UNULAUNU (one to one ,-en) is Romina Grillo, Ciprian Rasoiu, Liviu Vasiu, Matei Vlasceanu and Tudor Vlasceanu. We first joined forces in 2010 driven by a simple wish of doing architecture and later we found enough commune and also conflictual points to convince that we should work together. Besides own projects we enriched our experience working in offices like: OMA / Rem Koolhaas-Rotterdam / Hong Kong, Christian Kerez- Zürich and Valerio Olgiati-Chur, living and collaborating with offices from Paris, Dubai, Zürich, Oslo, Berlin, Bruxelles and Stuttgart. Our first project was the competition and building of the national pavilion of Romania at the Biennale di Architettura of Venice 2010. The success at the prestigious exhibition and the fruitful collaboration gave us the opportunity to start an office


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ROMINA GRILLO was born in 1984 Como, Italia. She studied architecture at Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, Switzerland. In addition to the projects developed on her own, Romina collaborated with the office Christian Kerez architektbüro - Zürich and as teaching assistant of Valerio Olgiati at Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, Switzerland. She currently works at OMA / Rem Koolhaas and lives in Rotterdam.

CIPRIAN RASOIU was born in 1986 Brasov, Romania. He studied architecture at the University of Architecture and Urbanism “Ion Mincu” in Bucharest and at the Stuttgart University. Ciprian worked for several architecture offices: Behnisch Architekten - Stuttgart, ReDesign Studio - Bucharest, OMA / Rem Koolhaas – Rotterdam and in 2010 he co-founded UNULAUNU. He currently lives and works in Bucharest, Romania.

LIVIU VASIU was born in 1982 in Romania and studied architecture at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, Switzerland. He collaborated with offices around France and Switzerland. After a two years experience in Valerio Olgiati’s office in Flims, Switzerland, he co-founded UNULAUNU. He's now living in Rotterdam.

MATEI VLASCEANU was born in 1986 Brasov, Romania. He studied architecture at the University of Architecture and Urbanism “Ion Mincu” in Bucharest and at KU Leuven. He gained experience through collaborations with various studios in Bucharest and recently, by working at OMA/Rem Koolhas – Hong Kong and Rotterdam. In 2010 UNULAUNU was founded, Matei being one of the founding partners. He currently lives and works in Bucharest, Romania. Romania.

TUDOR VLASCEANU was born in 1981 Brasov, Romania. He studied architecture at the University of Architecture and Urbanism “Ion Mincu” in Bucharest and at TU Delft. Since 2007, he worked for several architecture offices: OMA/Rem Koolhaas - Rotterdam, Graft - Berlin, On Office - Oslo/Dubai, Spacegroup - Oslo. In 2010, Tudor founded UNULAUNU. He currently lives and works in Bucharest, Romania.

The ambition of the project is to provide a new spatial experience, complementary to the existing library, creating a whole complex. This should provide to future visitors not only a new way to access a variety of books, but also true architectural space, which together with logical organization of the library should create new sceneries in which the user could be fully engaged: interaction, discovery, research, insight, perspective, detachment, projection.The goal of the project for the Central University Library is to be more than an informational center, but to become a representative space for both collective and for the individual as well.

The installation occupies and defines a Space. A series of elements, following one rule, defining in this way an ideal limit, an object perceived as a precise place, the “O” pavilion, positioned independently of the deigned path of the Dimitrie Ghica park in Sinaia, occupies a fragment of it, proposing a new way of public interaction. The new object is placed in the same axe as the entrance if the Casino. The dimension of the determined space it the same as the density pro capita of the city of Sinaia. The installation is a 1:1 representation of the human-space relation and it becomes a mean of self-reflection regarding the individual condition in the city and of the one of the community towards the public space. The public space is defined as the space of everybody and not as the space of nobody.

The project departs from the premises of exploring space and its discovery only by experience, grounded on a tension that architecture creates between: outside/inside, sacred/ profane. It is exactly this tension that this project focuses on. While on the outside a monolith marks at once, almost instantaneous the presence of something, of space, on the interior the same space is defined in the opposite way, it becomes something that never gives away its total presence. Architecture creates two different states of being: on the outside: static, exposed, on the inside: dynamic, a continuous discovery. The geometry of the object defines an inside space that becomes a continuous discovery. It can never be seen in its totality. For understanding space completely you would have to use the previous experience of the outside space, where the space was described in a much palpable manner.