, location: 2018, Bucharest, RO Size / Investment: 317 sqm / €120.000 Services: concept design, technical design, building site assistance Team: urb. Iulian Canov, arch. Vlad Stoica, arch. Tamina Lolev

The design concept is based on simple principles according to the values promoted by the whole brand “Drumul Taberelor”: the community hub is an open scene for interaction and creativity. The main beneficiary of this space is the local community: the inhabitants of all ages in Drumul Taberei neighborhood. Opposed to the initial state of the space – dark, twisted, without natural light – the result is 300 sqm of dynamic, versatile, light, easy-to-reconfigure space that allows hosting a wide range of activities. The design is based on strong, warm colors, vegetation and multifunctional furniture to accommodate as many uses as possible. The all-glass partition walls allow for transparency, clarity of the space layout and a freshenergizing mood.

Day Center in Berceni Built Project

Client: Matka Association Date, location: 2018, Bucharest, RO Size: 240 sqm Type, program: Educational Services: concept design, technical design, building site assistance Author: arch. Vlad Stoica

We all know that the environment in which children are formed is very important for their psychological and emotional development because it leaves a strong footprint on them. In Romania, the spaces for education are not adequate. Moreover, the educational spaces in disadvantaged environments do not stimulate, attract, and in some cases they are quite reluctant. We joined the pilot project “Creative Spaces for Education” at the “Me and My Friends” Day Center as the main design team in 2015 and in 2018 it is complete. The day center allows multiple easy uses of most objects and space adaptation as needed by the educational activities, at different times. The furniture can be easily moved and reconfigured by children and teachers, the materials used are shock-resistant, scratch-resistant and easy to clean. The transformation of the center was a success due to a close collaboration with artists, designers, architects and culture people involved in education

Urban Design

Public Space Design (Drumul Taberelor) Built Project

Client: Ceetrus Romania Beneficiary: Drumul Taberei neighbourhood Date, location: 2018-2019, Bucharest Size / Investment: 3653 mp / €250.000 Services: concept design, technical design, building site assistance Team: arch. Tamina Lolev, urb. Iulian Canov, arch. Raluca Peștișanu, peisagist Gabriel Corbu

This is a simple yet rarely exercised partnership, between private stakeholders and local administration, for the public good. The client, a multinational company with an openly citizen-oriented agenda, decides to invest in the public space in front of their own property. The main focus of the project is the rehabilitation of a public space, using private resources. Based on the site’s analysis and inhabitants’ needs, the proposal emphasizes the public vocation of the space. The design revolves around two main defining areas: the public playground and the multi-functional community area, a friendly space that can host: public debates, film projections, community meals, fairs, sunbathing, etc. Meeting and socializing places are sheltered from heavy car traffic and designed in coordination with the main pedestrian flows and entrances in the building. The proposal aims to create a livable micro-climate, with place-specific urban furniture, but also by modeling local topography in order to increase and diversify the green areas and to counteract the considerable levels of pollution. The new topography is also used as a seamless playground protection, from the heavy car traffic near by and also as an organizing backbone for the main playing equipment. In order to increase the project’s sustainability, the design relies on natural materials such as fine gravel, sand, recycled rubber flakes, and wooden playground equipment.

Deschis Gastrobar Built Project

Client: SpaceEcho Entertainment Beneficiary: Timpuri Noi neighbourhood Date, location: 2015, Bucharest Size: M / 600 sqm Services: concept design, technical design, building site assistance Team: urb. Iulian Canov, arch. Vlad Stoica, arch. Tamina Lolev, structural eng. Alexandru Radu, landscape Gabriel Corbu Awards Nomination at the National Annual of Architecture Bucharest, ”Arhitectură, Conversie, Restaurare” category, 2019

Deschis Gastrobar is a unique rooftop bar in the city of Bucharest. It is placed on top of an old industrial building that has been converted into a center for creative industries. It works as a a panoramic rooftop bar and a public events area that caters to the neighborhood’s leisure needs but also to the needs of the various creative businesses hosted in the same building. The rooftop’s design concept is built upon three distinctive features: (1) unique urban context with panoramic views over the surounding neighborhood and Dâmbovița river, (2) the industrial heritage of the former cotton factory, (3) synergies and integration between the local and creative communities. Some of the design’s highlights are: the social movie layout, the industrial silhouette of the roofing and the Dudeney Table, a multifunctional social table based on a Henry Dudeney mathematician’s geometric puzzle.

