WORKS 2019 - 2025
“ION MINCU” UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM
+ INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS
RESTORATION
MODEL MAKING RESTORATION
House of Shadows : House of Silhouettes -Bagsværd Church Model(Material and detail I course) -The Heron (Integrated design course)
Rural Housing : A Rural Narrative
Between Housescape and Townscape : Reabilitation of the House “Michael and Karl Brukenthal”
Cultivating Community : Garden Dwellings
TYPE YEAR
LOCATION
COMPETITION
NAME
REFERENCE
INDIVIDUAL COMPETITION PROJECT
2023-2024 (DECEMBER-MAY)
North of Sweden (Competitor’s chice)
House of Shadows 2nd Edition by Buildner House of Silhouettes
(MFF3KUJNKD7CJREF competitor code)
This project stands as a structured route during the day, a sequencing of settings, between the enclosure of the hills and the shadows filltered throughout the building. The light penetrates the whole building and projects everything of this setting within the courtyard or the added paper panel that divides the room at a specific time. It acts as a screen where the projected image is the shadow of the other individual. This allows for contemplation of the self and contemplation of the other individual.
Paper panel position 1 - Plan 1st Floor Sanctuary (noon)
Paper panel - position 2
Plan 1st Floor Sanctuary (morning/evening)
Paper panel - position 3
Plan 1st Floor Sanctuary (noon)
• Bedroom - lit from the East throughout the entire year (shared realm)
• Living room and kitchen - with the possibility to choose between diffused and direct light (shared realm)
• Garden - source of food (shared realm)
• Pond - reflects the light in a perpetual motion (shared realm)
• Terrace - a place of relaxation for the couple (shared realm)
• Sanctuary - when the light hits, the performance begins. This performance is divided between the individual world, which occurs during morning and evening, and the shared realm which occurs during noon (shared realm)/(individual world)
• The hill serves as a screen, as self-reflection of the couple can occur (shared realm)
• Vegetation - creating hundreds of silhouettes that engage in a dance when the wind blows
• Terrace - a place where one individual will go and its silhouette will be casted on the other’s room (shared realm or individual world)
• Sod roof - plants will keep warmth within the home during winter and as well keep the house cool during summer
• Place for meditation (individual world)
TYPE YEAR LOCATION
COMPETITION
NAME REFERENCE
INDIVIDUAL COMPETITION PROJECT
2023 (July - September)
Italy, Lombardy, Province of Pavia, 27016
Sant’Alessio con Vialone
RURAL HOUSING by TerraViva Competitions
A Rural Narrative (47214 competitor code)
Transforming Cascina Lossano into a modern housing complex involved using existing houses as boundaries for pathways between old and new structures. Circulation was designed around these buildings and the central “Aia,” respecting both present needs and the site’s historical significance.
This proposal focuses on revitalizing the Cascina by incorporating vineyards in the nearby fields. Visitors can engage in various activities, including winemaking, stargazing, biking, dining in the Aia, enjoying the poolside view, exploring the area, watching outdoor movies, caring for Cascina’s birds, and concluding the day with a campfire.
PORCH - GROUND FLOOR INTERIORCHANGINGROOM+ POOLGROUNDFLOOR THETHEMANORHOUSE+GROUNDFARMERSHOUSE FLOOR
GROUND FLOOR and BASEMENT
This enclosure of buildings elevates Cascina’s aesthetic coherence while enabling well-planned pathways. These pathways act as gateways, guiding visitors between environments.
These pathways connect different viewpoints within Cascina and invite visitors on a journey across the estate, seamlessly integrating it with the landscape.
This design approach reflects a commitment to sustainability by reuse of the materials, they were chosen to show a harmonic range between the reddish wood, the brick and the proposed white plaster for the existing buildings.
1st FLOOR
2ND
2nd FLOOR
LOCATION TUTOR SCHOOL
The chosen site is the ‘Michael and Karl Brukenthal’ House, a historic monument featuring Baroque-Classicist architectural style. To determine the appropriate approach, initial research of the site revealed the following:
Age of the observed buildings, pedestrian traffic flow, functions and legal status
The conclusions of the site analysis indicate that the building requires preservation of its existing historical architectural elements, a decision must be made regarding the street layout and parking, the property should be consolidated under a single owner, and a proposal should be developed that benefits the community.
The house shall be transformed to accommodate musical classes for string musicians, and also a reading space for the students from the other schools. The basement and the attic of the house should be proposed for temporary art exhibitions, and the ground floor would accommodate a guest house along with an atelier for a luthier, which fits the previous functions of this house. In the second courtyard will be a proposed terrace with tables and a veranda.
