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Art Forum in Timisoara

Part 2 Project 2005
Anton Ionut
 Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism | Romania
To achieve the end result of my diploma project I have adopted a process in design similar to the fuzzy logic.
Once determined the limits of the building, I’ve created three working systems for the three types of links of the building: the historic center, the new campus and the major crossroad in its surroundings. The project is a result of a negotiation between the three systems and the program. The three working systems overlap and interact with each other, generating space. This space makes the transition between another world, be it the art, entertainment, or science, and the city


- One of the most appreciated diploma projects by the international jury in the 2005 summer session.
- Subtle and modern insertion of a complex program into a historical site.
- The coherence of the diversity, facing different types of urban fabric.
- The revitalization of the urban area.
2005
The urban analisys of the site through diagrams lead to the urban development of the masterplan and it's stages of developlment. Relevant information for each diagram was transformed into a rule for the working system of the campus.
Various solutions have been explored as the litigations between the working systems and the existing systems took place. The end product is the result of a tree like process in which each brach represent a set of rules, is based upon the comparison of
The building had to respond to three existing systems that affected it: - the historic site - the high speed and traffic intersection - a newly built campus
Ground floor an passtrough space which meets an closed atrim which provide interaction space and fluxes transmition.
View from the main street a subtle refference to the old town
Second floor plan the link plan between the major programs - auditorium and conference center
Intersection view the entrance is a door cutout of the primary volume of the buliding which leads to the campus beyond the building.
Pohtoedit
Street front and main facade a carefull analisys of the street front by rithm and rate of windowed space was conducted and the transformed and applied to the facade.
Oposite street front and back facade.
View form the entrance and back.
East and West facades. Cossections.
Nightshot.
Interior View of the atrium.
Interior shots of atrium, library and cafe.
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