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PERSONAL INFORMATION

Address London, United Kingdom 158 New Barn Street E13 8JW

Phone +447833347150 +40729922388

Nora-Andreea Constantinescu

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCEApr. 2014 - May 2014 Architectural Assistant - BCI Studio, London, UK

Projects: • Oxford Match, Whyteleafe Village, London, UK- office to residential conversion • Kinomax Mozaika, Moscow, Russia - mall cinema interior configuration and design • Shopping Centre Refurbishment Bucharest, Romania

•Developing my skills in architectural and design software as AutoCAD, Adobe Photoshop, Indesign and Illustrator and SketchUP•By working in a small team I have developed my team work and interpersonal skills

Mar. 2012 - Jun. 2012 Urban Planner Assistant Practice S.C. URBIS 90 – ATELIER DE URBANISM Bucharest, RomaniaProject: • A brochure with all the heritage buildings from Bucharest and a strategy for their rehabilitation. •Improving my research and documentation skills as well as my strategic and analytical thinking.•Improving my stong eyes for details abilities, with sensitivity and precision.

Nov. 2011 - Oct. 2012 Urban Designer Student Practice Geoagiu City Masterplan, Geoagiu, Romania•I participated in the implementation and development of the Masterplan for Geoagiu.

Oct. 2011 - Dec. 2011 Student Project – Botosani County Masterplan, Romania •Exposed at the International Convention of Architecture and Design May 2012, Bucharest.•Expanded my capacity to think globally, macro-territorial and to find sustainable development strategies in urban-development and planning project for counties.

Jun. 2010 Urban Designer Student Volunteer Practice Deparment of Urban and Regional Planning, Bucharest, Romania

PERSONAL PROJECTSAug. 2013 – present PIZZAZZES.com Personal Project Photography and Illustration Blog •PIZZAZZES is about the beauty of the female body, expressed through photography and illus-tration. It combines these two artistic directions, aiming to visually inspire and entertain.

Nov. 2011 - Feb. 2012 Organiser Photography Exhibition “The Ephemeral City”•I initiated and coordinated a team formed by seven students to organise the exhibition.•Improving my leadership and team working skills by being placed in new and difficult situations.

OTHER WORKING EXPERIENCEAug. 2013 – Apr. 2014 Waitress Randolphs Recuitment

Aug. 2013 – Jan. 2014 Data Processor Hardcopy Analyst Epiq Systems Limited London, UK•Manual coding, scanning, redacting and quality assessment of hardcopy documents and electronic data by using a variety of software.Improving computer competency and attention to details.

LANGUAGES

Romanian: native proficiencyEnglish: full professional proficiencyFrench: advancedSpanish: elementary

Graduate with BSc in Urban Design and Masterplanning and presently part-time postgraduate student in MA Urban and Regional Planning at University of Westminster in London. I am passionate about design and architecture, and I have great interested in fine art, branding and identity design, paint-ing, drawing, illustration and digital art.

I consider myself to be an artist, passionate about beauty and nature.

E-mail/ Contacts noraconstantinescu@gmail.com

Behance http://be.net/noraandreea

Linkedin uk.linkedin.com/pub/nora-constantinescu /5a/673/521/

EDUCATION and QUALIFICATIONS

Sept. 2012 - present MA Urban and Regional Planning University of Westminster, London, UK

Oct. 2008 - Jul. 2012 BSc Urban Design and Masterplanning University of Architecture and Urbanism ‘Ion Mincu’, Bucharest, Romania

May 2008 Computer Operation Professional Proficiency Certificate National College ‘Mihai Viteazul’, Ploiesti, Romania

Sept. 1999 - Jul. 2002 Piano Proficiency - Ploiesti School of Arts and Crafts, Ploiesti, Romania

SKILLS

•Able to communicate in a sensitive and effective manner both orally and in writing•Able to deal effectively with a range of different people in high pressure situations•I have team working skills by initiating, coordinating and participating in many group projects•Ability to work great in a team from previous working expe-rience•Dedicated, Hardworking, Ambitious•Strong eye for details and fast learner•Flexible and adabtable personality•Efficient and dillignet in delivering tasks•Creative and jovial personality with a great sense of humour

INTERESTS

•Painting, Drawing, Photography, Design, Illustration, Branding and Identity, Interior Design, Fashion Design, Travelling, Food

