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Exhibition and conference – Friday 22 May 2015

•  18:00 – Opening: 5 installations -interventions in the public space of Halele Carol, realized by artists and architects from Norway and Romania

Curators:  Evy Sorensen (USF) , Cosmina Goagea and Ştefan Ghenciulescu (Zeppelin)

• 19:00 – Conference with presentations by the authors on their design of the site-specific intervention in the context of their work practice.

Marit Haugen (No)
Erlend Blakstad Haffner (No)
Finn Eirik Modahl & Arne Revheim (No)
Meta van Drunen (Ro)
Constantin Goagea (Ro)

Exhibition open five months from 22 May – 30 October 2015

Conference:  24.03.2015, 09:00-18:00 @ Hotel Crowne Plaza Bucharest, Romania

The German-Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Zeppelin Association invite you to the third edition of Cities of Tomorrow, Romania’s top meeting between business, architecture and administration.

This event shows an intense and rich mix of presentation, workshops and networking. Conferences by top international guests go side-by-side with debates on the Romanian situation and perspectives.

Cities of Tomorrow 2015 is dedicated to the relationship between mobility, urban development, economy and constructions.

Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

The fountain in Bucharest University Square is not really a great artistic achievement. But it is a place, one of the very few focal points and hubs of life and identity in a city where genuine public spaces, used as such, are almost nonexistent. There′s also a huge symbolic and civic value in this spot. People died here during the Revolution of 1989 and during the conflicts with the miners (the so-called Mineriads), crowds still gather here for demonstrations, individuals come here on a daily basis, to discuss, to meet or simply to rest. Of course, those perimetral water jets installed by the City Hall from a few years ago, that drench you as soon as you sit, destroyed much of the quality of the place, but it dwelt on. It even resisted the initiative of the same City Hall to replace the fountain with a banal refurbishment.

Text: Cosmin Caciuc
Photo: Ștefan Tuchilă

Google Glass has been stirring up the media. However, it didn’t have the expected commercial success from a social and psychological reason: the fear of being watched when you don’t want to, plus the embarrassing moments when you ask your interlocutor with the cyborg device on his face: “Is that thing recording right now?” And we’ll just let slide the glasshole nickname attributed in urban dictionaries to these gadget carriers.

15. Editor’s: The Mayor I Wish We Had
Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

16. Antonini + Darmon: Blended into the Context
>  Located on a naval wasteland in Nantes, this project configures 24 collective social housing units, 6 individual dwellings and a restaurant.

26. Wizja & nsMoonStudio: Structure, Contrast and Symbol
>  Centre for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor in Krakow

32. KOBFUJI Architects: Fusion. 2 Japanese Restaurants in Barcelona
>  Yoi Yoi Gion Barcelona & Tokyo Sushi Gràcia

36. C+S Architects: School & Community
>  Chiarani Primary School, Italy

41. C+S Architects: School & Experiment
>  Fontaniva School Center, Italy

46. TECTO Arhitectura: The House in the Woods  
>  This is one of the quite rare examples of pas¬sive dwellings and, actually, of contemporary wooden architecture, in Romania. The house gently adapts to the slope and grows around an interior garden.

54. cepezed architects: Creative Cluster, History and Industrial Atmosphere
>  Reconversion of the former Museum of Technology at the Ezelsveldlaan, Delft

60. Anne Lacaton & Jean Philippe Vassal: Transparency and Flexibility
>  FRAC – Regional Contemporary Artwork Collection – located on the northern site of Dunkerque, France, in an old boat warehouse, creates a double of this warehouse, of the same dimension, attached to the existing building, containing the program under a light and bioclimatic envelope.

69. Urban Report

• 70. IPoP: Cities Belong to Pedestrians!

> Pedestrian-friendly places are vital for urbanity
Text: Marko Peterlin, IPoP

• 74. On Neutral Spaces: The New Life of the Soviet Library Network

> SVESMI, an office for architecture, urban¬ism and cultural programming based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, has been investigating the potential of the Moscow library network – one of the largest in the world – looking into possibilities for its preserva¬tion, re-organisation, and subsequent upgrade.
Text: James Taylor-Foster, Anastassia Smirnova, Alexander Sverdlov

81. Design & More

• 82. Between North and South: the River Valley as a Restructuring Element

Dâmbovița River could become a strategic element for rebalancing Bucharest’s uneven development
Text: Claudiu Forgaci

