Architecture & the Built Environment
The association is named after, and operates from, the Jakab Toffler Palace, using architecture as a tool for community activation. We valorise the palace's inner courtyards as public space, treat housing as both physical fabric and social relation, and engage architects and students directly in the regeneration of the Fabric district.
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F.I.D. – European Prize for Urban Public Space
F.I.D.'s submission to the European Prize for Urban Public Space (CCCB, Barcelona) — the Piața Traian intervention, grounded in the district's real social fabric.
Social Fabric #3
A series of research and creative residencies and a landscape study of Fabric's interior courtyards, with concrete proposals to transform them into shared green spaces.
The Trees and Their People. A residency with Studio Peisaj
A micro-research project on the relationship between trees and the people of Fabric's inhabited courtyards — and on the roles trees play within their communities.
The Tensions of Urban Regeneration. A residency with Macrina Moldovan
Research into the tensions surrounding the urban regeneration of Fabric — with a focus on the Piața Traian area — and how residents experience recent transformations.
The Architecture Students' Practice, 3rd Edition
The third edition of the summer practice for first-year students of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism in Timișoara, held in the garden of Casa Jakab Toffler.
Social Fabric 2023
The umbrella programme of the Capital of Culture year: research and creation residencies, presentations, debates, workshops, theatre, documentary film, concerts, exhibitions and the football championship — in the palace courtyards and in Piața Traian.
co-LIZA 2.0. A residency with Atelier AdHoc
The first Social Fabric 2023 residency ended with co-LIZA 2.0 — a mobile community-activation kit designed for Casa Jakab Toffler and Minitremu.
Atelier VRAC. A first public presentation
Zenaida Florea and Cristi Bădescu presented their projects publicly for the first time in the house garden, followed by a discussion on the state of the architectural profession.
A photography residency with Marius Vasile
A month-long photography residency devoted to documenting the 2nd edition of "Football in Traian", by a photographer who had also shot the first edition.
The TerraPIA workshop with Alessandro Serra
An earth-building workshop — clay soils, straw reinforcement — testing the plaster for a future bread oven, followed by a public talk on architecture made from natural materials.
The Architecture Students' Practice, 2nd Edition
First-year students from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism worked on the house garden, on mounting the "Married vs Unmarried" exhibition and on the pitch in Piața Traian.
Social Fabric – Activity Report
The activity report of the 2023 Social Fabric programme — residencies, workshops, exhibitions and events reimagining the Jakab Toffler palace courtyards and Fabric's heritage.
The Architecture Students' Practice, 1st Edition
Twelve first-year students from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism spent two weeks at Casa Jakab Toffler: one week of surveying and design, one of building.
An Architecture Residency. Bogdan Isopescu
An architecture residency hosted by Casa Jakab Toffler in 2022, recorded on the timeline of the association's first year.
Crista Jianu Residency — a façade study for the Jakab Toffler Palace
An architecture residency devoted to the Jakab Toffler Palace: a detailed survey of the façades' decay and a restoration-and-colour proposal in three NCS tones — beige, white and a turquoise accent.
Narrative Activity Report 2022
The chronicle of the first year of #social fabric activities at Casa Jakab Toffler: workshops, residencies, an architecture practice, concerts, film screenings and a football championship, in the palace courtyard and around Piața Traian.