AutoCAD

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe InDesign

SketchUP

CorelDRAW

3ds MAX

Revit Architecture

Other

Microsoft Office

PROFESSIONAL SKILLSArchitectural and design software

C O N T E N TPro ject s : 01 Shopping Centre Refurbishment Bucharest, Romania

02 Kinomax Mozaika Interior Design Concept Presentation Moscow, Russia

03 Oxford Match, Whyteleafe Village Office to residential conversion London, UK

04 Bachelor Thesis: Masterplan for Bacaia Village - Strategy and sustainable development Geoagiu, Romania Phase I: Masterplan for Bacaia Village Phase II: Architecure

05 Cultural Project: Dance Club Bucharest, Romania

06 Drawing and Painting

07 Logos and Digital Art

01 Shopping Centre Refurbishment Bucharest, Romania

Vertical circulation node connection: Parking Metro First FloorAre created over 30 retail units of various sizes

Plaza Destination

Improve circulation, visibility and create a new focus, PLAZA DESTINATION

vertical extension to match roof level

match floor levels

metro retail connection to new plaza

Design Brief:• Re-configuration of an UNIT (including the adjoining ares) and obtaining the best use of the existing structural shell (Basement+GF+1upper floor aprox 10,000 sqm) and to optimise its integration ito the existing shopping centre (currently inadequate entrance situation and connection to the mall low ceiling-heights, different floor levels etc.)Increase number of retail units with min 30 new units.• The mix of the new units will contain new fashion anchors, MSU and small units.• Increase the traffic of customers and additional public ‘attraction points’.• Increase the visibility and improvements of functionality.• A sustainable concept on long term and define the new identity of the shopping center.

View from new plaza

OPTION PREFERRED

Proposed Ground Floor Plan

Proposed First Floor Plan

Proposed Basement Plan

View from main entrance

View from groun floor h&m corridor

View from first floor to new plaza

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NEW DESTINATION retail configuration

Adaptation of existing shell by:•New slabs throughout to match floor finished levels of the shopping centre public corridors.•Alterations to basement for additional 9 parking spaces.•Rise of building height to allow for a first floor retail height to match the shopping centre floor to ceiling height.•Necessary alterations of the facade upper sections to allow veritcal extension, these alterations are to match existing.

•Internal refurbishment•Construction planning will be phased to allow existing anchors for as long as possible during re-modelling of the shell.

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02 Kinomax Mozaika Moscow, Russia - Interior design Concept presentation OPTION 1 angular shapesProject info:Project: Kinomax Mozaika Cinema re-configuration and r interior design - Conept presentationDate and Company: April 20014 - BCI Studio, London UKSite location: Moscow, Russia

KINO FOYER - VIP Lounge Aerial Perspective

KINO FOYER - VIP Lounge Perspective KINO FOYER - VIP Lounge Detail Plan

First Floor Plan - Floor FinishesGround Floor Plan - Floor Finishes

Main task:The concept has two options based on the geometrical paint-ings by Kandisky, the russian painter. Both options are very well integrated in the cinema space and any of eatch can be suitable for the future Kinomax Mozaika.

Ground Floor - VIP Lounge

Cinema Toilets Model Cinema Toilets Model

Cinema Toilets 1st Floor Plan Number Signage Model Dividing Screens - VIP IMAX angular shapes

Mood Board Images

First Floor - KINO Foyer VIP Lounge IMAX Section

OPTION 2 circular shapes

KINO FOYER - VIP Lounge Aerial Perspective

KINO FOYER - VIP Lounge Perspective KINO FOYER - VIP Lounge Detail Plan

First Floor Plan - Floor FinishesGround Floor Plan - Floor Finishes

Ground Floor - VIP Lounge

Cinema Toilets Model Cinema Toilets 1st Floor Plan

VIP Furniture Model LED Furniture Model Dynamic CeilingVIP Furniture Model

First Floor - KINO Foyer VIP Lounge IMAX Section

Mood Board Images

03Oxford Match, Whyteleafe Village London, UK Office to residential conversion These plans represent the basic layouts for the office to residential conversion.

As a team, we have developed these layouts having reviewed a number of alternative schemes, and have had early stage conversations regarding Building Regulations for these layouts with MLM (as poten-tial Approved Inspector).

The internal space of the apartments created is very generous and it can be shaped in different modes,as the illustrative mood boards are showing.

