http://www.ateliermass.ro ateliermass Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:49:54 +0000 http://www.ateliermass.ro en http://ateliermass.ro/APARTMENT-INTERIOR http://ateliermass.ro/following/ateliermass.ro/APARTMENT-INTERIOR Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:49:54 +0000 ateliermass 2304072 APARTMENT INTERIOR PROGRAM: bedroom furniture and bathroom finishes STATUS: completed SURFACE: --- LOCATION: Cluj YEAR: 2011 The young couple living in this apartment definitely wanted to enlarge the bedroom by closing the balcony, so our suggestion was to place the bed on a platform in the newly created niche. This new space is filled with light but is intimate at the same time, because it is elevated from the rest of the room. The closets and shelves complete the room with a light and domestic feeling. The same attitude of clear simple materials is present in the bathroom. The glossy reflective surfaces and recessed lighting aim to make the space feel larger. While a little bit suspicious at the beginning, eventually the owners whole-heartedly embraced the design and even managed to improve it by choosing appropriate accessories, lamps, curtains and other details. http://ateliermass.ro/minimass-1 http://ateliermass.ro/following/ateliermass.ro/minimass-1 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:01:45 +0000 ateliermass 2405146 http://ateliermass.ro/BCU-COMPETITION http://ateliermass.ro/following/ateliermass.ro/BCU-COMPETITION Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:44:18 +0000 ateliermass 2304060 UNIVERSITY LIBRARY EXTENSION PROGRAM: new reading facilites and storage for books STATUS: competition SURFACE: 5700 sqm LOCATION: Cluj YEAR: 2010 CO-AUTHORS: Kiss Zoltan, FM Proiect, Liviu Petreus The site is next to the existing two buildings built in 1910 and 1960, in the center of the city, part of a network of green surfaces woven into the urban tissue. From a volumetric point of view, the new building is set back from the street 7 metres to create a contemporary 'front garden' that fits into the character of the area. However, the 7 meter cantilever of the top floor maintains the alignment of the front, and at the same time protectively covers the garden. The interior is defined by the temporary dimension of the library experience – the assimilation of information without words and by individual gestures. Changing light, atmospheric and seasonal conditions achieve almost tangible spatial qualities. The project was developed from the interior, through the fully glazed facades the spaces become receptors – resonance chambers of the temporal phenomenons. The core of storage for books occupies the least favourable area for natural light, the rest of each floor is for reading and completely free of structural elements. The roof terrace is reserved for a lounge bar, above which an observation deck provides reflects the surroundings and disconnects the visitors from the ground, it belongs to the sky. http://ateliermass.ro/LIVADA-POSTEI-COMPETITION http://ateliermass.ro/following/ateliermass.ro/LIVADA-POSTEI-COMPETITION Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:26:57 +0000 ateliermass 2304064 LIVADA POŞTEI PROGRAM: public park rehabilitation STATUS: competition phase 1 - selected finalist SURFACE: 3 ha LOCATION: Braşov YEAR: 2011 AUTHORS: Elena Stoian, Andrei Victor Guţu, Ana Maria Horhat Atelier MASS have participated as collaborators in the 1st phase of this competition. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/120943/2304064/01.jpg" width="670" height="469" width_o="1000" height_o="700" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/120943/2304064/01_o.jpg" data-mid="12934813" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/120943/2304064/02.jpg" width="670" height="469" width_o="1000" height_o="700" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/120943/2304064/02_o.jpg" data-mid="12934814" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/120943/2304064/03.jpg" width="670" height="469" width_o="1000" height_o="700" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/120943/2304064/03_o.jpg" data-mid="12934815" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/120943/2304064/04.jpg" width="670" height="469" width_o="1000" height_o="700" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/120943/2304064/04_o.jpg" data-mid="12934816" border="0" align="left"/> http://ateliermass.ro/MARIBOR-FOOTBRIDGE-COMPETITION