EGU 2009, Vienna, Austria

1. Teching through research
Maria BOSTENARU DAN
ERGOROM ’99
“Ion Mincu” University of
Architecture and Urban Planning

2. Overview
Career
Research as a student
Research assistant
Advising individual studies and diploma
works within the research project
Contribution of researchers to teaching
at the university
Conclusions

3. Career
Studies in
 Bucharest, Romania
 Karlsruhe, Germany – graduation in Karlsruhe
Research in
 Karlsruhe, Germany
 Pavia, Italy
 Bucharest, Romania
Currently in Bucharest

4. Research as a student
Receiver of teaching through research
SFB 315 “Preservation of historically
relevant constructions”
Subproject “The building survey as
mean of architecture history research”
Universität Karlsruhe (TH)
Building survey in Poland
Exhibition at UniSchau

5. Research assistant
SFB 461 “From geosciences to civil
engineering”
Subproject “Modelling and simulation”
Universität Karlsruhe (TH)
Building survey at urban scale: 1500
buildings in Bucharest, Romania
Report on how to survey
The report contributed to a diploma
work of a student

6. Postgraduate researcher
Research training network 450 “Natural
disasters”
Own project “Applicability and economic
efficiency of seismic retrofit measures”
Universität Karlsruhe (TH)
Individual study
2 Diploma works

7. Individual study
Student: cand. ing. Gregor Bourlotos
Costs calculation for seismic retrofit
Greece
Traditional measures: steel and
concrete
Contact maintained, numerous papers
using the work and right now an invited
paper in the ISI journal Bulletin of
Earthquake Engineering

8. Diploma work
Student: cand. ing. Gregor Bourlotos
Building survey with highlight of the load
bearing structure
Civil engineering with emphasys on
construction management

9. Diploma work
Student: cand. ing. Gülay Öztürk
Proiect management for retrofit of RC
with masonry infill with FRP – costs
calculation
Civil engineering with emphasys on
construction management
Work presented at FRP retrofit for RC
symposium in Patras in 2007

10. Researcher,
permanent position
“Ion Mincu” University of architecture and
Urban Planning,
Department of History & Theory of
Architecture and Heritage Conservation,
Conservation & Restoration Chair
Bucharest, Romania
Archive work
CNCSIS funded project
Earthquake engineering
Building survey

11. Archive work
Tzigara Samurcaş, an art historian who
did research in Germany 100 years ago
Inventarisation and reseach of an
archive of about 2500 slides from
architecture of Romania and abroad
and arts, dated 1904
Involvment of cand. arch. Irina Calotă

12. CNCSIS project
“Arts, urban communities, mobilisation –
The social reinsertion of the artistic and
architectural project”
Principal investigator: Ana-Maria
Zahariade
Research about green spaces in
Europe, especially German speaking
countries
Students are involved in the project, but
through the principal investigator

13. Earthquake engineering
Contact with earthquake engineering
through another CNCSIS project:
“Multihazard and vulnerability in the
seismic context of the city of Bucharest”
(principal investigator Iuliana Armaş,
Faculty of Geography, University of
Bucharest) – giving hints on building
survey to a student in geography

14. Building survey
The building survey is a constant in the
research of the author, either as
receiver or as giver of training through
research
At the conservation and restoration
chair the building survey is one of the
accents
Hope for future teaching possibilities

15. Other related projects at the
department
CETERS – CEEX project
earthquake engineering project
Principal investigator Dan Lungu, at the
department Sergiu Nistor
ReSitus – CEEX project
digital building survey and conservation
project
Principal investigator Augustin Ioan

16. Conclusions
In both Germany and Romania it is
usual to involve students
(undergraduate) in research projects of
the faculty members
Also changing country and field may
allow a focus in research at different
levels of experience
Teaching experience can be integrated
in research experience and being
researcher at a university is using both

17. Thank you!