Projects
- Staging Authenticity:
The Synthetic Gardens
of Brick Lane - The 4th Nature
- Where the Wind passes lightly
- Chapel of the Sacred Self
- Grätzlschwitzen Floridsdorf
- The Fallen Church
- Kumpania Reprocesare
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Kumpania Reprocesare is approaching the humanitarian crisis of the Roma in Pata Rat in relation to the city of Cluj Napoca. Rather than providing short term improvements legitimizing Pata Rat as a place for Roma, it is searching for a sustainable solution by reintegrating the community to Cluj.
It is reclaiming the right of the Roma to live, play, work and being represented in the city by introducing a network of architectural artefacts, starting from Pata Rat and growing incrementally. It takes on the connotation of the Roma as part of the city's waste management, embracing their role as environmental safeguards and shifting it from the collection of waste to the reproduction of goods and spaces. The continuous production of spaces is further initiating a transition of spatial, societal and visual perceptions, constituting the framework for reintroducing the community of Pata Rat to Cluj.
To finally set the framework for an integration process without assimilation, the project is shifting visual perceptions of the Roma in the city expressing and representing Romani cultural heritage by developing a formal kanon from the extraction of design elements and concepts of the gypsy palaces, manifesting their new role within the city.