For ten years, Beta has been awarding quality architectural initiatives and projects in Romania, Hungary and Serbia. The international jury for each edition is made up of renowned architects, and the awards reflect our determination to promote authors and projects with a beneficial impact on the built environment.
For the first time in this competition, we have introduced the People's Award, through which we aim to improve the connection between architects and the general public, emphasizing the importance of architecture that directly addresses the values and needs of society.
We all live in and use the city and the spaces that architects design, so we want the Beta Awards to recognize the preferences of the general public. The Public Award is our way of bringing quality architecture closer to the general public and promoting those architectural projects that make us proud of the cities we live in. Each person can vote for one project in the categories of Built Space, Interior Space, Public Space, Graduate Projects and Research.
The public vote will be open together with the awards exhibition and will run until the end of the competition, when the project with the most votes will be awarded at the Beta 2024 Awards Gala.
With works in various areas, but with obvious affinities in the residential one, we choose to approach each project in a way that pays tribute to the particularities of each user, often assuming a challenging architectural process. The typology of the different architectural language theat are chosen forces us to overcome our subjectivism in search of the harmony of each concept. Using the complex vocabulary of form, light, materiality, we want to define spaces worth feeling, experiencing, living.
Project description in English
POST IMPACT is about deformation and formation, about cause and effect, starting from micro scale - the fertilized egg divides and grows into life, drops hit the surface of the water and create waves, to macro scale - the comet impacts and deforms the earth, but in the crater, an enormous amount of energy is formed.
What happens after people are struck by art?
We metaphorically mirrored the different types of impact with what performing arts can cause, both personally and in society, from the one who expresses his art to the viewer, both feeding from the exchange of energy that is created in that moment. All this energy propagates, from individual to individual, they begin to question things, vibrate, move, connect, and so communities able to make changes are formed. The comet hits a random place, the square heats up and warps, the society/community grows.
The proposal is a stylization of the comet's crater and the shock waves. The stage, the place of impact, is the element around which the flatness of the ground changes and the two red corridors rise organically, alternating in a movement of increase and decrease.
The space, composed of a large, circular stage, with a diameter of 7.5m and all its adjacent elements radially arranged, aims to outline a strong, expressive presence, with impact and visibility to the general public.
We used the features of the square to position the stage so that it remains visible but pushed away from the intense pedestrian traffic. The proposed ensemble is correlated to the scale of the urban space in which it is inserted, but merges with it, through form and transparency, allowing the movement of the artists who perform to overlap with the movement of the residents who transit the square in their daily routine.
Theater and choreography students from the art faculties of Iași, București, Constanța, Tg. Mureș and Sibiu performed on the POST IMPACT stage, people from the community approached the space and experienced it both during the day and at night, walking through it or dancing without (almost) anyone noticing them, children ran, played and danced, enlivening the space during the two weeks of Romanian Creative Week event.