Ground Floor

First Floor

Second Floor Duplex Floors

MOOD BOARDS

Kitchen

Living Room

Bedroom

BathroomWhytelefe Hill Street View View from parking Duplex interior Duplex interior First floor interior Whytelefe Hill Street View

Development Strategy for Geoagiu County

Representative photos of the Geoagiu county settlements

Current relations between cities

Relations between cities In Vision

The Bachelor’s Degree was based on an analysis starting form the overall approach and finishing with the architectural object of the admin i s t rat i ve territorial unit, Geoagiu, Hunedoara, Romania.

The Geoagiu County has two strong development directions, North-South and West-East which are not fully exploited. The strategy is to develop each city and village located on the development directions, on their main activities. The purpose is to have economic efficiency and diversity inside the region and to prevent competition between the cities.

Some small cities are strategically located but unpopulated and weak, therefore the second part of the project will present the economical, educational and touristic development of the northernmost small city of Geoagiu, Bacaia.

Phase I: (Part from) Masterplan for Bacaia Village04Bachelor Thesis - Masterplan for Bacaia Village Geoagiu, Romania

Project info

Workshop: Bachelor thesis project - Individual projectYear and Institute: 2012 Ion Mincu University of Architecture and UrbanismDuration: 3 monthsSite location: Geoagiu County, Romania

Main Task:

The Bachelor Thesis is formed by two main parts:

Phase I: Create a startegy for developing Geoagiu county, a turism economy based area.

Phase II: Chose one of the county’s settlements, in my case, Bacaia Village, and to create a sustainable development scenario. The architectural project had to be connected with the strategy.

From this resource the development starts.

The proposed development willinclude:-housing, -temporary housing -medical and treat-ment center-camping zone-equestrian center-services

Bacaia Village has as main resources, thermal and ferruginous water which are used in the treatment of intestinal diseases, rheumatic and hepatobiliary affections.

Site Plan for developing Bacaia VillageLocation

To develop this locality I used the natural resources mentioned above and I made a medical treatment spa situated in the center of Bacaia.Linked to the medical treatment spa, I developed accommodation units and an educational center. The last consists of a kindergarten and a primary school. Aside the spa I made a horseback riding facility as part of the rheumatictreatment. Also the capacity of the mineral waterwill rase and the factory itself will have another building.

To achieve this, I chose to implement programs of social housing for the future employees. I estimated that in 5 years time Bacaia will have 20 more house-holds, in 10 years another 30 and in 15 years 20 more. The families will come from the surroundings of Bacaia, the DJ 705 being an important infrastruc-tural element of this development plan.

All the important activites are concentrated in the middle of the village adjacent to the main streets. I have started to develop the mediacal treatment center and accommmodation units and education-al centerlinked with it.

The educational center will be further detailed.

Implementing programms for social housing

Staging the interventions in the villages and the evolution of the number of employees

Basement Plan

The educational center is located nearby the river and is formed by a kindergarten and a primary school, with small proportions.

The kindergarten functions for two groups of children between 3 and 6 and between 6-14.

The educational center was developed by taking into con-sideration the proportions of the existing houses, coating and materials used in general by the local people. Considerig the principles of the sustainable develop-ment I used local materials (wood, rock, roof tiles), solar panels and thermal water heating. The building materials for the structure with wood polywood and based stone. I have also equipped the place with water, sewer, gas and electricity.

The concept was to make a landscape integrated build-ing and to become part of this locality but with an air of modernity.

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Street sectionGround Floor Plan

ArchitecturePhase II: Educational Center HAPPY CLOUDS in Bacaia Village

05 Cultural Project - Dance Club Bucharest, Romania Project info

Workshop: Architecture Individual Project Year and Institute: 2010 Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism Duration: 4 weeks Site location: Bucharest, Romania

Main Task:

Deepen the knowledge of analysis and interpretation of a real site in the context of a cultural architectural programme.

Developing the ability to propose a general concept of a set of architectural and design solutions to its individual components, while maintaining overall coherence

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Ground Floor Plan

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First Floor Plan

Section AA`

Section BB`

West Elevation

06 Drawing and paintingPencil and ink sketches

Watercolour, acrylic and ink drawings

07 Logos and Digital ArtProjects:

Digital Art, Edited paintings and photos

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