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15. Editor’s: Please, open the window
Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

18. Bogdan Gyemant-Selin
Exposed and sustainable concrete
Center for children activities. An exposed concrete house right next to Bucharest North railway station offers a new vision of building culture
Text: Cosmin Caciuc

28. Incuboxx Timişoara
IT&C Business Incubator
Text: Anda Alexandra Maier

33. Andreescu & Gaivoronschi: Pedestrian space, City Business Center, Timișoara
Text: Irina Damașcan

34. ATELIER 8000: Facing the River
Office building, České Budějovice, Cehia

36. Atelier MASS: Electric castle 2013 – 2014
Event scenography
Text: Silviu Aldea
The festival, organizat around the ruins of the historical ruin of Banffy Castle in Bonţida, Transylvania puts the palace into a new context, and creates a dialogue between avantgarde and the past, the temporary and the permanent, abstract geometry and traditional structures.

42. Gabu Heindl Architektur: Sculpture for the Winer Festwochen
Temporary public space installation

44. Attila Kim: Black shell, bright inner world
Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu
Two attached houses in the outskirts of Bucharest shape individual, protected and luminous spaces inside the plot

52. Jun Murata: Light slits
Renovation of a dwelling, Osaka

54. Point 4: Micro-architecture

• Casa_DO – The refurbishment of an interwar apartment 

Text: Justin Baroncea

• TR_VL – a mobile and foldable object for events in public spaces (in partnership with RADOX)

60. 2014 Venice Biennale
Text: Constantin Goagea, Cosmin Caciuc
A view on 20th century’s modernity and a rather academic edition,  yet with a lot of beautiful and intelligent presentations that deserve to be discussed.  

76. Carmen Nistor: Underground lab
Artistic intervention in Piața Romană subway station

URBAN REPORT

• 78. Politics, memory, agora

Mercat del Born, cultural center and public space, Barcelona
Text: Carmen Popescu

84. Smart & Share Cities
Text: Cosmin Caciuc
How to address smart city ideologies? Long-term global strategies on urbanity give us new opportunities but also new concerns.

90. Cleantech Playground
Project for Ceuvel and Schoonschip neighborhoods, Amsterdam

94. Martin-Emilian Balint: MEM-NON
Interactive installation

16 Modulab: The secret school of technomagic
> Modular educational space for art, technology and collaboration  
Text: Ioana Calen

21 Editor’s: Plastic, plastic, plastic!
Text: Cosmin Caciuc

22  ADN Architecture: The Joy of Living in the City
>  Apartament block on Dogarilor Street, Bucharest: the product of a typological research of community dwelling, a lesson of civilized densification and how to continue an urban character.
Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

44 Felix Tue: Transformation in Layers
>  Transformation of a 40 year old bungalow in Canada

48 CM Architecture: Industrial sensibility
>  Apartment building into a historical district in Istanbul

51 MOBA: Urban Reconnecting
>  Transformation of Liberty Square in  Vsetín, Czech Republic

56 Mihai Vărzan, Péter Marx, Luís Torgal: Shaded Square
>  The rehabilitation of a small green space in the Boulevard Nicolae Grigorescu area in Bucha¬rest undertakes urban design to provide a place for socializing.

58 SANE Architecture

• 58 Bayer Mobile Laboratory

>  Space for chemistry and biology experiments for students  into a park from Bucharest  

60 Taichung City Cultural Center
> Project awarded Highly Commended of the Cultural Regeneration category at the 2014 MIPIM Architectural Review Future Project Awards

62  Republic of Architects: MOMI –an Instrument for Living in the Garden
>  A minimal shelter for outdoor living
Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

64 Rowmania: ECOARCHIPELAGO 2014
> A competition for 5 floating islands on Dâmbovița River in Bucharest
Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

67 Urban Report

• 68 Fundaţia Archaeus: Dealu’ Cerului Project

>  Multidisciplinary school and center for experimental architecture in the forest preserve of Nera-Beușniţa valley.
Text: Alexandra Maier

