DIANA STANCIULESCUARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

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DIANA STANCIULESCU Address

TelephoneE-mail

3 Menuetului Street Sector 1, Bucharest, Romania+40 | (0)720 440 035dianastanciulescu@hotmail.com

Date of Birth Nationality

06.04.1986romanian

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EDUCATION University of Architecture and Urbanism Ion Mincu, Bucharest – Architecture, Master level

2006 – present

2010 Erasmus exchange student at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven – Architecture, Building and Planning, Master level

EXPERIENCE

2009 Collaboration with Point4, Arhitectura, Studio Basar for Magic Blocks - scenarios for the public space around socialist collective housing blocks

IAESTE internship at Capita Architecture, London - specializing in prisons and governmental buildings

2009

SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

Mother tongue Romanian

EnglishOther languages advancedmediumFrench

Spanish fairGerman beginner

Computer Skills AutoCAD 2D and 3DAdobe PhotoShopAdobe InDesignAdobe Illustrator

WORKSHOPS AND COMPETITIONS

MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)Archicad (basic skills)3D Studio Max (basic rendering skills)

The special prize and one of the three first prizes for the Memorable City national competition, Brasov, Romania (in a team of 3 students)

2010

2008 - 2011 The Bunesti Summer School - building a campus for an unconventional school - using traditional materials and techniques in contemporary design, Zarnesti, Romania

2009 - 2010 Collaboration with Studio Basar for various competitions and research projects

After the Project international workshop, Barcelona, Spain2011

Smithing Workshop, Astra Museum, Sibiu, Romania2011

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COMPETITIONS

SCHOOL PROJECTS

WORKSHOPS ANDOTHER PROJECTS

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COMMUNITYLIBRARY

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MEMORABLECITY06CAMPINA CITYCENTRE07

PHOTOGRAPHY08HAND DRAWING09

ARCHITECTUREPAVILION

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THE SCHOOLOF BUNESTI10

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INDUSTRIAL WATERFRONTSSCHOOL PROJECT.2010KANAALZONE.TILBURG.THE NETHERLANDSTEAM PROJECT.3 STUDENTSIn collaboration with the municipality of Tilburg, we created a strategy for the entire canal zone, we then developed a masterplan for one area, followed by a design proposal - dwellings mixed with workshops, restaurants and shops.

Our idea was to expose the inside of the blocks and create a series of routes and public spaces that will connect the city centre with the canal. The canal becomes a new attraction in the city for both locals and tourists, but its attractivity goes beyond its limits: people are offered the opportunity to explore the neighbourhood as well, this leading to the development of the entire area.

The design proposals focus on creating a mix of activities, exploring new ways of living and sharing private and public space and creating atmospheres that will complement the city’s character.

We chose very specific buildings and experimented with the mix of working and leisure spaces. Our goal for the area was to create a place dwelled mostly by craftsmen, artists and students, people enjoying the diversity and the density. This way of living actually becomes the attraction point for both city dwellers and tourists.

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BREDA - TILBURG - EINDHOVEN - HELMOND - S’HERTOGENBOSCH

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PIUSHAVEN

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COLLECTIVE DWELLING

The project meant to create a mixed-use building combining mainly collective dwellings and offices, along with common areas for the dwellers, commercial spaces and other public programs.

The site is located at a crossroads between a road leading to a socialist ‘dormitory’ neighbourhood and one linking the neighbourhood to the city centre. Therefore, our attitude was to create a building that has offices and public programs towards the city and dwellings on the south part, facing the residential neighbourhood.

The building is divided by a nucleus containing circulations and auxiliary spaces for the offices, shops, restaurants and dwellings. The dwellings are grouped by typology, from studios to four bedroom apartments. The spatial configuration, the position of balconies and cantilevers help enhance the sun protection.

The ‘back’ of the building is organised as a semi-private space, with green areas, playgrounds, sports and relaxation areas, whereas the front opens onto a generous urban promenade.

The project was posted on the university website at: http://www.iaim.ro/galerie/proiecte/542/

SCHOOL PROJECT.2009BUCHAREST.ROMANIATEAM PROJECT.2 STUDENTS

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FUNCTIONAL DISTRIBUTIONOFFICES_DWELLINGS_CIRCULATIONS AND AUXILIARY SPACES

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FLOOR PLAN EXAMPLE_5TH FLOOR

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194 BEDROOM DUPLEX APARTMENT

2 BEDROOM DUPLEX APARTMENT

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ARCHITECTUREPAVILION

The theme for this project was to create a pavilion in the centre of Bucharest for public information and debates under the theme ‘Bucharest - Architecture and the city’. The site is debatably unpleasant, overcrowded and noisy, so the solution derived from the wish for isolation from the surroundings and at the same time for becoming a landmark for the area.

The proposed pavilion is a very visible object, easy to access, but at the same time it hides and protects its inner space. The building is generated ‘inside-out’, totally closed from the surroundings with all the interior spaces opening towards an interior courtyard. A contrast arises from the differences in the used materials and textures and also from the resulting ambiance, between the exterior, tiring and agitated - towards which the metallic and colourful facade is turned - and the interior - calm, simple, fluid, finished using light colours and natural textures.

The intention was to create a tranquil space for the visitors willing to engage in conversations about the city and its architecture while they still bear the memory of the outside space they just left behind.

SCHOOL PROJECT.2008BUCHAREST.ROMANIAINDIVIDUAL PROJECT

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UNFOLDED FACADEUNFOLDED ELEVATION

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INDIVIDUAL HOUSESCHOOL PROJECT.2007BUCHAREST.ROMANIAINDIVIDUAL PROJECTThis house project was an oportunity to experiment with different levels of privacy, with representativity, as well as with the relationship between inside and outside.The house complies with the modernist aesthetics imposed by its context - an interwar neighbourhood in Bucharest.

