Ethnographic Museum Park Competition 2017
str. Aleea Muzeului, Cluj-Napoca
The main generator of our project is the symbiosis between nature and the artifact. This way of living together, through respect and reciprocal support is nonetheless one of the unknown variables in the villages around Transylvania, that we look forward to protect and bring forward. This relation is widely found in specific spatial configurations through the building technique and the chosen materials used in constructions, agriculture and common leisure public spaces.
Our main goals:
-Authenticity, simplicity and ballance, qualities that highlight the atemporality of the civilization in the villages
-Finding elements and spaces that aside from offering information, trigger a direct emotional reaction
-Interpreting and using building tehniques and ancestral materials in a contemporary manner
-Authenticity, simplicity and ballance, qualities that highlight the atemporality of the civilization in the villages
-Finding elements and spaces that aside from offering information, trigger a direct emotional reaction
-Interpreting and using building tehniques and ancestral materials in a contemporary manner
Our approach:
-Combining the inherited knowledge from existing rural traditions (accumulated in hundreds of years) with certain urban tehniques specific for the XXIst century
-Delimitating the spaces with different destinations, in a traditional manner, with vegetation mass or buildings
-Through a wise land usage in a diverse way: for food production, joy, creativity, spiritual dimention, without spoiling the existing agriculture lands or grasslands, but rather repozitioning the constructions aside offering a protective shield to the productive land.
-Skillfuly redirecting the existing water crossing our sites to serve our needs or collecting the rainwater; basic procedures with consistent effects when it comes to animal feeding, supplying fish ponds or water storage for household necesities
-Using the local riches found on the lands – wood, straw, hemp, clay, stones
-Farming animal products
-Combining the inherited knowledge from existing rural traditions (accumulated in hundreds of years) with certain urban tehniques specific for the XXIst century
-Delimitating the spaces with different destinations, in a traditional manner, with vegetation mass or buildings
-Through a wise land usage in a diverse way: for food production, joy, creativity, spiritual dimention, without spoiling the existing agriculture lands or grasslands, but rather repozitioning the constructions aside offering a protective shield to the productive land.
-Skillfuly redirecting the existing water crossing our sites to serve our needs or collecting the rainwater; basic procedures with consistent effects when it comes to animal feeding, supplying fish ponds or water storage for household necesities
-Using the local riches found on the lands – wood, straw, hemp, clay, stones
-Farming animal products
Local activities constantly change with the cyclical passing of seasons, this way each action is part of a survival chain off the local resources: permaculture involving finishing, apiculture, sheep wool, mowing, straw roofs etc.
ZONE I: MAIN STAGE
Consequently, we have chosen to raise a permeable front on the forestated Hoia hill to the Patrascu Voda street in order to enforce the hierarchy of spaces and connections in between them, including the habits and functions associated with nowadays way of living, while on the other hand not forgetting the existing identity of the site, as an open air entertainment place. This front aims to protect and highlight the existing natural amphitheater that offers excellent panoramic views over the city and further extend its' use for festivals and local celebrations.(Delahoia, Mioritmic). The naturally shaped space enhances the acoustic quality of the place and draws a visual limit between the existing buildings that do not relate at all to their surroundings. The interior spaces, as showed in the sections open up towards the Ethnographic Museum and the central area which will be full of activities throughout the seasons.
Consequently, we have chosen to raise a permeable front on the forestated Hoia hill to the Patrascu Voda street in order to enforce the hierarchy of spaces and connections in between them, including the habits and functions associated with nowadays way of living, while on the other hand not forgetting the existing identity of the site, as an open air entertainment place. This front aims to protect and highlight the existing natural amphitheater that offers excellent panoramic views over the city and further extend its' use for festivals and local celebrations.(Delahoia, Mioritmic). The naturally shaped space enhances the acoustic quality of the place and draws a visual limit between the existing buildings that do not relate at all to their surroundings. The interior spaces, as showed in the sections open up towards the Ethnographic Museum and the central area which will be full of activities throughout the seasons.
Carefully organising the spaces of a standard museum in an area that is respectful to the smaller scale of the rural households, we seek to create the specific athmosphere and rhythem of a rural Transilvanian community.
The church has been the representative landmark of villages in most villages of Transilvania, and similarly will act as a central point on pur site, attracting interested craftsmen to learn and share their art and further remain as a space for community gatherings and place of debates. There certainly are several wooden churces of incontestable value around Cluj that are damaged and could be brought to life for a purpose like this through various partnership agreements. It is the same case with the church in Pintic,jud. Cluj, which has inspired us in our proposal.
The households, as showned in our project, of three different types in Transilvania: romanian from the „Mocanime” area, the hungarian from Calatei area and saxon from Nornerland, all of them sharing as common feature, specific manners of coping with the local climate.
ZONE II SECONDARY STAGE
The lake and its banks represent the confluence of paths for the pedestrians and the cyclists. This space is handled completely different ,destined for small-scale events and relaxation in the middle of the nature. We consciously chose not to propose any constructions in this place, because it already belongs to the Hoia forest.
The lake and its banks represent the confluence of paths for the pedestrians and the cyclists. This space is handled completely different ,destined for small-scale events and relaxation in the middle of the nature. We consciously chose not to propose any constructions in this place, because it already belongs to the Hoia forest.
The lake water supply will be done using the rainwater from the southern steep slopes .Meanwhile, from the north,it will be supplied by two open ditches that drain excess water from the stage 1 area and the Hoia forest in the west. It also has a functional role at the level of the entire Ethnopark, it will represent the water supply in case of fire. The water will be circulated / aerated by the movement made between the main lake and the small lake upstream through successive waterfalls that will invite to the interaction with water. Once in the lake, the water will be pumped back into the small lake. This substantially reduces the risk of mosquitos. It can also be used as an eco-pool in the summer months, for the visitors who are willing to take a bath. Being protected by the forest, only a small part of the lake evaporates in the summer, creating a beneficial and necessary microclimate. Other important elements that animate the space, are “trovantii” or the concretions of Feleac, some natural stone spheres, brought from the hill that borders Cluj. They will cover the bottom of the lake and it's banks, having the water filtration role. If the water level drops, the spiral pattern in which the stones are layered will stand out. This place can serve for small/ medium scale events, by the temporary placement of a floating stage on the lake, while at the same time being the meeting place of the routes between the houses and paths through the woods.
Is made up of the sum of the walking and cycling paths,with all the facilities that are available to the public, more or less specialized. Here you can find routes varying in difficulty and ways of using, marked with floors in vivid colors ,complementary with the natural park look, made from friendly materials that don't pollute and don't allow puddles .The natural element that connects the two destinations of the park is the vegetation. This is the subject of forest-gardening (a form of permaculture specific to the forested areas). With specific procedures, the fruits and other forest products will be harnessed, without altering the existing balance and maintaining the equilibrium and using it's fruit (following text from Tudor, the permacultore expert). We propose a gradual increase of the park , so our proposal leaves and makes room for the future. For others, who perhaps will think differently than us ... or you. They will meet other needs, and will have other priorities highlighted.
project inside RAUM - arhitectura si urbanism
Horatiu Racasan, Andrei Margin, Marina Gingirov, Andra Ilea, Adriana Ilovan, Denisa Petrus
Renders: Andrei Nejur, Vlad Moldovan
