LIVIU FABIAN

str, Stirbei Voda, nr 2, Bucharest, Romania

+40731053219

liviu.fabian@gmail.com

www.ltfbstudio.ro

08.01.1981

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

2001- 2005 University of Architecture and Urbanism ‘Ion Mincu’- Bucharest - Master degree

1999- 2001 Gheorghe Asachi Technical University- Construction and Architecture Faculty

1996- 1999 Theoretical High School “Ovidius” Constanta - Assistant Programmer certificate

WORK EXPERIENCE 2004 - 2015

2007 - present Managing partner and architect at LTFB studio

iul 2007 Founded together with arch. Lucian Luta - LTFB studio architecture office

2006 - 2009 Architect at Artline, Bucharest

2004 - 2005 Architect at Arway Design, Bucharest

AWARDS

As cofounder and managing partner at LTFB studio

2012- first prize winner at Dobrudja Architecture Annual with “Dante Alighieri High School Expansion”

2012- nominated at Dobrudja Architecture Annual with “School of Music and Arts”

2012- nominated at Bucharest National Architecture Biennale with “School of Music and Arts”

As architect at Artline

2008- nominated at Bucharest National Architecture Biennale with “House on Marin Dracea Street”

2007- nominated at Bucharest Architecture Annual with “Afrodita - Hair Salon”

PUBLICATIONS

Almost all the works that are shown in this portfolio were

published in Igloo, Zeppelin, Arhitext, arhiforum.ro, the main Romanian

architecture magazines.

The “School of Music and Art” and “Dante Alighieri High

School Expansion” were published on the main international

architecture sites like: archdaily.com, designboom.com, architizer.com,

aasarchitecture.com.

SOFTWARE SKILLS

Autocad

Rhinoceros

Archicad

3D Studio Max/ V ray

Photoshop

Corell Draw

Grasshopper

LANGUAGES:

Romanian (native) English (good) Italian (fair) French (basic)

Selected works as cofounder and managing partner at LTFB Studio 2007-2014

Together with Dante Alighieri High School Expansion, the School of Music and Arts is probably

the most distinctive work of LTFB Studio, and one of the most appreciated public buildings of the

contemporary Bucharest architecture.

Usually, all the public buildings in post-communist Romanian era are, with a few notable

exceptions, of a very poor quality. This situation is generated by the lack of real competition and is

perpetuated by a mix of factors that rely on the political and legal context. The active legislation allows the

political decision-makers to promote a public investment, on the exclusive price basis criteria rather than

on the design quality and efficiency. That’s why designing a remarkable public building in Romania is an

exceptional event, and for me, as a young architect it was a very challenging objective and a revealing

experience.

Architecture LTFB Studio: arch. Liviu Fabian; arch. Lucian Luta

Project manager S.C. VCE Vienna Consulting Engineers

StructureDuctil Tech

Installations Solid Install

Acoustics Radu Pana and Marius Smighelschi

ConstructorCam Construct Engineering

Photos Cosmin Dragomir

School of Music and Arts - Bucharest 2012Cofounder and managing partner at LTFB Studio 2007-present

‘The two projects become examples of good practice for education buildings –programme that in

Romania generated very few quality works in the last twenty years.’

Stefan Ghenciulescu - Chief Editor at Zeppelin Magazine, in the article “Back to school” about School of Music

and Arts and Dante Aligheri Highschool Expansion- Zeppelin no 107/2012

1. Forum

2. Administration

3. Technical spaces

4. Recording studio

5. Civil protection

6. Lecture room

7. Web-art

8. Visual arts

9. Concert hall

10. Concert/Theatre/Choreography hall

11. Musical studies

12. Choreography

basement first floor second floor 1ground floor second floor 2

The site is located between a primary school, a small park and

a small wooden church, in a district full of monotonous block of flats built

entirely during the communist era. The lack of identity of the dwellings

district and the vicinity of the small social places around the site made us

conceive the school as a landmark of the district that exceeds the basic

technical needs of the wanted disciplines.

In a usual school in Romania, the indoor public space is perceived as a redundant one, or is

often treated as a transitional space, a linking corridor where people are on the run from a place to

another, not needing or wanting to stop and communicate with each other. In our proposal, the

indoor and outdoor public forum , the place for social interactions, is intended to play the main role.

