Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu
Photo: Vlad Pătru, Sabin Prodan

As in all Romanian large cities (and many of smaller ones), buildings have boomed in Brasov since 2000. Its particular situation has led to some very varied types of increase: limited in the historical centre, extensive on the outskirts

SPEED is an architectural practice based in Oslo, founded in 2020 by Espen Robstad Heggertveit and Eirik Stokke, after receiving the DOGA Newcomer award. The acronym stands for Section, Plan, Elevation, Extrusion, Diagram

This is a story of cooperation and patience, of team and trust, all started from an ambitious idea. The sunny house was born out of a beautiful dream – a house that uses the sun, a house built of wood, in the midst of an edible garden.

Coordinators: Ștefan Ghenciulescu, Cătălina Frâncu

Intro:

We have become rather accustomed to thinking of territory in terms of clear categories: city/village/nature, industry/agriculture/services, built/unbuilt, work/living etc.

Edito: Control and Conciliation
Text: Ştefan Ghenciulescu

DOSSIER: Hybrids. New Ways of Cohabiting

coordinators: Ştefan Ghenciulescu, Cătălina Frâncu

Intro: Hybrid Environments

We have become rather accustomed to thinking of territory in terms of clear categories: city/village/nature, industry/agriculture/services, built/unbuilt, work/living etc.

And this is, of course, because we generally need categories to be able to think structurally, and, it seems, to simply think and communicate. Perhaps, when talking about urbanism and architecture, radical cut-outs are also related to the obsession with modernity and to separating city functions not just conceptually, but also physically, to decomposing and then recomposing fundamental elements. (…)

Multi‑Species Architecture
Enrique Espinosa (Eeestudio) & Lys Villalba: Educan, Brunete

Taming Infrastructure
Mecanoo: Taichung Green Corridor, Taichung, Taiwan

Accomodate Places
SCOB: 2 Public Space Projects
Intro: Cătălina Frâncu

Reşiţa. A City on the Move
DOSSIER Authors: Lorena Brează, Mugur Grosu

Crowding and Richness
l’atelier, Nomadic Architecture Studio:
6 projects in the city

Working
Dialogue with arch. Corvin Cristian

Desvio—Creative Work Space, Lisbon
João Gonçalo Lopes

ZOOM

Fortress in a Peripheric Neighborhood by the Lake
The Concrete House, Close to Băneasa Lake, Bucharest

Safari Through a Miniature Universe
Atelier MASS: Expanding the Ursuleţul Nursery in Cluj

Fold & Function
Alexe Popescu

Disturbing Models
Philip Topolovac at /SAC @Malmaison

CLEAR
INTERSECTIONS
(On Laboratories, Education, and Water)

Andreea Boldojar
(book in romanian) Curţile Bucureştene. Potenţialul ascuns al morfologiei urbane
Review: Cătălina Frâncu

PLANS

Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu
Photo: SCOB

The adjoining photo shows one of the projects in the dossier of the summer issue of Zeppelin magazine no.166. To be honest, it doesn’t look much like architecture. In fact, it looks like something that can be a corner of nature, or a greenfield, or some generic greenery, rather self-sown.

This is the story of a house built in 1900 to a Bucharest of different flavours and different values. All this time, the house has been a silent witness, it has navigated history almost anonymously, it saw two wars, a few different generations and regimes, earthquakes and city transformations.

A pro-bono project of the prestigious Swedish architecture and design office Claesson Koivisto Rune

Text: Daniel Tudor Munteanu
Photo: Alik Usik

The residential building in Cornellà de Llobregat (Barcelona) is for now the largest building in Spain with a Wooden Structure. It houses 85 dwellings on five floors and used a total of 8,300 m2 of 0km wood1 from the forests of the Basque Country.

Introduction

Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

This dossier’s working title has oscillated between “discrete architecture”, “silent architecture”, and “invisible architecture”.