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Crisis, respite, returns: housing, social core and public garden in the recovery of failed residential complexes in Cluj

Vlad-Andrei Chiorean

Author: Vlad-Andrei Chiorean

Supervisor: Conf. dr. arh. Cristina Purcar

Faculty: Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism

Parameters: RH: P, S+P+E/M, S+P+4, S+P+9 / Sd: 13554m2 / POT: 15 / CUT: 0.75

The theme starts from the discussion surrounding the incomplete real estate projects in the city of Cluj, from the post-decembrist period to the present. These contemporary unfinished structures are going through what we could call a state of dormancy, mostly due to the global financial crisis of 2007-2009 and the recession that followed.

The project addresses a broader strategy in intervening on incomplete projects, a problem that persists in most cities, regardless of size, but which find it easier to find a recovery scenario where the demand for space is higher. In the Mănăștur neighborhood, the incomplete appeared in the fabric where

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