Longitudinal section that shows the big red volume ‘floating’ above the Forum

The most distinctive space is the forum, located at the basement level. This

space can be regarded as ‘the heart’ of the building, playing an integrating role as the

main social interaction space for all the other different functions . Its skin is transparent

towards interior and exterior. The light comes from everywhere, also through a skylight

that articulates the white and red volumes. It can be a space for public meetings,

various exhibitions, conferences, courses etc.

The red volume is ‘floating’ independently over the forum space and

accommodates the two performance halls, a small one for chamber music and a 200

seats hall for bigger concerts or events, with the entrance through a small bridge above

the open space of the forum.

At the same level, along with Concert Hall and its Foyer you can find the

Visual Arts ateliers, conceived as a flexible open space that can be divided into

separate studios through wall-like mobile cases provided with lockable wheels. At the

same time, this space can be transformed into an exhibition open space by placing all

the wheel mounted cases on a side of the hall and opening all the glass walls on the

This is the second public building designed by LTFB

Studio, a project that was also remarked by the design

publications. Unlike School of Music and Arts this project is an

extension of an existing old 70’s highschool.

The idea of an extension of Dante Alighieri High

School appeared mainly as an answer to the need of an

integrated educational center that comprises after-school

facilities and other activities related to the main educational

purpose of the building. Some of these types of spaces and

activities are chronically missing in most of the schools previously

built in Romania.

Architecture LTFB Studio : arch. Liviu Fabian; arch. Lucian Luta

Project manager S.C. VCE Vienna Consulting Engineers

StructureDuctil Tech

Installations Solid Install

Acoustics Radu Pana and Marius Smighelschi

ConstructorACM 4

Photos Cosmin Dragomir

Dante Alighieri High School Expansion - Bucharest 2012Cofounder and managing partner at LTFB Studio 2007-present

1. existing high school

2. multipurpose hall

3. interior yard

4. canteen

5. teachers' and meeting room

6. pool and locker rooms

7. classroom

8. laboratories

9. after-school

10. terraces

11. kitchen

12. civil security shelter

Dante Alighieri High School is located in the eastern part of

Bucharest, near the Titan Park, in the middle of one of the

largest neighborhoods of the city.

Second floorFirst floorBasement Ground floor

The nonfunctional and degraded old swimming pool

in the eastern part of the schoolyard was integrated in one of the

new building's volumes. Between the new swimming pool hall and

the existent sports hall, the resulting space is used for the annexes

of the two sport facilities and for an adjacent small sportive dance

hall.

Images of the old and abandoned outdoor swimming pool

Images of the rehabilitated indoor swimmig pool

South facade East facade

The randomly perforated

facade of the educational volume

should be read in a playful key, as a

contrast to the uniformity and monotony

of the existing facade.

This “game with windows”

seems a puzzle with pieces of the tree

foliage and green light filtered through

them, as seen from the inside.

We proposed a new type of

indoor classroom, but also a new type of

outdoor one. The terraces placed

between the classrooms could be used

sometimes for teaching and learning in

the open air.

This is another project that

emphasizes the role of the public space.

This project proposes new spaces of

interaction: the schoolyard, the school

canteen, the sports facilities and the

large and glazed corridors, that

communicate with each other. All the

public and social spaces gravitate

around the intimate courtyard.

Cofounder and managing partner at LTFB Studio 2007-present

Expansion and School of Music and Arts - were for me a real opportunity to manage

medium size and complex projects form the very beginning of the concept phase, passing

through all stages of the project and execution to the moment of the opening ceremonies.

These two of LTFB Studio most important projects - Dante Alighieri High School

The first day of school at Dante Alighieri High School - 1’st of September 2012

The opening event for the School of Music and Art - may 2012

Designing and managing these complex projects was a real challenge and an important way of gaining experience and

skills in coordinating all the parts involved and in supervising the construction process in order to obtain an accurate result.

Architecture LTFB Studio: arch. Liviu Fabian; arch. Lucian Luta;

Installations General Instal Comp

ConstructorAlumont

PhotosCosmin Dragomir

Facade Remodeling for multifunctional building - Bucharest 2014Cofounder and managing partner at LTFB Studio 2007-2014

The starting point for this project was an existing four storey

concrete structure, previously built on the basis of a very schematic, and

deficient project. The building has a pretty advantageous site, situated

along the path for the A2 highway, called “Autostrada Soarelui” (The Sun

Highway), the main route for the seaside tourists.

