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21. Editor’s: How to fix a community?
Text: Cosmin Caciuc

24  ADNBA: The New Urban Villa in the Old Garden City
> ADNBA’s apartment building is an elegant addition to one of the most beautful neigh¬borhoods in Bucharest; it appears in the same time heavy and light, monumental and open, tectonic and stereotomic.

40 Dacra Studio: Completion and Fusion
>  Located in a protected area of Bucharest, an office building proves that theories of the architecture for the city can successfully work with new facade design solutions.
Text: Cosmin Caciuc

48 Carmen Tănase: A Pavilion and a Court
> The headquarters of the Forest department of Bacău County

52 Lama Arhitectura: Outdoor Micro-Architecture
>  “Control Garden” and “Origo Box” from Bucharest are two basic models of outer space consumption in Romania, the first with a venerable tradition (public garden Balkan) and the second being a Western import.

58 Hetedik Műterem Ltd.: The story of the futurist mushroom
>  The restauration of the former bus and tram terminal in Móricz Zsigmond square in Budapest did not involved a complete reconstruction of the former image, but instead emphasizing the original spirit – the clean and dynamic forms, the centrality and flowing space.
Text: Miklós Péterffy

64 Tecon: A House with a Shell
> Dwelling placed in a neighbor¬hood in Southern Bucharest

69 Design & More

70 Galeria Nicodim + Apparatus 22: Grandchildren from the 21st centruy
>  Arrangement made by gallery owners and the exhibition of a multidisciplinary team of artists
Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

74 Solar Decathlon Europe 2014
> Intelligent solar house competition
Text: Irina Damașcan

77 Urban Report

• 78 studioBASAR & Asociaţia Komunitas: Urban_dream_scapes & Urban Spaces in Action

>  The operations from Carol Park and Tei district in Bucharest represent an interdisciplinary initiative, a long-term experiment, a social research, a form of education, recycling, recovery and especially an enthusiastic involvement of the citizens.
Intro: Cosmin Caciuc

87 Connected

• 88 Moment Factory: Immersive Adventure and Multimedia Experiences

> „Interactive Music Wall” and „Foresta Lumina” installations from Canada

• 92  Color Kinetics Japan & RANAGRAM: Movement and Light for Facades

> Interactive LED facade

94  Solar Roadways  / Julie & Scott Brusaw: Solar Roadways
> The first solar road panel prototype

An exhibition that opened simultaneously in Bucharest, Amsterdam, Stockholm and Bergen:

• Bucharest (Romania) – National Museum of Contemporary Art – MNAC (www.mnac.ro) / FB event
• Amsterdam (Netherlands) – New Energy Docks (www.newenergydocks.nl) / FB event
• Bergen (Norway) – City Hall of Bergen (www.bergen.kommune.no) / FB event
• Stockholm (Sweden) – Fargfabriken (www.fargfabriken.se) / FB event

Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

Ask anyone, any intellectual (or even an architect, for the matter), what is more environmentally friendly – a house or a block of flats? – and for most of them the answer will be the house. In fact, it is not. I am not referring to individual examples, but to houses in general: the individual home today fatally involves a periphery location, which means occupying natural land, waste of resources – with less efficient infrastructure for transport and facilities etc., longer commutes – so  more pollution. Plus a bad ratio between usable square feet and the envelope and many other issues.

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.