To Give a House the Form of an Event
Launch of the eco-prototypes built in the frame of the project
Architecture, Biodiversity, Culture
Saturday, 14th of June, 2025, 12-8 pm
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
Intr. Primaverii no. 10, Silistea Snagovului
Eco-prototypes
Cosmos Garden: Georgiana Strat
The Eastern Glasshouse: Ștefan Gorie, Vlad Nicolae
The Oven Demeter: V. Leac
The Summer Kitchen Acaret 44°N 26°E: Atelier AdHoc Arhitectură
The phyto-epuration system: atelier d’architecture autogérée
Garden furniture
Relaxation bench: Adrian Filip, Edi Constantin, Oana Radu
Community table: Andrei Ștefan Păsărică, Larisa Danciu, Medeea Sandu, Miruna Roșu, Timea Cristea
Hosts
Adelina Luft
Edi Constantin
Raluca Voinea
Contributions
Adelina Ivan & Mihai Mitran, Alexandra Pirici & Andrei Dinu, Alina Ușurelu, Ana Kun, Anamaria Pravicencu, Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan, Anna Smolak, Athena Dumitriu, Cătălina Frâncu & Teodor Călinoiu, Charles Esche, Dan Vezentan, Dimitrie Grigorescu, Elena Vlădăreanu, Iuliana Dumitru, Konrad Petrovszky, Liliana Basarab, Livia Pancu, Maria Mora, Mihaela Moldovan, Octavia Anghel, Olivia Mihălțianu & Stoyan Dechev, Ovidiu Țichindeleanu, Raluca Popa, V. Leac, Vlad Basalici, Yasmeen Al-Qaisi, Yujin Lee
Since 2022, tranzit.ro/ Bucuresti has been the project leader for Architecture, Biodiversity, Culture, an EU-funded project that aimed at imagining sustainable infrastructures for cultural institutions outside the big cities.
At its permanent venue in the village Silistea Snagovului, 40 km north of Bucharest, tranzit has followed a plan of building structures, which can serve multiple purposes, which can integrate recycled materials, and follow a circularity of resources. While this plan was often slowed down by external conditions, a war nearby, political and economic instability and an increasing oscillation of extremes in the climate.
After this process, revealing the ongoing and unending work at the Station, we take a pause to come together and use the eco-prototypes, and to celebrate life while we have it.
The Cosmos Garden, the Eastern Glasshouse, Demeter – the bread oven, Acaret – the summer kitchen and the phyto-epuration system for the grey waters, everything is now working together as an ecosystem of functions for a future art institution, one that is situated in its context and embodying the principles it claims.
Throughout the day we will have a relaxed programme, with artistic and functional interventions, with cooking sessions, lectures-workshops and exchange with a growing community of artists, architects, gardeners and neighbours.
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life is a collective project initiated in 2021 by a group of artists, curators, theorists, economists and others, who, together with tranzit.ro Association, are the stewards of a plot of land in the village Silistea Snagovului, 40 km north of Bucharest, in the proximity of a protected natural area (forest and lake). Situated in a long-duration perspective and throughout a participatory, open process of building and contextualizing, the Station is a prototype for a cultural institution grounded in its specific locality, yet open for alliances with other life-cultivating communities; it is situated in a post-development narrative and based on ecological and ethical principles.
Architecture, Biodiversity, Culture [ABC]. Building ecological institutions for culture is an European cooperation project situated at the intersection between cultural practices, eco-architecture and ecosystems preservation. Initiated by a consortium of organisations active in the fields of culture, contemporary art, architecture, civic activism and eco-sustainable community practices, the project proposes a participatory process of building and cultural contextualising of ecological prototypes to be used by cultural institutions. ABC operates on four sites in Romania, Bulgaria and France: Silistea Snagovului, a village in the proximity of Bucharest, near a protected area of lake and forest; Brezoi, a small town in the South-Western part of Romania, in a mountaneous area and close to an important river; Dren, a village outside of Sofia, in a hilly area; and Bagneux, in the peripheral neighourhoods of Paris.
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