Category Memory

Architecture as a vessel of collective and individual memory, preserving and evoking the past through form, material, and space.

Romanian Academy✖️Nicolae Porumbescu

Romanian Academy Iași Nicolae Porumbescu

Romanian Academy ✖️ Architect: Nicolae Porumbescu ➕ Location: Iași, Romania ◾️Year: 1982 🟰 Annotations: A – entrance B – conference room  C – library  D – exposition space  E – reading space  ➗Drawings: cross section diagrams first level diagram eye…

Vila Adeuzinho ✖️ Álvaro Siza

Vila Adeuzinho Álvaro Siza

Vila Adeuzinho ✖️ Architects:  Álvaro Siza➕ Location: Azenhas do Mar, Portugal  ◾️Year: 2014 – 2021  🟰 Annotations: A – entranceB – kitchenC – living room D – bedroom  ©️Concept:  build on the footprint of the old demolished house, while maintaining…

Faculty of Architecture ✖️ Nicolae Porumbescu

Faculty of Architecture Iași Nicolae Porumbescu drawing

Faculty of Architecture  ✖️ Architect: Nicolae Porumbescu ➕ Location: Iași, România ◾️Year: 1970 🟰 Annotations:A – main entranceB – inner courtyardC – workshops D – main staircase & multifunctional space ➗Drawings:  cross section diagram first floor diagram eye level view

White U House ✖️ Toyo Ito

White U House Toyo Ito drawing

White U House ✖️ Architect: Toyo Ito ➕ Location: Tokyo, Japan  ◾️Year: 1976 (demolished 1997) 🟰 Annotations: A – entrance B – interior courtyard C – living room D – kitchen E – study F – bedrooms ➗Drawings:  ground floor…

Archeological museum ✖️ Carrilho da Graça Arquitectos

Archeological museum Carrilho da Graça Arquitectos drawing

Archeological museum of “Praça Nova do Castelo de São Jorge” (intramural promontory) ✖️ Architect: Carrilho da Graça Arquitectos  ➕ Location: Lisbon, Portugal ◾️Year: 2010 🟰 Annotations: A – white walls that float above the visible foundations of the Eleventh Century Muslim excavated foundations…

Timmerhuis ✖️ OMA

Timmerhuis OMA drawing

Timmerhuis ✖️ Architects: OMA ➕ Location:  Rotterdam, Neatherlands ◾️Year: 2015 🟰 Annotations:A – existing municipal building (Stadstimmerhuis)B – office spaceC – vertical circulationD – courtyardE – commercial spacesF – floors dedicated to office spacesG – housingH – passagewayI – museum ➗Drawings:  cross…