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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
                                                         

26. Editor’s – Media architecture and its impact on people  / Text: Cosmina Goagea

30. The Water Plant, Suceava
> The conversion of a former industrial structure into a Center of Urban Culture 
Text: Cosmina Goagea

26. Editor’s – Media architecture and its impact on people 

Text: Cosmina Goagea

30. The Water Plant, Suceava
> The conversion of a former industrial structure into a Center of Urban Culture 
Text: Cosmina Goagea
The conversion of the Water Plant into a Center of Urban Culture helps the dissemination of an affirmative and responsible attitude towards the built heritage, and sets a new role which the architects should accept: that of the cultivation of what already exists.

40. Jakub Szczesny: Narrow Gauge

> A house of an artist, as wide as a closet, between blind walls, in Warsaw

44. Nord Architects Copenhagen: A Place for Recovery
A center for cancer patients in Copenhagen 

50. DOSSIER: Mei architecten
The work of Dutch office mei is smart and complex. While their buildings immediately attract attention, they also spring from a deep reflection on programming and identity, urban life and the need of communities.

    50. Gnome Parking Garage, Almere
    > Parking garage and public space in Almere

    56. The Four Worlds

    An apartment complex in Rotterdam

     60. Schiecentrale Phase 4b

    > A harbour building in Rotterdam

66. UNA arquitetos: Bold Structure
> Single family house in São Paulo

70. peris+toral.arquitectes: Flexible and Minimal Dwelling
> Social housing for young people in Can Caralleu, Barcelona

74. peris+toral.arquitectes: Context dependent extension
> Can Puiggener’s Civic Centre, in Sabadell, Barcelona

78. Atelier Zündel & Cristea: A Slightly Displaced Stack
> Mixeduse building in Paris (housing retail spaces, a retirement home and private housing)
AZC’s building in Paris is truly metropolitan: multi-use, dense and yet at a human scale.

84. Ene + Ene Arhitectura: An Exercise of Adequacy
> A small building of offices in Bucharest.

88. Vallum: Natural rules
> Swimming pool on the shore of Tineretului Lake in Sovata
Text: Korodi Szabolcs
A fully wooden structure, reversible and adjusted to relief, gives birth to a swimming pool on the shore of Tineretului Lake in Sovata.

94. Andreas Heierle, Cristina Trofin:  The wagon-house with seven roofs 
> Recovering and re-interpretation of an existing dwelling 
About the recovering (and re-interpretation) of a modest existing construction, a traditional typology, a modern material, and the imperfections of building in post-socialist Romania.

102. Urban Report: Performing the Common

    > Social and artistic manifestations in the public sphere; Husby district of Stockholm
Text: Cosmin Caciuc, Cosmina Goagea
An art exhibition in the Husby district of Stockholm explores social manifestations in the public sphere and the democratic processes modeling urban nature and the collective identity.

108. Smart Systems
    108. The mission
    > A project initiated by Eurodite to offer Dutch support to the Romanian cities
    Text: Constantin Goagea

    116. BMW Welt Experience: We Move People 
    Text: Cosmina Goagea

118. CBT Mark 1: Cardboard bike
Text: Cosmin Caciuc

29. Editor’s: Tradition is the New Modernity or the Other Way Round.
Text: Stefan Ghenciulescu

30. Bart Lens: Rural Character and Modernization
> The renovation of an old farm in Belgium

29. Editor’s: Tradition is the New Modernity or the Other Way Round.
Text: Stefan Ghenciulescu

30. Bart Lens: Rural Character and Modernization
> The renovation of an old farm in Belgium

40. Jun Murata: Amphidromous Rectangle

> A multi-use apartment space in Osaka

42. Jun Murata: Cafe KBT Renovation
>  A relaxing place for tourists in Nara, Japan

44. Zeppelin: Rehabilitation and Extension

> Rehabilitation and adaptation of an Art-Deco house in Bucharest

48. Matei Manaila: Vertical Blinds
> Conversion of Güggelturm, St. Andreas, Cham, Switzerland

50. Old houses anew. Design and something more.
> An exhibition about the reactivation of Romania’s cultural heritage

58. Smart Systems

MIT SENSEable City Lab & BMW Guggenheim Lab in Berlin
> Experiments in urban mapping based on the latest technologies available
Intro: Cosmin Caciuc

66. Urban Report

Praksa Cooperative
> Urban activism in Croatia

72. DOSSIER: Venice Biennale 2012
> A report by Cosmina Goagea and Eugen Panescu

90. UNPOLISHED, Young Design from Poland

> Design exhibition at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest
Text: Agnieszka Jacobson-Cielecka + Pawel Grobelny

98. Stefan Tuchila: Top Floor

> 80 buildings, several thousand photographs of Bucharest and an urban research
Intro: Stefan Tuchila
Text: Stefan Ghenciulescu

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