During high school, he won prizes at the architecture olympiad, and during college he participated in various competitions. In 2022 he obtained an Erasmus scholarship in Vienna and worked in a design office, thus opening his appetite for the architecture of public spaces. / Marius Indrei: Architect based in Cluj-Napoca, he studied architecture at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism Cluj-Napoca, Roma TRE and Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, graduating in July 2023. He is recognized as one of the founding members of the research journal COTAA. His doctoral studies extend the research initiated by his diploma project, delving into the theoretical dimensions of the concept of middle space in the socialist ensembles in Romania.

The Nest House is a project submitted for the 2022 casa mică casa cuib competition, dedicated to student architects. The brief required the design of a home for a family situated on either a real or imaginary site. Through an analysis of the historical built environment along Horea Boulevard, we identified a unique urban situation - a gap between two buildings; a space that has served various functions over time, the most recent being a flower shop. We envisioned this "nest" as an opportunity to transform this urban hiatus into a permanent home for a family of florists. With a relatively narrow frontage of just 2 meters, flanked by two buildings, but extending considerably in depth, the house can only be fully appreciated by navigating its interior - a spatial traversal experiment. Two concrete columns frame the narrow street frontage, rising and connecting five beams to form the house's structure. This columnar design subtly completes the urban gap, maintaining the house's discreet presence on the street. Our goal was to create a home with complex interior spaces within an 85 square meter area. By maximizing the depth of the house, we crafted a series of spaces with varying degrees of privacy, forming distinct spatial sequences within an autonomous structure. This design approach not only provides a functional and aesthetic living space but also enhances the urban fabric by thoughtfully integrating a new residence into the existing cityscape which is experimenting with a different type of living. Therefore, it is a search for the valorization of an urban remnant; but also the imagination of new housing typologies.