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2007 - 2011 Bachelor of Architectural Studies Spiru Haret University of Architecture, BucharestDiploma unit: Ice rink FloreascaQualification: Accredited Architect

1998 - 2004 Bachelor of Urban Planning Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urban Studies, BucharestDiploma unit: Urban reintegration of historical city center of BotosaniQualification: Accredited Urban Planner

03/2002-07/2002 - Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, GreeceErasmus exchange program

planning and employment experience

08/2004 - 03/2005, Alpha Studio, Bucharest, Romania junior urban plannerurban planning design under the supervision of a senior architect

03/2005 - currently, Alpha Studio, Bucharest, Romania senior urban plannerdesigning and managing urban planning projects, zonning projects, new urban developments design, city infrastructure design

03/2005 - currently, East Wind Arhitect, Bucharest, Romania senior urban plannerdesigning and managing urban planning projects, zonning projects, new urban developments design, city infrastructure design

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RUR - Romanian Planning AssociationOAR - Association of Romanian Architects

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Willbrook platinum business & convention center

Dragomiresti Industrial Park

Esplanada

Bucuresti-Ploiesti 1A

Ford old warehouse rehabilitation

Sintofarm residential development

Valenii de Munte-landscape study-general urbanistic plan-design code

Baia Mare-landscape study-public spaces study-general urbanistic plan

Bucharest nord ring road

Magurele developments

landscape designSf. Gheorghe square

architectureIce rink Floreasca

Varvsstaden design project

urban planning

competitionsBucharest General Urban Plan

urban planningWillbrook platinum business & convention center

Dragomiresti Industrial Park

Esplanada

Bucuresti-Ploiesti 1A

Ford old warehouse rehabilitation

Sintofarm residential development

Valenii de Munte-landscape study-general urbanistic plan-design code

Baia Mare-landscape study-public spaces study-general urbanistic plan

Bucharest nord ring road

Magurele developments

Varvsstaden design project

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willbrook platinum business & convention center

Project type: zonning plan

Location: #172-178 Bucuresti-Ploiesti Rd., Bucharest

2004Designed:

29072.11sqmTotal area:

Details:

There were a few planning restrictions imposed by the presence of a small forest, that requires its own protection area

and the vicinity with a national road which imposes some traffic regulations. Thus, the office building is withdrawn from

the street alignment by 75 m.

Here are the urbanistic parameters for the site:

POT = 35% (maximum land use percentage)

CUT = 2.5 (maximum land use coefficient)

H max = 1U+GF+5F (maximum height)

5_TH FLOOR

4_TH FLOOR

3_RD FLOOR

2_ND FLOOR

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willbrook platinum business & convention center



dragomiresti industrial park

Project type: zoning plan, master plan

Dragomiresti, RomaniaLocation:

2005Designed:

67.5 haTotal area:

Details:

A zoning plan for an area of ~67.5ha, featuring an industrial park. The inner road is the back bone of the master plan. This road allows access

to each warehouse. Also utilities were provided from independent sources: a power plant of 10MW, a water treatment station, a gas pressure

reduction station, 4 wells of ~100m depth.


esplanada master plan

Project type: master plan, urban concept

Location: Unirii Bvd, Bucharest

2006Designed:

2.7haTotal area:

Details:

Unirii Bvd. was built during the communist era as an over imposed symmetric composition axe developed in front of the House of Parliament A

totalitarian urban intervention like this one, developed on such a scale has resulted in big conflicts with the previous urban tissue. The historic frame

was denied totally, ie behind the main buildings guarding the boulevard are numerous conflict areas, where low rise buildings are visually and

physically aggressed by the new buildings. This can be divided into few segments defined by the main elements that generate the axis.

(1 )first segment defined by the House of Parliament and Unirii Square . This axis is enhaced only by the high buildings with no other connexion to

the urban frame

(2 )Unirii square as a main jonction of the esplanade bvd. to the main Bucharest north -south axis

(3) this segment was intended similar to the frist described segment, but never got to have its guarding buldings finished. Other massiv volumes

part of the large scale totalitarian urban composition were never completed. This is also the case of this project location.

(4) This ending segment seemes to be the most integrated functionally. Compositionally speaking it is an axis end, opposing the massiv volume of

the House of Parliament on a distance of almost 3 km.

