Text, photo: Cătălina Frâncu<\/p>\n
DOSSIER: Ecosystem<\/strong>s<\/h1>\nIntro<\/strong><\/p>\nText, coordinators: Ștefan Ghenciulescu, Cătălina Frâncu<\/p>\n
This issue is about less obvious architecture that employs living matter and is part of a system of relationships.<\/p>\n
The Great Wall of Japan<\/strong><\/p>\nText \/ photo: Ștefan Tuchilă<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nMarch 11, 2011, is a date etched into the minds of all Japanese people: the day of the “Great Tsunami.” At 2:46 PM, Japan was struck by an extremely powerful earthquake that affected the northeastern coast of the country.<\/p>\n
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Reimagining Collective Futures With Fire<\/strong><\/p>\nCalifornia Wildfires<\/strong><\/p>\nText: Anousheh Gul Kehar
\nPhoto: Anousheh Gul Kehar, CSU\/CIRA & NOAA, Native Land Digital, Native Land CA<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nThe LA fires drastically amplify the features of climate collapse in the fire-prone terrain — not least the tragedy of people losing loved ones, communities, and homes.<\/p>\n
Closer to the Water<\/strong><\/p>\nLearning from SAU—Taller d’Arquitectura in Spain, Taller Capital in Mexico, SLA—Stig L. Andersson in Denmark and Loci Landscape Architects in Finland<\/strong><\/p>\nText: Ilinca Pop
\nPhoto: Andrés Flajszer, Rafael Gamo, SLA, Mikkel Eye, Københavns Kommune, Marie Damsgaard, Pyry Kantonen Photography<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nThe news last autumn regarding the floods in Spain in October followed the devastation caused by torrential rains along the Romanian shoreline in September. During this time, social media and WhatsApp groups overflowed with harrowing images from late vacations marred by mud and desolation. Following a scorching summer that, for a significant part of the country, was alarmingly dry, the wave of flooding has contributed to the public anxiety surrounding climate change. Climate anxiety is an increasingly widespread phenomenon in the face of how climate change impacts human existence. How can we live with water rather than in fear of it?<\/p>\n
The Ecosystem as Idealised Architecture<\/strong><\/p>\nJunya Ishigami. Art Biotop Water Garden<\/strong><\/p>\nReporter: Corina Laza
\nPhoto: Ștefan Tuchilă<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nWhen real estate development threatens a 13-hectare forest, a nearby meadow becomes the ideal setting to relocate the 318 trees destined to be cut down. Art Biotop Nasu is a culture resort bearing the name of the nearby mountain. The resort features glassblowing and ceramics workshops, as well as artist residencies, and will soon include a hotel complex. Once a moss-covered forest that was later converted into rice fields, the site has been transformed into a contemplative space by Junya Ishigami’s project.<\/p>\n
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Wrapping the Marshland<\/strong><\/p>\nA Landscape Itinerary around the Northern Estuary of the Odiel River, Huelva<\/strong><\/p>\nText: ACTA \/ Intro: Cătălina Frâncu
\nFoto: Fernando Alda<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nLiving away from the city has a surprising downside. Out of all the greenery, fresh air, community and more affordable housing, the car sticks out its snout full of noxious emissions. Less if it’s electric, but it still pollutes elsewhere. How about being able to travel between villages, go shopping, to the station, to the woods on foot, or by bike? Maybe on a nice road, where there’s a shelter here and there, if you get caught in the rain; a road away from the exhaust fumes of the national roads. ACTA implemented one such project, on a shoestring budget, in which they were able to connect three small towns on the Atlantic seaboard by non-motorized travel routes.<\/p>\n
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Ari Consult: Four cabins at Șirnea<\/strong><\/p>\nText: Răzvan-Ion Dracea
\nPhoto: Călin Stan<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nThe holiday homes were designed for easy construction and for the least disturbance to the site.<\/p>\n
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Brezoi. Ecosystem Research Through Architecture<\/strong><\/p>\nThe TERRRA Project in Brezoi, the First R-Urban Hub in Romania<\/strong><\/p>\nReporter: Cătălina Frâncu
\nProject, photo: AAA (L’Atelier d’Architecture Autogérée)<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nArchitecture, economy, European scale, tradition, ecosystem and society: all in one place, in the Romanian countryside.<\/p>\n