Waterfront on the Danube Comissioned project

Client: Mahmudia Town Hall Beneficiary: Mahmudia local community Date, location: 2019, Mahmudia, Tulcea, RO Size / Investment: 8200 sqm / €3.7 million Team: urb. Iulian Canov, arch. Vlad Stoica, arch. Marius Vasile, arch. Tamina Lolev, arch. Iris Popescu, arch. Mihaela Șerban Collaborators: eng. Daniela Horge, eng. Cristi Taban

Mahmudia is a small settlement at the edge of the Danube Delta. In addition to a picturesque atmosphere, its location and accessibility provides a great potential for developing into a main gateway to the Delta. In order to fullfil this potential, Mahmudia first needs to develop its public infrastructure. To this end, we have been commissioned by the local administration to design their waterfront, as an attractive, socially inclusive public space. Currently, the site is an unorganized, physically degraded waterfront. It is both unable to serve the needs of the locals and tourists alike. The new waterfront project is focused on addressing these needs through an iconic public space that could also act as a rebranding tool for Mahmudia. The proposed design is made of three main areas: The Mineral Park (emphasizing the site’s spectacular and unexpected rocky landscape), The Communal Waterfront (essentially Mahmudia’s new town center and beating social heart) andThe Public Garden (an intimate, multi-senzorial landscape, showcasing some of the Delta’s unique flora).

Râmnicu Vâlcea’s New Center - Competition

Client: Ramnicu Valcea Town Hall Date, location: 2012, Ramnica Valcea, RO Size: L / 15 ha Awards Second prize - Reorganizarea şi Amenajarea Spaţiului Public Central din Râmnicu Vâlcea

The project focuses on the system of public spaces that follows the major directions of pedestrian flow. The proposal ensures a succession of thematic public squares that meet various functions specific for a capital county central like: representativity, agora, urban garden and commercial forum. Morphologically, the pedestrian axis can be compared to a traditional Oltenian carpet used in general for covering transit areas around the house. A main car-free axis is connecting the entire central area of the city on a North-South direction. This is the backbone ot the masterplan, bringing people to the city’s main landmarks: Olănesti river (1), the commerce (3) and mall cluster (2), Mircea cel Bătrân square and park (4), followed by a new Civic Centre (5), with a dense functional mix. The axis is continued to the north with a new culture cluster complemented by already established education functions. The project exploits site topography hiding public equipment such as parking and large commercial spaces under a green levelled public space. Following existing traffic studies in the area, car traffic is regularized by oneway streets and timed traffic lights. Calea lui Traian and Regina Maria intersection, the bussiest in the city, will be fitted with an “X-Crossing”allowing pedestrians to freely transit from Mircea cel Batran Square to the mall and Olanesti River, in the South.

Sibiel Public Space Competition

Client: Săliște Town Hall Date, location: 2013, Sibiu, RO Size: L / 4400 sqm Awards Second prize - Sibiel – Built Culture: Refurbishing the public space in the centre of the village of Sibiel, Sibiu county

Sibiel is one of the best preserved saxon cultures of Transylvania. As part of Mărginimea Sibiului (‘The Outskirts of Sibiu’ Region), the village dating from the 14th century, Sibiel is more than an idealized portrait of pastoral life. It is the sum of its community along with its very contemporary issues and needs. Therefore, the community needs to be at the center of any planning activity. Redesigning Sibiel’s center is governed by four strategic directions, aiming at a sustainable “placemaking process”: 1. Education and awareness 2. Reuse and adaptation 3. Sense of belonging 4. Open scenario The central square is recreated through five main areas that take into account the site’s natural and social elements: the intimate zone for relaxation, the village forum, the playground (inspired from the traditional homestead universe), the open-air cinema in a quiet place by the water, the Pin bowling Alley.

