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ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

LANGUAGES

ROMANIAN - native | ENGLISH - C1/C2| FRENCH - delf B2

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2/2020 - present

Polytechnic University of Timisoara, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism | Romania | architectural teaching assistant for the design studio of the 2nd year of study

8/2019 - present

RDsign | TIMISOARA | ROMANIA | arhitect | involved in all stages of design for medium to large scale projects of urban design, housing and retail | responsible for the project managment and coordination of a 4350 square meters shopping center building (design stage to execution) and the project coordonation of a mixed use development (hotel, collective housing and services) that is currently under design process for obtaining the building permit

9/2018 - 12/2018

RDsign | TIMISOARA | ROMANIA | internship | involved in the design of the proposal of a private competition entry for a large scale mixed use development in Timisoara, Romania

5/2018 - 9/2018, 7/2017 - 8/2017, 9/2016-6/2017

PARASITE STUDIO | TIMISOARA | ROMANIA | internship | involved in the design process, realisation of the drawings and execution of several competition entries in Romania

6/2017-7/2017

VITAMIN ARCHITECTS | TIMISOARA | ROMANIA | internship | involved in the deisgn process and realisation of the drawings for the Europan 14 competition entry with the site in Wien

9/2015-6/2017

DE-A ARHITECTURA (“LET’S PLAY ARCHITECTURE)“ | TIMISOARA | ROMANIA | architectural teaching assistant

EDUCATION

2020- present

Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism | Romania | PhD studies with the main theme: Architectural ideation in the age of digital drawing

2022 (september - december)

YACademy: Architecture for Landscape| Italy | High intensity training course | developed a project for WWF Italy in the natural protected area of the Bussento caves, under the tutorship of Francesca Singer and the review of Kazuyo Sejima from SANAA .

2013- 2019

Polytechnic University of Timisoara | Romania | Bachelor and Master of Architecture | ranked the 1st out of 60 graduates , with a graduation degree mark of 9.9/10 and an average grade of all the studying years of: 9.08/10

2017-2018

Université Catholique de Louvain | Belgium | Erasmus scholarship | Master of Architecture

2014-2017

Polytechnic University of Timisoara | Romania | Pedagogical Module

2019- /2013

National College “I.C. Bratianu“ Hateg | Romania | MathematicsInformatics, English Intensive class

EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS

part of the Exhibition Pannel representing the Faculty of Architecture and Planning Timisoara, The Answering Machine | Vienna Design Week, Vienna | 2017

Student or teacher? Child. “De-a arhitectura“ program | Art Out Magazine, nb. 56 | 2017

part of the main organization team | C.A.S.A. (Annual Contest of Architecture Students) | 2016

part of the secondary organization team | BETA, Biennale of Architecture, Timisoara, Romania, 2016

HONORS, AWARDS AND ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITIONS

honorable mention | 2020 Novi Sad Architecture Salon |Novi Sad, Serbia | 2020

entry | Multiplexity competition | Timisoara, Romania | 2020

FINALIST | Non Architecture Competition | Topic: Shopping | 2019

FINALIST | Non Architecture Competition | Topic: Learning | 2019 | exhibitetd at The Boiler House, Architecture, Planning and Landscape at Newcastle University, London

Eminent Student AWARD | for the university results | “Orizonturi Universitare“ Association | Timisoara, Romania | 2018

Excellence AWARD | for the university results | mayor of the city of Timisoara, Romania | 2018

1st PRIZE | Continental Hotel Extention | Timisoara, Romania | 2018 | to be implemented

1st PRIZE | “Memoriile Cetatii“ | Timisoara, Romania | 2018 | realised

entry | Transite | Timisoara | Romania | 2018

entry | Europan 14 | Wien | Austria | 2017

1st PRIZE | BAUMIT competition | Rehabilitation of a block of collective housing | Timisoara, Romania | 2017

entry | The Tower of Firefighters | 2017

entry | International VELUX Award | Topic: The light of tomorrow | 2016

entry | C.A.S.A ( Annual Contest of Architecture Students ) | Topic: cohousing | Cluj-Napoca, Romania | 2015

SOFTWARE

ARCHICAD

PHOTOPSHOP

ILLUSTRATOR

INDESIGN

RHINOCEROS

OTHER INTERESTS

NATURE AND SKIING | EDUCATION AND CULTURE

SUD PLAZA, Timisoara, Romania

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private investition

2022 - realised

Timisoara, Romania

arch. Razvan Negrisanu, arch. Alexandra Pascotescu

David Dumitrescu

| PROPOSAL|

The shopping center building is a two-level structure with a total area of 4500 square meters. The design features a central courtyard located near the escalators that connect the ground floor to the first floor. The courtyard is supposed to be an oasis of greenery and natural light, providing a visual respite for shoppers and an inviting atmosphere.

The building’s facade is characterized by clean lines and a modern aesthetic. The use of natural light and greenery throughout the building, including the courtyard, creates a harmonious relationship between the interior and exterior spaces.

The interior lighting is designed to complement the natural light and enhance the shopping experience. The building’s layout is designed to promote a seamless flow of foot traffic and ease of navigation for shoppers.

