Hotel in Predeal

Collective housing

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.