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Experimental teaching and research programme, and a workshop that took place at KSEVT, the Cultural Centre of European Space Technologies in Slovenia.

Project & text: Aljoša Dekleva, Tina Gregorič
Photo: Ajda Schmidt

Project & text: Sofia Parente & André Delgado
Photo: José Campos

Formerly used as a barn, Nogueiras house has a built area of only 50 m2 and occupies an existing stone construction in Viana do Castelo, Portugal. At the the ground floor, there is a dou­ble height living area and entrance, and at the first floor a bedroom. The central wood box is the bounding piece of the different areas, incor­porating furniture elements and the bathroom.

PROJECT, TEXT & PHOTO: Simona Pribeagu Schmid

Simona Pribeagu Schmid is a Romanian arhitect, living and working in Switzerland. Designing and overseeing the construction of a small house for her parents in the small city of Alexandria meant dealing with a tight budget, cheap standard materials and average building skills.

For two months we’re bringing the Swedish culture to Bucharest, we discuss and experiment the Scandinavian creativity, we give it a local context and we look into the future. A northern season in Bucharest’s effervescence.

022. Edito: Áusländer

Text: Mugur Grosu

024. DOSSIER: Houses, New and Anew

026. Intro: Housing, recycling, the new past, the gentle revolutions

Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu 

• 028. A lot in common: 

      Duplex Architekten: Cluster House (House A)

• 040. 617 meters and new ways of living 

      The urban conversion of Macdonald warehouse in Paris

• 046. Habiter Autrement
• 052. Hondelatte Laporte Architectes
• 058. Brenac & Gonzalez
• 066. Rural house rehabilitation
• 074. The house above the house
• 104. Hilariopolis

      ADN BA’s contribution for La Biennale di Venezia 

• 108. Barcelona Living Box

     Prefab Student Housing

• 118. How to save a building before it gets built

     Apartment building, Dudești Road, Bucharest

• 122. AP_GRADE NORD

     Interior design as recomposition

128. Zoom

• 130. Do not (re)build if you don’t have to

      Reconversion of an old mill into an interpretation centre and an incubator, Anderlecht, Belgium

• 148. Eco‑Chilia
• 154. Wienerberger Brick Award 2016

162. Design & Technology

• 164. 342,914 km of scaffolding. A spatial strategy
• 170. Everything connected to the city is political:

      An interview with Ivo Gönner, former mayor of Ulm

• 176. UPC offices, Budapest
• 182. The sunken garden
• 186. I live in Everybody’s Times
• 188. Ap.Rindele:

      Planers furniture

• 196. An artist in the city:

      Tania Mouraud confiding to the passersby

018. Edito: Maybe Chickens, Maybe Seaside, but Surely Internet. And Let’s Not Forget: Design.

Text: Constantin Goagea

020. DOSSIER: Skin and Shelter

022. Intro: Façades, envelopes, roofs, places between in and out

Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

024. Urban Ecosystems

Chartier Dalix: 2 Schools in the Parisian Region

044. An Artificial Organism

ICTA‑ICP · UAB Research Centre, Barcelona

054. Without Boundaries

Museumplein Limburg, Kerkrade

070. From the City Till Under the Skin: A Public Landscape in Marseille

Rudy Riciotti: MuCEM, Marsilia

080. The Joy of Industrial Architecture

Administrative and Laboratory Pavilion, Braşov

086. A Wedding Hall Turns Into Architecture

Event Space, Târgovişte

092. From Chocolate Bombers to Refugee Shelter

A Photographic Documentary on Tempelhof Airport in Berlin

106. Protecting, Hiding, Making Apparent

The Protective Structure Above the Church in Crivina de sus

114. Houses Without Faces and Faces Without Houses

Or How to Destroy a Heritage and Keep People Happy

124. Zoom

• 126. A Gentle New Neighbor

      ADN BA: Apartment Building in the Old Center of Bucharest

• 142. Making a Better Place

      Beros & Abdul Architects: House J, Bucharest

• 152. For Movement

      UNITH2B: Kinetic Recovery Clinic, Bucharest

• 156. Holiday Feeling

      Design for TUI Travel Agencies

• 160. To Berlin

      Interior Design for Control Club

• 166. The Little House for Children

      Patricia Erimescu: Njoro School Library, Tanzania

172. Design & Technology

• 176. Banal, Raw, Deep

      Tudor Prisăcariu’s Bucharest

• 186. Masa_FORM
• 188. Design Connects Visions For Economy
• 196. OVAL @ London Fashion Week 2016

      Letter from O.