74 Briefly about Carol Factory Night
Text: Mugur Grosu

77 Design & More

• 78 Let’s play architecture

>  Educational initiative for children, about to become an official teaching program: a (serious) game with architecture in order to achieve a pleas¬ant and healthy environment in the future.
Text: Mina Sava, Vera Marin

81Fence Bench
> Garden furniture meant for public or private exterior spaces

Text: Oana Coarfă

83 Connected

• 84 Alexandra Stoica: The future sounds “green”

> “Smart-green” is the concept of the future
Text: Alexandra Stoica, BREEAM International Assesor

86  Nextdoor
> A US social net¬work that connects people based on the neighbor¬hood they live in
 Text: Andreea Vrabie

88  Interview with Dirk Simons:  Urban by Nature
> On Anthropocene, metabolism, and landscape architecture in the carpet metropolis
Reporter: Claudiu Forgaci

21. Editor’s: (Small) Epic Heroes
Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

22.  b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos: Democratic Reinvention – the New Mercat del Encants
>  B720 proposed for remaking a centenarian informal market¬place in Barcelona not a building, but a canopy hovering above a public space made of a series of ramps connecting the various street levels.
Text: Jean Craiu

31. Expo Milano 2015: The Ideas Competition for the Romanian Pavillion
>  The competition integrated architecture, the theme and the visual identity and showed both an increased interest in sustainability and a preference for tradition as a basic resource.

40. BOGDAN & VAN BROECK

• 40. The white circle in the green

>  The Bakala Academy near Leuven

• 46. Residence, Brussels Free University

>  Accommodation for students, guest lecturers and athletes, but also a representative congress venue

• 52. DICO & ȚIGĂNAȘ: For People and Machines

>  Robert Bosch Factory in Cluj

60. Atelier 25: Public Rural Buiding
>  Rehabilitation and extension, the Centre of Art in Kvilda, Czech Republic

63. Atelier Hoffman: From Coal Mill to Creative Industries
>  Conversion of a former industrial building in the Czech Republic

67.  Zebra 3 & Point Zero: A House for a Business Community
>  Office building designed to house small entrepreneurs in the Northern Bucharest
Text: Toader Popescu

71. Urban Report

• 72. Nature Park Văcăreşti

> Razed history, nature reclaiming an abandoned place, an increasing dense urban context. A collborative project is about to create a vast protected area in the southern part of Bucharest.  
Text: Save or Cancel – Cristina Popa, Andrei Racovițan

• 78. Shared Spaces in Divided Contexts, Cyprus

> The activities of Archis Interventions_CY are exemplary for the added value of architectural and urban research and interventions.  Territorial mapping and building restauration become tools for peace and cooperation
Text: Esra Can Akbil, Giorgos Psaltis

85. Design & More

• 86. BAC_JAPAN 2014

>  Workshop with Japanese students in the Barcelona Architecture Center
Text: Justin Baroncea, Jean Craiu

89. Connected

• 90. Green Building Certification

> Auditing green buildings. Types of certifications. Advantages and benefits of green buildings
Text: Alexandra Stoica, BREEAM International Assesor

92. Altaeros Energies: Flying turbine
> Highest wind turbine ever deployed – demonstration test in Alaska

94. ecoLogicStudio, Carlo Ratti Associati, Cesare Griffa: Architectural Algae Systems
> 2 prototypes previewed as part an exhibition-event at Università degli Studi di Milano, linked by the conception of building integrated farming and urban agriculture: Urban Algae Canopy and Urban Algae Façade.

