EXPERIMENT ÎN PASAJUL DE LA UNIVERSITATE: CULTURA VIZUALĂ ÎN SPAŢIILE SUBTERANE DE TRANZIT
AN EXPERIMENT IN THE UNIVERSITY PASSAGEWAY: VISUAL CULTURE IN THE TRANSIT UNDERGROUND SPACES

Summary/Abstract: Lately the design of the underground passage ways and of the subway stations all over the world has become more and more interesting, which in itself is a benefit for the user, a turist attraction, and a prestigious objective for the cities. In order to obtain a pleasant underground space a permanent colaboration with the aboveground planning is required, not only by the simple presence of the access ways as an architectural insertion, but as a complex assembly of built elements or of ambient atmosphere. The entire approach of the project has been aimed at making the general public and the cosponsors aware of the importance of the mass culture, by taking the art works to the most circulated areas in Bucharest. The project was meant to create customized exhibition areas within the subway passages and stations and to humanize these underground transit areas. It tried to encourage young artists – students in architecture and interior design – by involving them in the promotion of the concepts, of the interior architecture and design projects, in the execution of their own projects. The completion of the project consisted in the execution of some spatial modular display and sitting structures for the University underground passage, following a students’contest in two stages: a contest of an idea and an execution project.

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