studiobasar to competitions and different typologies of residential and public buildings.

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1 studiobasar Post address: Web: Bucureşti, România Nicolae Racotă St. 4, bl. 69, sc. A, ap.26, Sector 1, studiobasar was established in 2006 by Alex Axinte and Cristi Borcan, both as an architectural studio and a team of urban observation and intervention. Preoccupied in the last years with the dynamics of local urban culture and disappearing importance of public spaces in transitional Bucharest, studiobasar s projects range from public space interventions, art installations, urban research, educational workshops to competitions and different typologies of residential and public buildings. In 2009 studiobasar did the exhibition design for The Seductiveness of the Interval project as the Romanian Pavilion at the Art Biennale in Venice, itinerated in 2010 at The Renaissance Society in Chicago, and in 2010 published the book Evicting the Ghost. Architectures of Survival, awarded Best Book at the Bucharest Architectural Annual. In 2012/2013 they were the grant holders of an IASPIS residency in Stockholm. In 2014, their project Public Bath was finalist at European Prize for Urban Public Space. Awards 2014 European Prize for Urban Public Space Public Bath - finalist project - Barcelona, ESP Bucharest Architecture Annual - University Square - Studies category - Prize / The Tool Box - Object Design - Nomination / A block with 6 courtyards - Nomination 2013 Bucharest Architecture Annual - Pif in Romania, a golden age hero - Interior Design Section - Nomination Competition Refurbishing the public space in the centre of Sibiel - Mention Prahova Architecture Bienial Gateway Cabin - Civil and Industrial Architecture category - Prize / Public Equipments - Design of Public Space category - Prize / The Seductiveness of the Interval - Interventions on Existing Buildings and Design category - Nomination 2012 Competition Reorganizing and Designing of Ramnicu Valcea s Central Public Space - Special Mention 2011 Competition Rehabilitation and planning of Johannes Honterus Courtyard - Braşov, Romania - 2nd place Bucharest Architecture Annual - Evicting the Ghost. Architectures of Survival - Best Architecture Book Award Competition Would be City - Galati 2050 episode - One of the 10 finalists 2010 Competition Functional and architectural rehabilitation of the Ploiesti Racecourse for the realization of an Equitation and Leisure Centre - 1st place 2009 Bucharest Architecture Annual - The Sparrows Tree - Nomination 2009 Venice Art Biennale - Romanian Pavilion - artists: Stefan Constantinescu, Andrea Faciu, Ciprian Muresan, curator: Alina Serban, expo design: studiobasar) - 1st place in the national competition 2008 Bucharest National Architecture Biennale - Search and Rescue: CITY - Arhitecture Publication category - Nomination 2007 Visual Eurobarometer - Evicting the Ghost. Architectures of Survival - One of the 5 medals

2 Architecture A block with six courtyards / Ploieşti, RO Eroilor Extension / Bucureşti, RO House / Baloteşti, RO Gateway Cabin Ariceştii Rahtivani, RO Horse Racecourse Ploieşti, RO A block with six courtyards Bucharest Architecture Annual / Housing category - Nomination. Team: Alex Axinte, Cristi Borcan Civil engineer: Lucian Stanciu, Mihai Pavel (Altfel Construct) Mechanical engineer: Florentina Radu, Mirela Neculai, Alexandru Damian Constructor: Blue Spot Location: Mărăşeşti street nr. 270, Ploieşti Client: Baupartner Total surface: 571 sqm Period: The building engages the fragmentary condition of the city fabric like a collage of local practices, and is recessed on the footprint of the unfinished boulevard, dividing the long and narrow plot into a hidden courtyard in the back and an open one towards the street. On one side of the building, a series of deep openings are organizing the interior of each level around interior courtyards. The geometry and the usages between these courtyards and the interior spaces refer to the ambiguous condition of the context - partially planned, partially vernacular - borrowing from its proximity the fragmentary expression enriched by extensions or ad-hoc makeshifts. These intermediary spaces connects the new housing with the diverse neighborhood s environment, like the closed balconies of the flats across the street, the orchard trees and poultries from the nearby yards, the rusted metal rockets of the military unit s enclosure or the sounds of the night trains.

3 Urban design TUB/PIDU /ongoing - Bucharest, RO Constructed Culture Sibiel, RO Central Public Space Râmnicu Vâlcea, RO Johannes Honterus Braşov, RO Ciprian Porumbescu Braşov, RO Back to the Future Galaţi, RO Livada Poştei Braşov, RO Brezoianu Transfer / Bucharest, RO Johannes Honterus Competition: Rehabilitation and planning of Johannes Honterus Courtyard, Braşov - 2nd Place. Team: Alex Axinte, Cristi Borcan, Radu Leşevschi (studiobasar), Bogdan Gyemant-Selin, Ioana Tudora, Diana Culescu, Mihai Culescu, Ioana Streza, Christian Voinescu (RPR Birou de Studii Contemporane), Claudiu Forgaci, Alexandru Tudose (renderings), Şerban Popescu-Criveanu, Mircea Crişan (restoration experts) Location: Braşov, Romania Period: 2011 The space around Black Church in Brasov, compared to nearby Council Square (Piata Sfatului), is a private courtyard, but open to anyone, with a mixture of religious and educational functions, which gives it a domestic scale and an almost intimate atmosphere, intensified also by the particularity of urban forms and materials kept in place for hundreds of years. Honterus Courtyard deploys today between grandeur on one side and modesty and simplity on the other, a natural thing taking into account its history and the values it represents. This duality of the space will be emphasized by subordinating the interventions to the courtyard s image structured in time, and by the series of spaces - Courtyards - activated and generated in the project. The individualized character of these courtyards is also determined by the way they work and the way they are arranged. A series of urban furniture objects provokes and intensifies the specific use of each courtyard, delimiting them, and at the same time letting the space to be fluid and continuous.

