Apartamentul / Infobox for Bucharest
This architectural space was thought as a place where the memory of the city should had been activated through different initiatives and projects. The need to link our present, our memory with our recent past led us to the idea of such a place. For some reasons this infobox was not constructed in the nineties, immediately after the fall of communism. Now the conditions had changed because the pressure of the new liberal market focus especially on the spaces left demolished and not constructed during communist time. We collaborated with the architects Dan Dinoiu and Alex Pop and decided that the shape of such a space should be a reference to the living unit /apartment of the block of flats dealing in this way with the most common way of life in most romanian cities. The result of our collaboration was a model and an architecture project which was showed under the frame of the project Va Urma to the people living in Rahova (a critical area of the city exposed now to new demolitions) and in Galeria Noua to the intellectual and artistic community. This Apartment/Infobox was supposed to be a place for documenting our past on one side, but also to act like a small kunsthalle in which new projects were to be realised. Epilogue: Not only that we couldn’t establish some kind of connection or discussion with the city officials but the reality of Bucharest today it’s the reality of huge demolishments similar to the ones during the totalitarian regime of the 80es. All these new erasings of parts of the city are preparing the ground for a north-south boulevard that will connect different political places such as the building of the gouvernment with the huge new national ortodox cathedral which is underconstruction near and in the same spirit with the former house of the people in Bucharest.
Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor
Apartamentul / Infobox for Bucharest
This architectural space was thought as a place where the memory of the city should had been activated through different initiatives and projects. The need to link our present, our memory with our recent past led us to the idea of such a place. For some reasons this infobox was not constructed in the nineties, immediately after the fall of communism. Now the conditions had changed because the pressure of the new liberal market focus especially on the spaces left demolished and not constructed during communist time. We collaborated with the architects Dan Dinoiu and Alex Pop and decided that the shape of such a space should be a reference to the living unit /apartment of the block of flats dealing in this way with the most common way of life in most romanian cities. The result of our collaboration was a model and an architecture project which was showed under the frame of the project Va Urma to the people living in Rahova (a critical area of the city exposed now to new demolitions) and in Galeria Noua to the intellectual and artistic community. This Apartment/Infobox was supposed to be a place for documenting our past on one side, but also to act like a small kunsthalle in which new projects were to be realised. Epilogue: Not only that we couldn’t establish some kind of connection or discussion with the city officials but the reality of Bucharest today it’s the reality of huge demolishments similar to the ones during the totalitarian regime of the 80es. All these new erasings of parts of the city are preparing the ground for a north-south boulevard that will connect different political places such as the building of the gouvernment with the huge new national ortodox cathedral which is underconstruction near and in the same spirit with the former house of the people in Bucharest.
Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor