15/04/2018
have look
Dear friends, for the next three weeks OfHouses will be guest curated by Unulaunu.
UNULAUNU (one to one ,-en) was funded by Romi Grillo, Ciprian Rășoiu, Liviu Vasiu, Matei Vlasceanu and Tudor Vlăsceanu. After gaining experience working at OMA in Rotterdam / Hong Kong and in the offices of Christian Kerez and Valerio Olgiati, they joined forces in 2010. Their first project was the competition and building of the national pavilion of Romania at the Biennale di Architettura of Venice 2010. The success at the prestigious exhibition and the fruitful collaboration gave them the opportunity to start their own office in Bucharest, Romania. In the last years, they have been involved in more than 50 projects and competitions and concluded in building a few of them, in Venezia (IT), Sinaia (RO) and Chateau Du Seuil (FR). In 2014, UNULAUNU has been awarded the Weißenhof-Architekturförderpreis in Stuttgart, which has led to PERSPEKTIVEN, their first solo exhibition. In the same year, they expanded their individual pedagogical experiences gained by teaching at UAUIM Bucharest, USI Mendrisio and ETH Zurich with their first academic collective studio at Porto Academy.
UNULAUNU had prepared for OfHouses a very consistent selection of seven old forgotten houses, for which they wrote this short introduction:
“We are interested in the innocence, clumsiness, the sheer boldness and freedom, that some of these houses evoke.
This criteria of selection goes very much hand in hand with our own method of working, that has at its base a process based on „enough commune and also conflictual points” that generates ideas that are somewhat unclassifiable and ambiguous, but in the same time universal and investigative. We found this in: the plasticity of Eduardo Longo’s structure that holds a space, the apparently casual and direct composition of the Snyder House, or the outside room of Junzo Yoshimura’s house. The focus of this investigation is to discover provocative and unconventional space and the way it relates to society’s individual and collective system of values, embodying new architectural values.
Our architecture is intentionally not conventionally “comfortable” and its elements make you feel constantly alert and aware; which is, we believe, the most consistent way to experience nature.”
(Photo: UNULAUNU /// Romanian Pavilion at the 12th Venice Architecture Biennale /// Venezia, Italy /// 2010.)
