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Text: Cosmin Caciuc

In this issue we are publishing a dossier with projects rewarded at the European Award for Architectural Heritage Intervention AADIPA. These biennial awards organized with Catalan support occurred in the professional continental landscape only recently, in 2013. Unlike other famous European awards, such as those dedicated to the Eu Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards (from 2002, focusing on heritage conservation), The European Prize for Urban Public Space (from 1999, focusing on new urban interventions) and the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award (1998, for new architectural projects) AADIPA awards deal with a niche mediating between heritage and contemporary examples. It is an important signal of the need to reconcile social attitudes divided between history and modernization, of the strategic importance for the development of urban heritage, providing even a guide of best practices in protected areas, where integration and coexistence are fundamental keys to awareness and understanding.

Text: Cosmin Caciuc / Photo: Cosmin Dragomir (Boldești-Scăeni)

In this issue we present some examples of good ecological thinking, that I would label as high green, due to their coherent, mature, integrated, financially prudent vision, and responsible, in a broad sense, for the future of the built environment: the education centre of Boldești‑Scăeni (Adrian Pop – Center for Sustainability in the Built Environment), a dossier of the 4th edition of Holcim Awards for sustainable construction, and VTree, a prototype of an urban autonomous mobile power generator from this year’s festival Street Delivery, in Bucharest, by Studio Act.

Between July 24th – August 1st an industrial heritage workshop will take place in Anina in the framework of the “Anina Mine of Ideas: Post-Industrial Cultural Identity” project initiated by Alba Verde Association in partnership with Anina Town hall, the Architects’ Chamber of Romania in Timiș, the Faculty of Architcture and Urbanism from Timișoara, and supported by The National Architects’ Chamber of Romania.

Conference & the last day of the Bucharest exhibition Connected. Things about Future, Cities and People

11 november 2014, h. 18:00 @  National Museum of Contemporary Art – MNAC

23 may 2014 @ Halele Carol [Carol Factory] (Str. Dr. Constantin Istrati no. 1, Bucharest)

conference, pop-exhibition & film screening

powered by Zeppelin & Eurodite

Project team: Zeppelin

Architects: Constantin Goagea, Anastasia David, Bogdan Petru Pana, Stefan Ghenciulescu, Adrian Dobre.

Interior finishes: Habitual

Furniture and woodwork: Acant Design

Decorative plaster: Baumit

Photo: Cosmin Dragomir

Text: Cosmin Caciuc / Photo: Daisuke Ohki

From Jules Verne’s novels I reckon that it’s not cool to be a scientist without being eccentric and particularly controversial, or at least declarative. Ray Kurzweil, artificial intelligence director at Google, occupied by predictions of the future and by the 100 pills that he claims he’s taking daily to live longer, is no exception to this rule. His vision, in short: all roads lead to nanotechnology, that is, manipulated matter at atom level, so that natural and artificial boundaries can be dissolved, even in human tissue.

• Str. Dr. Constantin Istrati no. 1, Bucharest (opposite of Bus station Filaret, next to Park Carol)
• Saturday, 6 of june, from 9:30 P.M.
• Gates open at 7 P.M.

The first Saturday of this summer comes full of Norwegian, Swedish and Danish movies – a rare opportunity to enjoy the Scandinavian cinema at Carol Factory (Halele Carol), but also to celebrate the national day of one of the invited friends, Sweden: on June 6th, just after sunset, the lights of the northern cinema arrive in southern Bucharest, in the former factory next to Carol Park, continuing our program of activating the old site.

creativity workshops for children

6 & 7 June 2015

Children had the opportunity to turn detective and architect and to shape the stories that we tell them or they create themselves.  We worked with photographs, drawings, objects, models and stories that animate children.

 19. Editor’s: Popcorn & revolution
Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

22. Éric Gauthier: From Cars to People and Community
>  A former gas station in southwest of Montreal, designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1966, was converted into a youth and senior activity centre.

28. Point 4: Furniture Becomes Space
>  An apartment in a socialist block of flats in Bucharest. Small area, even smaller budget, a rigid structure that didn’t allow changes in partition. Therefore, the simple built-in furniture made of wood agglomerate pannels is turned into a design mechanism – it shapes limits, places, finishes, and the expression.

32. DOSSIER: Norwegian Artists at Carol Factory
>  Marit Haugen (Haugen/Zohar Arkitekter), Erland Blakstad Haffner, Finn Eirik Modahl & Arne Revheim will create on May 22nd a path with art installations and design in the outdoor spaces of the factory. This dossier is an introduction to the artistic world of these authors

> 32. Intro
Text: Cosmina Goagea

> 34. Haugen / Zohar Arkitekter

• 34. Cave for Kids

• 36. Micro conversion

> 39. Erlend Blakstad Haffner

• 39. Walking Berlin

• 41. Cardboard Cloud

• 42. New Utøya

> 46. Finn Eirik Modahl & Arne Revheim

• 46. Javel

• 47. Konglo

• 48. SOL/Pulse

50. DOSSIER: Juri Troy Architects  – 3 houses
> This is critical regionalism and ecology for real and not as a fancy discourse. But the houses designed in Austria by Juri Troy′s team are much more than this: wood in all shapes and sizes is stretched to the limit in order to creat perfectly modern spaces and expressive images.

> 51. Intro
Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

• 52. 37m in Hohenems

• 58. House under the Oaks

• 62. The House on the Mountain

67. Urban Report

• 68. Asociaţia Komunitas & studioBASAR: Neighbour(hood)s in Bucharest

> Reading a place in order to transform it. A tar¬geted social and anthropological research in Bucharest – Tineretului, Timpuri Noi, Tei.
Text: Miruna Tîrcă, Vlad Cătună, Alex Axinte, Cristi Borcan

77. Design & More

• 78. LX Factory:

> A former industrial site in Lisbon transformed in a crea¬tive island
Text: Roger Mor

81. The Oslo School of Architecture and Design: Inverted House, Hokkaido
> The winning project of the Lixil International University Architectural Competition for an experimental house
Text: Laura Cristea

85. Point 4: VI_IT
> Lighting objects made from recycled materials
Text: Justin Baroncea

89. Connected

• 90. Blaze: Laser for Bycicles

> Signaling nocturnal cyclists on the road

• 92. Zumtobel Group Year of Light Event 2015

• 93. Artéria: Mind Maps, Critique and Participation

> A virtual platform and an urban installation in Lisbon