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March 2011

February 2011 shortlisted for the 'Upgrade-continuity and change' architecture competition

October 2010 What is Architectural Innovation in Bucharest?' workshop tutored by Odile Decq

June 2006

Summer of 2004

July 2010 ‘Synthetic Venice’ workshop guided by professor Philippe Rahm and organized by the IUAV University in Venice

April 2010

August 2009 «Trespassing: Architecture and Urbanism» International Summer School organized by the Riga Technical University

April 2009 third prize at the ArhitechSIGN competition organized by Eltrix.

March 2009 workshop with the guidance of Ole Bouman and Nanne de Ru wich was part of a series of events on the theme of 'Sustainable Architecture'.Summer of 2008

Maria Daria Oancea Nationality: Romanian Date of birth: 31.12.1987 Phone: +4 0723 955 046 E-mail: [email protected]

2006-2012: Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest, Faculty of Architecture

2009-2010: IUAV University, Venice, Erasmus Programme

Romanian _mother tongue English _proficient Italian _good French _intermediate

Autocad 2011 _proficientPhotoshop CS5 _proficient

Illustrator CS5 _proficientInDesidn CS5 _good

Rhino 4.0 _goodV-Ray for Rhino _intermediate

Maxwell _intermediateSketchUp _intermediate

drawing painting model making clay modeling

graphic design photography media and virtual space

EDUCATION

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social studies

July 2012

August - December 2011

graduated in Architecture at the Ion Mincu University in Bucharest, Romania

internship at ZUS [Zones Urbaines Sensibles], Rotterdam

December 2011selected project in the d3 HOUSING TOMORROW international competition

May 2011 INDESEM/11 workshop at the TU Delft University of Technology

May 2011 third prize at the ISOVER Students Competition

eVolo Skyscraper Competition

highschool graduation project displayed at The Central Art Gallery in Ploiesti

'Arbanasi' summer-camp in the Buzau County, Romania

Photography workshop tutored by Paolo Mazzo featuring case studies from the city of Padova

Bunesti summer-school in Valcea County, Romania

May 2012 two school projectsexhibited at the ROCAD Interna-tional Convention of Architecture and Design, Bucharest

land water sky

Situated near the Mogosoaia Lake the project focuses on the relationship between tectonics, liquidity and a vertical element. The museum is conceived as an object along a pedestrian route initiating at the Mogosoaia castle and exploring the green area in its proximity.

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The study of light reveals the three different areas that create the interior space. After descending the splay staircase the visitor arrives under the vertical element, where the light is allowed to enter form above, creat-ing a spectacular atmosphere. Leaving this space, the observer finds himself in an area where he can perceive the profoundness of water which filters the light that arrives inside. The third area is situated behind the min-eral wall. In this space the use of zenithal light creates a broken line that follows the fissure along the wall.

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The project is situated on a site with a reach archeologi-cal history, near the ruins of the Enisala Castle in the Dobrogea County. The theme aimed the creation of an archeological studies center which also accommodates a motel, opened to the research team, but also to tourists and visitors interested in the exploration of the site.

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The project studies the relationship between architecture and topography, trying to recreate the organic regularity of nature in an artificial system. The architectural object followes the slope working like an articulated membrane that uses the irregularities of the land to generate a frag-mented geometry. The landscape is operationalised for use, given function and transformed into architecture.

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the study focuses on the process of the design of a row-house on a generic site, focusing both on the theme of repetition and considering the internal spatial composi-tion.

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The given opening to the street of the plot was of 7,5 meters and the proposed height was of 10m. The spatial distribution of the house is generated by the existence of three living cells containing the more private functions of the house such as bedrooms, bathrooms, a study and a patio. The cells are connected by a system of stairs and the space above and below them incorporate the collec-tive activities of the family as dining, watching movies, playing games or music, chatting. The car can be stored in a volume placed half meter below the ground floor that hosts a tee lounge on top.