Inside, the common order is reversed: the groundfloor is occupied by the private bedrooms with direct access to the back yard, while the living places take over the first floor. The second floor is turned into a private terrace, connected visually and phisically to the living room. The access is made through a hidden staircase leading directly to the living room.

The purpose was to create as many connections with the outside as possible without losing a sense of privacy. At the same time, the house gives equal importance to bedrooms and living spaces, without neglecting the importance of either ones.

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COMMUNITYLIBRARYSCHOOL PROJECT.2011BUCHAREST.ROMANIATEAM PROJECT.2 STUDENTSThe site of the ex Wolff factories is mentioned as a main urban centre in the development strategy for Bucharest. We proposed here a theatre school and auditorium and a community library, activities meant to attract interest at a city level and at the same time create the opportunity of development in the area, and respond to the need for cultural activities and public space in the existing neighbourhood. At the same time, the proposal wishes to create multiple visual, functional and physical links between the city and the park.

The community library is created inside the abandoned factory building with some minimum additions. The purpose is to profit from the impressive spatiality, the very pleasant zenithal lighting and, on the whole, the atmosphere that the place already has.

I proposed an independent structure along the industrial existing one, a structure that gave me the freedom to create reading spaces, open areas and passageways along the building walls and structure, without affecting the way the interior can be perceived as a whole. A smaller adjacent building is transformed in a children’s centre, with a more playful spatiality.

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PRESERVED AND DEMOLISHED THE PARK AND THE CITY ACTIVITIES AND LINKS

SITE PLAN

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The intervention is meant as a pilot of the Memorable City exhibition - restoring a personal relationship between the dwellers and their city through their own photographs. Several installations were suggested throughout the city, and up to date one was built.

The proposal was minimal, not only because of the tight budget but also because the emphasis was on the pictures, with the support acting as a signal and info point.

The purpose was to trigger an emotional response while people saw old and sometimes extinct parts of their city reinstalled in their original setting, overlapping with the reality. At the same time, give back the ‘place’ status to otherwise ignored, overcrowded parts of the city.

More details about the project:http://orasulmemorabil.ro/

THE MEMORABLECITYFROM PLACE TO PLACE . 1ST PRIZE COMPETITION.2010BRASOV.ROMANIATEAM PROJECT.3 STUDENTS

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The logic of the intervention aims to reconstruct the trust of the citizens in their city: Campina must to escape its isolation and raise living quality by urban intervention, and the redefinition of the public space is essential in this process.

We proposed the regeneration of the Connectivity and Accessibility of the public space, reactivating historical paths, opening up and proposing a design for the conflict areas in between the wall of flats and the housing area of large gardens. Once introducing the auto traffic underneath the boulevard Carol I, we propose a Pedestrian Promenade, having the strength of a city brand, as a place of prestige, meeting place and community contact.

We generate a Grand Square of the city, and we introduce magnet type elements, that, by utilization, image and symbol that generates a domino effect in the long term strategy of the city to become a tourist and cultural center in the area.

More details about the project:http://www.studiobasar.ro/?p=1632&lang=en

CAMPINACITY CENTRECOMPETITION.2010CAMPINA.ROMANIACOLLABORATION WITH STUDIO BASAR

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THE SCHOOLOF BUNESTI10SUMMER WORKSHOP.2008-2011

This project was created by arch. Ana-Maria Goilav and Petre Guran as a hope to bring a Romanian alternative to the European educational system through the creation of an alternative school. One of the school’s main goals is to recreate the master-disciple relationship, and therefore, build a campus where the students and their professors can spend more time together.

The idea of the yearly architectural summer workshops started out of the need to build things differently, rediscovering the forgotten principles of traditional buildings through the use of local materials (wood, earth, clay, stone) and from the way they naturally fit together. The aim of the workshop is to already be a school in itself, teaching young architects how to reconsider their relationship to the past and to their ancestors’ vernacular architecture without the purpose of imitation nor with the wish to innovate at any cost.

We, as sudents, see this as an amazing opportunity to get in touch with the materials and the construction techniques and to witness how dwellings are created from architectural projects. While on site, we are constantly involved in the evolving design of the buildings and have developed an intimate relationship with them, as we now see this campus as our home.

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2008 2009

The first house was created as a symbol of what the school stands for. It is now a place for gathering, for classes and leisure. The whole aspect comes from preserving the ingenuity of the wood construction logic. The same wood piece becomes the morphological unity of the walls and of the floors, as well as the stairs embedded in the exterior wall.

For the student dormitory, the constructive solution was a house of adobe inside a house of wood. The spatiality offers the possibility to be alone and together with others at the same time, as one wishes. This is why the rooms open their doors towards the interior courtyard but the windows open towards the outside world, each one in a different direction.

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2010 2011

The third building on campus will be the student dining room and kitchen. This building will be made out of stone and brick with lime mortar: the same for the walls, the floor, the table, the vault. Both the technique and the symmetrical, vaulted form remind us of byzantine places of worship.

The fourth year of the workshop is dedicated to continuing last years’ projects. The dining room walls rise up to the vault and the windows take shape. The construction of the adobe dormitory reaches the final stage of the interior finishings, an opportunity to experiment again with adobe and lime.

DIANA STANCIULESCU

3 Menuetului Street, Sector 1 Bucharest, Romania+40 | (0)720 440 035dianastanciulescu@hotmail.com