4 Scenography The Art of Urban Practice Graz, AT Vision of a Nation Oslo, NO The Hour Broadcast Konjic, BA Ştefan Constantinescu Gothenburg, SE Pif in Romania, a golden age hero Bucharest, RO Evicting the Ghost Bucharest, RO A51 51 Architecture Bureaus Bucharest, RO The Seductivness of the Interval Chicago, USA The Seductivness of the Interval Venice, IT The Seductivness of the Interval Location: The Romanian Pavilion - 53rd International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, 2009; The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, 2010 Exhibition area: 197 sqm Venice, 332 sqm Chicago Artists: Ştefan Constantinescu, Andrea Faciu, Ciprian Mureşan Commssioner: Monica Morariu (Ministry of Culture, Religious Affairs and National Heritage) Curator: Alina Şerban, assistant curator: Livia Pancu Exhibition Design: Alex Axinte, Cristi Borcan, collaborator - Livia Andreea Ivanovici, structural engeneer: Cristi Botoi Project Manager: Mirela Duculescu Stage design production: MOB HOUSE, Bucharest Financed by: Ministry of Culture, Religious Affairs and National Heritage In partnership with: Rumanska Kulturinstitutet, Instituto Romeno di Cultura e Ricerca Umanistica The exhibition from 2010 from The Renaissance Society - University of Chicago constitutes a traveling version of the Venice project. Supported by: The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Romanian Cultural Institute - New York, Romanian Cultural Institute - Bucharest. Photo: Tom Van Eynde The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago Photo: Cătălin Rulea

5 Studies University Square In Between Bucureşti Between - Kilobase Ailanthus Altissima Normal of Bucharest Habitat of Bucharest Evicting the Ghost /2010 Graz the Usual City Evicting the Ghost Bucharest Architecture Annual / Best Architecture Book Award. Authors: Alex Axinte and Cristi Borcan Legal consultant: Sofia Mihăilescu Editorial Concept: Alina Şerban Assistant: Livia Andreea Ivanovici Texts by: Ole Bouman, Cătălin Berescu, Liviu Chelcea, Yona Friedman, Ştefan Ghenciulescu, Iulia Modiga, Damiana Oţoiu, Doina Petrescu, Lavinia Stan, Kai Vöckler, Filippo M. Zerilli & Marie-Bénédicte Dembour, Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss Translation: Alistair Ian Blyth, Irina Creangă, Claudia Rada, Alina Şerban Proofreading: Carla Albert, Alistair Ian Blyth, Irina Creangă, Sofia Mihăilescu, Roxana Szel Design: Cătălin Rulea Published by: Center for Visual Introspection/ pepluspatru Association The book was published with the support of the Administrației Fondului Cultural Național and The Ratiu Family Charitable Foundation. The editor would like to thank for the support from: The Kingdom of the Netherlands. Partners: Simetria, Arhitectura, Arhitext Year: The book Evicting the Ghost. Architectures of Survival examines a specific phenomenon of recent Romanian social history: nationalization, retrocession, eviction. The study presents the multifaceted reality of forced evictions and includes information about the legislative history of these evictions, the uncertain status of private property owners in Romania over the last one and a half centuries, the stages of eviction, the stories of a number of families subjected to these measures and a typology of the dwelling places developed by those evicted, expressions of nowadays urban survival. The case studies are presented in the form of an archive, but they can be seen as dioramas of the conflicts and disturbances suffered by post-1989 Romanian Society. Approached with the distance characteristic of a scientific atlas book, the research highlights the fight for survival, played here against the setting of a contemporary city and the precarious balance between the institutionalized discourse of the rule of law and the present condition of the individual.

