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Dragoș Toacă – Piata Amzei Bucharest Innovation Center

























How can an administrative building—shaped by the rigid logic of institutional order—become a living space: open, permeable, and culturally engaged?
The answer lies not in ornament or formal gestures, but in subtle infrastructures—often invisible—that foster freedom, adaptability, and a renewed sense of urban coherence.

This project does not propose a fixed image, but a strategy. It operates through precise insertions and functional devices, seamlessly integrated into the existing structure—not to dominate, but to unlock its latent potential. Spaces are redefined not through imposed form, but through possibility—flexible, reversible, and open to transformation. The building becomes both a unified whole and a constellation of autonomous zones, each capable of engaging with the city—each becoming a host for ideas, encounters, and expression.

Here, architecture shifts from object to condition. The ceiling is reimagined as a technical horizon—an active plane silently embedding the tools for change. It allows each room to shift between roles: to host exhibitions, foster dialogue, or support research. The intervention is not decorative, but infrastructural; not loud, but profoundly structuring.

Outside, the façade becomes porous. A transparent LED mesh expands the building’s interior outward—projecting it into the public realm, engaging the street and the city in continuous dialogue. What was once closed becomes resonant. A former symbol of hierarchy becomes a framework for openness.