Arts Village / Mihai Dorcu, Stefan Padurariu & Vlad Burclacu

Nov 2010

By Alison Furuto — Filed under: Cultural ,Educational ,Sustainability , Africa, Ghana, Mihai Dorcu, Stefan Padurariu, Vlad Burclacu

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art center view 01

The goal for the design of a model arts village in Ghana, Africa was to be easily built from local materials and local labor at a low cost with a budget of $42,000-$62,000. For final year students, Mihai Dorcu, Stefan Padurariu and Vlad Burlacu, their challenge was to provide a comfortable and multi-use space for the international arts community in the rural part of the country. They would go on to achieve this by tapping into local resources for sustainable development to integrate art into architecture for a more sustainable future. More images and description after the break.

art center view 02

On 10 acres, the design would be for all of the following: Multipurpose Arts Center, Residential Courtyard that sleeps 21 persons, Community Kitchen, Courtyard for arts studios and a Recreational Sports Ground as a part of the Arts Village. The production budget of up to $62,000 includes materials, labor, and infrastructure.

module view 01

The concept is based on a fractalic reproduction of the traditional site occupation. Sustainability, geographic and climatic condition (the Harmattan wind), budget, eco-friendly, smart design, this are the main creating forces forming the concept of the project.

module view 02

Understanding the building technique and the material possibilities of the region, architecture brings life to a hybrid form of local understanding and design vision.Care to the embedded way of life and problems that may appear where essential drives for the architectural vision of the team to bend the usual habit of imposing the design to a place into a reinterpretation of the existing one attitude.

craftsmen area view

Materials, geometry, textures and manner of positioning are elements for modeling space that we used to give form to our understanding of the contest requirements and other possible evolutions and implications of the project.

: art center view 01

: art center view 02

: module view 01

: module view 02

: craftsmen area view

: sport and leisure view

: kitchen view

: living area view 01

: living area view 02

: inside art center

: art village plan

: module plan

: space flow

: art center section

: art village kitchen

: art village section

: research

: guiding lines

: construction technique

: art village site

Cite:
Furuto , Alison . "Arts Village / Mihai Dorcu, Stefan Padurariu & Vlad Burclacu" 18 Nov 2010. ArchDaily. Accessed 26 May 2012. <http://www.archdaily.com/89614>

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R Goldschmidt says:

If Stefan Padurariu is the same persone I know from Art Highschool Ploiesti. I salute him and Bravo. Great project, interesting combination of ethnic and contemporaine architecture. Bravo to all the team who work at this project.

# November 19, 2010 at 08:43

Nana Ako Badu says:

I would like to commend the authors of this project for their effort but I think they need to research more into the culture and the architecture of the Ashanti region of Ghana because the architectural style portrayed here is that of the Northern Regions of Ghana which is quite different from that of the Ashanti Region. All the same good work

# December 15, 2010 at 08:50

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