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The theme of the project was to create a residential col-lective unit in Bucharest, on the site of the Tricodava tex-tile factory which has been destroyed in 2008, becoming a new site for residential construction in the contemporary town policies. The factory was an important element for the identity of the place, as it was the productive engine of the neighborhood of workmen constructed during the communist regime.

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An element with a strong identity is created using the green slope that creates a linear recreational space. Given its importance at the scale of the neighborhood, the project proposes a mix of functions: educational, commercial, leisure and housing. Voids of semiprivate space are created inside the body of the building. Each has an individual theme: the virtual garden, animo room, vegetalis, wind garden, sand room, creating a series of recreational spaces for the inhabitants.

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The increase of the territorial footprint of urban environments triggers changes without precedent in the nature of ecosystems and natural processes. These factors are at the core of the contemporary concerns regarding climate change, biodiversity, water, land and air pollution.As the footprint of urban systems goes beyond the physical limits of cities, peri-urban forest areas are becoming anthropic mechanisms of maintaining contact with nature, reinforced by the desire of increasing human confort.In this context the project aims to make space for animals that have disappeared from the territory, or are in danger of doing so. Current views in the sustainable approach of biodi-versity advocate for bringing the animals back into the wilderness, as reflected by the Neamt National Park european funded initiative of releasing five bisons of different ages into the moldavian forests. However it is precisely the profoundly anthropic character nature that led to their extinction in the first place. A new way of approaching territorial management is needed in oreder to generate spe-cific planning actions.

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main public functions main public functionsfuture extension-motel and recreational spaces

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Total area: 7 800mp chickens, ducks, geese, rabbits28 pheasants 2 200mp 147 chicken 880mp100 ducks and geese 1 300mp96 rabits 1 700mp

Total area: 15 400mp 30 saiga antelopes (Russian import) density: 500mp/antelope ( National Park on Antelope Island - USA )

Total area: 45 000mp60 bisons density: 750mp/bison ( Hateg Natural Reservation)

Total area:15 400mp 50 horsespasture: 5 000mphippodrome and training area: 10 400mp

Total area: 10 000mp 2 seasonal grasings = 5 000mp60 goats: 1 500mp60 sheep: 1 500mp30 cows: 2000mp

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1 technical rooms: water reserve, water punping, genera-tor and transformer spots 2 technical rooms: heating, ventilation plant.3 storage documentation center4 workshop storage5 technical rooms: heating, ventilation plant and storage6 multipurpose hall7 horse stables8 storage, eggs packing and incubator 9 research facilities10 bisons shelters

plan ansamblu propunere - spatii destinate pesonalului si animalelor

11 heystack storage12 stables13 milking area14 cheese production15 milking area16 sheep with lambs between 8 and 30 days17 heep with lambs between 3 and 7 days18 lambing space19 gestation space20 collective space21 saiga antelope shelter

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act ivat ing the water rooms with laisure and production

Cities were in many cases founded close to water. The North Sea has a highly dense shoreline, gathering many of Europe’s largest metropolises, and around 65 million inhabitants. The Sea became the main energy provider for the increasingly urbanized land. Offshore oil and gas production has been a major economic activity in the North Sea since the late 1960s, which also contains some of the bussiest shipping routes in the world.

Peaking in 1999,the production of oil was nearly 6 million barrels per day. Since then it has been in moderate decline, and it is expected to fall to one-third of its peak by 2020. The attempt is to replace the fossil fuel supply with renew-able energy systems using the other natural resources pro-vided by the sea.

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Instead of bui ld ing an is land in the Nor th Sea the project makes use of e lements that take advantage of the speci f ic condi t ions of the envi ronment. The goal of the system is to create a base for a comprehensive qual i ty of l i fe , providing green energy, c lean wa-ter, and f resh food, possibi l i ty for a community, employment, le isure and space for development. I t is not a de-s ign, but a st rategy f rom which a large divers i ty of urban set t lements can emerge.

