exhibition
16 September – 21 November, 2010, Pavilion Unicredit – centre for contemporary art and culture, Bucharest
The exhibition presents the impact of the economic, environmental and generation crisis over architecture and the way to approach the complexity of those issues to set up a future outline. “Rien ne va Plus” started as a research project with the starting point that we are the witnesses of a triple crisis: an economic one, connected to the estate speculations, another one, the environmental one, connected to unprecedented climatic changes and, finally, that of generations.
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The exhition presented the results of the Magic Blocks 2010 project to the audience – the key ideas ideas of the study and the strategy for urban activation, the interventions in the public space behind the blocks on Calea Moşilor and a documentary.
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Calea Moşilor 2010: an aggressive and grey concrete curtain, specific to the ‘80s, which cuts a historical fabric and divides the city in two: in front of the boulevard a dense and well equipped city, yet ugly and aggressive, and behind, the historical city, hidden and isolated.
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+ urban planning project, Bucharest
Following the project started in 2009, the team focused the research activities on the grand boulevards with blocks from the socialist era and the waste areas behind them, to find out solutions and draw up a strategy to turn those nobody’s lands into genuine public spaces and use them as components of activating the historical city behind the concrete curtain.- Recommend on FacebookTweet about it
international conferences: Bucharest, Vienna, Cluj, Istanbul, Moscow
& expo integrated in Balkanology intl. exhibition: Vienna, Bucharest, Belgrade, Sofia, Podgorica
2009-2010The results of the first stage of Magic Blocks were communicated in a series of 5 international conferences focused on the real principles, strategies and examples to revive the public space and carry out community projects- Recommend on FacebookTweet about it
book [EN / RO]
Scenarios for the collective housing from the socialist period in Bucharest.
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The results of the first stage of the Magic Blocks programme (studycases, ideas, principles and possible solutions for a complex reviving strategy of the housing areas in the socialist era) were the theme of three international exhibitions: in Berlin, at AedesLand, Savignyplatz (8 September – 29 October 2009), then in Bucharest, (9-26 November 2009) at the Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Aquarium hall, and in Moscow (26-30 may 2010) part of the Moscow ARCH International Architecture and Design Biennale.
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The research project provides a synthesis, scenarios, principles and studycases, as well as coherent strategies of intervention and models of projects to rehabilitate the ensembles of the socialist era in Bucharest. Over 70% of the people in Bucharest live in blocks built in the socialist era, which degraded over time and point to considerable economic and social issues.
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temporary pavement on Calea Victoriei, Bucharest, 2008
by Point4 & Zeppelin team: Justin Baroncea, Jean Craiu, Radu Enescu, Ştefan Ghenciulescu, Constantin Goagea, Carmen Popescu. Project Development: Raluca Marţiş
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book [EN/RO] – 2009
by: Ștefan GhenciulescuThe more Bucharest architectural and urban patrimony is destroyed, the more publications dedicated to the city appear. It is an accountable phenomenon that pertains not only to a nostalgic evocation and exorcisation of the trauma caused by the totalitarian operations of the eighties but also to authors’ wish to bring arguments (explicitly or not) on the fact that Bucharest has had a valuable and determining patrimony in terms of our identity, a patrimony that deserves protection and promotion.
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