RDW 10. forward
ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH Little ImprovementsKeep it dirty,
Don't go clean,
As we perpetually construct the city
Let's not be pristine.
Keep in mind that design also means drawing lines of separation!
And in our ambition to create,
We should be more careful what we...
Open Streets. Report 2021
RESEARCH Little ImprovementsThe temporary pedestrianization of Bucharest's central streets - what were its effects on the city and its dwellers?
The Open Streets project was initiated by Asociația ARCEN in the spring of 2020, following the release from COVID-19...
parklet
ARCHITECTURE Little ImprovementsParklets are a rather recent invetion, originated in North America. They were born out of a very simple but serious question: could a parking spot serve as anything else? One parking spot reserves 12.5 sqm of...
Bucharest. The Minor Structure vol1
RESEARCH Little ImprovementsIt is unsustainable for Bucharest to remain, in the long run, a city geared towards motor vehicle traffic. This statement opens the study we have undertaken since 2020, with the help and guidance of...
Reclaiming the River – competition
ARCHITECTURE Little Improvements Along, To and Across: A vision for a river that binds
Architectural competition, 2nd prize
The segment of the River Dâmbovița between Mărășești passage and Mihai Bravu bridge will become an attractive public space where local...
Urban Giraffe – tactical urbanism
ARCHITECTURE Little ImprovementsThe Urban Giraffe names a series of tactical urbanism interventions we started in Bucharest, set to imperfectly solve the problems that the city offers each day. Just like a clumsy giraffe, that we got...
City as common good. guidelines for urban life post COVID
Little ImprovementsOur soft manifesto for city life guidelines post-covid is set as a card game allowing discussions and negociations for all city dwellers around their needs, priorities and possible solutions for a better, healthier, safer...
Bucharest in Details – ongoing research and proposals
ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH Little ImprovementsA very personal project to all members of our team, this research started as a natural response to our everyday urban experience, walking in Bucharest. Whether or not walking with our kids, carrying bags, or...
Guided tour through the Creative Quarter
EVENTS Little ImprovementsWe celebratet the Creative Quarter Design Festival on Sunday, May 19th 2019, with a guided tour: the meet-up was in front of Energiea. We briefly stopped along the way, connecting active dots on the Creative...
Little Improvements – A Stair for Kretzulescu
Little ImprovementsLittle Improvements – A Stair for Kretzulescu
This project is a pilot for introducing an element that articulates three public spaces used by different social and age categories: the Kretzulescu Galleries, the Kretzulescu Church and...
National Museum of the History of the Romanian Jewry and the Holocaust
ARCHITECTURE Little ImprovementsLaunched as an international architectural competition in October 2018, we submitted our joint proposal toghether with CUMULUS and PZP architecture offices. We benefited from art historian and BAZA member Adrian Buga's extensive cultural and artistic expertise. In the...
UPGRADE. V for Vintage 20
ARCHITECTURE Little ImprovementsA new space opened in central Bucharest, in the spring of 2018: three ground-floors, set along three different streets and united by an inner garden. Their concrete grey, unfinished state offered the contrasting grounds...
Building conversion, Hotel Premium Wellness Râmnicu Vâlcea
ARCHITECTURE Little ImprovementsThe project was developed during 2016-2017: Spiru Haret University wanted its headquarters in Râmnicu Vâlcea, a hilly balneal resort in central Romania, transformed into a wellness hotel and spa. We provided the measurement surveys and...
ZĂPFEST
EVENTS Little ImprovementsIn early spring, new snows took the city by storm and surprise. As schools closed downs we decided to go full snowfest and call for some sincere snowball fights and a snowpeople contest. Long story...
THE CHANGE HUB – an informal classroom
Little ImprovementsFollowing the Sustainabili...really? workshop, some of the attending pupils contacted us for advice on setting up their own informal classroom, within their college. The director of Spiru Haret National College had granted them permission...
TRANSFORMERS @ Romanian Design Week 2017
Little Improvements30 outfits. 10 creators. 2 countries. 2 schools. UNArte vs artEZ.
We turned this fashion face off in a reverted experiment. The visitors take on the catwalk and strut underneath the warm neon lighting. While...
The State Jewish Theatre
Little ImprovementsSetting a life's story in symbols, and bringing mythology closer through drawings, the artist Jana Gertler and the curator Adrian Buga transformed the foyer of the theatre in a kaleidoscope of colours and light....
ARTMARK GALLERIES
Little ImprovementsThe ground-floor, four street windows and one entrance of Cesianu Racovita Palace are returned to interacting with pedestrian public space. Setting the formerly unused space with art exhibitions of collections up for sale, the...
SinCronic
Little ImprovementsSinCronic was set up as a double exercise, on one hand as a dialogue between ceramic artists and sculptors, and on the other as a space-changing exhibition. The first part took place during the...
Art Safari 2016
Little ImprovementsSetting up the Art Safari 2016 exhibition space is the project that launched us, and that we invested in as our manifesto: bringing back to public life the unused spaces of central Bucharest, through...