PROJECTS – MAP

RESEARCH AND LECTURE AT CHERNOBYL

Posted by maparchitects in LECTURES, NEWS, POLLUTION, PROJECTS, RESEARCH on April 24, 2012

The studio will be launching its fifth issue of MAP on Chernobyl, this week. We are delighted to be lecturing during the launch at the Chernobyl Museum and visiting the exclusion zone where we will be performing a series of tests on the radiation blocking properties of different materials during our visit. Many thanks to […]

WORKSHOP IN ILULISSAT, GREENLAND

Posted by maparchitects in ARCTIC, EXHIBITIONS, NEWS, PROJECTS, RESEARCH on February 9, 2012

The studio is again in Greenland for our second workshop for the Venice Biennale. Together with Henning Larsen Architects and KITAA Arkitekter, and the rest of the teams, we have been in Ilulissat for a week of meetings with local authorities, workshops and travels, in a further attempt to engage reality with our projekt. During […]

NEW PROJECT IN THE MALDIVES

Posted by maparchitects in FLOOD, NEWS, PROJECTS on December 29, 2011

The studio, together with the architectural practice PMO of the Maldives, is designing a ten floor residential building in the heart of the capital Malé. The Island of Malé is the fourth most densely populated island in the world, and it is the 168th most populous island in the world. Since there is no surrounding […]

THIRD PRIZE FOR INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

Posted by maparchitects in ARCTIC, COMPETITIONS, NEWS, PROJECTS on June 6, 2011

The studio has received a third prize for the Jøssingfjord museum international competition in Norway. Placed on the remnants of an old titanium mine and at the mouth of a fjord, the museum proposal plays with relationships between the vertical and horizontal landscape and skyline. We are delighted to receive this prize contributing to the […]

WEAVING PROJECT

Posted by maparchitects in NEWS, PROJECTS, RESEARCH on November 23, 2010

The Weaving Pavillion is now completed at The Village, downtown Beijing, where it will be the main centre for the NOTCH 10 Art and Culture festival. It is the first weaved structure (no glue, screws or nails) to function as facade, roof, column and foundation. This pavilion wishes to explore the potential of weaving as an […]

WEAVING PROJECT COMPLETED

Posted by maparchitects in NEWS, PROJECTS, RESEARCH on October 19, 2010

The Weaving Pavillion is now finished at the Village, downtown Beijing, where it will be the main centre for the NOTCH 10 Art and Culture festival. It is the first weaved structure (no glue, screws or nails) to function as facade, roof, column and foundation. This pavilion wished to explore the potential of weaving as […]

ICEBERG LIVING STATION

Posted by maparchitects in ARCTIC, NEWS, PROJECTS, RESEARCH on September 15, 2010

Buildings and base stations have grown exponentially in the last 20 years in the Antarctic. For 2010, about 80000 tourists are expected to visit the South Pole, and an average of 5000 researchers are based in the main land during the summer period. This proposal aims to design a living station for 100 visitors with […]

MÖBIUS

Posted by maparchitects in NEWS, PROJECTS on June 19, 2010

Möbius serves as a beacon, and as a playful structure for this municipal school in the Danish town of Sjølund. In collaboration with artist Pernille Worsøe and designer Martin Larsen, David Garcia Studio created this work based on the möbius strip, a single surface with non-orientable properties which triggers the mind and the senses. The […]

HONORABLE MENTION FOR THE BRONX HIGHBRIDGE

Posted by maparchitects in COMPETITIONS, NEWS, POLLUTION, PROJECTS on March 20, 2010

HB: BX is an open ideas competition to design an arts center that culturally reinforces the physical connection between the Manhattan and Bronx High Bridge communities of New York City. Working in cooperation with the arts organizations Artists Unite and the Bronx Museum of the Arts, ENYA means to draw awareness to the current efforts […]

EUROPAN 10, VARDØ, NORWAY

Posted by maparchitects in ARCTIC, COMPETITIONS, NEWS, PROJECTS on January 10, 2010