Masterplans

Practical Urban Solutions for Ferentari Comissioned Project

Client: Sector 5 CIty Hall, World Bank Beneficiary: Ferentari neighbourhood (≈ 100.000 inhabitants) Date, location: 2019, Bucharest Size: XL Services: Vision and Scenarios for Urban Renewal Team: urb. Iulian Canov, arch. Vlad Stoica, arch. Marius Vasile, arch. Tamina Lolev

We were invited by the World Bank Group to be part in a multidisciplinary team elaborating an urban regeneration vision for the abandonned rail corridor that transverses one of the poorest neighborhoods in Bucharest – the infamous, Ferentari. As urban design specialists, we were tasked with developing affordable and practical urban solutions that would have a lasting effect on tackling the neighborhood’s major issues like: mobility, housing, lack of public equipment and green areas but also social and economic degradation. The urban regeneration vision we developed will serve District 5 Municipality as a guide for prioritizing and justifying long term investment in this neighborhood.

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Șimian Island Masterplan Competition Client: Mehedinți County Administration Date, location: 2014, Șimian, RO Size: XL / 50 ha Outcome: On hold

Since the grandiose infrastructure projects of the ‘70s in Romania, the Danube Valley has undergone profound transformations. Aside from major economic and social advantages, the territory also had to deal with the loss of valuable built heritage and major environmental transformations along the most spectacular landscape of the Danube route. The project’s vision describes the island as an international touristic hub on the Danube Valley. Its assets revolve around a favorable geographic position, sub-tropical climate, attractive natural landscape and the relocated historical and cultural artifacts from the fabled Ada Kaleh – the sunken island. The action plan is based on a set of precise and quantifiable goals that fit a sustainable development mind frame. All future development should be done by taking into account the fragility of the local habitat, and patiently spread over several development phases. The masterplan’s development scheme includes: integrated economy on the island, microfarming and ecological agrotourism, building on Ada Kaleh Defensive Fort identity – from a derelict ruin to a major touristic attraction. The financial scheme discourages massive influx of public capital that could bring rapid growth, but limited to a local scale and a short time frame. Our analysis reveals that a rational distribution of development stages, based on small and medium public investment, over several years, is the best suited for the possibilities of a fragile local economy. In later phases, private capital is expected to become the main source of investment on the island.

The Blue Line Competition Client: Municipality of Kiev Date, location: 2012, Kiev, Ukraine Size: XXL / 2500 ha

Awards

• 2012 The Blue Line Masterplan – FIRST PRIZE at Dnieper Pearls International Competition, Kiev

• 2012 The Blue Line Masterplan – Special Prize for Spatial Planning in Bucharest Architecture Biennale Media:

• The Blue Line Dnieper Pearls Competition winning proposal, Archdaily, 2012

• The Blue Line winner of Kiev Islands Masterplan Competition, Archinect, 2012

• The Blue Line winner of Kiev Islands Masterplan Competition, Bustler, 2012

The masterplan design suggests a paradigm shift: from large scale urban and infrastructure projects (specific to Ukrainian urban planning) to a more fluid and efficient place-making driven urbanism. The project is drafted considering five key aspects: – sustainable infrastructure and improved connectivity of the islands – tourism and economic development – natural conservation planning – governance – city branding and city promotion. The proposed new navigation transit system, The Blue Line, aims at providing a sustainable development framework for the Kiev islands as well as an infrastructural backbone for the future urban development of the entire metropolis. Their design suggests a paradigm shift: from large scale urban and infrastructure projects (specific to Ukrainian urban planning) to a more fluid and efficient place-making driven urbanism.

Ghimbav Masterplan Competition Client: Municipality of Ghimbav Date, location: 2017, Ghimbav, Ro Size: XXL Awards Third Prize – Competition for the Spatial Development in Ghimbav

Following the analysis of the main urban indicators, our team diagnosed the Brasov metropolitan area and Ghimbav’s position, with strong points, weaknesses, opportunities and vulnerabilities. The following steps were: creating a sustainable city development strategy with a focus on priorities, formulating a vision and a concept for city development appropriate to the conclusions of the previous stages. The concept for the spatial development was designed in relation to the main attractors and their evolution in time: intensifying economic and social exchanges with Codlea and Brașov, while connecting the airport and the innovation hub with the existing city. The objectives when designing the urban planning concept were: Mobility and accessibility at a metropolitan level, increasing life quality, a balanced development of production and services, a connected, open and participative administrative system, sustainability for the pilot-projects, therefore for the whole development. The last step of the strategy is the description of a series of pilot projects for the city in order to facilitate and strengthen the development in the direction of the stated vision.

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