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21 Editor’s: Copenhagen of course, Gehl Architects, Better Cities
(about Sustainable cities Conference. Foundations and our urban future)
Text: Constantin Goagea

24 Tony Fretton Architects: Concordant urban layers
Tony Fretton Architects has completed a new development of houses in the Dutch town of Den Helder, illustrating an intervention oriented toward the existing context of the city.

32 DOSSIER: Kochi Architect’s Studio
3 proiecte recente si radicale ale tinerilor arhitecti japonezi / three recent and radical projects of young Japanese architects

• 32 47% House

A dwelling whose interior floor area fills up 47% of the space compared to its maximum floor area of the house with reference to the exterior covered space… This one turns the abiguous „outside” and „inside” spaces into a real housing core, not into its edge, just where private life and publicly displayed aspects get significantly interconnected.

• 36 House Y

A small house built on a tiny plot, offering a new approach of the relation between inside and outside through a strategy articulating space and light by interpreting a traditional Japanese principle

• 40 Amida House

A house based on “free section”, which critically re-investigates Le Corbusier’s principles generated with his well-known Dom-ino design

44 Aedes studio: Strategy of Opposites
>  Apartment building in Sofia

50 Luciano Cupelloni Architettura: Changeable Functions and Perennial Structure
>  Conversion of two pavilions for the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome

55 DOSSIER: C+S Architects

3 infrastructure objects and a post-industrial residential project: history meets technology in 4 refined projects in Venice and the Veneto region.

56 The infrastructure that becomes landscape design

• 58 Designing time
• 61 The inhabited infrastructure

• 66 Urban Lake Housing

Urban Report

• 72 Arhipera: Architecture on the edge

> About a group of social participatory architecture, the evolution from construction per se to community building and a different type of teaching architecture. 
Text: Lorin Niculae

• 79 La Terenuri. A Shared Space in Manastur neighborhood, Cluj: or how to re-get the space between blocks of flats

Text: Lala Panait, Silviu Medesan

Smart Systems / rubric supported by Lafarge

• 82 Patkau Architects: Wodden Shells on Ice

>  Innovative skating shelters in Canada

• 85 Elii arquitectos: 7 modules for a folded wooden structure

A prefab structure for a house in Pedrezuela, Madrid, displays innovative concepts of assembling based on industrialized wooden panels.

90 Architecture Days 2013: a pavilion with an innovative wooden structure in Cluj

Text: Bogdan Gavriliu

93 Modulab: Ethics and technological innovation in design 
Text: Ioana Calen

98 Tandem. Creative Factories #3

• 98  Handbook for the creative industry man. Low-profile and efficient Amsterdam

Text : Constantin Goagea

• 103 Filaret Power Station

Text: Irina Diamandescu

104 Archiprix International 2013: Hunter Douglas Awards 

Text: Cosmina Goagea

108 Droog & Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Open house. Welcome to a Future Suburbia

A community experiment in Levittown, USA, with possible prototypes for urbanity and solutions to suburban subsistence

117 Romanian Design Week: Aiming at the product. Combina and Marco collections

>  The product design at the Romanian Design Week
Text: Liana Vasilescu

32 Julita Wójcik – the social interest of art
Interview by Cosmin Caciuc

38 Editor’s: The future is already here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet
Text: Cosmina Goagea

40 schneider+schumacher architects: Carpet of Light for Artworks
>  An underground extension for the Städel Museum in Frankfurt establishes a discreete relation with the existent building, by cleverly integrating lightning, structural and climatic principles.

50 István Janáky & György Janáky: Elegy

Text: Péterffy Miklós
>  The Cultural Centre in Hódmezovásárhely, Hungary

60 DOSSIER: Infiniski 
>  Four houses and a small shop based on prefabrication, bioclimatic design, recycled reused materials, flexibility, modularity, non-polluting constructive systems and integration of renewable energy.

• 60 Manifesto House
• 64 El Tiemblo House

• 66 House in Tarragona

• 68 Five Recycled Containers for One Shop

• 72 Modular Comfort

76  BIG, Topotek1 & Superflex: Superkilen 
>  A park in Copenhagen, with more than 100 different objects (genuine or copies) from more than 50 countries and with people of more than 50 different nationalities living in its immediate vicinity.

84 Tandem. Creative Factories #2
> Re-using industrial sites

• 85 Klokgebouw Strijp S, Eindhoven: “Try to be different” / Text: Vera Cerutti
• 88 WASP. Colonizing an industrial space in Bucharest / Text: Andreea Capitanescu

Urban Report 

90 Oberliht, Chisinau: 
Art, civic action and reflection over the post-totalitarian city 
Text: Vladimir US

102 Concordia Bakery: Social Responsibility and Savvy Business
>  A café and a new model of social business in the centre of Bucharest 
    Text: Cosmin Caciuc

Smart Systems
104 Studio Roosegaarde: Boo
>  An interactive installation by Daan Roosegaarde in Amsterdam

106 Vitamins & Maddak Inc.: Morph Folding Wheel
> MORPH™ Wheels – the world’s first ever foldable wheelchair wheel

108 Farm at the Office

> Beyond aesthetic improvement, the renovation of an office building in Tokyo involves a concept of urban farming, which encourages social interaction among employees.

