co-tutor: Gergana Popova
organized by: EASA Romania
Calarassi, Romania, 2022
European Architectural Student Assembly (EASA) is an annual event happening across Europe in the form of a festival where different design/research workshops are organised and participants from all around the world join on-site in the country of residence. As one of the workshop organisers, me and my colleague prepared a brief that celebrates the main goal of EASA – closely intersecting with the local context and tradition.
Focused on storytelling in architecture, the workshop explored a fictional book, aiming to bring the narrated life- paths of its characters into spatial configuration that would allow its audience to have a multi-sensory experience wandering through. The design, spatial arrangement and build-up were solemnly done by the students. The main media used was sand-casting, chosen to mimic the transformation of a fictional story to a physical entity – imprinting the stories at the beach of Calarassi as moulds and then capturing them as casted fragments before the river would wash the sand-drawings away.
