Personalized Architecture

Personalized Architecture: The Inhabitant becomes the Architect

Creoşteanu, Silvia (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Schoonderbeek, Marc (mentor)
Rommens, Oscar (mentor)
Lee, Sang (mentor)
Jennen, Pierre (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

2017-11-08

Architecture today occupies an interstitial field that is fundamentally unstable, contaminated, complex, fragmented and dispersed. Public Building studio seeks to study such ‘interstitial fields’ in order to speculate and configure architectural potentials latent in the public realms, spheres, territories and borders of Bucharest. The studio traces, discovers and reassesses the interstices and cracks of architectural manifestation and urban configuration and ponders upon the
consequence in a broad perspective. The investigation focuses on the specific characteristics of the urban conditions and interstices in order to understand the city’s spatial disposition and approach innovative and experimental architectural work. Ferentari is such an ‘interstitial field’ where I have discovered a source of great inspiration and overwhelming craftsmanship.
The concept for the project was born from the social conditions witnessed on the site of Ferentari. This is a neighborhood where architecture is defined by the people, where the abundance of ideas, styles, skills, techniques and materials create an endless series of scenarios and variations. The project aims to portray some of the qualities that were examined from the site in an attempt to validate this type of craftsmanship. The proposal for this kind of community center would promote the cultural diversity and values of the inhabitants and would
strengthen social solidarity through co-operation, economic production, involvement and entertainment. The program combines housing with economic output and trade, ensuring an increase in the quality of life in the neighborhood (workshops, mini-markets). The activities (production and trade) stimulate the active involvement of locals through work and private initiative, through the creation of self-employment/ family business.

appropriation
grid logic
social design

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Student theses

master thesis

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