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Oana Stănescu
Plaza de Santa Ana – Concéntrico 09
An ode to the fruit, the earth and the people that help bring it to the table, to our lips.
The project is inspired by and dedicated to the strawberry pickers and estimated 1 million seasonal workers in agriculture across the EU.
An oversized, upside-down and inside-out strawberry is nested in Plaza Santa Ana, against the backdrop of Iglesia de Santa María de Palacio and the Parque infantil. The soft plywood exoskeleton contrasts with the smooth stone textures. A small opening asks us to bow to discover the strawberry like interior: a softred cocoon with seed shaped light rays. A rich and peaceful introverted space, foreign to the outside world. The structure cantilevers over Calle Marqués de San Nicolás, a contrasting tease visible from far ahead.
Oana Stănescu
Oana Stănescu is a Romanian architect who is currently building in North America and Europe. Her studio’s work is an undisciplined collection of projects across scales, programs and collaborators, always in the pursuit of the affect of physical space. She is based in New York and Berlin, and current projects under construction include the reconversion of a ½ km long bridge in Reșița, Romania, a very long house in Canada and an attic in the South of France. She is teaching at Harvard GSD and MIT in Cambridge, USA.
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