LIANA GHEORGHE ARCHITECTURE

key words:                       intermediate space, cultural pole, in-between, hybrid, mediator                  

PROGRAM:                       performance space + exhibition+ workshops                                                  

                                            CULTURAL + EDUCATION                                                                                    

DIPLOMA PROJECT:        2 STAGES:                                                                                                                                                                    I. Prediploma         research, masterplan, fesability, concept;                                                        

                                           II. Diploma-            final approach, detail.                                                                                        

STUDIO:                           PhD prof. arch. Dorin Stefan (www.dsba.ro), lect. arch. Dan Dinoiu , PhD                                                        prof. arch. Hanna Derer (National Comitee for Hystorical Monuments),                                                          theater director Alexandru Dabija; 12th semester UAUIM, 2012                    

SITE & THEME:                chosen                                                                                                                 

LOCATION:                      Sibiu (Hermannstadt), ROMANIA                                                                       

                                           edge between the Old City and the New One                                                  

SIZE:                                 site= 23 811sq m, unwraped surface= 27 427sq m, terrace= 1 305sq m,                                                         courtyard= 478sq m, square= 5 405sq m                                                          

 

SITE CONCLUSION

The site seems to have different layers of history, buildings that had have an importance in the city’s development and for that reason the new building should pay tribute to this evolution. The defensive character that was preserve during time should be reinterpreted in the proposal to come and should also be respectful to the remains of the bastion’s wall. Being the main access to the old city and a place where paths intertwine, the pedestrian circulation constitutes a main focus.

 

CONCEPT

After analysing how people use this space and the history of it, it seems that the existance of the city is related to this site. Therefore, in order to respect that history, the concept should pay tribute to the wall and its defensive character over the years.                                                                            

The fortress wall and the bastion wall always close to the exterior, to the threatening outside and open to the city. If the fortress wall with the wall road was seen as a path for transporting ammunition and for guarding the  city; the bastion was a place where the defenders of the city unite in protecting the fortress, first center pole of the attacked city.                                  

The theater developed is inspired by the medieval flavour, with unreachable walls and defensive character, paying also tribute to how theater was developed at that time in a more experimental manner.                                                                                                                                

As a result to the fesability study shown bellow, only 17% of the spaces are accessible to the public. Keeping that in mind, the theater developed here, takes out these spaces for the public to see, in a path of workshops with educational function, that wrap around the space that they protect- the theater itself (protecting the art that shows the society as it is). The ribbon is like a fortified wall, open to what it protects, and close to the exterior, lighted from above with Zenitlight. From this ribbon the spectator can look straight at the play, as in the Shakespeare Globe Theater. The theater becomes an Urban Attractor because it is at the edge of the old city and shows the city in a scaled size. It announces the entrance into the old part, as a gate and protects   what the city of Sibiu is famous for, the ART of DRAMA, in particular- the experimental theater.       

 

PROJECT FEATURES

• marking the demolished wall;                                                                                                                  

• creating 2 theaters- an exterior one protected by the floor of an interior one;                                   

• connect this theaters through a mobile platform;                                                                                  

• gathering the paths that intersect here into a loup that goes up until the interior theater and              

  then descends into the exhibition area;                                                                                                    

• offering the theater director the possibility of using the loup as a place for the spectators that       look into the main theater hall or using the loup as a place for the play itself;                                     

• flexibility in using the path and the stage;                                                                                              

• offering the audience the accesibility and possibility of exploring the world of theater;                   

• offering the city a new square in front of the theater from which you can access other functions  

   open to the public;                                                                                                                                      

• the wall is now defined by an introverted path that ascends and protects the art of drama (the art

   that defines the society- the urban scene);                                                                                         

• creating an in-between level above the fortress wall, beneath the ribbon, that offers a view from   the

   old city to the new one used as a terrace and distribution space for some of the building entrances;                                                                                                                                                    

• alternation interior-exterior-vague created by: the exterior theater- edged by the exhibition space

   and covered by the interior theater (I am in the theater but at the same time I am in the exterior);  

   the interior courtyard- closed by workshops, exhibition space and open to the exterior theater and

   the sky; backstage from terrace level- when the doors open to the terrace, becomes an intermediary

   through the connection which it sets with the exterior, and even more – with the exterior of the

   fortress (this intermediate level is actually the one that links the exterior theater with the interior one

   and realizes the connection with the new city).                                                    

 

COMISSION

president:                PhD. prof. arch. Dan Corneliu Serban                                                                     

members:                PhD. assoc. prof. arch. Georgica Mitrache, PhD. lect. arch. Andrei                       

                                  Serbescu, PhD.prof. arch. Tom Mose Petersen (Denmark), arch. Vladimir                                                       Arsene (Canada-  Westfourth Architecture), arch. Maurizio de Vita (Italy- DE VITA                                         & ASSOCIATTI ARCHITETTI)                                                                               

urban planning:      PhD. assoc. prof. arch. Cerasella Craciun                                                                 

structures:               PhD. lect. eng. Dragos Marcu (Popp & Asociatii)