Philémon & Baucis
Adrian Untaru (RO)
Andrei Serbescu (RO)
Bogdan Bradateanu (RO)
Irina Bancescu (RO)
Sebastian Serban (RO)
architetcs
Europan 10 Eisenstadt
runner-up
The aim of rehabilitation should be to recreate appropriate forms of action and reaction, to restore norms and balances, re-establish control of the situation and, ultimately, create the appropriate conditions for self-adjustment processes to operate. So this project does not involve big gestures, but instead seeks to apply a series of small-scale interventions in order gradually to restore the “lost urbanity” of the place. In Haydn’s town, the metaphor of Philemon and Baucis’ hospitality speaks of the relationship between human and human and then the exposure of a new kind of inhabiting and co-habiting. In a dense mix of small, affordable housing units, the new housing programme is structured around the triangle of older people, students and young families.
This project is connected to the following themes
Mobility - Social Fields
The project aims to develop the territorial relationship with its surroundings, partly by creating new vectors, partly by reinterpreting and adding to what already exists.
Housing - Community
The metaphor of the hospitality of Philemon and Baucis is illustrated here in a sensitive and respectful refurbishment. Combined with the development of context-sensitive morphologies and typologies, it seeks to rethink human relations within the neighbourhood.