ateliergovora is an architectural office based in Bucharest and Govora, Romania. It was founded by Radu and Stefania Tîrcă in 2020. Their work focuses mainly on architecture, urban design, research and academic activity and is closely related to the work of studiogovora, an NGO founded in 2019 with the aim of documenting the cultural heritage of Govora Baths and developing projects for its revitalization.
Project description in English
Located a short distance from Bucharest, Romania, the pavilion is an occasional retreat for small seasonal events. It seeks to provide the appropriate background for the intended activity, while remaining sufficiently neutral and flexible for future use.
The first thing that struck us was the scale of the place and the richness of the plant life. From the very beginning, there has been mature vegetation on the site that appears to have spread naturally. The early stakes of the project were to preserve the existing vegetation and to place the building in such a way as to enhance each other. The pavilion is therefore a contextual response, an attempt to work with what is on the site: both the immediate elements of the site and the atmosphere of the rural environment in which it is located.
Wood was the obvious answer, not only for the logic of sustainability of the intervention, but also for its aesthetic qualities, being the element that gives both the consistency of an elegant structure and the naturalness of its relationship with the surroundings. The challenge of such a structure with simple natural wood elements was to maintain a wide opening without additional elements.
The project has been the subject of documentation throughout the construction process. At the time of the assembly of the structure, the site was open to study visits by students from the UAUIM in their first years of study.