87. Connected

• 88. HoloLens: The Holographic Life

> The first holographic computer from Microsoft, related with Windows 10, alters our very notion of reality: digital content will be mixed with the physical objects around us.
Text: Cosmin Caciuc

• 91. LIKEarchitects: Kinematix

> Interior design and a flexible system of sliding doors

• 94. LIKEarchitects: wonderWall

> Exhibition space in a shopping mall from Lisbon

Text: Constantin Goagea
Photo: Silviu Dancu, Meta van Drunen

Hesper S.A.. is a factory in the southern part of the central area og Bucharest, formerly known as Wolf, then Steaua Roșie (Red Star) Factory. For over two years now, Zeppelin works, in partnership with Hesper, to a model of rehabilitation for these spectacular buildings built in 1887: two years of research right on the site, in the Netherlands, Norway, Germany and Russia about how such a place can be transformed, meetings and discussions, business plans, strategies and not as the least important, action.

17. Editor’s: To the Future, while Looking Back
Text: Cosmin Caciuc

18. Dossier: Chile, a New Generation: a Generation of Change – 3rd Part
> An optimistic panorama towards the future of Chilean architecture  
Curator & intro: José Luis Uribe Ortiz

• 19. Cristián Axl Valdés / Mutar Estudio: Morocha House

• 22. Benjamín Murúa, Rodrigo Valenzuela: Taltal Public Library

• 28. Gubbins Arquitectos/Polidura+Talhouk Arq.: Lodge La Baita

• 32. Christian Sundby + Hector Peldoza: Ringstadbakken House

• 34. Sebastian Preece: Shelter in the Museum

• 36. José Abásolo: Collective and Collaborative: Towards a Blurring Discipline

38. Starh-ACD – Florian Stanciu, Iulia Stanciu: Slowly Building a Place
>  The 10 years construction period of this villa on the shores of a lake on the outskirts of Bucharest allows to read the evolution of the architectural philosophy of Starh office.
Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

53. SYAA: Tactile and conceptual: SIMBIO Kitchen & Bar
>  Restaurant, bar and hub on Negustori Street in Bucharest
Text: Cosmin Caciuc

60. Mihai Vărzan, Péter Marx, Ilinca Rădulescu: Generic School and Extended Urban Experience
>  School no. 195 extension in Titan district, Bucharest

66. Dekleva Gregorič Arhitekti: Critical Revisiting of Tradition
    >  Contextualist house in Slovenia

70. Carol Factory – the beginning
> A model of rehabilitation for Hesper S.A. historical buildings in Bucharest
Text: Constantin Goagea

73. Urban Report
74. ÉME Master School: Trefort Garden. A Monument in Personal Proximity
> This huge monument in Budapest speaks about trauma and memory in a non-heroic, refined and empathic manner, by means of the latest technologies and graphic design.
Text: Krisztina Somogyi

79. Design & More

• 8o. The Architectural Profession in 2014: Europe and Romania

Serban Ţigănaş examines  the latest European sectoral study about the profession of architect and proposes some principles for an improvement.

84. Stockholm Design Week  
> Design in Sweden is a lot about political support and a national identity that incorporates design and an authentic social character
Text: Constantin Goagea

89. Connected

• 90. Under the Skin of Our Buildings or Biomimicry as Sustainable Design

> Architecture Follows Nature- Biomimetic Principles for Innovative Design by Ilaria Mazzoleni in collaboration with Shauna Price
Book review: Alexandru Bălășescu

• 91. Marius Miclăuș:   Arhitecture under Extreme Conditions

> Mountain refuge at Călțun

6. The future of workspaces – interview with Louis Lhoest
Reporter: Cosmin Caciuc

17. Editor’s: Starchitecture and modernity in collective moments
Text: Cosmin Caciuc

20. Dico & Ţigănaș Birou de Proiectare: Urban Box

>  The new multifunctional sports hall in Cluj is not an isolated object but part of a public core in the central area. Celebration of a functional program, relationship with the city, understanding of light and economy of means are the main determinants of the project.
Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

37. Dossier: Chile, a New Generation: A Generation of Change – 2nd Part
>  An optimistic panorama towards the future of Chilean architecture
Curator & intro: José Luis Uribe Ortiz

• 38. Leonardo Portus: Representations of Modern in Chile

• 42. SURco Juan Paulo & Felipe Alarcón Carreño: Lycée María Auxiliadora

• 48. Rodrigo Duque Motta, Rafael Hevia, Gabriela Manzi: School of Economics and Business Diego Portales University

52. Nicolas del Rio architects, Max Núñez: Blue House

• 56. Marco Díaz González, filmmaker: 24 Frames per Second, the Camera Unveils the Chilean Architecture

58. Exhibit Arhitectura: Portico Library
>  Humanitas Bookshop in Ploiești lies just behind a portico; it opens toward the city by transforming the window into an architectural place instead of a limit.

