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.
Architecture.
City.
Society.
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Complex projects
+ 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.
international conferences: Bucharest, Vienna, Cluj, Istanbul, Moscow
& expo integrated in Balkanology intl. exhibition: Vienna, Bucharest, Belgrade, Sofia, Podgorica
2009-2010
The 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
book [EN / RO]
Scenarios for the collective housing from the socialist period in Bucharest.
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.
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.
Architecture.
City.
Society.