THE VERANDA
The typology of public buildings in Oradea is one with a courtyard inside. The mental of the local collective memory is the mirror of such a reflection.
The Oradea Historical Center Urban Ensemble is the oldest urban area of the city, and from the point of view of heritage values, the most valuable, where most of the ensembles and monumental buildings of the Municipality of Oradea can be found. The project will contribute to the revitalization of the area and to raising the importance of the surroundings.
The new proposal, if it should be integrated into the place, can only be on a different scale, part of such a memory and the mentioned typology of courtyards be part of the new proposed context, but not a closed courtyard as it is in the city, but one in which the building is split in half that invites you to join it in an open central oriented space.
Everything, when you are there, happens at the human scale, through built micro volumes of completion, that articulate the entire space around a central garden. Spatial distribution of the buildings takes into account optimal functional scheme from the point of view of functional flows and business hours.
Thus, the main two buildings can function as stand alone units or together. The plazas in front of the buildings and the lawn give alternative options of space utilization. The restaurant/pub is embedded in a garden pavilion as a stand alone unit that can offer each business operator to have its own management scheme.
Landscape design is based upon a series of overlapping and interweaving of layers. The layering and weaving create a heterogeneous, dynamic space, inviting you to discover. It is an unbuilt space with diverse gradations of space scale, pinned in a matrix of colonnade, which mirrors and connects visually the buildings structure.
The spatial-functional structure of the center is determined by the criterion of flexibility, the center developing a multidisciplinary and multifunctional cultural ensemble, able to adapt its form, capacity and technical-functional attributes, so that concerts, book launches, exhibitions, conferences or any other events that would contribute to enriching the variety and more can also be held.
The result is a dynamic, heterogenous and attractive space, that can fix its form and capacity, a symbol for the cultural scene and a complex organism which is integrated in the given context. The concern for the manner of insertion in the traditional weaving and of the immediate neighborhood is translated into the creation of an architecture that responds to the esthetical expectations, of accessibility and functional, up to date, characteristic to a modern city, in continuous development.
THE ELEMENTS
The defining elements: the squared pergolas, the shell, the orchard
The squared pergolas are two floating mega-structures which give a sensation of protection but also of purity and openness while man is staying underneath.
The shell is an optimal constructed area, closed under the two pergola elements. It is like an organism – life in a shell, a collection of self functioning elements. The shell could be open mainly in the summer, melting the inside and outside, thus the organism spreading itself across the site.
The orchard is the one that spreads in the quiet room, full of nature (butterflies, grasses and trees). The interior extended to "nature" offers peace and comfort. Lights, fog fountains, paths and meadows, pillars, all these will turn into a friendly "out".
The result is a space that can adjust its shape and capacity.
A symbol for cultural scene.
A complex organism well fitted in the zone.