Located very close to the centre of Bucharest the Esplanade site is an important real estate development oportunity. A new reglementation plan

was necessary to translate the investor's development tendancies into the site.



Project evolution:

The project started as a trigger public-private investment in

a central area and it was intended yo develop in a major city

area reintegration. There were three phases of the project, one of

them involving a concept by Helmut Jahn GmbH.

The development of the project design was stopped by the begging

of world economic crisis, thus the area is still waiting for an urban

solution.




Bucharest-Ploiesti 1A

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zoning plan

Bucharest, Romania

2007

0.3 ha

A zoning plan for an area of ~3200sqm, featuring a class A office building. The site is located on the main entrance road to the capital city.

The vicinity hosts other representative office buildings.


ford old warehouse rehabilitation

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zoning plan / rehabilitation plan

+159 Floreasca St., Bucharest

2.7ha

Some of the well preserved examples of industrial architecture

in Romania - the F O R D industry warehouse is now included

in a rehabilitation project. It is an opportunity for the developer

to rehabilitate this building and reintegrate it into the city circuit.

Three different land uses will be integrated into the new

buildings: residential, retailing and offices.

The completion of such a project, consisting of a historical

building restoration would place this development among the

few to be elaborated in Bucharest, in the well appreciated trend

of old industrial areas conversion process.

The 2.7 ha area is located in the interference of three strong

land uses areas, which makes it well suited for a mixture of

those uses.

The northern area of the city has always been subject to real

estate pressure; the demand for new buildings still defies the

economic crisis mildly. The historical building is emphasized by

the creation of public spaces that make

a gradual passing from built areas to green areas;

The residential buildings are located near the park, so that the

inhabitants will benefit from the view to the park;

The tall office building will become land mark for the area, just

as a campanile tower to the historical building.



Offices, commercial galleries and other

services are located on Floreaca Av.

emphasising its commercial status.

The minimum 30% green space required by

the Regional Environmental Protection

Agency is provided on the site.

The pedestrian flows are gradually

distributed towards the park via the public

square and other space cells in between the

buildings on site.

land use green area flows




sintofarm residential development

Project type: master plan, urban concept developed by AS&P GmbH

Location: 22-25 Ziduri intre Vii, Bucharest

2011Designed:

88298 sqmTotal area:

Details:

The basic planning principles for the urban design concept were as follows:

- According to the overall town-planning strategy for the district, the location and quality of the site, as well as the

prevailing market requirements, the property will be developed as a middle-class housing area. Depending on the future

population of the site, it is quite likely that a smaller share of social services (kindergarden, small medical facilities) and a

small number of shops and restaurants will support the residential area.

- One of the mail design features is the open interior garden and a central plaza, shelltering off the traffic and creating an

introvert neighbourhood.

- The tall buildings are concentrated on the perimeter, grouped around the central garden to landmark the area.

- The entire road system consists of a ring road at the property boundary, leaving the interior area traffic free.

- The backbone of the urban development is the main road -Str. Ziduri intre Vii; at the intersection of this road with the

central plaza the public functions are located.


sintofarm residential development


valenii de munte

Project type: landscape study

town of Valenii de Munte, RomaniaLocation:

2011Designed:

21.59 kmTotal area:

Details:

Valenii de Munte is a little town of about 13000 inhabitants in the

south part of Romania. A landscape study for the town was done

in order to establish the town landscape typology. Different criteria

were applied based on natural factors, social, economic, cultural

and perception factors. The town was divided into landscape

territorial units. After establishing the category of the landscape,

the final objective of the study was to enounce a few conclusions

and directions for the new General Urbanistic Plan of the town.

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Project type: general urbanistic plan


2011, on goingDesigned:

21.59 kmTotal area:

Details:

Among the problems the town is facing this project has to find a solution for a ring road to eliminate the heavy traffic from the center of the town

and to restructure the central area of the town.

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valenii de munte

Project type: design code


2011Designed:

21.59 kmTotal area:

Details:

The target of this project is to set a design code for residential areas of the town of Valenii de Munte.

The distinctive character of a country fair town, developed in a pre-balcan area will be preserved by construction rules imposed

on elements such as windows, roofs, facades, fences, land use regulations, volumes.