During the White Night of the Art Galleries, in the busiest week of the year – Romanian Design Week – there were so many great events, that only the preparations fever helped us not to panic every time we wondered if the public will get through to the dusty Filaret, from the glamorous city centre. Across from the bus station known especially to those leaving to Basarabia, we had put a new landmark on the map : Carol Factory – the name by which the old industrial areas of Hesper Factory will be reconverted into a cultural and events centre. Perhaps the most beautiful of our project so far, totaling more than two years of efforts with our partners from Eurodite.

powered by Zeppelin & Eurodite

This was our most beautiful project: an afternoon, an evening and a night inside the cultural Carol Factory, a complex event featuring a conference, an exhibition and a film screening. In the center of Bucharest, close to Carol Park, near Filaret train station, we celebrated a victory of cultural initiatives, trademark Zeppelin and Eurodite.

Conference: Tuesday, March 13, 2014, starting with 6 pm @ National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest, str. Izvor 2-4, Palace of the Parliament, wing E4, 1st floor, Bucharest (entrance through Calea 13 Septembrie)

architecture & experiment.

A conference with:

• Dan Zohar / Haugen&Zohar Arkitekter
• Geir Brendeland / Brendeland & Kristoffersen Arkitekter
• Haakon Iversen / Nordic Urban Design Association

Text: Cosmin Caciuc

A big heavy topic for Expo Milano 2015: “Feeding the Planet. Energy for Life”. Its subdivisions have keywords such as tradition, creativity, innovation, technology, education, health, in reference to world food production and distribution; these might sound pompous and somewhat inert compared to the actual modest situation of a polluted planet, with many hungry mouths, troubled by conflicts and anxiety, and squandering, often irresponsible mankind.

12. Sane Architecture + Museum for Underwater Antiquities in Atena.

13.  Pictogram: PERI5COPE: [AC-CA] Architectural Competition [DUBAI] Architecture School Tower

17. Editor’s: Eat, drink and chew stereotypes
Text: Cosmin Caciuc

19.  Chartier-Dalix & Avenier-Cornejo: Massif and Faults
>  Superdense dwelling ensemble with a complex program in Paris

26. Álvaro Siza Vieira & Juan Domingo Santos: New Gate of Alhambra
>  Atrium for visitor reception at the Alhambra Palace in Spain

31. Projektil architekti: Under the Garden
>  An advisory center for non profit and non governmental organisations in Brno, designed according to passive house stand¬ard, connects the greenery of a hill with a historical traffic artery.

36. Republic of Architects: Continuous Design
>  For this apartment building in Bucharest, the new design adapts the existing structure to an almost doubled number of units inside.

40. Lama Arhitectura (Călin Radu, Dan Enache, Radu Neniță):  Garage Band
>  Converting a garage into an office in a central area of Bucharest

43. Triptyque: Oscar Freire. The Observatory
>  The complex made of stores and a gallery in São Paulo

46.  Arantxa Manrique – Yaiza Terré:  The Beauty of the Unfinished
>  The “Hangar” project takes fur¬ther an already existing visual arts center in Barcelona, combining actual interventions with strategies for the following period.

52. Bbats Consulting & Projects:  Prefab school
>  The CEIP Montoliu public education center in Tarragona
Text: Alexandra Demetriu

56. A House for the Architects and the City
> The project for refurbishing and consolidating of the headquarters of the Bucharest branch of the Chamber of Romanian Architects
Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

63. Urban Report

• 64. NLÉ: Floating School

>  A floating structure for social needs in Nigeria, based on ecological principles of building.

68. Series. Multiples. Realisms.
>  A book and exhibition based on Nicul Ilfoveanu’s series dealing with the public World War I monuments from the rural environment.

69. Design & More

• 70. Young Rising Norwegian Architects: a Zeppellin Evening-Conference #52

> Dan Zohar – Haugen & Zohar Arkitekter / Geir Brendeland – Brendeland & Kristoffersen Arkitekter / Haakon Iversen – Nordic Urban Design Association
Text: Cosmin Caciuc

• 73. Zupagrafika

> Paper objects, bag design and nesting blocks

• 77.    About Architecture, Fear, Art and Social Strata

> Interview with Gergő Horváth, curator of  Bucharest Biennale 6
Reporter: Darius Sebastian

• 79. Use at Your Own Risk

>  An exhibition at Victoria Arts Center in Bucharest
Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