117 Beacon 

Text: Bogdan Moga 
>  A night lamp made of copper tubes and joints

118 Lettrists, Isou & Co: Exhibition at The National Museum of  Contemporary Art Bucharest

24. Editor’s: Rem Koolhaas’s Fundamentals and a few doubts
Text: Cosmin Caciuc

26. The World Inside the Tower
A house designed by Starh on a tiny plot in Bucharest is hermetic and charming, rigorous and complex, innovative and cosy.

24. Editor’s: Rem Koolhaas’s Fundamentals and a few doubts
Text: Cosmin Caciuc

26. The World Inside the Tower
A house designed by Starh on a tiny plot in Bucharest is hermetic and charming, rigorous and complex, innovative and cosy.

40. Cannatà & Fernandes: Landscape Laboratory, a Conversion without Ambiguities
While asserting its indisputable contemporaneity, the intervention of Cannatà & Fernandes in Guimarães, Portugal, aims at recovering the architectural character of an existing building.

50. Robert Konieczny KWK Promes: Auto-Family House
>  Rethinking single family house typology into a suburban context

56. A.LT architekti: Living with the Memory of a Vernacular Background
An individual house in Orava, Slovakia, finds discreetly its place in the landscape, suggesting local vernacular elements, yet without turning to pastiches or non-critical copying.

62. DOSSIER: The Good Logic. cepezed projects
> Three examples of industrial architecture in the Netherlands

     63. Trs Transport Cooling
     67. Van Wijk Printers
     70. Pas Reform

Urban Report 
84. Habitat for Humanity România: Above and Beyond Money

> Building Social Housings as a Cooperation and Education Strategy

Smart Systems 
     88. Smart Highways

Rethinking highways marks a new phase of modernity. For Studio Roosegaarde & Heijmans this means safety, sustainability and experience. For ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd], sound barriers articulate and integrate urban landscape behind.

     94. Transsolar Energietechnik: Synergistic Engineering
> 2 study cases of climate-responsive architecture
Intro: Cosmin Caciuc / Text: Thomas Auer

104. Neuroarchitecture, the Ultimate Frontier between Brain and Environment
Ana Iorga, Ioana Calen (Buyer Brain). 
Neurosciences bring the promise of spaces to contribute, positively speaking, to the configuration of tempers, emotions and feelings of locals. 

110. Bucharest Design Center : Limited Series… or Design for the Sake of Art
> Limited series in Romanian design
Text: Anca Fetcu

116. The Lamp which Was Never Made (so Far). Le Corbusier : Projecteur 365 
Text: Stefan Ghenciulescu

119. Back to chaos
Text: Stefan Ghenciulescu  / Photo: Stefan Tuchila

24 Editor’s: Tactical urbanism / Text: Cosmin Caciuc

26 Dosmasuno arquitectos: Translucent Wrapping
> The social services centre in Móstoles, Madrid goes beyond the rigid functional constraints and has an expressive reaction to the surrounding context through subtracted volumetric shapes and porous façades.

24 Editor’s: Tactical urbanism / Text: Cosmin Caciuc

26 Dosmasuno arquitectos: Translucent Wrapping
> The social services centre in Móstoles, Madrid goes beyond the rigid functional constraints and has an expressive reaction to the surrounding context through subtracted volumetric shapes and porous façades.

40 DOSSIER: ARCò 

> Three schools built for the Bedouin communities located in a Middle East. Ecoregionalism, a sustainable and expressive architecture that uses minimum construction materials and local resources: earth, recycled tires, bamboo, metal sheet, straw and wood:

• 41 Sustainable Rehabilitation. Abu Hindi School
•  44 Building with 2,200 Used Tyres. Al Khan Al Ahmar School
•  48 The Children’s Land. Um al Nasser School

Tetrarc architects:

• 54 A Well Thought-out Densification

 > A semi-collective social housing project in Saint-Gilles Croix de Vie, France, and a view on the gradual renovation at the heart of small- and medium-sized towns.

• 62 Paloma – Cultural Confluences

> A complex dedicated to contemporary music at Nîmes Métropole, France, brings the physical and symbolic tensions together to produce a variable character.

70 Exhibit Arhitectura: From Powerful Gestures, to Bricolage

> Humanitas Bookshop at Cismigiu – an eclectic project that may be seen as a superposition of simple gestures.

76 Corvin Cristian: Worlds Coming Inside

• 76 Lovely Surrealism. BON Restaurant
• 82 Meze Taverna

Urban Report

• 94 Fattinger Orso Architektur: Catalysts for Community

    > Festival Center Regionale 12, Murau, Austria
    > Bellevue: the yellow house: experimental structure in the public space, Linz, Austria
    > Déjà-vu: a modular installation for artistic events, Linz, Austria 

102 Gap Filler: Summer Pallet Pavilion – a Community Venue
Activation of an urban site in Christchurch, New Zeeland

Smart Systems

• 104 Behnisch Architekten: Holistic Collaboration and Another Kind of Life at the Office

    > The Unilever Headquarters in Hamburg for Germany, Austria and Switzerland

•  116 Modulab: High Tech on the Eastern Front

>  The first trans-media art lab in Bucharest