Using a patented system, the gr id combines a mechanical solut ion to move each indiv idual turbine on i ts moor ing l ines with a sof tware solut ion to opt imize in real t ime the wind farm layout. This keeps the energy produc-t ion ef f ic iency over 90%.

The gr id represents the habi table ar-chi tectonic st ructure of the c i ty, organ-iz ing a sequence of rooms for var ious human act iv i t ies. This leaves space for a f lex ib le use of the waterscape, which creates the content of the urban system.4

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The task of the project was to transform the commercial and industrial port of Marghera, into a new city in the venetian lagoon, offering a contemporary response to Venice, as the quintessential historic water city.The central pedestrian system represents the structural element of the city. It is consisted of three central points, the <water squares> , connected by a pedestrian com-mercial circuit. The theree wather squares have different roles within the city: the first cultural organized around the nautical museum , the second commercial, with a great covered market and the third touristic and represen-tational, as it is the arrival to the new city by boat.

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The study focuses on a residential area and its neigh-borhood center that is in this case equipped with a media center, a restaurant, commercial spaces, a swimming pool and other places of public gather-ing. The separation between the mobility of vehicles and that of pedestrians has led to the placement of pedestrian walkways along the main chanels.

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The collective residential complex bring at the scale of the architectural object the principles that have generated the urban design. The three spaces of collective gathering are connected by a system of internal infrastructure: the metallic staircase that becomes the main distribution system. The courts have different configurations acording to a variation of use: the morfo lounge, the drawing room and the chess court.

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wireless cityWater had been the structural element in the creation of historic Venice, mean-ing connection and therefore infrastructure. The idea of connection was related to need of connection in the contemporary city.Virtual connection has a strong impact on nowadays society, arriving at the impor-tance of internet as an idea of connection that goes beyond physical space. The water system of Venice consisting of canals was synthesized into a sister of cable internet connections that completely changed the shape of the initial process, making the passage from linear linked traditional city to unclear urbanity.The stydy of the various antennas that could provide the wireless connection ment relating the wavelines of the various frequencies to the placement of the buildings. The project proposes a series of nucley, centered around the wireless antennas. The central gathering space becomes a water-square, recalling the formula of the venetian campo. In section, the buildings’ heights are coordinated with the spec-trum of the wifi signal.

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The scenario was that of a self providing wifi channel house, placed outside the large wifi nuclei. The strength of the signal is used as a principle that regulates the various functions of the house. The spaces close to the wifi antena with very good inter-net connection,are the studio and the living room. Intermediate signal is correlated with at the kitchen and other leisure activi-ties. The spaces without internet coverage become the bedroom, the dining-room and the bathroom. The signal gradient develops into a functional gradient.

Studying the Faraday cage while exploring the strength of the wireless signal, generated a new formula of functional reparti-tion. The public library is designed as a series of successive en-velopes that gradually decrease the strengths of the signal. The three gradient spaces are displayed as follows: the wifi lounge, which is the area with high internet coverage; the leading library, a space with medium coverage, used only by the personal of the library; and the reading area, the space of the direct contact with the book and therefore a space without internet coverage.

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The cemetery remains a heterotopy un-explored by the architectural discourse in general. Burial ceremonies are diverse, but the concept of burial grounds has rarely been questioned. The physicality of death is in search of a new image and place. This task is not easy in an era of generalized mi-gration, as multi-ethnicity and demographic dynamism characterize most of the mega-cities of today.Initially purged from the center of the city for hygienic reasons, cemeteries were later reincorporated within the perimeter due to urban development. The horizontal exten-sion of the cemetery is not achievable now in most city areas where virgin land is precious, or simply unavailable. New cemeteries are generally established at the periphery, but the urban sprawl will make even that space insufficient. The Sky High Cemetery is an attempt to explore and fundamentally rethink the con-cept. Both generic and specific, the tower will grow organically with the city it is built in, becoming in a symbolic way its’ physi-cal genealogical tree.

