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Modul Cărturești. A cultural site between two courtyards and a portico

Modul Cărturești is a new bookstore and, in the future, also an important exhibition space in downtown Bucharest, on Academiei Street, accessible from the portico of the “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism. The library does not simply take up a space, but also transforms it, being a first step towards reconstructing and, in fact, carrying on its original public and transparent character.

DELTA PLAN – GEST. 3 ceramics workshops, 3 restrooms in the UAUIM – Bucharest

A project within I’M UAU program of Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism – Bucharest (UAUIM)
Text: Justin Baroncea
Foto: Radu Malașincu, Cristina Ginara, Alexandru Ivanof

GEST: A laboratory that includes workshops of ceramic ‘confections’, lighting appliances, furniture made of recycled materials and pieces, cartoons on the walls, and a boiler on the ceiling.

Ants House, Iasi

This is a small house with a big interior, one that’s cheap in cost an rich in spaces. We get to hear not just form the architects, but also from the clients: about climbing stairs all day, about getting some time together at home, about how the house and the family grow together

History for the Residents (Too): Bucharest’s the Building Fund Lotissements

Text: Andrei Răzvan Voinea, Irina Calotă

Historic lotissements and neighborhood communities—research for the residents

There were two main public institutions in charge of implementing Bucharest’s housing policy in the first half of the twentieth century—the Communal Company for Low-Cost Housing (1910-1948) and the Building Fund (1930-1949). The legacy of this policy consists of twenty-two lotissements with standard dwellings in Bucharest, some of them included as heritage on the List of Historic Monuments and/or qualified as protected built-up areas, a legal status that does not necessarily entail the conservation of the values that these districts embody.

Edito: PUZZ_LIT. Poetry and resuscitation. On the street

Text: Mugur Grosu
Photo: Alexandra Savu, Dorothee Hasnaș, Mugur Grosu

Seven years ago, I spoke with the former chief executive of the London Development Agency, architect Peter Bishop, at the launch of his book, Temporary City. I asked him if there was any place for poetry in the big cities. Of course, he told me, and he recounted architect Jaime Lerner, who reached the position of mayor of the Brazilian city of Curitiba

Dossier: The Mies van der Rohe Award. Inside view

Intro: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

For over 12 years, I have nominated, as an independent expert, works for the EU Mies Award, as to use its shortened name. In 2019, I had the privilege to be part of this edition’s jury. Together with my colleagues, we shortlisted 40 projects of the 383 submitted, then 5 finalist projects, then the award. Andwe visited all the 5 works selected in the final, as well as the one receiving the award for emergent

Sergison Bates architects – Garden building, Mereworth, Kent

Text: Sergison Bates architects
Photo: David Grandorge

Completed in 1658, Yotes Court is a Grade I listed country residence within a 20-acre estate.

Our project is for a leisure building comprising a 15m indoor heated swimming pool, associated changing facilities and gymnasium.

Densifying the margins. Patio house, Bucureștii Noi neighborhood – Bucharest

Republic of Architects is led by Emil Burbea, Oana Iacob, Radu Ponta and Alexandra Zăgan. They are no strangers to Zeppelin, in very different ways: to their designs of minimal living prototypes, to the transformation of their office space in an open place, to apartment buildings or theoretical texts on transition urbanism. Most articles shared the context – the Bucharest central area – the combination between practice and the critical overlook on the city, the space, urban life. For this article, they take us on a ride outside the downtown.

Vlad Bina: Design for a Virtual World. And then back

I met Vlad Bina in the very early 90s, when I was a young architecture student, while he had just graduated. He was considered by his teachers to be an outstanding student and graduate and I remember his wonderful hand drawings. He left for the US, where he works in feature film Production Design designing digital and physical spaces for storytelling. He is using for this an extensive 3D computer graphics experience built on an architectural, design and art history background.

Zeppelin #153 (spring 2019)

 

 

10. Edito: Zeus. There is unrest in the city
Text: Mugur Grosu

…how nice it would be if, on their first day of work, city managers would play such a game. They could take it easy, but at least learn their ABC-s. For no one was born a city mayor, but everyone believed they were Zeus and turned out to be the Hydra.

12. DOSSIER
Modest Houses. The Architecture of Affordability

14. Intro
Text: Ştefan Ghenciulescu

If you browse architecture magazines and websites looking for housing, the first thing you see is villas in different sizes. And I don’t refer to design magazines that target a general public, but specialized, professional ones. The second thing is expensive housing which is not villas—most prominently, luxury apartments, as well as holiday homes that cost more than a regular permanent one. And third, quite surprisingly, is social housing, ranging from subsidized to extreme emergency housing. Therefore, architecture appears to be either the privilege of wealth or, at the other end of the spectrum, of crushing need. How is it that “middle architecture,” the type of construction that dominates most of today’s world, is so poorly represented?

18. Ants House
Project: Adriana Gheorghiescu & Alexandra Berdan

32. Fala Atelier: a Creative Mixture of Existing Things
An Interview with Filipe Magalhães, Ana Luisa Soares & Ahmed Belkhodja

39. Arlequin Apartment

44. House and Atelier

52. Small House with a Monumental Shower

58. Passive Mediterranean Living
BXD Arquitectura: MG House

62. ExistenzMINIMUM/MAXIMUM
L’atelier: Small Urban Dwellings

65. EUGENE
Capsule Apartment

68. CADET
“Mon Oncle” Minimal

70. NEUILLY
Garçonnière Voyeuriste

72. TOLBIAC
House in a House

76. Seven Large Houses
Igual & Guggenheim: Social Dwellings

84. Four Walls and a Roof.
The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession
A book by Reinier de Graaf

100. The Engineer and the Affordable Dwelling
Henri Coandă’s Forgotten Systems

112. History for the Residents (Too)
Bucharest’s the Building Fund Lotissements

126. At Home on the Road
Text: Elena Stancu
Foto: Cosmin Bumbuţ

A Journalist and a Photographer Moved into a Campervan to Be Able to Do Their Jobs


134. On Housing
An Exhibition and an Open Debate

146. ZOOM

148 .The Second House
STARH: Holiday Home in Căldăruşani

152. The B‑Lay HQ
Design through Process and Serious Games


158. Changes in a Part of the City
Recent and Future Projects at the “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture (UAUIM)

163. UAUIM “Museum”


170. I’M UAU – FLADER_ING

172. DELTA PLAN – GEST


180. Modul Cărtureşti
A Cultural Site between Two Courtyards and a Portico

196 – 224. PLANS