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The Experimental Station<\/strong><\/p>\nText: Raluca Voinea<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nWe are talking about a Station as an expression of the need to interrupt the precariousness of ongoing transition, but also as a reference to the space stations or the scientific research stations; an experimental place, where we move the focus from cultural production or consumption to testing the possibilities of a habitable future; a space for art, but which challenges art’s limits, takes it out of the comfort zone; and a place for cultivating life, which, for indigenous communities in other parts of the world is understood as a continuity between the human species and what we still call around here nature, which we objectify, distance from us, in order to consume it with detachment.<\/p>\n
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Ideogram Studio: IRIS ORANGERIE<\/strong><\/p>\nText: Ilinca Păun Constantinescu, Tudor Constantinescu
\nPhoto: Iris Orangerie, Nicolas Triboi, Mihai Bonciu<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nThis is mostly about a park. It is an extension of the forest, an unrestricted and natural space, but of a controlled wildness.<\/p>\n
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Utopia Barcelona<\/strong><\/p>\nFrom Superblock to City Ecosystem<\/strong><\/p>\nText: Nina Aleydis Millet
\nPhoto: Aleydis Rispa<\/p>\n
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\nBarcelona has been at the forefront of urban planning for over a century and has recently embarked on an ambitious new project: Las Superillas (The Superblock). “A superblock is an urban unit larger than a city block, but smaller than a neighborhood, with pacified streets” as defined by the Ada Colau administration. At the beginning, the term coined a mobility plan to push motorised traffic outside the middle of a group of nine blocks. The measure was meant to redeem public space for pedestrians and bikes, allowing access only for residents and service cars. This time, the term ‘Superblock’ became an umbrella concept, covering a series of systematic urban actions. Its aims grew bigger: from the ambition to pedestrianise the centre of the superblock, the project turned into a comprehensive strategy for revamping public space by maximising the amount of greenery, and encouraging proximity commerce, as well as guaranteeing access to housing.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Nature in the city<\/strong><\/p>\nText: Lucy Stoica
\nPhoto: Dragoş Grama, Marius Vasile, Laurian Ghiniţoiu, Alina Floca, Alex Lorinţi, Alex Ciobotă<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nStrategies, Activism, and Projects for Landscape Architecture in Urban Romania\/
\nFour landscape designers active in Romania on working with fresh and ever‑changing plant material.<\/p>\n
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Landscape as a Construct<\/strong><\/p>\nBeros Abdul Architects<\/p>\n
Interview with Christian Beros<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nFrom mineral matter to living matter and what it’s like to be in the middle of a new and necessary profession.<\/p>\n
Common‑Sense Architecture<\/strong><\/p>\nInterview with Eliseu Arrufat, Lacol<\/strong><\/p>\nReporter: Cătălina Frâncu
\nPhoto: Milena Villalba, Baku Akazawa, Lluc Miralles, @alvarovaldecantos<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nA shared workspace, a different approach to collective housing, and other projects from an office that practices good and socially conscious architecture.<\/p>\n
An organism for learning<\/strong><\/p>\nGustav Düsing & Max Hacke: The Student Center of the Technical University of Braunschweig<\/strong><\/p>\nText : Gustav Düsing, Max Hacke
\nPhoto: Iwan Baan<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nIt’s a building, all right. But it’s also an open superstructure, a part of a network of public spaces, an architectural kit of parts and an artificial forest<\/p>\n
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ZOOM<\/strong><\/h1>\nEne + Ene Arhitectura:<\/strong><\/p>\nThe Factory and the House, the Wall and the Frame<\/strong><\/p>\nText: Mihai Ene, Adela Ene
\nFoto: Iulius Cristea<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nOne of the main sources of Adela and Mihai Ene’s projects is essential classicism. We perceive it in their permanent strife for a calm, harmonious, and clear object; but I would also say it appears in the almost obsessive architectural tension between massiveness – heavy volumes, the wall as a determinant – and the rhythm given by the composition of thin and repetitive elements.<\/p>\n
Budgets, Fame & Education<\/strong><\/p>\nInterview with Peter Zumthor<\/strong><\/p>\nReporter: Cătălina Frâncu
\nPhoto: Dan Felix Paraschiv<\/p>\n