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The elevatorThe elevators will work using a kind of internal GPS system. In order to reach the desired tomb, a person has to input the-name of the deceased on the control panel of the elevator.The family tomb It accommodates an entire family. The oldest member of the family can order the tombs for the other younger members. Pictures, stories and other information about the family can be accessed from small touchscreen panels placed next to the graves. The larger entry space could be used for the reunion of the living family.

Virtual archive This will be updated by the administra-tive authority of the city, with information provided by the family. The database will be available from the proximity of every tomb, and will help coordinate the circula-tion inside the buildings.

The VIP tomb Represents the burial place of a famous person. It will display a large area to accommodate a big number of visitors. Information about the person will be avail-able from the virtual archive, on a screen next to the actual grave. Small conferences or tribute shows could be held inside. The tomb for individuals It will accommodate persons of any ethnic-ity and religion. It is formed from a larger space which has up to 5 graves attached on the outside. On top of the tombs, small gardens could be arranged, as light enters in the central space from the upper part of the perimetral tombs. Periferal elements are each added to the central space when a new tomb is needed.

At ground levels public spaces are organ-ized. The ground is liberated of graves and the space is given back to the city.The first floors of the tower will be given to the use of the living, representing an articu-lation between the city and the cemetery. The space could be given a variety uses.

The multi-etnic chapelIIt acomodates the major religions : chris-tianity , iudaism, islamism, budhism and hinduism.It is built underground and is the place where the funeral processions start.Following the example of the medieval catholic town, where the cathedral square was the heart of the town, the cemetery would reenter the city center, catalyzing people in public space.

The cremation tomb Is a continuous oval space with a perime-tral cremation wall, and zenital natural lighting.

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The smoking place: instead of sim-ply wasting time in front of the shops while smoking the employees can now be joined by the potential buyers for a cigarette or simply answer the questions about the merchendise exposed in the shop windows. This type of interaction between the sales-person and the poten-tial buyer was once existent in romanian tradition and still remains in markets. The space ocupied by these instala-tions will replace the existing obstacles (advertisments) and will also incorporate new publicity pannels.

The green areas are inaccesible at the moment. By introducing the read-ing place on the grass the pedestrian is invited to step on these places that will no longer be surrounded by fences. The presence of a number of individu-als that share the same space and are connected by the singular system of book-display creates an instant device of collective use.

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The meeting place from Piata Romana will be valued by the positioning of an urban installation: a bench covering the existent railing surrounding the subway entrance that is already unconvention-ally used as a seat.

The presence of the stations is a genera-tor of punctual gatherings. Bus station reading space comes from the desire to give use to the time spent while waitig for the bus.

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The project was concerned with the restau-ration of a church situated in the hystoric centre of Pozzuoli, a small town close to Napoli, in an area with a destructured roman urban fabric.

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the roman temple as archetypal image

the renascimental church as adition of volumes

the baroque church as specificity of internal space

disjoined partsarticulating while maintaining dyversity

returning to the image of the roman temple__in the spirit of the 60’s and 70’s the memory of the roman temple becomes more important than its true hystorical evolution

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A distinctive spatial element that was discovered while studying the former temple was the simultaneous perception of a sucession of distinct spatial layers. This characteristic was called ‘spatial transpar-ency’ making a refrence to the book of George Kepes “The Language of Vision”.In this book while presenting the features of cubist painting. in comparison with traditional painting, Keeps speaks of figures that have ‘transparency’, presenting them as distinct shapes with a strong character, that are able to interact without optically anullating each other.In the same logic the project keeps the strong spatial feature of each of its distynct hystoric fragments, aknoledging their dyver-sity and proposing an articulation.

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*Remy Zaugg Untitled, Acrylic on canvas

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