Environment Designer · Designer Ambiental

Ioana
Barbu

Spatial and environmental design — the study of how a room, a surface and a body agree to occupy the same place.

București, RO · Open to new projects

Refugiu Montan Voineasa — hol

The work

1 project

Refugiu
montan
Voineasa

A diploma project for a contemporary retreat in Voineasa, in the Vâlcea mountains: the conversion of an existing building into a place of withdrawal and rest. The work moves from an analysis of the locality and the local Horezu ceramic tradition to a spatial concept organised around stillness and the relationship between a space and the state it produces.

Voineasa, Vâlcea, RO · 2026 · Diploma, UNArte

Enter the project

Idea sketch for the retreat — Fig. 39 — schiță de idee

A retreat is not a hotel with the noise removed. It is a building that asks you to slow down.

From drawing to room

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Proposal plan — Fig. 49 — plan propunere

Axonometric of the common room — Fig. 58 — axonometrie

Lounge with shoji screens — randare — lounge

Sleeping room with an oval window — Fig. 64 — randare dormitor

Practice

Ioana Barbu is an environment designer based in București. She graduated in 2026 from the Faculty of Decorative Arts & Design at UNArte1 with Refugiu Montan Voineasa — a contemporary place of retreat set in the Vâlcea mountains.

1 Department of Design Ambiental, within the Faculty of Decorative Arts & Design (FADD) at Universitatea Națională de Arte București. Diploma coordinated by Lect. Univ. Dr. Răzvan Clondir.