11. Editor’s: Post-critical urban opportunities

Text: Cosmin Caciuc

13.  OMA: The New Fondazione Prada in Milan

>   Industrial renewal and stimulus for neighbourhood regeneration

Text: Irina Rotaru

27.  Jean Craiu, Ada Demetriu:  FORM VL 173

> Restaurant and terrace, but also an urban intervention strategy

34.  Tecon: Typification plus Adjustment

 >  Standard project of a gym in Bucharest

40.  Larix Studio:  The New Story of the Old Mill in Suseni

>  Restoration of an old mill in a village from Harghita county

47.  Mjölk architects: The Fence House

            > House in Czech Republic

Text: Cosmin Caciuc

52.  Sofia Parente & André Delgado:  From Stone Barn, to House

>  / Conversion a former barn made of stones in Portugal

57. Design & More

•  58. #Tudordurabil

     > Workshop for Tudor neighborhood in Târgu Mureș

     Text: Romeo Cuc, Georgiana Birthler-Branea

• 62.  Zeppelin – Constantin Goagea, Anastasia David: Lost museums. An Exhibition

     >  An exhibition and installation at the Museum of the Romanian Peasant in Bucharest

     Text: Dragoș Neamu

• 64.  Asociaţia Csomópont: A New Local Project

     > Workshop in Cernat village, Covasna county

     Text: Kázmér Kovács

• 68. School in Action

     >  Educational phase of  Urban Spaces in Action project:  100 workshops for urban education

     Text: Miruna Târcă

• 72.  Lyon: Two Very Different Museums in Lyon

     > A reportage about Musée des Confluences (Coop Himelb(l)au, arch.) and Gallo-Roman Museum (Bernard Zerfuss, arch.)

     Text: Corina Laza

85. Connected

• 86.  MIT Senseable City Lab: 3 Experiments with Technology & Space

     > Adaptive urban plan­ning,  a digital traffic controller and a quadcopter that can efficiently guide visitors

• 90.  Alper Derinboğaz: Tri-Fold

     > An installation designed for the Volkswagen Arena Lounge in Istanbul

• 92.  Encore Heureux: Pavilion Circulaire

     >  Temporary building in Paris that celebrates the principles of circular economy

     Text: Pavillion de l’Arsenal

17. Editor’s: Mourning, hope, angst

Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

19.  Exhibit Arhitectura: Halve and Spin  

>   House in a neighborhood in Brașov

28.  LAMA Arhitectura:  Living in a Chest

> House in a modest neighborhood in Bucharest

Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

35.  Klaus Birthler: Vultur House, Reghin

 >   Energy efficient home in Mureș county

40.  FCC Arquitectura + Paulo Lobo:  Experience for All Senses

>  Wine experience hotel in Portugal

45.  Program & place. Three architecture diplomas at the Ion Mincu University, Bucharest

Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

• Silviu Papuc: Collective living in the city center. Activating a disused office building

• Georgiana Grigore: Sluice and socio-cultural services at Colentina’s western lakes, Bucharest

• Ștefan Păvăluţă: Integrated touristic system around the medieval fortress of Enisala, Dobrogea region.

54.  MAR.S Architects:  Transparency and Privacy

>  Bistro in Prague

56.  DDAANN & Mjolk:  Space for Visitors and Passion for Cycling

>  A guest apartment in Prague

60.  Point 4 & Pandapanda:  AP_AVP Apartment: Shoes, Cups and Spices

>  Interior design for a dwelling in an apartment building from the socialist period in Bucharest.

Text: Justin Baroncea

64. Mânadelucru:  A Good Background

>  Renovation and refurbishment of  Alukönigstahl showroom in Bucharest

68. Halele Carol

• 68.  Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects:  From Steel to Kimonos

> Converting a former industrial building into an exhibi­tion space with atelier for an artist

74.  The Cloud Collective:  New Façade and Adaptation: First School, then Mosque

>  Mevlana Mosque from Amsterdam

77. Connected

• 78.  A Call to Action: Better Quality, Safer, Healthier, more Affordable and Greener Homes

> The third edition of a series of articles to provide understand­ing about an important trend in Romania 