65. Lahdelma & Mahlmäki, Kuryłowicz & Associates: POLIN – Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw
Text: Tomasz Zylski, Krzysztof Mycielski

71. Urban Report

• 72.  Iconoclasistas

> Graphic art, creative workshops, collec­tive research,  practices of urban collaboration and resistance, spread through a dynamic network in Argentina, Latin America and Europe.

79. Design & More

• 80. Frank Gehry: Like, unlike. Gehry @ Paris

> Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris: reporting on site, Ștefan Tuchilă is rather critical and Mihai Duţescu advocates the contrary opinion.
Text: Ștefan Tuchilă, Mihai Duţescu, Ștefan Ghenciulescu

• 88. Dance. Technology. Interactivity

> AVmotional’s installations 4th Skin and In total Equilibrium
Text: Raluca Nestor Oancea

91. Connected

• 92. Electric Mobility

> BMW solutions for EV charging stations
Text: BMW Group

21. Editor’s: The little contry house as an Etichal Issue

Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

“For an intellectual, building a new home in the countryside is a moral failure”

22. Dossier: Chile, a new generation

> An optimistic panorama towards the future of Chilean architecture: José Luis Uribe Ortiz, Hector Labarca Rocco, Ricardo Torrejón Schellhorn, Constanza Hagemann & Nicolas Valdes (PANORAMA), School of Architecture, University of Talca, Alfredo Thiermann Riesco  

• 22. A Generation of Change

Curator dosar & text intro: José Luis Uribe Ortiz

• 26. Hector Labarca Rocco: Chile as imaginary

• 30. Ricardo Torrejón Schellhorn: House-Hamlet

• 34. Constanza Hagemann & Nicolas Valdes (PANORAMA): Black Box

• 38. School of Architecture, University of Talca: Maule Project

• 42. Alfredo Thiermann Riesco: Artifact # 1

46. Cătălin-Paul Cozma: Inhabited Stone

>  A holiday home on Valsan Valley, not far away from Curtea de Arges

50. Cubo & Force4: Accesibility, Education and Leisure

>  A rehabilitation Centre in Denmark breaks with existing standards and help to develop state of the art within the disability field.

56. LAMA Arhitectura: Restaurant / Theatre / Memory

>  Alt Shift plays with identitites and conven­tions – an end of the century construction, the popular restaurant from the socialist era, called Berlin, honest expression but also materials that are not what they seem to be. This is also an interior design operation that adds value to the building it is housed in.

Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

62. ATR LINE – Tövissi Zsolt & LARIX STUDIO –  Köllő Miklós: To Keep, to Protect, to Reveal

>  Restoring the Catholic Church complex in Cârța

69. Urban Report

• 70. Collaboration for the “Post‑Industrial” Romanian Cities – Anina Mine of Ideas

Text: Irina Rotaru, Oana Ţiganea

Intro: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

73. Design & More

• 74. pepluspatru Association: Enchanting Views

>  An exhibition in Bucharest brings back to life an exceptional architectural moment in Romania: a relative liberalization of the socialist regime in the 60s and 70s, coupled with the need for attracting foreign routists, allowed for an almost utopian, yet also human-scaled and enthusiastically modernist program for the Black Sea coast resorts. The exhibitions puts the phe­nomenon in a historical and social perspec­tive, telling stories about modernist utopia and controlled hedonism, propaganda, collective and individual memories.

Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

81. Connected

• 82. We Cycle

> iPhone app which records the routes preferred by cyclists

Text: Andreea Vrabie

• 84. AVCI Architects: High Environmental Performance

> The Turkish Contractor’s Association Headquarters in Ankara

• 88. Ector Hoogstad Architects: Recycling Industrial Space for Engineers

> A former steel plant from the Netherlands becomes a “playground for engi­neers”: a sustainable project that stimulates social encounter and involvement.

The third edition of the international forum Cities of Tomorrow, about the connection between mobility, urban development and constructions, brought together top business personalities, people from architecture and administration,