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Text, coordinators: Ștefan Ghenciulescu, Cătălina Frâncu<\/p>\n
This issue is about less obvious architecture that employs living matter and is part of a system of relationships.<\/p>\n
The Great Wall of Japan<\/strong><\/p>\n Text \/ photo: Ștefan Tuchilă<\/p>\n <\/p>\n March 11, 2011, is a date etched into the minds of all Japanese people: the day of the “Great Tsunami.” At 2:46 PM, Japan was struck by an extremely powerful earthquake that affected the northeastern coast of the country.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Reimagining Collective Futures With Fire<\/strong><\/p>\n California Wildfires<\/strong><\/p>\n Text: Anousheh Gul Kehar <\/p>\n The LA fires drastically amplify the features of climate collapse in the fire-prone terrain — not least the tragedy of people losing loved ones, communities, and homes.<\/p>\n Closer to the Water<\/strong><\/p>\n Learning from SAU—Taller d’Arquitectura in Spain, Taller Capital in Mexico, SLA—Stig L. Andersson in Denmark and Loci Landscape Architects in Finland<\/strong><\/p>\n Text: Ilinca Pop <\/p>\n The news last autumn regarding the floods in Spain in October followed the devastation caused by torrential rains along the Romanian shoreline in September. During this time, social media and WhatsApp groups overflowed with harrowing images from late vacations marred by mud and desolation. Following a scorching summer that, for a significant part of the country, was alarmingly dry, the wave of flooding has contributed to the public anxiety surrounding climate change. Climate anxiety is an increasingly widespread phenomenon in the face of how climate change impacts human existence. How can we live with water rather than in fear of it?<\/p>\n The Ecosystem as Idealised Architecture<\/strong><\/p>\n Junya Ishigami. Art Biotop Water Garden<\/strong><\/p>\n Reporter: Corina Laza <\/p>\n When real estate development threatens a 13-hectare forest, a nearby meadow becomes the ideal setting to relocate the 318 trees destined to be cut down. Art Biotop Nasu is a culture resort bearing the name of the nearby mountain. The resort features glassblowing and ceramics workshops, as well as artist residencies, and will soon include a hotel complex. Once a moss-covered forest that was later converted into rice fields, the site has been transformed into a contemplative space by Junya Ishigami’s project.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Wrapping the Marshland<\/strong><\/p>\n A Landscape Itinerary around the Northern Estuary of the Odiel River, Huelva<\/strong><\/p>\n Text: ACTA \/ Intro: Cătălina Frâncu <\/p>\n Living away from the city has a surprising downside. Out of all the greenery, fresh air, community and more affordable housing, the car sticks out its snout full of noxious emissions. Less if it’s electric, but it still pollutes elsewhere. How about being able to travel between villages, go shopping, to the station, to the woods on foot, or by bike? Maybe on a nice road, where there’s a shelter here and there, if you get caught in the rain; a road away from the exhaust fumes of the national roads. ACTA implemented one such project, on a shoestring budget, in which they were able to connect three small towns on the Atlantic seaboard by non-motorized travel routes.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ari Consult: Four cabins at Șirnea<\/strong><\/p>\n Text: Răzvan-Ion Dracea <\/p>\n The holiday homes were designed for easy construction and for the least disturbance to the site.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Brezoi. Ecosystem Research Through Architecture<\/strong><\/p>\n The TERRRA Project in Brezoi, the First R-Urban Hub in Romania<\/strong><\/p>\n Reporter: Cătălina Frâncu <\/p>\n Architecture, economy, European scale, tradition, ecosystem and society: all in one place, in the Romanian countryside.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Experimental Station<\/strong><\/p>\n Text: Raluca Voinea<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We are talking about a Station as an expression of the need to interrupt the precariousness of ongoing transition, but also as a reference to the space stations or the scientific research stations; an experimental place, where we move the focus from cultural production or consumption to testing the possibilities of a habitable future; a space for art, but which challenges art’s limits, takes it out of the comfort zone; and a place for cultivating life, which, for indigenous communities in other parts of the world is understood as a continuity between the human species and what we still call around here nature, which we objectify, distance from us, in order to consume it with detachment.