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.