Specials 2018
MARe
MUSEUM
Status: Built
Year: 2018
Location: Bucharest, Romania
Built area: 1.600 sqm
Concept: Youssef Tohme Architects&Associates
Budget: 1.5 mil euro
Partner in charge: Liviu Zagan, Costin Beekman
Team: Alexandra Nicolau
MARe - the Museum of Recent Art - is intended as an incubator for vernacular visual culture, both a platform for rethinking recent Romanian art, and a panorama of the local art scene of the past decades.
The project consists of adding one floor to the historic building, thus highlighting part of the city’s pre-Communist heritage, and opening the museum toward the surrounding city. The 4m ceiling height on the ground floor is emphasized to create a public space.
The actual process consists of demolishing the original brick structure and then rebuilding it in black concrete. Decorations and details of the original building are cast in concrete and used in the new structure.
The competition aimed to develop the landscaping of the Colentina lakeshores over the entire length comprised in the 2nd District. By analyzing the geographical context we discover that Bucharest is not a flat city. Actually, the flat does not exist, there is always a slope of a few centimeters, of a few meters or sometimes of even 10 meters. Therefore, our proposal follows to rediscover the subtle slopes. Elena Dragu (Senior Partner, Cumulus) talk at TopHotel Conference 2024.Răzvan Puchici, participated, on Thursday, March 28th, in the seminar "BIM for architects", an event organized in Bucharest by CADWARE Engineering, in partnership with GRAPHISOFT.The first day of the FAST talks section will highlighted prestigious alumni from the five Romanian schools, including our colleague Eliza Yokina.