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Garden dreamsTimisoara|Ro

Cultural

arch. Marius Miclaus coordinator ARCHAEUS

ARCHAEUS arch. Marius Miclăuş, stud. arch. Bogdan Raţ, arch. Zsolt Varday, arch. Brindusa Havasi, arch. Cristian Blidariu, arch. Beatrice Lucaci, arch. Maja Baldea consultant arch. Vasile Oprisan

ATELIER TREI: arch. Cosmin Bloju 

arch. Codruta Negrulescu

arch. Oana Sarbu 

arch. Victor Popovici,arch.Claudia Godean

PARASITESTUDIO: arch. Claudiu Toma

arch. Maja Baldea,

ART WORKS: Artist Nada Stojici

Modell : stud. arch. Bogdan Rat 

stud arch. Bogdan Buda

stud arch. Marton Tovissi

CORONA TIMEXIM eng. Laci Fekete consultant eng. Corneliu Suma, Prof. Dr. eng. Decebal Anastasescu 

electric - CAPABIL / eng. Dumitru Moisi

HVAC - G&C MARKET CASTELLI

eng. Dorian Farca, eng.Florin Botos

PROWASSER / eng. Marioara Golumba 

eng. Maria Grozav

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Historic study |

Restoration analysis |

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A&C GEODETIC TEAM

eng. Claudiu Darpes

landscape designer Constantin Berar

hist. Simina Stan,

prof. dr. geo. Marin Secalman 

conf. geo. Anca Luca,

dr. arch. Ileana Zbirnea

rest. Iulian Olteanu,

dr. soc. Corina Ilin

PROWA BENERT

Timis County Council and Timisoara Town Hall

13 000 m2

750 euro/mq.

2003 - 2008

2009 - 2011

Timisoara

3D modell – arch. Cristian Blidariu 

arch. Zsolt Varday

arch. Marius Miclaus

arch. Ovidiu Micsa and authors

aerial wiew - Prowa Bennert

eng. Marieta Mateescu, 

arch. Gabriela Cretu

Winning the national contest for the rehabilitation of the Theresia Bastion (the first of the nine Vauban Bastions which formed the defense system of Timisoara, built between 1738-1738), a Class A Monument according to the National List of Monuments in Romania, represented a both difficult and extraordinary proefessional experience.


The concept theme catered on reintegrating and defining a new urban pole by applying creativity on the public space – an area in which too little has been invested in the past twenty years in Romania.

Part of a structure from the 18th century concerning the image or the volume, it profoundly changed in the past years due to the development of the city in the central area, which brought around new functions (bank headquarters, the seat of the Chamber of Architects Timis, the Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, the Medicine Faculty). As such it was a space in greed need to be opened and reinvented for a developing society, which learns to take 

charge of its urban life.


At first, the project was supposed to tackle only some infrastructure issues, but at a thourough analysis we discovered that the site, found at the edge of the historical core of the city (completly rebuilt after conquest of the XVIII th Century by the Austro – Hungarian Empire in 1716), had a much higher potential. We decided to underline this potential, by using the following main guidelines:

  • Implement cultural and socialising functions in a space currently forgotten

  • Define a new urban space by redesigning the Honour Court and connect this space with the existing square framework of city

  • Reasemble the image of the monument through a careful restoration process, moreover as the city intents become a candidate for the European Cultural Capital title in 2020.


We paid a great attention to the potential of the indoor spaces or the spaces currently unsed (as such, the attick became an exhibition space) as well as to defining new contemporary volumes mostly for cultural use. The intervention concept is based on the following priciples:

  • eliminate ciment mortars and the concrete poured during the 1970’s restoration process, as well as the interventions on the historical surfaces due to the use of such materials

  • insert all the plumbing and electrical installations thorugh the floor or by usining metal supports, thus reducing to the mínimum the intervention in the historical core of the building

  • use new, reversible materials, easy to eliminate in the following interventions.

  • subtly accentuate the contemporary intervention

  • intervention on the existing

materials with care and only after through studies


We chose materials that age nicely, in an easy contrast with the historical surface - copper-sheets, wooden carpentry with non ferous metallic inserts, plasters and paints based on lime, as well as metal structures easy to elliminate. The floors are installed on sand, using historical technologies. As a support for the whole monuments we used a limestone which hides the spaces in the courtyard, increases the potential thorough contrast and reinvents unused places.


2011 BASTION