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ideogram Studio: IRIS ORANGERIE<\/strong><\/p>\n Text: Ilinca Păun Constantinescu, Tudor Constantinescu <\/p>\n This is mostly about a park. It is an extension of the forest, an unrestricted and natural space, but of a controlled wildness.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Utopia Barcelona<\/strong><\/p>\n From Superblock to City Ecosystem<\/strong><\/p>\n Text: Nina Aleydis Millet <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Nature in the city<\/strong><\/p>\n Text: Lucy Stoica <\/p>\n Strategies, Activism, and Projects for Landscape Architecture in Urban Romania\/ <\/p>\n Landscape as a Construct<\/strong><\/p>\n Beros Abdul Architects<\/p>\n Interview with Christian Beros<\/p>\n <\/p>\n From mineral matter to living matter and what it’s like to be in the middle of a new and necessary profession.<\/p>\n Common‑Sense Architecture<\/strong><\/p>\n Interview with Eliseu Arrufat, Lacol<\/strong><\/p>\n Reporter: Cătălina Frâncu <\/p>\n A shared workspace, a different approach to collective housing, and other projects from an office that practices good and socially conscious architecture.<\/p>\n An organism for learning<\/strong><\/p>\n Gustav Düsing & Max Hacke: The Student Center of the Technical University of Braunschweig<\/strong><\/p>\n Text : Gustav Düsing, Max Hacke <\/p>\n It’s a building, all right. But it’s also an open superstructure, a part of a network of public spaces, an architectural kit of parts and an artificial forest<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ene + Ene Arhitectura:<\/strong><\/p>\n The Factory and the House, the Wall and the Frame<\/strong><\/p>\n Text: Mihai Ene, Adela Ene <\/p>\n One of the main sources of Adela and Mihai Ene’s projects is essential classicism. We perceive it in their permanent strife for a calm, harmonious, and clear object; but I would also say it appears in the almost obsessive architectural tension between massiveness – heavy volumes, the wall as a determinant – and the rhythm given by the composition of thin and repetitive elements.<\/p>\n Budgets, Fame & Education<\/strong><\/p>\n Interview with Peter Zumthor<\/strong><\/p>\n Reporter: Cătălina Frâncu <\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nPhoto: Anousheh Gul Kehar, CSU\/CIRA & NOAA, Native Land Digital, Native Land CA<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nPhoto: Andrés Flajszer, Rafael Gamo, SLA, Mikkel Eye, Københavns Kommune, Marie Damsgaard, Pyry Kantonen Photography<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nPhoto: Ștefan Tuchilă<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nFoto: Fernando Alda<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nPhoto: Călin Stan<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nProject, photo: AAA (L’Atelier d’Architecture Autogérée)<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nPhoto: Iris Orangerie, Nicolas Triboi, Mihai Bonciu<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nPhoto: Aleydis Rispa<\/p>\n<\/a><\/strong>
\nBarcelona has been at the forefront of urban planning for over a century and has recently embarked on an ambitious new project: Las Superillas (The Superblock). “A superblock is an urban unit larger than a city block, but smaller than a neighborhood, with pacified streets” as defined by the Ada Colau administration. At the beginning, the term coined a mobility plan to push motorised traffic outside the middle of a group of nine blocks. The measure was meant to redeem public space for pedestrians and bikes, allowing access only for residents and service cars. This time, the term ‘Superblock’ became an umbrella concept, covering a series of systematic urban actions. Its aims grew bigger: from the ambition to pedestrianise the centre of the superblock, the project turned into a comprehensive strategy for revamping public space by maximising the amount of greenery, and encouraging proximity commerce, as well as guaranteeing access to housing.<\/p>\n
\nPhoto: Dragoş Grama, Marius Vasile, Laurian Ghiniţoiu, Alina Floca, Alex Lorinţi, Alex Ciobotă<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nFour landscape designers active in Romania on working with fresh and ever‑changing plant material.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nPhoto: Milena Villalba, Baku Akazawa, Lluc Miralles, @alvarovaldecantos<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nPhoto: Iwan Baan<\/p>\n<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nZOOM<\/strong><\/h1>\n
\nFoto: Iulius Cristea<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nPhoto: Dan Felix Paraschiv<\/p>\n
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