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How does a void manifest itself in the urban space? The economic and demographic crisis, triggered by the end of the communist regime, has generated processes of contraction in all those realities marked by a massive industrialization, following which they have rapidly widened their borders, thus leaving interstitial and widespread voids in the urban fabric. But the end of the regime has also left an ideological vacuum. The imposed idea of the public good was followed by that of private property, incentivized by an excessively liberalized housing market. The collective image of the urban space has therefore been replaced by its individual perception: the new hierarchies and identities firstly created in the individuals’ minds have been then materialized and overlapped in the physical space, generating chaotic and not very permeable spaces, where an excessive spirit of appropriation seems to be evident. The garages are a clear example of this. Walking through the big blocks housing units that characterize the outskirts of the Romanian cities, it is not difficult to grasp their presence. Despite their formal simplicity, these particular structures (whose spatial and normative definition is not always very clear) reveal themselves as real extensions of the domestic environment excessively limited in its interior spaces. Therefore, they are an immediate response to a basic need, finding in the in-between spaces, the ideal place to manifest themselves: somehow, they are hybrid forms to re-imagine, even if individually, the collective urban space. Starting from the results of personal and multidisciplinary experiences in the contexts of the cities of ClujNapoca and Bucharest, this paper aims to highlight possible approaches to intervene in such contexts, suggesting ways for the mediated and collective appropriation of the urban space.

Filling the Void. The Role of the Garage in the Post-Communist Urban Space