The challenge was to

transform a poorly designed and

unfinished building in a multi-

functional one that should become

a landmark for the neighborhood.

The solution we found

in the first place was to unify the

facade in one simple envelope.

The glass staircase

would play the central role, as a

big urban lighted sign, that should

be visible form the speed of a car

running towards the highway.

The white strips width variation forms a gentle filter for the light and uniforms all the lines

in one gesture. The idea was to obtain a clean and ordinate building envelope, that would bring

some quietness and sobriety in a noisy and unsettled context

The entire envelope was generated in Grasshopper (algorithmic modeling plugin for Rhinoceros) in order to adjust the width and the density of the

horizontal strips and the dosage of the gaps between them. The result is a smooth transition from opaque to transparent, in a simple pattern for the entire facade.

fitness hall

aerobic dance hall

and locker rooms

kids playground

hair studio

coffee shop

The four storey of aprox. 1000sqm building hosts four different,

but complementary functions. The most visible ones are the fitness hall on the

fourth floor, with its glazed walls, and the coffee shop on the ground floor. The

third floor which comprises an aerobic dance hall and the locker rooms is, in

fact, a functional extension of the fitness hall. At the first floor there is the hair

salon and on the second a children playground.

Most of these functions are arranged as open spaces, allowing

high flexibility and potential reconversion.

“U” Glass staircase wall

composite

aluminium louvers

Semi-Structural glazing curtain wall

composite aluminium panels

The aluminium horizontal strips play also the role of light filter for the interior space. The algorithmic generated facade was analysed with Diva plugin

which runs daylight , solar radiations, based on real environmental data (climate based metrics as .epw files). The density of the sun shading pattern was obtained in

correlation with the daylight factor generated by the software, based on the outdoor and indoor illuminance, and materials reflection indexes.

North Facade- visible form the main boulevard

The fitness hall is situated on the fourth floor and is designed as an open space with panoramic view over the city. Mainly beccause of a very

reduced slab level of the existing structure, we proposed “smashed in trianges” mirror ceiling that provides a virtual extra space, and allows a flexible setup

for the equipments and fittings.

men’s hair studio

reception

customer’s toilet

staff office and toilet

women’s hair studio

cosmetic treatments

manicure and pedicure

acces form the locker roomns on the 3’rd floor

fitness zone

the spinning zone

The hair salon, situated on the first floor, is an open space

with light mirror walls, arranged in various angles, separating the four

different functions. This system of mirrors and mirror walls allows the

viewer to see fragments of what's happening inside from the entrance

and reception zone as overlapping parts of succesive reflection

forming kaleidscope like images.

Here are some samples of the images we proposed for two of these four functions that are currently in progress: the hair salon and the fitness

hall. These spaces have a common element that plays a key role : the reflection. The mirror has a very high potential of opening and extending the space

with recurrent and sometimes confusing effect, but is also a very useful tool in spaces like these, where your own (reflected) image plays the main role.

the spinning zone

Fitness Hall - fourth storey

Hair Studio - 1’st storry

The coffee shop is in fact a functional mix between a coffee-bar and a small delicatessen store. The two functions overlap in almost every part

of the arrangement. The bar is a classical one, where people can sit and drink but, instead of the usual bottle display in the background, one can see a

long wall with lit glass shelves and plenty of delicacies. The coffee tables are in fact real showcases, with food display under the glass lid.

The children playground is an open space which comprises two zones: the

main space defined by the drawn ceiling and floor, with modular playground

equipment and the parents waiting space, with a little bar. The last one is conceived in

contrast with the children playground with white glossy finishes and white painted

modular furniture.

All the playground equipment is made from “slices” of CNC processed rigid

foam boards with protective flexible coating, forming simple geometrical shapes that

hide organically shaped tunnels and hollows.

bar / store counter

“glass case” tables

staff office

customer toilet

parents waiting zone

children toilet

customer toilet

playground

transparent and luminsecent shelves

Children Playground - third storey Coffee Shop - Ground Floor

The challenge for this project was to redesign a Romanian typical communist eighties apartment, situated in the center of Bucharest

and transform it in a contemporary apartment for accommodation or medium term rent.