9:00 (CET) March 2022
14:45 (CET) March 2022
16:00 (CET) March 2022
18:10 (CET) March 2022
Proposed structures Mantained structures
Encouraging pedestrians to explore the old city on foot will influence the way people perceive the houses, as explored in the book “The Concise Townscape” by Gordon Cullen. Here the idea of “enclosure” becomes the driving philosophy behind this project. People get encouraged to move away from their cars, as the cars limit the way people perceive their surroundings. While driving, the city is perceived at a fast pace and the people tend to retain less information compared to a slower pace given by walking, as people let their curiosity flourish. Where a new area of exploration is unrevealed, the space of the courtyards is a labyrinth of ideas and cultural connections.
Even though it might seem odd at first glance to combine spaces that have specific requirements (reading spaces) with spaces that have opposite requirements (musical classes) in terms of atmosphere, the spaces are designed to pique the curiosity of people in a specific group at different intervals as they work in tandem. The reading space is supposed to operate during the day when even the students from the musical classes might be at school. Then there is the intersection interval that strikes curiosity the most, as it allows for the members of one group to become an audience for the other.
TYPE YEAR
LOCATION TUTORS
SCHOOL
INDIVIDUAL ACADEMIC PROJECT
3RD YEAR OF BA, SEM 1 (2021 - 2022)
ROMANIA, SIBIU, CONSTITUTION STREET, NR. 8
COSMIN PAVEL and CRISTINA CONSTANTIN
pavel_dan2002@yahoo.com
cristina_constantin2002@yahoo.fr
“Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and CIty Planning
Study of the “durchgangs” and loggias of the houses from Sibiu
Creating bonds and a healthy living space requires including dwellers in social activities. The proposal achieves this by introducing the indoor gardens, the afterschool, the student’s atrium, the communal terraces, and the coffee and bakery shop as communal spaces where activities can be performed together with the other dwellers or visitors.
•THE GREENHOUSE HAS LAMINATED GLASS TO PREVENT OVERHEATING AND MAINTAIN THE LIGHT AND THE VIEW
•THE SECTION INCLUDES THE VELUX SKYLIGHTS TO ILLUSTRATE THE CONNECTION WITH THE ROOF
•HIDDEN GUTTER FOR COLLECTING WATER FOR GREENHOUSE USE
•WINDOW WITH WOODEN JOINERY CONNECTED TO THE THERMAL INSULATION
•EXTERNAL PAINT FINISH
•THERMAL INSULATION
•BRICK WALL
•INTERIOR FINISH
•VERTICAL ANGLED BLINDER THAT ACTS AS A PARASOLAR
•PREFAB STONE PANELS
•AIR GAP
•THERMAL INSULATION/ SYSTEM FOR FIXING EXTERNAL CLADDING (STONE)
•BRICK WALL
•INTERIOR FINISH
•DRAINAGE
FIXING OF HEAVY EXTERNAL CLADDING (STONE) FOR VERTICAL PANELS
FIXING OF HEAVY EXTERNAL CLADDING (STONE) FOR HORIZONTAL PANELS
LONGITUDINAL SECTION
FIXING OF HEAVY EXTERNAL CLADDING (STONE) FOR VERTICAL PANELS
IT PENETRATES THE STONE PANEL FOR 30MM AND THE SYSTEM REQUIRES RETAINING FASTENER AT THE TOP AND SUPPORTING FASTENER AT THE BOTTOM
FIXING OF HEAVY EXTERNAL CLADDING (STONE) FOR VERTICAL PANELS
IT PENETRATES THE STONE PANEL FOR 30MM AND THE SYSTEM REQUIRES RETAINING FASTENER AT THE TOP AND SUPPORTING FASTENER AT THE BOTTOM
The courtyard serves as an intermediate space between the public zone represented by the city and the more private spaces of the apartments. This median zone serves as a shift in perspective, once you enter the courtyard, you are free to experience any of the communities within the courtyard, and it becomes its little world, as any of the courtyards in the old town of Sibiu are.
Group Academic Project
Materials used :
Laser cut MDF boards, textured paper, white foam board, casted plaster elements in 3D printed precasts.
Group members :
Alexandru Stan
Klara Isaksson
Oskar Hjalmarsson
Instructors: Jesper Magnusson, Henrik Almquist;
School: Lunds Tekniska Högskola
Group Academic Project
Materials used :
Laser cut MDF boards, 3D printed elements; Group members :
Alexandru Stan
Moritz Khlass
Viktor Thelin
Instructors: Erik Serrano, Alex van de Beld,
Maria Rasmussen
School: Lunds Tekniska Högskola
“The cover of this portfolio is my final drawing I created for my application to architecture school — a quiet culmination of countless moments. In it, I tried to gather everything: the space that held me, the objects that surrounded me, the silence, the noise, the breath between ideas. It is both a farewell and a beginning — a distilled memory of creation, marking the edge where one chapter ends and another dares to begin.”
Title of drawing : Order and Chaos