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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itinerant exhibition and conference on Croatian contemporary architecture
17 October – 15 November 2008, Museum of Romanian Peasant, BucharestThe explosion of good quality architecture is the result not only of the local circumstances, but also of a certain historical continuity. The exhibition focused on the most productive eras in the modern and contemporary history, presenting a selection of exemplary works.
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exhibition
17 October – 15 November 2008, Museum of Romanian Peasants, BucharestThe exhibition aimed at new ideas and concepts in the works of 39 authors form the new generation of Hungarian architects (20-40 years). The presented selection followed a national competition, one of the most important criteria being that to approaching environmental issues, the way in which projects adapt to the place they relate to, their relevance for that site, the way in which they express and convey innovative ideas.
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