http://ateliermass.ro/following/ateliermass.ro/MARIBOR-FOOTBRIDGE-COMPETITION Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:19:04 +0000 ateliermass 2572058 ECC 2012 - NEW FOOTBRIDGE PROGRAM: footbridge across the Drava STATUS: competition SURFACE: 1000 sqm LOCATION: Maribor (SI) YEAR: 2010 CO-AUTHORS: Daniel Şerban The new footbridge is intended as a slender single span structure, whose transparent, symetrical profile creates a technological contrast with the late 19th century iron bridge without obscuring it and dimming its relevance as a dominant urban landmark. The shape of the bridge and cables makes visual reference of a certain structure very much at home here, and a symbol of the area: that of the grapevine with its supporting stakes and wire. Functionally the 2,5 meters wide bicycle track is restricted to one of the two 4.00 m wide runways, while pedestrians can use both. In the middle section of the bridge the bridge is at its highest and the runways connect, creating a large elevated platform with fixed and mobile seating, bike parking being also possible. We imagined this as an urban observation deck, an intemediate hub on top of the river, which underlines the significance of the river through and inside the city and being in the middle avows the true connection between the two parts of the city – Tabor and Lent. Leaving the bank in two different spots the new bridge embraces the pier of the former one, setting it inside a protected precint in relation with the new design of the quai. We think of it as a minimal relic, to be kept integral, restored and emphasized as a special feature of the promenade. This embracing also creates a widening of the structure towards the abutments which improves its lateral stability. http://ateliermass.ro/OFFICE-SPORTS-COMPLEX-COMPETITION http://ateliermass.ro/following/ateliermass.ro/OFFICE-SPORTS-COMPLEX-COMPETITION Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:39:16 +0000 ateliermass 2304053 OFFICES AND CHILDRENS SPORTS FACILITIES PROGRAM: offices and indoor sports facilities for children STATUS: competition SURFACE: 6000 sqm (+800 sqm parking) LOCATION: Cluj YEAR: 2010 CO-AUTHOR: Miruna Marinescu The proposal enhances the areas mixed, residential and public character, and offers as much green surface as possible. The program requirements, as well as the urban layout prompted for a large singular volume, massively oversized for this site and the surrounding buildings. So the main facade articulates the two programmatic units, and we focused on expressing the buildings multifunctional character and making it very accessible. The tribune on the water polo level is continued outside the building by a green surface, that can take larger crowds in warm weather, but at the same time it is a semipublic leisure space that also offers views and maybe inspiration during polo trainings. Recovering some of the green surfaces sacrificed for the building is also apparent on the facades of the sports complex. There is a courtyard that provides light and ventilation for the parking and the offices. Additionally, the public character is enhanced by two optional streetball fields on the roof, possibly one for people from the offices, and the other for the general public. http://ateliermass.ro/SUPERBIA-VENICE http://ateliermass.ro/following/ateliermass.ro/SUPERBIA-VENICE Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:17:37 +0000 ateliermass 2304058 SUPERBIA PROGRAM: exhibition at the Romanian Pavilion hosted at IRCCU - Venice Architecture Biennale STATUS: completed SURFACE: 45 sqm LOCATION: Venice (IT) YEAR: 2010 AUTHORS: Silviu Aldea, Marius Cătălin Moga, Laura Panait, Camelia Sisak, Tamás Sisak, Areta Soare, Daniel Şerban VISUAL CONCEPT AND ARTISTIC PRODUCTION: Radu Cioca OBJECT DESIGNER AND ARTISTIC PRODUCTION: Ilarie Pintea MULTIMEDIA CONTENT: Alina Bradu, Carlos Carmonamedina, Silviu Medeşan SOUNDSCAPE: Teodora Vlad SHOEMAKER: Ionuţ Ţinţoc WEBSITE: http://superbiasuburbia.wordpress.com/ The Romanian National Pavilion hosted by the ”New Gallery” of Romanian Institute for Culture and Humanistic Research in Venice, brings forward the recent residential sprawl of