Cluj / RVD Workshop

Atelier RVD was opened in 2007 with Rareș Drăgan and Bianca Brici as initiators. During the economic boom, when everyone was building something and anything, and the private market occupied 98% of architects' orders, we oriented ourselves towards the public works segment, participating as sole bidders in public tenders that were resumed due to the lack of interest of design firms. The years 2008-2010, which marked the crisis and its inertial effects, caught us on a slight growth. This allowed us to loosen up our activity and also to participate in several large architectural competitions. In 2011, we acquired the newest full-color 3D printing technology on the market for the office, making us the first architectural office in the country that could provide clients with full-color mock-ups of projects in the works or under study, from one day to the next, with an in-office solution.

As a policy, we strive to stay one step ahead of the needs of our collaborators, clients and employees in all areas so that we can afford the advantage of creative time.

In design, we approach the function-form binomial with a rationalistic and efficient attitude, having as permanent generator and final argument the human-built environment relations. We like to design according to sustainable concepts, for people.

Address: Bdul Eroilor, 16, et. 5, Cluj-Napoca

Team:

arh. Rareș V. Drăgan

arh. Bianca I. Brici

arh. Anca Bota

stud.-arh. Agota Lorincz

eng. Liviu Gavrilă

Year of foundation: 2007

Contact: office@atelierrvd.ro

Teaching and accommodation building

This project was taken over by us after it had been completed by a gas design firm. The project prior to our intervention did not correspond functionally, technically and aesthetically to the beneficiary's requirements.

The site was located in the valley of a mountain river, in a bend in the road, opposite a wooded cliff rising 40-50 m from the roadside. We tried to create a massive built volume in dialog with the geo-morphological formation across the road.

The concept of the envelope was forested rock - a massive gray volume wrapped in several layers of wood for functional reasons. The volume has a layer of sliding wooden panels, which allow partial or full enclosure of the building during periods of non-use or in case of mountain weather. The view all around is wonderful. In order for visitors to enjoy it, we have placed a meeting and study space on each floor, on another corner of the building with fully glazed facades.

The goal is in the process of finalizing the strength structure.

Teaching and accommodation building at Mărișel Base Location: Mărișel Commune, Cluj County Function: Teaching and accommodation spaces Design/execution: 2009-2010/2011-2013 Project team: Architecture: Rareș V. DRĂGAN, Bianca I. BRICI, Ioan Mircea POP Structure: Marin PASCAL

Underground laboratory for analysis and testing

The laboratory is part of the facilities of the Faculty of Mechanics of the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca and was realized for the extension of research in the field of materials analysis by radioactive radiation scanning. Due to the special technological conditions in which nuclear tests are carried out, an independent building was needed for this activity. The laboratory contains an irradiation chamber designed according to the strict rigors imposed by the Romanian Nuclear Authority.

Even though it is a small-scale work, with no social impact and with a function that takes precedence over other considerations, we decided to give our attention to the details of this project. We proposed a building that defines in language what it hides in function. Schematically, the function comprises two nuclei: the irradiation room and the staff area. These are explicitly and distinctly treated, yet still uniquely contiguous. The white volume, massive and mineral, expresses the basic function - exposure to risk. The volume subordinates and integrates the ancillary staff spaces, which humanize the impact of the objective through the timber treatment.

Underground laboratory for radioactive analysis and testing - Technical University of Cluj-Napoca Location: 103, Bdul Muncii, Cluj-Napoca Function: Laboratory for radioactive analysis and testing Design/Execution: 2008-2009/2010-2011 Project team: Architecture: Rareș V. DRĂGAN, Ioan Mircea POP, Bianca I. BRICI Structure: Marin PASCAL Installations: Bogdan MAFTEI, Florin SACALIS, Nuclear Expert: Tudor TRUȚĂ

Youness Ensemble

The housing complex is located in a newly developed residential area, with a crystallizing tissue and is composed of two volumes Gf + 2 + 2 + R, which have a common basement for parking. Located on a sloping plot with a drop of approx. 5 m slope, we opted to leave the front body more present towards the street and to partially bury the rear body, through a judicious systematization, so as to preserve the scale of the buildings in the area. Although the ensemble presents an intensive use of the land, the fragmentation in two of the built volume, and then the play of volumes on the facade support the reduction of the perception of the scale of the building by distracting from the perception of the ensemble to the perception of the macro-detail; an attempt to disguise the seriality.

Location: 3 Aurel Ciupe Street, Cluj-Napoca, jud. Cluj Function: Apartment building Design year: 2008-2009 Execution year: 2008-2012 Project team Architecture: Rareș V.. Drăgan, Bianca I.. Brici, Ioan Mircea Pop structure: Marin Pascal