Category: Smaller

Metal/Wire

  • Name of the project: „Entity” Sculpture
  • Type of project: Sculpture
  • Year: 2013
  • Materials: Wire, Metal Objects
  • Method Used: Sculpting wire

I did this sculpture in the 2nd year at Faculty of Architecture.

It is about „Entity” and how it is summarized into simple things: heart, brain, hand, ear, leg etc. All this things are presented as metaphors in the sculpture.

Plaster

  • Name of the project: Restoration and Functional Reabilitation of the Fortified Church from Felmer, Romania
  • Type of project: Architecture, Restoration, Extension
  • Year: 2019
  • Materials: Plaster, White Modelling Clay, Jointing Filler
  • Method Used: Casting plaster in a mold, Clay Modelling, Texturing with jointing filler

I did this model for an extension at an historic church.

The base was made from polystyrene covered and textured with jointing filler. I used this material to create a smooth hill with no contour lines and also because it had a different color than the one of the plaster which was used for the existing church and the proposal.

Because the fortifications were very small at this scale (1:200) and the probability that they would crack if I would have made them with plaster, I decided to use white modelling clay.

  • Name of the project: Balneary Resort, Vatra Dornei, Romania
  • Type of project: Architecture, Resort
  • Year: 2019
  • Materials: Plaster
  • Method Used: Casting plaster in a polystyrene mold

I did this conceptual model to illustrate the relationship between the solid volume of the building and the void spaces.

The model consists of actually two sectioned models, one cutting the building and one cutting through the stairs.

MDF

  • Name of the project: Wine Cellar, Argeș, Romania
  • Type of project: Architecture, Wine
  • Year: 2019
  • Materials: MDF, White Plexiglass
  • Method Used: Assemble different parts that were cut using a CNC Laser

I did this site model assembling different layers cut with a CNC Laser.

The first part was to prepare the pieces in Autocad and after that to send them to the CNC. The second part was to glue all the pieces together to form the silhouette of the hill on top of which the proposal sat.

The context and the actual proposal were made using white plexiglass in order to create a beautiful contrast between them and the hill.

Balsa Wood

  • Name of the project: Extension for a House, Bucharest, Romania
  • Type of project: Architecture, Extension
  • Year: 2013
  • Materials: Balsa Wood, Forex, White Modelling Clay, Branches, Wire
  • Method Used: Assemble different parts that were cut manually

I did these models in the 2nd year at Faculty of Architecture. The first one is the context model at a larger scale and the second one is the model of the project at the scale 1:100.

The project was about an extension I had to make to an existing house in a neighborhood. I used brown painted balsa wood to show my project because the main material used for the extension was wood. Also, in contrast with the white painted materials used for the existing house, the proposal became more visible.

  • Name of the project: Canvas Covered Space for Pedestrians, Bucharest, Romania
  • Type of project: Architecture, Pavilion
  • Year: 2012
  • Materials: Balsa Wood, Canvas, Glue
  • Method Used: Assemble different parts that were cut manually

I did this model for one of the first projects in the 1st year at Faculty of Architecture.
The idea was to create a sheltered pavilion with a timber structure. I did the structure using balsa wood and I imagined the roof as if it was made from canvas so the space would receive more natural light.

Clay

  • Name of the project: Artists Nest, Bucharest, Romania
  • Type of project: Architecture, Hub, Housing
  • Year: 2014
  • Materials: White Modelling Clay, Brick
  • Method Used: Clay Modelling, Collage
  • Link to project: soon

I did this small model to sustain a project called Artists Nest which was about creating a Hub for the students from the university nearby, creating them the opportunity to work together while also offering them the advantage of living in the same place on a hostel at the first floor.

The site had an old brick building on it so I decided to keep it and to build in it and on top of it. The base of the model is an actual brick taken from the site in the attempt to emphasize the keeping of the old building. The white clay sculpture represents the proposal.

  • Name of the project: Individual Housing, Bucharest, Romania
  • Type of project: Architecture, Individual Housing
  • Year: 2013
  • Materials: Clay, Balsa Wood, Transparent Plexiglass, Branches, Herbs
  • Method Used: Clay Modelling, Collage, Assemble
  • Link to project: soon

I did this model for the individual housing project in the university. The idea was about a family living in the same place, but in separate houses, so the parents had one, the children had the other and they all shared an underground communal space and an atelier.

The buildings were to be made from local earth and therefore I did the model from clay to suggest that. They had also a glass-house, made in the model with transparent plexiglass and the underground space which is made by sculpting in the layers of polystyrene and clay. Balsa wood is also used as support layer and for certain parts. With branches and herbs I tried to suggest the natural environment from the site.

  • Name of the project: Hotel, Bucharest, Romania
  • Type of project: Architecture, Hotel
  • Year: 2016
  • Materials: Clay
  • Method Used: Clay Modelling
  • Link to project: soon

I did this conceptual model to illustrate the future proposal of a hotel.
The model shows how a central core-space is set up at the ground floor level and then rises through the accommodation spaces by some imaginary tunnels that lead the people.