Chiojdu Blazon House

The property was purchased with 35,000 Euros. For the administration of the building and for the whole endeavor related to the urgent conservation, access to funds, design, etc., the former owner, Florin Dragulin, was hired by UAR.

Arch Calin Hoinarescu put together the file for the change of the B to A listing monument, in order to facilitate the obtaining of the European funds needed for consolidation and restoration of the house. Consultants were asked to draw up fundraising files.

The building dates back to 1823.

On April 27, 2012, the Union of Architects in Romania (UAR), as a beneficiary, signed with the Managing Authority - the Ministry of Regional Development and Tourism - the financing contract for the implementation of the project entitled Consolidation, restoration and functional remodeling of the Blazonry House, Chiojdu Commune, Buzau County.

Arch. Calin Hoinarescu`s office, author of the previous research and documentation for the house and a MCC expert, took all the necessary measures to obtain a permit to start the urgent conservation project (to be completed by winter).

In 2014, the building restoration was concluded and the furnishing was innitiated. Also, the construction of the information center was started and the realization of the external arrangement. A collection of objects and testimonies of local civilization was also innitiated.

The house looks like an Oltenian chateau, but it has a unique architecture. It is a massive house, probably conceived as a defense, which is why it is assumed that it has housed a garrison for a period of time, former owner says (agerpres.ro)

Blazon representing the bicephalic eagle, a symbol of the basilicas, the last of the Cantacuzins in Romania, on the wall at the main entrance of the Blazonry House, in Chiojdu commune, Buzau County.

The Cultural Center was inaugurated in June, 2016. Once the restoration process was completed, the House was open for visitors

The Night of the Museums 2016 - 220 visitors

Arch. Calin Hoinarescu handed on behalf of UAR the diplomas for those who supported the activity of the Blazonry House - mayor Andrei-Sergiu Fătu, the locals who donated pieces of furniture for the permanent exhibition, the team that made the thematic fresco from the building of the information point.

"Chiojdu's Blazonry House complex will host the UAR Rural Architectural Culture Center. The programs and activities of the center will be oriented towards the research, revitalization and promotion of the culture of Mostenstein - traditions and handicrafts characteristic of the area, architecture and rural patrimony, the training of young people in crafts/crafts of restoration/maintenance of architecture and rural patrimony".

Arch Calin Hoinarescu
Architecture Magazine, no. 2/2016

"SoNoRo Conac started from the idea of giving back the original, intimate, space-based cultural dialogue and active listening between the chamber music and a restricted audience. This project aims to raise public awareness of the many rehabilitated patrimony buildings - fabulous, spectacular, elegant buildings that must be reintroduced into the cultural circuit", organizers said.