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The transitional state of Bucharest is argued as an opportunity to shape a new culture. A polemic proposal adopts a ‘passion-less’ architectural strategy to curtail consumption as opposed to the current trend in booming Bucharest economy. The design solution is a ‘planning tool’ which can be applied to a number of sites, making it a generic solution for a larger issue in Bucharest. The strategy revolves around 3 main moves -

1. Relegate the importance of grid while planning roads and plots. Instead look for value adding connections between programs.

2. Assign key themes to every neighourhood and programs at the interface where the new built fabric meets the old one. This is the point where the new networks start. The programs chosen for this location are community based which can be shared ex. schools, hospitals, Or infrastructural based like the Garbage management and future transport node.

3. Housing density is enhanced but the fabric is made much more intricate : As opposed to super-sized socialist blocks, smaller 100 sq.mt plots are introduced. Land division is coupled with land ownership. Most importantly, landuse plan is replaced by infrastructure distribution plan which means that power, water and gas is distributed as a function of land areas.

Sustainability - mediation between right wing and socialist

Networks and Interfaces

Ownership

Roads and Plots

Housing and Commerce

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Here are some of the images from our final presentation. We were very pleased in the end with it, being able to combine all the ideas generated through the semester, the multiscaler approach, energy, tourism and water research from the I&Out seminar and developing the Parametric stuff, without being totally caught up in the program. In brief, it was a process of going back and forward between parametric, CAD and photoshop that helped us to get to the final design. We will also try and publish photos of the model / booklet soon!

ds1_sarkawtazadnoori.pdf

Continuing with our attempt of mixing uses, we tried to define the form of this idea. By using a module to define the volume of the hybrid of uses, we determined the height of this form for each area that we are using, to create finally a surface, that will fill this area as an intermediate space and a mixture of uses. Each area will have the average of the characteristics of the surrounding areas (both in terms of use and size of building_module and hybrid of uses). By specifying the flows of transportation and people movement, we will manipulate this surface to reach the final form.

You can download the full presentation here.

A few slides from our presentation today. We have two varied approaches of analysing passages and flows around the various areas on the site. We then took two approaches, one of analysing the various functions and placing them in conjunction with an analysis of the flows. Second was a parametric analysis of existing waterfront conditions, plugged back into a flow model between the nodes of the city. The Parametric model is linked into a spreadsheet and able to update. We are thinking that the final model would be a combination of the two, allowing for both predictability and ‘the accident’ of overlap.

By manipulating the area of the old railway, our aim is to create a balance between the uses of the whole area (MILITARI), in terms of social status, volume and densities.

You can download the presentation here.

Network as a series of Interfaces

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