Initiatives / Experiments / Visions

Industrial Botticelli

Principal author

Paula GHEORGHE, Andreea IRIMIA, Teodora UNGUREANU

Profession

arhitecți

Architecture office

grupa 53 B

Collaborators (team members)

coord. Octavian NECULAI, Ana-Maria CRIȘAN

Project year

2016

Location

București

Client

UTCB - Universitatea Tehnica de Constructii Bucuresti

Build surface area

20.000 mp

Project description

The concept The starting point of the project were two different visions: The Fun Palace designed by Cedric Price and Klimt’s paintings of birch trees. By bringing these two concepts togheter our aim was to create a new building for the UTCB - Technical University of Civil Engineering of Bucharest, that could house the existing elements of the site (the park) but also the technichal aspects of the school (the technology). Given the fact that the whole site and its surroundings are flooded by vegetation, we wanted it to become an important part of our project. We were inspired by the Danish landscape design response to the traumas of WW2, where exterior garden-rooms where treated as an equal and important part of the whole architectural discourse. Bucharest in a similar way is experiencing a destructured way of growing, caused by the economical and political circumstances from the last 25 years. We propose a project where nature with its gardens becomes an important part of the architectural disourse.

Text description of the author

Andreea, Paula and Teodora graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at UAIM in 2017. This project is the team work done at studio 53 B, with the coordonation of Octavian Neculai and Ana-Maria Crișan in 2016.

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