Vardø possesses an outstanding potential to become an artistic and natural beacon both in the north and internationally. This is possible by the geographical conditions of the island and its cultural heritage. The fact that its nature is so powerful and present, but still accessible, are some of the best assets of Vardø, aspects […]

THE STUDIO OPENS A PLAYGROUND INSTALLATION IN DREJENS

Posted by maparchitects in NEWS, PROJECTS on September 17, 2009

David Garcia Studio inaugurated this prize winning installation in September 2009. Combining simple geometry with playful intentions, the 6 elements were designed to enhance play and inspire two different age groups of a newly built kinder-garden in Drejens, Denmark. Shifts in scale and direction, and variations in space, from intimate to shared and open, define […]

URBAN SKY LINK

Posted by maparchitects in COMPETITIONS, NEWS, PROJECTS on September 9, 2009

The history of the skyscraper is inherently linked to that of the elevator. It is interesting to note that although structurally speaking the skyscraper has evolved enormously, it is still a vertical structure, dictated by the elevator, which in its effort to go up, it only meets a dead end. The lack for alternative methods […]

ARCTIC MOBILE UNIT

Posted by maparchitects in ARCTIC, COMPETITIONS, NEWS, PROJECTS, RESEARCH on August 1, 2009

MAP Architects and Alanna Baudinet collaborated on a competition for a mobile arctic unit, hosted by Arctic Perpective. The design is to be an open source mobile architecture system capable of functioning in extreme as well as temperate climates and containing mass, industrial and amateur production and manufacturing potential. The unit is to serve as […]

ARTFUND PAVILION

Posted by maparchitects in COMPETITIONS, NEWS, PROJECTS on January 19, 2009

As this pavilion will be constructed each summer, we chose to work with elements that could create a different configuration of spaces each time the structure was erected, basing our concept in simplicity and flexibility. We began with a standard sheet of plywood. By stacking these and allowing each element to become a sliding panel, […]

BAMBOO PAVILION

Posted by maparchitects in NEWS, PROJECTS, RESEARCH on November 20, 2008

Bamboo has been used as a building material for centuries, however traditional methods of construction with bamboo are generally convoluted, and do not take advantage of the inherent structural qualities of the material. A single culm of madake bamboo can support approximately 1.2 tones of vertical load once fully grown. A bamboo shoot in […]

ZOO NETWORK

Posted by maparchitects in COMPETITIONS, NEWS, PROJECTS on July 7, 2008

The competition guidelines called for “An environmental zoo where consideration should be given to a symbiotic environment that includes the activities of humans with animals.” The proposal aimed to enrich both humans and animals by closer contact, while using the same environment. If the contemporary aim of zoos is to understand how animals and humans […]

FREDERIKSBERG MAIN LIBRARY

Posted by maparchitects in NEWS, PROJECTS on November 20, 2007

Frederiksberg Main Library in the city of Copenhagen, commissioned a “reading lounge” in the main library room. In collaboration with industrial designer Martin Larsen, the solution created a new space, while integrating the existing structure. Due to the increased use of the internet, the library has become more a book pick up spot and less […]

SQUASH COURT FOR THE URBAN LANDSCAPE

Posted by maparchitects in NEWS, PROJECTS on July 31, 2007

In the contemporary urban space, at all scales, we often find potential sites which are unused and overlooked. These can be found between building facades, standby building sites, parks, squares or water fronts. Some of these potential sites can only be used for a relatively short amount of time, before they are developed by […]

G HOUSE

Posted by maparchitects in NEWS, PROJECTS on July 19, 2007

Close to the Gredos mountain range, bordering a nature reserve in the west of Spain, this summer house was designed under very specific demands by the local authorities, only allowing wooden carpentry, pitched roofs and granite stone facades. The design follows these constraints, and responds to the client’s desire to collect rain water and offer […]

CHRISTINA WILSON GALLERY

Posted by maparchitects in NEWS, PROJECTS on February 23, 2005

The gallery is one of the most prominent contemporary art venues in Copenhagen, located in the Islands Brygge area. The client wished to divide the gallery into two separate rooms and functions: storage/show room, and gallery space. New divisions and wall surface treatments were required, as well as creating a new administration area. One of […]