Built space

WERK Restaurant

Principal author

Cătălin Trandafir

Co-authors (team members)

Irina Filofi

Architecture office

Filofi și Trandafir Arhitectură

Collaborators (team members)

arh. Romina Pasculovici, arh. Cezara Tudosă, Arh. Anca Bonta

External collaborators

ing. Virag Jacint, ing. Torok Iosif, ing. Szabo Eniko, ing. Lajos Bencze, prof.dr.ing. Bucur A. Ildiko, ing. Maria Filofi, ing. Alin Blaga, ing. Ciprian Laszlo, ing. Csilla Jakab, ing. Veronica Solomon, ing. Cristian Ples, ing. Silviu Pop, ing. Claudiu Iechei, ing. Maria Ghitoaica, ing. A Lucan, ing. A Uritescu, ing. M Rodica, BIA Alexandru Rugescu, arh. Razvan Rugescu, biolog dr. Livia Bucsa, arh. Ruxandra Coroiu, arh. Octavian Coroiu, biolog dr. Dragomir-Cosmin David, ing. Alexandru Moise

Project year

2017

Location

str. Constantin Bursan nr.3, Hunedoara

Client

Micro Mega HD

Budget

confidential

Build surface area

1200 mp

Project description

The existing situation: amalgam of properties, old degraded buildings, newer overlapped buildings, the Hunyad Castle and city in reconstruction after the death of the industry that sustained it. In an industrial city whose history revolves around iron mining, following massive demolition processes, the industrial heritage built today is minor. There are few buildings left to recall the Iron Factories. This project addresses this theme. Existing ensemble taken over: two buildings belonging to the old Iron Factories (ca. 1885), parasitic constructions and other unsanitary annexes. Objective: To create a multifunctional ensemble with the main function: restaurant. After identifying the building phases, the objects and the original elements, we removed the parasitic buildings and rehabilitated the two buildings with historical substance. After the interventions, the buildings returned to the original volume. Inside, we revealed the framing geometry and the brick; the original wooden and steel elements were recovered, rehabilitated and reintroduced into a new life cycle. The materials used in the interventions and the design are based on wood and steel. We sought to create a unitary interior space, relying on a course of contrasts. Thus, we proposed, between the existing buildings, a new, coagulant volume. Our desire, almost obsessive, to still perceive, from the inside, the facades and roofs of the existing buildings, turned this volume into a kind of covered yard that abounds in natural light. Surrounded with skylights, the proposed insertion seeks not to visually touch the existing buildings and to accentuate this sensation of float, uses a simple, white, detail less ceiling, as an imponderable plate. We used reversible structures and same era material for punctual interventions; we rely on the sincere use of materials, in their raw form, without aesthetic tricks, trying to induce the user a sense of industrial space - a strict result of objective, technical needs. The ensemble is complemented by a new, linear body that seeks to become a backdrop for the garden and the street, inspired by the details of the old industrial buildings and perpetuating, in a contemporary manner, their spirit. The intent was to insert a new function in a site with history, with the intention of enhancing it and helping it to come back to life.

Text description of the author

Filofi şi Trandafir Arhitectură is an architectural design practice led by two partners, arch. Catalin Trandafir and arch. Irina Filofi. The team consists of architects, engineers and economists, working closely with collaborators, various specialists or experts in various areas and is constantly communicating with the clients, whom they consider as a constituent part of the design process, thereby creating the framework for the best possible solution. As a practice, the office undertakes projects of all shapes and sizes, ranging from object design to hospitality buildings, private and public functions, renovations or interior design. The architects enjoy projects diversity and are always open to new challenges. For them, every project is the unique result of the process behind it, a process that reunites the context, the clients’ needs and the team’s imagination. The office is trying to constantly explore innovations and always apply new knowledge into the projects.

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