6 Actions The 89 Box Cluj, Timişoara, RO The Toolbox /ongoing - Bucharest, RO My Place / Behind the Flats ongoing, Sinaia, RO View on Water Bucharest, RO Public Bath Bucharest, RO Step by Step / Braşov, RO Parc du Cirque Geneva, CH The Pyramid of Garguromin Bucharest, RO Re:Start Sinaia, RO Public Bath European Prize for Urban Public Space Barcelona / Finalist project. Team: Alex Axinte, Cristi Borcan, Dezso Floriska Kovacs Location: Arthur Verona street, Bucharest Period: June 2012 In the framework of the seventh edition of the annual urban culture festival on Arthur Verona Street in Bucharest, entitled Street Delivery, we tested a new public instrument that investigates the future of uses in the case of pedestrian streets, beyond the limits of the existing layouts, where just the window-shopping, walking in the park or consuming beer in waves are the only few models of public spaces in the city. As a reference to the city s memory of such moments where the rules are suspended by natural or social causes, the installation was set as a blockade and possible utopia, provoking a 1:1 temporary vision over the relationship between the water and the city inhabitants. In contrast with previous eras, the public water in Bucharest lost any capacity to generate interaction, ending just to please the administrative eye or accessible by payment under different names as aqua park, spa or wellness centers. In the hot summer days of Bucharest s city center we installed a Public Bath as an unexpected bathing place grown upon a pedestrian street, in the middle of a street festival increasingly transforming into a fair. A team of few people rose with minimal means a rectangular edge of stacked rented pallets straight on the street asphalt and laid in between and tied it with ropes a banner printed with the city map, similar with the ones that are covering its facades. From nearby gardens water poured from hoses transforming instantly a parking area into a splatter place, meeting and resting point, stage for concerts and projections. Photo: Mirela Duculescu

7 Equipment Roadside stage /ongoing - Chişinău, MD Sparrow Pipe Fitter /ongoing - Bucharest, RO In the schoolyard /ongoing - Bucharest, RO Apartment extension /ongoing - Chişinău, MD Passage X Tbilisi, Georgia, GE The Generator / Bucharest, RO The Totem Bucharest, RO The Letter Bench /ongoing - Bucharest, RO The Sparrow Tree Bucharest, RO The Letter Bench Team: Alex Axinte, Cristi Borcan; Vladimir Turturică, Tudor Prodan (2010); Bogdan Brăescu, Diana Iordache, Simina Purcaru, Florina Pop, Ioana Păvălucă, Sofia Mihăilescu, Roxana Szel, Mihai Culescu (2011); George Marinescu (2013); Maria Daria Oancea, Radu Cornea, Corina Ciurlea, Radu Leşevschi (2014) Location: Arthur Verona street, Cărtureşti Bookstore, Bucharest Period: since 2009 The object was installed in June 2009, in the framework of fourth edition of the annual urban culture event on Arthur Verona Street in Bucharest, entitled Street Delivery. In June 2010, at Street Delivery #5, the object received a new wrapping, formed through the lamination of a layer of newspaper pages, books and black and white comics. The intervention was initiated by Mirela Duculescu and supported by architect Şerban Sturdza and the Romanian Order of Architects. Since 2009 the structure is constantly repaired and wrapped each year during the festival days. Photo: Costin Gheorghe

8 Education Passing by Iaşi, RO Urban_dream_space Bucharest, RO Intermediary Spaces Kassel, DE Reclaimed Spaces Chişinău, MD Mobile Park / Cluj, RO Spaces of Representation Timişoara, RO My Place - Ideas Sinaia, RO My Place - At the Steps Sinaia, RO Urban Divan Brno, CZ Public Space Workshops The educational process is often based on exercises of accumulation, testing or experimenting, developed in laboratory-like conditions, away from the study subject. The series of workshops aims to be an informal educational live project, engaged in the real time of the local urban condition. Alternative means of public space production can be practiced, beyond the answers of the administration, economic agents or the entertainment society. In the framework of each of the workshops we try to examine the methods of public interventions and also to question their long term contribution as tools of making the public space a product of its users. Structured by themes specific to each of the urban contexts, the workshops move quickly from concept to the final project, through actions of mapping, evaluating, organizing, communicating and designing, passing through working with a budget, legal permits and real users, until the final stages of production of the intervention.

9 Ongoing projects Urban Spaces in Action - since Bucharest, RO My Place - since Sinaia, RO Urban Spaces in Action The project is coordinated by the Komunitas Association, in partnership with tranzit.ro, Sports and Youth Department of Bucharest (Direcția pentru Sport și Tineret a Municipiului București), ArtWe Association and is supported by the group of architects of studiobasar. Urban spaces in action is an interdisciplinary project, combining elements of urban planning, urban anthropology, architecture and education for young people. The project is taking place between the 1st of May 2014 and 30th of October 2015 and the activities will take place in 3 neighborhoods of Bucharest: Tei, Tineretului and Timpuri Noi. The project approaches 3 neighborhoods from Bucharest in an integrated and interdisciplinary manner, working on several complementary plans covering the following activities: - performing urban socio-anthropological research aimed at investigating the practices of public spaces usings in 3 neighborhoods of Bucharest (Tei, Tineretului, Timpuri Noi); - dissemination and public discussion of the research findings; - civic and urban education activities for teenagers attending educational institutions in the three neighborhoods, based on innovative methods of work designed by Komunitas Association members; - animation and activating urban spaces through participatory urban interventions; - organizing community events designed to bring residents together and build a sense of the community (events like Quarter Day and urban festivals in the neighborhood); - producing resource publications that provide information and know-how about the interdisciplinary project methods and the ability to be replicated; - communication and visibility events during the project (conferences, seminars etc.).