Text: Steven Borncamp – CEO Romania Green Building Council

81. Design & More

• 82. Damian Alexandru: Small Interventions: Variable Transparency and Reuse

> A fence in Timișoara and a transformable stool

85. dekleva gregorič architects: (un)curtain office

> System of flexible spatial partitioning for a working environment in Ljubljana

• 90. Kengo Kuma: Yure

     >  Urban installation at Paris

     Text: Corina Laza

• 94.  presledek.:  Black Thread on Brass Profile

     > Exhibition at National Museum of Slovenia Ljubljana

17. Editor’s: Discreet monuments

Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

28.  Justin Baroncea, Iulia Vasile: A Coat Somewhere in a Garden

>   A house in Breaza village

30.  SYAA:  Building on the Verge

> Boarding house in Chilia Veche – the Danube Delta

Text: Andrei Mărgulescu

35.  Henrik Lunden – The Common Office: W Club Charles de Gaulle

 >   Workout space in Bucharest

Text:  Cosmin Caciuc

37.  Stardust Architects: Scene from Behind the Scene

>  Administrative annex inside an opera building

41.  Ideogram Studio: M1. Workshop

>  Internal working space for the creation of wines at Murfatlar

45.  Graphic Studio: One Plot, Three Houses

>  Five levels block of flats in Bucharest

48. Brenac + Gonzalez: 3 objects, One Urban Block

>  Two blocks of flats and a pastoral Catholic building

64. Artre Studio: Pragmatism, Diversity and Appeal to Modernism

>  Residenz project in Chitila

Text:  Ignaz S. Schmidt, Dragoș Lungulescu, Cosmin Caciuc

70. Andrei Comănac:  True Luxury is Green

>  Amber Gardens – residential complex based on bioclimatic principles  in  Otopeni–Tunari

Text: Alesonor

75. Connected

      76.  The Portrait of a House

> Costa-Foru house and the story “Beyond the Façade”

Text: Yasmin Asan

80.  Reducing Mortgage Default Risk with Greener Homes

> The second episode of a series of articles to provide understand­ing about an important trend in Romania 

Text: Steven Borncamp – CEO Romania Green Building Council

84. Halele Carol

     84. Historical Allotment and Renewed Urban Identity

> Urban research and a unique exhibition at the Railroad Museum (CFR) in Bucharest  

Text: Andrei-Răzvan Voinea, Andreea-Livia Ivanovici

89. Design & More

     90. Post City

> This year’s edition of Ars Elecronica in Linz looked at new meanings of urban life

Text: Constantin Goagea

 4. The parasite socks project at 56th Venice Biennale
Text & proiect: Jean-Lorin Sterian

19. Editors: The Good policy of the European Architecture Awards
Text: Cosmin Caciuc

20. Dossier: Old is the New New
 > 3 winners of the last edition of the AADIPA European Award for Architectural Heritage Intervention

• 22. Paredes Pedrosa Architects: Public Library in Ceuta

• 28. SAMI-arquitectos: E/C House

• 34. Isabel Aguirre de Urcola & Celestino García Braña: Between Ruin and Landscape. The Caaveiro Monastery

38. Tecto Arhitectura: 4E House
> Passive house made of brick on nZEB principles  at the initiative of Wienerberger in Corbeanca village, Ilfov County

44. Westfourth Architecture: Adapting
> The apartment building in the center of Bucharest adapts to the historic fabric and to a difficult plot, but also to economical evolutions: it was designed before the crisis, the operation was interrupted for several years, only to restart with a smaller budget but also the requirement to diminish the size of all apartments while dou¬bleing their number, within the same volume and basic plan.
Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

59. Andrei Eugen Lakatos: Funeral Chapel
 > A  discreet building in a small Protestant cemetary in Voluntari, near Bucharest

52. Synthesis Architecture: Behind the Blocks of Flats, a Bigger House  
>  The urban villa is placed on a free plot in the middle of a socialist neighbourhood right beyond the inner city ring of Bucharest emphasizes both individuality and variation. All apartments are different and the decorative pannels, all starting from the same interpretated vernacular ornament become parapets or cover the ines¬capable exterior air conditioning units that are cleverly integrated into the wall.
Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

57. Triptyque Architecture & Philippe Starck:  TOG Flagship store, São Paulo
>  A mixed use place of sociability where you can buy, meet and spend time, made under the artistic direction of Philippe Starck

60. Halele Carol / Carol Factory

• 60. Spazi Indecisi: Abandonment and Reuse
  > A cultural association has been mapping and explor¬ing abandoned places in Italy and Eastern Europe

66. Post-industrial Anina
> The second edition of the industrial heritage workshop dedicated to the sustainable regeneration
 Text: Irina Rotaru, Oana Ţiganea

69. Urban Report

• 70.  Someș Delivery 2015
  > Events and projects dedicated to the urban space around Someș river in Cluj
   Text: Klara Veer, Marius Moga, Mihai Mateiu

• 76. “This place is pretty good”. And it really is
  > Workshop and exhibition in Brăila
  Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

79. Connected

• 80. Finance and Green Buildings
  > The first episode of a series of articles to provide understanding about an important trend in Romania  
  Text: Steven Borncamp

85. Design & More

• 86. Agnes Lukacs: Interior Oases
  > Two interior design projects for FruFru, Bucharest

• 92. Dagmar Štěpánová, Katarína Varsová / Formafatal: Gran Fierro
  > An argentinean restaurant in Prague