Reclaiming Bucharest’s Architectural Heritage: Student dwellings and cultural establishments along Calea Griviței Part 2 Project 2025 Raluca Dumitrescu Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism | Romania The diploma project began with a careful, almost methodical look at the city at a macro scale, followed by a natural descent into a specific site: the Calea Griviței area, a historical axis of Bucharest. The intervention is located between Calea Griviței and Mircea Vulcănescu Street, where three wagon houses (a traditional Romanian linear house type, narrow and often one room wide) dwellings sit in advanced decay.The project seeks to root itself in this marginal tissue, beginning with a close reading of the existing structures, redrawing and analyzing the remaining walls. From this, the idea of reinforcing them emerged, leading to a sequence of spaces housing sculpture studios on the ground floor and student dwellings above.The proposal is composed of several objects that relate both to the site and the neighborhood. The delicate timber roofs, either autonomous or joined at the gable, evoke the typology of the Bucharest geamlâc (a traditional glazed bay window of Ottoman influence, often used as a transitional space between interior and exterior), generating light verandas attached to solid volumes. These in between spaces, like fragments of garden, are punctuated by small calibrated elements: chimneys, dormers, skylights, gutters.Ultimately, the project seeks beauty in detail: in stairs, thresholds, gardens, and the quiet layering of the city. Tutor(s)