Romanian cities, born by devouring peri-urban landscapes, lacking planning and infrastructure, following inappropriate allotment and street patterns, which exploded in recent years due to the real estate boom. Today, the (fortunate?) stop of this phenomenon gives us time to reconsider it. The project Superbia (pride, lat.) speaks about the need for individuality – transposed upon one’s image of their ideal home – about comfort and intimacy as goals (hard) to attain, by means of questioning the relation of interior vs. exterior, private vs. commonly shared space in Romania’s newly built suburbs. Symbolic but highly visual, the exhibition interprets the concept into an installation of contrasts and subjective perspectives. The earth is the emotional factor which charges and torments the gallery, against which a series of objects with different individualities are set: sculptural elements making reference of purist architectural stances and ordinary items of everyday living, over emphasised into unexpected or absurd objects. The installation thus becomes a space a negotiation between these elements as well as between their virtual projections. They are different channels through which it speaks about life in the new Romanian suburb, about individualism, materialism, value, effort, aspirations and status, about contrast between reality and its projection, and the difference of spatial processing between interior and exterior. Voices of the suburb make themselves heard inside the gallery – cuttings from the interviews with inhabitants of different peripheries of Cluj, our study case – providing relevant details and a subjective but vivid picture of life in these areas, as seen from inside. In addition to this, a media project visually documents the Romanian suburb of 2010, by different means of probing and mapping reality, from drawing, to blog, from film to photo, a collection partially gathered by public submissions and developing throughout the exhibition. http://ateliermass.ro/TINERETULUI-COMPETITION http://ateliermass.ro/following/ateliermass.ro/TINERETULUI-COMPETITION Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:14:37 +0000 ateliermass 2304055 SWIMMING POOL COMPLEX PROGRAM: outdoor and indoor swimming pools STATUS: competition SURFACE: 5 ha LOCATION: Bucuresti YEAR: 2008 http://ateliermass.ro/MARIBOR-DRAVA-BANKS-COMPETITION http://ateliermass.ro/following/ateliermass.ro/MARIBOR-DRAVA-BANKS-COMPETITION Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:09:50 +0000 ateliermass 2304057 ECC 2012 - DRAVA RIVER EMBANKMENTS PROGRAM: landscaping and urban space design STATUS: competition SURFACE: 10 ha LOCATION: Maribor (SI) YEAR: 2010 CO-AUTHORS: Anca Bordean, Iulia Pătru http://ateliermass.ro/SERLACHIUS-COMPETITION http://ateliermass.ro/following/ateliermass.ro/SERLACHIUS-COMPETITION Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:01:31 +0000 ateliermass 2545078 SERLACHIUS MUSEUM EXTENSION PROGRAM: museum STATUS: competition SURFACE: 4000 sqm LOCATION: Maanttaa (FI) YEAR: 2011 COLLABORATOR: Oana Cărean The new buildings emphasize the spacious quality of the landscape by maintaining the small scale and isolated character of the buildings that make up the existing complex scattered freely about the park. The proposal minimizes its impact on the green spaces in respect of their environmental quality. The building’s footprint covers mainly the existing gravel in front of the manor. The layout of the new museum building strengthens the linear composition along the N-S axis that also defines the park. The main body of the extension reiterates in an archetypal iconic volume the old manor performing a formal dialogue between the two. The new building (containing the main access) and the old one (the ending of the visitor’s route) outline the museum esplanade, a “classical” courtyard, a horizontal surface able to host a number of activities. Numerous circular glass tiles encased in the pavement, a large central underground patio and two water-covered skylights along the main façade create a discrete setting for the public space, changing its character in the evening. The symmetry of the functional layout provides serenity, clear orientations and order. Generous horizontal spaces assemble into a classical composition through contemporary architecture.