Architecture Portfolio

Architecture Portfolio years 2-5 of studies (2012-2019)

student at Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urban Planning, Bucharest, Romania

2nd year of studies- Architecture Project

Study of the peripheral areas of Bucharest; Focus on minimum dwelling.

Professor Mihaela Pelteacu

Teaching Assistants: Anca Maria Pasarin

Liviu Vasiu

Andrei Lakatos

Single dwelling

2013-2014, 1st semester- 6 weeks

The neighbourhood took form as an urban conglomeration of houses at the limit of Bucharest in 1924, but became part of the city and moreover kept the structure of a rural village. This project focused on bringing an urban villa to the scale of a rural one, while trying to detach the house off the two limits of the site connected to the neighbours, freeing future near-site constructions of constraints.

Two different types of yards resulted. We called them: one ″public″, one private, as we also, always, found them in every other household that our eyes met, throughout our walks into the neighbourhood.

Living in a community

2013-2014, 2nd semester- 8 weeks

The next project of the 2nd year of studies was an experiment theme lead by some of the professors at our school, that proposed a site where 8 friends could live together. We took this as a challenge to give the community of 8 friends something more: a park. In order to do this we had to mainly consider reducing the constructed area, so we came up with the idea of a 25 m2 tower. The result was a space that they could share not only with themselves, but also with the rest of the village. Furthermore, we proposed 8 different plans for the interior and suggested a way in which living in a tower could make you feel safe and connected with the exterior world.

Autocad, Sketchup, Lumion, Photoshop

3rd year of studies: Architecture Project

Focus on public spaces; Interventions in Bucharest; Urban development.

Professor: Mihaela Pelteacu

Teaching Assistants: Anca Maria Pasarin

Liviu Vasiu

Matei Vlasceanu

Site and function

2014-2015, 1st semester- 6 weeks

We studied one of the central neighbourhoods in Bucharest and found out that this part of our city needs a mark of orientation, continuity and order, and also something that could make people wonder. We came to the method in which we could think above legal boundaries and tried to imagine how would it be to be able to enter and use the space between the houses, to be able to reach a parallel street by simply cutting the way into the urban fabric.

We found a site with the remains of an old warehouse and connected it with a kindergarden. We took over the old warehouse shape, multiplied it, created slides and brought light into it using the old brick cases on the surface.

This space could be used for multifunctional purposes, such as workshops, perfomance and quiet studying.

Autocad, Sketchup, Lumion, Photoshop

Collective housing

2014-2015- 2nd semester- 8 weeks

The site is located at the border of an eclectic urban fabric of residential buildings, near the ”curtain” of high-rise residential buildings, a train station and an important bridge from Bucharest. We questioned the actual development of collective housing and tried a different aproach by following a few, simple, but valuable principles: we wanted to free the neighbours off shadow and possible future constraints, a private yard, public spaces, double orientation for the apartments and variety of the dwelling units.

The next step was to follow the rules given by the surroundings and come up with an idea for the actual plan of the unit. We thought of a compact block that contained two apartments, each of it cross-liked shaped and flipped over the other.

Variety consisted in the way we adapted it for the end parts, intersection parts and highest levels.

4th year of studies- Architecture Project

Mixed functionality; Building in nature; Adapted Reuse.

Professor: Iulius Cristea

Teaching Assistants: Anca Maria Pasarin

Sebastian Stan

Kindergarden

2017-2018, 1st semester- 6 weeks

The site had been unused for a long period of time, possibly because of its long and narrow shape- 75 m long, only 10 m width. Positioned in a noisy and crowded intersection, the function of a kindergarden came as a challenge. The project had to also provide rooms for other educational programs, so we settled for a long, compact body, equally split in 15 parts.

Hotel in Predeal

2017-2018, 1st semester- 8 weeks

The theme for this project raised concerns on mixing and correlating private with public spaces in a 50 rooms hotel, in the mountains. This project proposal responded in a unique way as the ground floor, filled with technical rooms, offices, one meeting room, reception and a small cafeteria, connected the hotel with the spa areas downstairs, which were designed as a base concrete structure. The restaurant, kitchen and bar were placed on the highest level, as a solution for opening to the surrounding views.

Adapted Reuse

2017-2018, 2nd semester- 8 weeks

The theme was meant to bring into our awareness the importance of adapted reuse of old industrial buildings from our city. The oldest and most famous brewery from Bucharest needed a special attention. The site was already important as it was formerly part of old neighbourhood Uranus, which was almost entirely destroyed in the communist period. We had to carefully find a way to bring into our collective consciousness the memory of what used to be one of the most beautiful neighborhoods in Bucharest. We thought of rescaling a small part of the old Uranus and adapt it to the site of the factory. The project became to look like chains of small pavillions, that tried to blend in. We adapted the brewery for a full university campus, with a library, administration building, dorms, a park, and new purposes for the pavillions, chose freely by the students of the university.

Autocad, Revit, Enscape, Photoshop

5th year of studies- Architecture Project

Rehabilitation of old Slanic salt mine;

Professor: Adrian Spirescu

Teaching Assistants: Andrei Lakatos

Ina German

Slanic salt mine

2018-2019, 1st semester- 14 weeks

This project opened the fifth year of architecture studies and its purpose was to give us the opportunity to synthesize some of the themes of past years and develop rapid organizational skills. It had into consideration the old Slanic salt mine site, Slanic town and a proposal for the potential development of its infrastructure, technical studies for the evacuation, and a good idea-emerged project for the salt mine, that could raise attractiveness into the area.

Museum in Slanic salt mine

Slanic town was built around the salt mine, along the Slanic river. Wherever you go you can feel that people respectfully treasure the work of the romanian ex-miners. They also show great care for the environment and their visitors. Slanic is small but the compassion of people exceeds the sky limit. The museum we had in mind had to represent all this valuable traits. We thought of a 5 storey cube, with a light wood structure, that allowed people to explore and observe all activities from inside, overcoming height and walls. The cinema inside the museum was a suspended wood container, detached from all of the other structural elements.

Autocad, Revit, Lumion, Photoshop