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Research center for the valorization of polluted mining sites - Baia Mare

Alexandru-Bogdan Ferent

Author: Ferent Alexandru-Bogdan

Faculty: "Ion Mincu" University of Architecture and Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture

Parameters: RH: p+3 / Sd: 10000m2 / Su: 2200m2 / POT: 37 / CUT: 1.70 / Cost: 1000 €/m2

The project started a long time before the sixth year, even before I knew what theme I was going to tackle for it. I was born in Baia Mare in the year 2000 and spent my childhood in the vicinity of this city, slowly, slowly managing to notice the extensive level of pollution, but also the gray and desolate atmosphere produced by the abandoned industrial buildings, the grimaces on the faces of the inhabitants and the stories my grandmother used to tell me about the city during the communist period:

"People in Baia Mare don't live very long, their lungs are full of lead from the chimney. Every morning it left a thick, black fog over the city, and slag on the windows. It

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