PUBLIC Architecture Projects

The concept of intervention in the urban space is based on a reorganization that keeps track of the character of the existing areas, in relation with the optimal functions that it can meet.The areas of the grid become different supports for the activities of the community, and the existing green areas are kept and integrated in the new configuration.

The main concept of remodeling the urban space is looking to reestablish equilibrium between the inhabitants of the area and the automobile circulation on site. The primary objective is that the population regains its rights to use the surrounding urban space and to reconfigure it in order to allow the people to have a maximized accessibility and use upon it.

The concept was to generate through the envelope an urban scale landmark that is not only a visual sign, but a real urban mark that has enough force for gathering public. The design has a special symbolic power by the indirect use of the old symbol of the Piraeus harbor – the lion (the statue that is currently in Venice).

The pavilion is thought as being a simple gesture, natural in a dense context. For generating a beacon in a crossing node of the scale of the Victoriei Square, we didn’t design an object but a stage. We folded the stage in order to generate a vertical dynamic and thus we generated the amphitheater pavilion that strives to gather the people walking by. We count on the daily passengers to participate in the spatial modeling of the place.

The system of generating the urban surface is simple, based on integrating the directions settled by the accesses of the houses and by the ownership limits and translating them in the urban paving organization.