ATELIER IULIA STANCIU, is a university studio that alternately guides groups of students within the Department of Design Synthesis at UAUIM, in the year 2023-2024 coordinating the activity of group 47 – forth year of study.
MARIA-IULIA STANCIU – architect, PhD in architecture, MC specialist and design tutor since 1991. Associate founder at STARH Architecture office. The initiator and coordinator of the 112Patrimoniu and 112Recovery Platforms.
ANDRA JURGIU – architect, PhD and university assistant at UAUIM
THEODOR DINU - architect, PhD student and university assistant at UAUIM. Founder of the MOD Architecture office.
Project description in English
CONTEXT – neglected heritage
The building located in 16-18 Biserica Amzei str, listed as monument B-II-m-B-18151, nationalized, with multiple tenants, is step by step reintegrated through retrocession. Facing Christian Tell Str, the building has a ground floor with shops, typical for merchant houses from the end of the 19th century.
The space had been rented for the past 10 years to various horeca traders, the finishes were mixed and degraded.
The space was redesigned in emergency in order to animate the built front and add an exhibition area for the Amzei Block-Party event.
CONCEPT – the minimal installation = the needed neutrality
In addition to the functionalization and equipment, the design idea was to neutralize this mix of materials and achieve a neutral surface as the expression of the space and a suitable background for any exhibition.
Time and budget were restrictions that once again limited the dispose to the simplest and essential gesture.
The space became the support of an experiment for an enamel in testing at IRCOLOURS, a material adherent to various types of support, which was therefore used for walls (over plaster, painting, tiles, plasterboard cladding) floors (tiles, mortar) ceilings (plasterboard, plaster, painting), in a medium gray color N172. The compartments were left with framed OSB, the "precious" elements remaining the seating surfaces and 40mm solid oak tops, as well as the rails for the chromed aluminum rail (including the support cables).
1ST EXPO = FRAGMENTS FROM HERITAGE
A Discourse on an assumed fragmented reading and intervention on the discrete heritage values. The exposition of student projects of Group 47- Atelier Iulia Stanciu on the subject of this building, as well as the experiment that followed it, a clay model workshop where the students experienced working with a limiting materiality, restrictive regarding the possibilities of specific architectural detailing, which expressively, necessarily defined the essential volumes, with discreet suggestion of materiality. The support of the models thus obtained was a design object also made with rough construction site materials at hand.
2nd EXPO = PISCU SCHOOL
Through these exhibitions, accompanied by a dense program of presentations and discussions, and a large number of visitors, the space already occupies a place on the map of cultural initiatives in Amzei area.