Communist era apartment redesigned - Bucharest 2012Cofounder and managing partner at LTFB Studio 2007-2014

The entire layout had to be redesiged in order to solve the problem of the insufficient space. We designed an open and flexible relation

between the living room and the kitchen, with a folding table - bar as dining table.

In order to obtain a higher efficiency and a better use of

space we had to transform the 2 rooms apartment, in a 3 rooms one. A

half of the initial livingroom was converted in a second, larger bedroom.

living room

bedroom

kitchen

bath

bedroom 1

bedroom 2

bath

kitchen

living room

Architecture LTFB Studio: arch. Liviu Fabian; arch. Lucian Luta;

ConstructorMihai Bragau PFA

PhotosLucian Luta

Initial layout

The new layout

The glass coated walls

and the glass door were proposed as

solution for a narrow and dark

hallway.

We purposed a white

and glossy image with simple and

clear lines for a rather neutral space.

Selected works as architect at Artline 2006-2009

Hair salon in Dorobanti neighborhood - Bucharest 2006

This is the first project I worked on after graduating in 2005. Here I managed for the first time a project in all the phases of the project and execution. The main difficulty of

the technical part was to coordinate all the elements for a perfect continuity, for example between the lines of the floor, walls and ceiling.

Architect at Artline 2005-2009

Architecture Artline: arch. Radu Teaca arch. Liviu Fabian, arch. Peter Marx

ConstructorVR Art Construct

Photos Peter Marx, Liviu Fabian

Even if it seems hard to belive, this is probably the first house in Romania entirely finished with apparent cast-in-place concrete. It’s a clear and simple approach of the house

near a lake, with 2 oriented volumes pointing directly to the lanscape. Along the sides of the terrain the two bodies are opened one to the other and closed to the surroundings.

The concrete house - Bucharest 2008Architect at Artline 2005-2009

Architecture Artline: arch. Radu Teaca; arch. Peter Marx, arch. Liviu Fabian

Structureeng. Ioan Sora

ConstructorVR Art Construct

Photos Peter Marx

The house was nominated at the Romanian Architecture Biennal - Bucharest 2008, and was published in all the

main architecture magazines in Romania.

The two concrete tubular volumes separating the living room on a side and kitchen with the dinning room on

the other, communicate through a glass greenhouse.

Samurcasi housing complex - Bucharest 2009

The aim of the project was to obtain a highly efficient setup for 8 houses on a site situated in a small village at 20 km away from Bucharest. Because of the narrow shape

of each terrain, the houses were designed to open the living room and the dining room on the rear side almost entirely towards a green and intimate garden. The white and rather

opaque simplicity of the envelopes is ment to unify and temper the perception of a viewer assaulted by the noisy and irregular lanscape of the late Bucharest suburbs.

Architecture Artline: arch. Radu Teaca arch. Liviu Fabian, arch. Peter Marx

StructureAVZ design group

ConstructorGemar Construct

Photos Peter Marx

Architect at Artline 2005-2009

Dwellings on Nordului street- Bucharest 2009

Situated in front of a crossroad, the big glass box, the main volume of the building, forms a strong contrast with the comb shaped, rough and reddish brick coated wall. On each

floor there are two apartments with large glass walls for the living room and dinning room and opaque walls for bedrooms.

Architecture Artline: arch. Radu Teaca arch. Peter Marx, arch. Adrian Oancea, arch. Liviu Fabian, arch. Ioana Sora StructureAVZ design group

ConstructorVR Art Construct

Photos Peter Marx

Architect at Artline 2005-2009

Offices building near ”Razoare” crossroad - Bucharest 2009

The building si situated in one of the most crowded and congested crossroads of Bucharest. This is the road that links the center of Bucharest with two of the largest

neighborhoods of the town.

Each floor is an open space that plays the role of a lit screen, facing the trafic of the street, and consequently is a point of view over the town.

Architect at Artline 2005-2009

Architecture Artline: arch. Radu Teaca arch. Peter Marx , arch. Liviu Fabian

Structure:Pop & associates

Photos Peter Marx

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