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Urban Report is a cross culture program, gathering theories and critical discourses about the contemporary urban phenomena in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe. This project was initiated by Zeppelin in 2010 with the support of Romanian Cultural Institute through the Cantemir Program. In 2011 Urban Report consisted of 3 publications, a website and 3 DVDs. In 2012 this project was continued and integrated in the structure of Zeppelin magazine [www.e-zeppelin.ro], with the support of ERSTE Stiftung, in the frame of EE-lab program. 

book – 2010
25 ours of talks about architecture

Accessible both, for architecture professionals and general public, „Laborator 01” synthesizes essential ideas expressed on the occasion of Zeppelin meetings and of the interviews taken to their guests (architects, designers, editors and artists).

13 Towards a technologically augmented and nature orientated future.

18 Degu Studio: Acoustic study and a concert for 4 squirrels in a P+3 apartment
Text: Justin Baroncea, Eduard Gabia

21 Editor’s
Text: Cosmin Caciuc

22 John McAslan + Partners (JMP): King’s Cross – Structural Transformation
> The heart of an important new urban development in London, an internationally significant transport interchange, and Europe’s largest single span station structure.

30 Katrin Lesser & Ben Buschfeld: Bruno Taut’s House and an Urban Vision
>The restoration of architect’s home in Neukölln-Britz, Berlin, is an example of good practice for responsible reactivation of a modernist heritage.

Text: Cosmin Caciuc

38 Recoveries: An Exhibition and a Conference about Cinderellas
Text: Zeppelin

44 Studio Propolis: From Details and Design to Architecture
> Rethinking architecture through carpentry design and workshop craftmanship
Text: Naeem Biviji & Bethan Rayner

52 Miklós Köllö: The Restoration and Condensation of the Architect’s Family House
> An old house in Ciumani village, Harghita county, is extended in plan by only  10 m², and the attic is turned into living space, allowing an urban comfort at the country and eliminating the need for new construction.

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52 CTRL+Z: Low-tech Experimentation and Urban Activation
> Mobile and affordable structure and shared working space in a rehabilitated industrial building from Spain
Text: Gianluca Stasi

64 Zeppelin: About the New Fire Pub
> A pub in the historic center of Bucharest

72 Polska Folk
> A travelling exhibition highlighting young Polish designers that get their inspiration from the rural tradition of their country, and an interview with Agnieszka Jacobson‑Cielecka, the curator of this exhibition.

Reporter: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

Connected
78 The Vegetable Basket: Organic Micro-Farm Between Village and City
> A successful business in the field of organic farming in Ialomiţa county
Text: Cosmin Caciuc

82 Participatory City: 100 Urban Trends from the BMW Guggenheim Lab
> A synthesis of all the experiences and ideas generated within the urban labo­ratory in its two-year journey in the cities New York, Berlin and Mumbai.

Text: Cosmina Goagea

86 USF: A Neighborhood for Arts in Bergen
> Postindustrial conversion and a center for arts in Norway
Text: Evy Sørensen

90 Ruhrtriennale 2013: When Art Replaces Industry
> Rediscovering industrial monuments through art and a large yearly cultural event in Germany
Text: Ioana Calen

Text & images: Cosmin Caciuc

 In believe that, at this moment, from a strictly historiographic point of view, both progressive ideology and cultural resistance may find a different kind of civic balance in what I would generally call the urbanity that reclaims the past of modernity, leaving behind the stereotypes of the antagonism which arised with the Modern Movement, based on the new (industrial) city versus the old (preindustrial) city.

Urban Report is a cross culture program bringing together theories and critical discourse on contemporary urban phenomena in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe. This project was initiated in 2010 by Zeppelin, with the help of the Romanian Cultural Institute, through Cantemir program. In 2011, Urban Report consisted of three publications, a website and three DVDs. In 2012 this project was continued and integrated into Zeppelin magazine, with the support of ERSTE Stiftung under the EE-lab program.