Overall, the shopping center building’s design, create an inviting atmosphere and an enjoyable shopping experience.

main responsabilities

concept and building design

building permit technical project site supervising

project management project coordination

execution details

MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT, Timisoara, Romania

private investition

2021 - present (design phase)

Timisoara, Romania

arch. Razvan Negrisanu, arch. Alexandra Pascotescu arch. Daniela Negrisanu, arch. Alexandru Maduta, arch. David Dumitrescu, stud. arch. Dariana Pau. stud. arch. Alexandra

Balintoni Frentescu

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Comprising a hotel, an apart-hotel and two residential buildings with complementary functions, Park Plaza is a private development that aims to regenerate a former industrial site in Timisoara. The proposal creates a link between the center formed by the new urban development named Iulius Town (the right corner of the image below) and the residential development area between Calea Circumvalatiunii and Pictor Ion Zaicu Street (the left corner of the image below).

In this way, the complex relates to the center of the Council of Europe Square (the square that can be seen in the right picture) through the hotel building, thus forming an urban plaza in front of it. On the same site of the street, in direct relationship with the hotel building there is the apart-hotel. Together they form a protective barrier for the parks. On the opposite side, there are the residential buildings, in a more quiet place and with a layout that helps to provide adequate lighting for the apartments.

main responsabilities concept and building design project coordination

masterplan design

RESIDENTIAL (2 underground levels + 13 floors)

RESIDENTIAL (2 underground levels + 13 floors)

APART-HOTEL (2 underground levels + 19 floors)

HOTEL (2 underground levels + 26 floors)

Residential area: 36 840 sqm

Commercial area: 3 385 sqm

Hotel area: 18 650 sqm

TOTAL: 58 875 sqm

Terrain area: 17 698 sqm

Ground area: 5 175 sqm

Land use: 29.24%

Density: 3.33

Hateg Country International UNESCO Geopark. TERRITORIAL DIVERSITY PATH.

diploma project

honorable mention

Novi Sad

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diploma project

2019

Hateg Country, Romania

Alexandra Vitan (Alexandra Pascotescu)

Toma Claudiu

”A fog layer is placed between the visitor and the landscape. Transparency, light, reflection, landmark... A collection of reinterpreted elements from the territory at the site scale. ”

The project, the central object of Tara Hategului Unesco International Geopark, is in essence a collection of elements from the territory reinterpreted at the site scale, which aim to interract with the psyche of the visitor. The project is not a building, but rather a small scale route of experiences, a carefully built route through a microcosmos which offers feelings. It hides in the landscape. They start working together. The building has no boundaries. It is both interior and exterior in the same time. The architecture is free, and the space becomes a heterotopia.

The proposed program theme is not a simple materialization of an idea, but, like the landscape in Tara Hategului, it is a collection of interspersed ideas. In this way, the proposed ensemble, consisting of three functions (the museum, the research center and the multifunctional space), tries to respond to the immaterial needs of the landscape and become part of it, by using the architectural, structural and detailed elements to strengthen the basic idea of the project.

John Stezaker, Lost World | MUSEUM & RESEARCH |

From the distance a cloud of fog is placed between the visitor and the landscape.

MEMORIILE CETATII

Realised

1st prize

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competition (1st prize ) 2018

Timisoara, Romania

Parasite Studio (author: Claudiu Toma, co-authors: Attila Wenczel, Norbert Ianko, Attila Domokos, Alexandra Vitan)

concept | graphical design | technical drawings for the realisation | cost management | site supervising | interraction with the artists

The task of the project was to provide a temporary architecture installation placed in some public spaces from Timisoara, and which could host different forms of artistic activities.

“From one part to the other, the city seems to continue, in perspective, multiplying its repertory of images: but instead it has no thickness, it consists only of a face and an obverse, like a sheet of paper, with a figure on either side, which can neither be separated nor look at each other.“ (Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities, Cities and Eyes )

The theme requires two parts of the wall, different, like the city of Calvino – one of the artist, the other of the city’s people, the obverse and the reverse. But the city is actually a single, complex and sometimes contradictory image, made up of thousands of different images that all compete at its totality, individual but at the same time inseparable. Thus, the project proposes a different wall, continuously, both inside and outside, which protects but also exposes, which gathers, but separates. Even if it has two distinct parts, the boundary between them is ambiguous, located somewhere up, above, where the wall climbs and ends only to start again, descending. It’s another part of the same wall and yet another. We propose a simple tube that has an outer part and an inner part, divided but without clear delimitation, in the spirit of the theme but also of the city that the event represents. The support tube is made of reinforced concrete, the surface on which it can be exposed, it can be intervened in the most direct way, drawing with the chalk itself. It is an area that due to its large curvature is suitable for exposure in almost any condition. At the same time the inner surface is thought to be able to host – a very natural thing for a space that gathers the community. It can host small events or projections, exposures that require some protection, but it can also be a space for rest or simply shadow the passers-by. More importantly than anything else is that once the exhibition is completed, this concrete tube can be reused. It can be easily reconditioned for a new exposure, but perhaps as easy to become a small informational space, it can become a minimal house for those in need, as a signal of what should be the attention given to the real needs of the city and even, as a last resort, at one point it can become what has been built for. The proposed project is intended to recompose at the end the facets of the city, in all the complexity of the image to complete, long after the end of the events for which it was designed.

2nd year design studio, FAUT, Timisoara | TEACHING

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2020-present | 2nd year students

FAUT, Timisoara, Romania

| DESCRIPTION |

The design workshop of the second year proposes to students a completion of the approach started in the first year and an exploration, from another perspective, of the (built) world, in order to complete the broad theme of contemporary housing, but above all, to learn how to really live this world through architectural atmosphere. Shortly, to find ones own place.

Understanding human needs and the built space by speculating on the presence of the special places from which it is formed. We can only really build, through the awareness of the dual private / public relationship, achieved by permanently relating the living space to the external context - natural, anthropic and community / social.