Apartamentul /Infobox pentru Bucuresti

photo documentation, 2006

This infobox represents a place where the city’s memory can be activated through various initiatives and projects. The need to connect our present and our personal memories with the recent past led us to imagine such a space. For various reasons, an infobox like this was never built in the 1990s, immediately after the fall of communism. By 2006, however, the situation had changed: the new construction market focused aggressively on the few remaining empty plots — often sites of demolitions carried out in the 1980s under the communist regime. We collaborated with architects Dan Dinoiu and Alex Pop and decided that the shape of this space should reinterpret the living unit — the apartment in a block of flats — as a reference to the most common form of housing in Romanian cities. The result of our collaboration was a model and an architectural proposal, which we presented to the residents of Rahova (a vulnerable area now facing new demolitions) within the framework of the project Va Urma, and later at Galeria Noua to the intellectual and artistic community. The next step was to present the proposal to city officials and to search for a site and funding for its construction. This Apartment/Infobox was conceived both as a place for documenting our past and as a small Kunsthalle, a space where new projects could be produced and exhibited.

installation, De-reconstructii, Galeria Noua, Bucuresti, 2006

architecture model designed in collaboration with Dan Dinoiu, Alex Pop

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