Text: Constantin Goagea

The mission – is a project initiated by Eurodite and part of the DISC (Dutch Initiative for Sustainable Cities – www.disc-network.eu) activities. Together with Emil Boc, the Mayor of Cluj, Vice Mayors in Bucharest, Cluj, Constanta, Timisoara and Head Architects of Cluj and Bucharest, a representative of the port of Constanta, as well as other professionals in the connected ministry, we have been in an intense and dense visit to Rotterdam, Eindhoven and Utrecht. The top Romanian delegation met Vice Mayors and members of other ministries, their peers, and learned about projects already carried out and a way to manage. The mission worked out in these three days the targets of DISC platform, made to provide Dutch support to Romanian cities and their effort to build up initiatives meant to revive urban regions and areas ignored so far.

www – wall window workshop
Dan Perjovschi at Ruhr Triennale 2013

One of the main attractions of this years’ Ruhr Triennale was Dan Perjovschi’s www – wall window workshop. The artist held the workshop in the Bochum Jahrhunderthalle, a famous industrial building from the region, which now houses performative and visual art. Perjovschi’s intervention included works from his personal collection and contextual drawings, as well, about the building and the event itself.

Under the context of the past few years which generated a number of unfinished buildings, this proposal seems a real treat, a necessary one to say the least . Taking the basis, the structure of someone else’s project and giving it substance, finality and maybe a new vision of space.

29 Editor’s: Cindirellas
Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

30 Bearth & Deplazes Architekten: Rigor and Timelessness
> The headquarters of an insurance company in Landquart, Switzerland, designed by Bearth & Deplazes, recall almost pedagogically the principle of space defined by structure and Louis Kahn’s great lesson of critical modernism
Text: Cosmin Caciuc & Bearth & Deplazes Architekten

38 DOSSIER: Two small churches
> Romanian examples of fine sacred architecture – projects which go beyond processing an image to interrogating the essence of a programme, spatial typologies and structural principles
Text intro: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

40 Abruptarhitectura: A Church and Its Bell Tower
Text: Cristina Constantin

43 Alexandra Afrăsinei: Typological Recovery
Text: Alexandra Afrăsinei

48 Context or Abstraction
> Two office buildings in Víziváros, Budapest
Text: Levente Szabó

58 Bernardo Bader Architects: A Regional Archetype x
> Single-family home in Vorarlberg, Austria
Text: Cosmin Caciuc

62 H&P Architects: Blooming Bamboo Home. Humanitarian Architecture in Vietnam x
> A prototype of a modular dwelling, which can be adapted to several programmes, reacting as a living organism to weather conditions or to the needs of its inhabitants, being able to withstand the frequent floods in Vietnam
Text: Patricia Erimescu

66 www – wall window workshop: Dan Perjovschi at Ruhr Triennale 2013 x
> Contemporary art, a special event of transforming a famous industrial building in Ruhr Westphalia region, Germany, and a workshop led by Dan Perjovschi, who included works from his personal collection and contextual drawings, as well, about the building and the event itself.
Text: Ioana Calen

70 LIKE architects: The Andy Warhol Temporary Museum x
> A cultural space within a commercial space in Lisbon

72 bam! Bottega di architettura metropolitana: Soft Cube Above
> He installation in front of the MAXXI building in Rome

76 Zeppelin: Beyond the city
> The exhibition at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest focused on the recent territorial developments in rural Romania

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80 El Campo de Cebada, Madrid: Democratic Urbanism in Difficult Times
> A visionary experiment in democratic urbanism, a space for social interaction and solving community problems
Text: AndreeaVrabie

Connected
86 LuelingSauer Architects: Space & Material
> Research projects on construction materials and textile technologies
Text: Cosmin Caciuc

92 McDowell+Benedetti: A Bridge in Full Swing
> The innovative swing bridge over the River Hull in United Kingdom, believed to be a World’s first, offers pedestrians the unique experience of riding on the bridge as it opens and closes to river traffic

An apartment from an interwar building.

We wanted to reinterpret some of the characteristic elements found in this apartment: wood finishes, lighting and space continuity, irregular geometry, the multitude of options for opening and closing spaces, the very different perspectives.