83. Connected

• 84. The Romanian Sustainable Constructions Market versus the European One

Text: Alexandra Stoica, BREEAM International Assesor

• 86. The Little 24-7 Shop in the Metropolis of the Future

> Kombini, the Japanese army of tiny hyper-organized and adaptable shops
Text: Ștefan Tuchilă

• 90.  Biodegradable food packagings

>  Dan Vodnar, a Romanian researcher from Cluj, practices a different bio¬technology
Text: Cosmin Caciuc

• 91. Pixel Roof

Foto: Ștefan Tuchilă
Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

• 92. Conference: Cities of Tomorrow

> About what do architects mean when talking about development, urban, potential, trends and strategies
Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

Text: Cosmin Caciuc

I do not know whether it is good to venture so much as to say that the best architecture and city planning books have not been written by architects or city planners. I am not sure whether the best pamphlet that has been written (so for) on the concept of smart city is not Against the Smart City, by a non-architect like Adam Greenfield.

19 Editor’s: Towards smart, non-antagonistic, inclusivist and reflexive cities
Text: Cosmin Caciuc

20 DOSSIER: Contemporary Norwegian Architecture II
> 4 works relating to social aspects and small scale interventions: TYIN tegnestue Architects, Haugen / Zohar Arkitekter, Brendeland & Kristoffersen arkitekter & studenți de la NTNU, Atelier Oslo

• 22 TYIN tegnestue Architects: Roof Near the Forest of Cinnamon: Cassia Coop Training Centre

• 28 Haugen / Zohar Arkitekter: Wooden Hammocks

• 30 Brendeland & Kristoffersen arkitekter & students from the NTNU: Gigaphone

• 32 Atelier Oslo: Common Ground

34 Urban Reinforcement – Amzei Agri-food Market
>  Completion of the winning project at the competition organized 7 years ago by the City Hall of 1st District, Bucharest

42 Brénac & Gonzalez: A Landmark in the Periphery  
>  Technical high school near Paris

48 Planwerk: Opening-up a Piece of the City  
>  Refurbishing the public space in front of a former tractor plant portal-building in Brasov. Through the Coresi-Portal project, a portion of a private ground (the free space in a rehabilitated section of a former tractor plant), is given to public use and furbished as a pedestrian place for the inhabitants of Brasov

52 The Small and Generous Loft
>  Design for an apartment in Bucharest
Text: Andrei Mărgulescu

58 Corvin Cristian: Holodeck: Dutch Kitchen
>  New cafeteria at ING headquarter office from a Bucharest high-rise
Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

61 Urban Report
62 DOSIER: studioBASAR
> An apartment building that depends on the context and two small projects, ephemeral but highly motivated by social aspects

• 62 Intro / Text: Cosmin Caciuc
• 63 3 Questions on Tactics and Strategy at studioBASAR
  64 A Block with 6 Courtyards

• 68 Km. 0 – Model of Things and Facts

        70 The Toolbox

73 Design & More
Five Norwegians in Bucharest: Conference at Zeppelin Evenings # 51 and Urban Culture Platform
> Jensen & Skodvin, 3RW, Atelier Oslo, Evy Sorensen/USF Bergen, Kaja Tvedten Jorem/Oslo Triennale, Raluca Velisar/ MNAC București & Arpad Zachi/revista Arhitext
Text: Cosmin Caciuc

76 Vlad Tenu: Synthetic Natures and  Minimal Complexities
> Generative design, old-style drawing vs. programming theories
Text: Ioana Calen

79 Connected
80 Urban Adventures on the Smartphone
> An application that uses
Google Maps, an open source project and a kind of urban game
Text: Andreea Vrabie

82 Agenţia de Arhitectură și Design ADA: The Creativity Machine
> The Research Institute in Brașov relies not on spectac¬ular forms, but on efficiency, human scale and favoring the contact between extremely different users.
Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

90 Urban Farming: Resource, Ideology, Activism
Text: Cosmin Caciuc