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Town around the settlement. Conversion and extension of post office and settlement.

Author: Rareș David

Supervisor: Prof. dr. arh. Iulia Stanciu

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

Parameters: RH: S+P+2 / Sd: 2900m2 / Su: 4810m2 / POT: 43 / CUT: 0.85

The potential of overcoming the stagnation of a shrinking city may lie in celebrating all the layers that have contributed to the creation of today's city as it is. In the case of Petroșani, it is necessary to mediate the apparently indifferent layers. The historical substratum of the beginning of the 19th century and the communist period, even if one built and the other more destroyed, have to coexist, both contributing to the shaping of the form in which the city is today. The Ianza colony and the old post office are symbols of the two periods, plus the Maleia stream, a natural element that witnessed both periods and is now ignored, separating the

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