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baia mare

Project type: landscape study

town of Baia Mare, RomaniaLocation:

2011Designed:

233.3 km Total area:

Details:

Baia Mare is a big town in the north part of Romania, the capital

of the Maramures county. The town is a traditional mining centre

ever since Middle Ages. The beautiful landscape with high hills on

north of the crossing Sasar river and a plain on the souther bank

of the river was seriously affected by the industrialized era, when

big factories with high chimneys were built all over the town.

Going green is a difficult process and a challenge to preserve and

restore a traditional landscape.

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baia mareProject type: landscape study


baia mare

Project type: General Urbanistic Plan



233.3 kmTotal area:

Details:

Baia Mare, a town of about 115 000 inhabitants, has an old mining tradition, that raises major environmental problems due to gold and other metal

extraction and processing. This is only one of the many challenges for the new General Urbanistic Plan.

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baia mare

Project type: public spaces study


2011Designed:

233.3 kmTotal area:

Details:

The objective of the project is to identify and make an inventory of all existing public spaces from the town of Baia Mare: squares, parks,

pedestrian streets, etc as well as potential new public spaces developments. The analysis was made on each town district.

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baia mareProject type: public spaces study


Bucharest north ring road

Project type: infrastructure planning

Bucharest, RomaniaLocation:


282 haTotal area:

Details:

The development of city infrastructure system of roads and railways is a key element to the relief of traffic congestion in central area. A future

north ring road of Bucharest of about 10km long was designed. The project was partitioned in 7 study areas.

The new ring road has 3 lanes per direction and a back bone of urban train rails. The existing train rails are to be converted into urban train

rails with two stations along the way.

Designing the new project was also a good opportunity to reorganize the road system in the surrounding area and implement bicycle circuits

connected with the green zones.






magurele high-tech cluster

accesibility

Project type: master plan

Magurele, RomaniaLocation:

2012Designed:

~168 haTotal area:

Details:

A master plan for an area of ~168ha, featuring a high-tech cluster. Located on the south-west of Bucharest the proposed high-tech cluster

has to be integrated into the infrastructure network consisting of railroads, subway lines, connection to the city and the neareast airport. A new

generation laser is to be built in this area for medical purposes and other types of research.

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road [DJ]

national road [DN]DN4

highway [A]A 2

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ring road 2 [proposal]

ring road 1 [existing]

traffic airlines

administration boundary

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subway lines (proposal)

railway station

subway station

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magurele high-tech cluster


magurele new investments

Project type: master plan

Magurele, RomaniaLocation:

2012Designed:

~120 haTotal area:

Details:

A master plan was created for an area of ~120ha, in order to support all the services necessary to support ~1000 science people who will be

located in Magurele for the new generation laser research. There will be three different areas connected by the interior longitudinal road -

services, residential and public investments.


varvsstaden design project

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design project

Malmo, Sweden

2013

~18.5 ha

In this project WATER has been the main driven force of the design, from an esthetic point of view to technical aspects, preparing for

possible floods as well as saving water. Different ways of experiencing water have been envisioned, water as an element that brings people

together.

There are different water features along the water edge and inland, visible or invisible: water amphitheater, inner harbor bath, restaurant on the

water, fishing and promenade decks, water plaza, bridges and different other connections over the channel (sound pipes to transfer the

sound across the other side of the canal in a playful way), an open workshop for ship building as a remembrance of the former Kockums

shipyard, a bio diverse area with aquatic flora and fauna, an exhibition pavilion dedicated to water in connection to an underwater observatory.

A former dry dock has been reopened for promenade and houses specialized in living by the water.


varvsstaden design project

landscape designSf. Gheorghe square


St. Gheorghe square park

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landscaping design

Bucharest, Romania

2004

2ha

A landscape design for a square park located

at the heart of the historical center of

Bucharest. The approach was very neutral

and non aggressive considering the fact that

an old orthodox church of Saint. Gheorghe is

located in this square as well as a monument

that indicates KM 0 - the geometrical center of

the city.

The light system emphasizes the old

monument as well as other anthropic and

natural elements.

competitions


bucharest

Project type: general urban plan

Bucharest, RomaniaLocation:

2012Competition:

228 kmTotal area:

Details:

The competition was set for the new general urban plan of the Romanian capital city - Bucharest. Five distinctive ideas for the future city character

had to be developed after different layers of analysis. The concept presented in the competition was the result of an assiduous team work . A

workshop was held in September 2012 with the participation of the reunited international team.

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