Graduation projects
The Studious Wasteland
Project description
The operation consists of the rehabilitation of a complex made up of three plots. An empty plot, now used as a “wild” parking lot, the former Capitol complex, consisting of a green theater and a cinema, now abandoned and listed as a historic monument, and the former headquarters of a major Romanian newspaper also listed as a historical monument.The first building is nicknamed «Palatul Adevarul», which means «the Palace of Truth» because it housed the headquarters of one of the most famous Romanian newspapers, «The Truth». Designed by architect Stefan Ciocârlan on the model of the Figaro Palace in Paris. It was inaugurated in 1898.On the border between urban planning, social dialogue and architecture, the intervention tends to reconnect with the history of the place in order to revive these abandoned buildings. A dynamic and multifunctional district that can generate, on an urban scale, a new attractiveness in the center of Bucharest.To achieve this, I made the choice to preserve and enhance what makes the specificity of the built heritage, while proposing an opening and new function, allowing different individuals to meet and walk these spaces they had never had access to.At the architectural scale, the project of conversion of the newspaper Adevarul is part of a process of valorization and adaptation of the constructive language. It tends to preserve as much as possible the existing state, while allowing it to acquire a new function. An intervention that wants to minimize the revival construction costs.Favoring an economy of means and a simple, flexible and reversible organization, the proposal makes it possible to invest durably, by offering it the capacity to adapt according to the needs of its inhabitants.In conclusion, a reflection on the student housing and the rooms allows a new answer to a program that can not be neglected.
Author's presentation text
I am a post graduated Architect at École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Marseille (ENSAM), France.During my last year in the university, before starting to prepair my final master project, I had the priviledge to take part in an international workshop in and about Bucharest. This project gave me the willing to practice abroad, made me improve and refine my design skills and critical thinking by working with foreign students.Now, i am currently working as an architect in an office based in Bucharest.
