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Safari Through a Miniature Universe. Atelier MASS: Expanding the Ursulețul Nursery in Cluj

The quality of a country’s architecture essentially depends on that of the public architecture. In Romania, priorities are completely different, with public commisions designed to also achieve actual architecture being extremely few

Dossier Zeppelin #167: Inclusive City

Coordination: Cătălina Frâncu, Ilinca Pop

Intro

Edito: Do the Poor and the Middle-Class Still Have Room in the City?

Text, photo: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

Henley & Partners is a company which provides investment migration consultancy. It works both with rich individual customers, and with companies, and even governments, counselling them on golden visa-type programs (i.e. fast and easy gain of citizenship upon investing in the respective country), property purchasing opportunities etc.

The Museum of Collectivization – the second stage

Started in the autumn of 2019, by the initiative of a group of history fans and entrepreneurs in the village of Tămășeni (Neamț County, Romania) the museum quickly became a reality, and its exhibition opened in the first three rooms a year later.

Eight Large Houses. ADN BA: Apartment Building, Brasov

Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu
Photo: Vlad Pătru, Sabin Prodan

As in all Romanian large cities (and many of smaller ones), buildings have boomed in Brasov since 2000. Its particular situation has led to some very varied types of increase: limited in the historical centre, extensive on the outskirts

142 m² and eleven doors. SPEED Architects: House 1

SPEED is an architectural practice based in Oslo, founded in 2020 by Espen Robstad Heggertveit and Eirik Stokke, after receiving the DOGA Newcomer award. The acronym stands for Section, Plan, Elevation, Extrusion, Diagram

The Sunny House, the Passive House, the Twins’ House

This is a story of cooperation and patience, of team and trust, all started from an ambitious idea. The sunny house was born out of a beautiful dream – a house that uses the sun, a house built of wood, in the midst of an edible garden.

Dossier Zeppelin 166: „Hybrid Environments. About New Ways of Cohabiting ”

Coordinators: Ștefan Ghenciulescu, Cătălina Frâncu

Intro:

We have become rather accustomed to thinking of territory in terms of clear categories: city/village/nature, industry/agriculture/services, built/unbuilt, work/living etc.

Edito: Control and Conciliation

Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu
Photo: SCOB

The adjoining photo shows one of the projects in the dossier of the summer issue of Zeppelin magazine no.166. To be honest, it doesn’t look much like architecture. In fact, it looks like something that can be a corner of nature, or a greenfield, or some generic greenery, rather self-sown.

A silent witness. Space Casuals: Rehabilitating the house at 30, Coandă St., Bucharest

This is the story of a house built in 1900 to a Bucharest of different flavours and different values. All this time, the house has been a silent witness, it has navigated history almost anonymously, it saw two wars, a few different generations and regimes, earthquakes and city transformations.

Architecture as a Democratic Act: ASC Center for Administrative Services in Novi Sanzhary, Ukraine

A pro-bono project of the prestigious Swedish architecture and design office Claesson Koivisto Rune

Text: Daniel Tudor Munteanu
Photo: Alik Usik

Matrix in Wood. Peris+Toral Arquitectes: Social Housing, Cornellà de Llobregat

The residential building in Cornellà de Llobregat (Barcelona) is for now the largest building in Spain with a Wooden Structure. It houses 85 dwellings on five floors and used a total of 8,300 m2 of 0km wood1 from the forests of the Basque Country.