RESEARCH

ATACAMA DESERT THERMODYNAMIC SHELTER

Posted by maparchitects in NEWS, PROJECTS, RESEARCH on December 5, 2019

Tested during the Atacama desert fieldwork in 2019, this project aimed to test the efficiency of slow heat release of materials to warm a shelter during night time. Testing soap stone as one of the most efficient thermal accumulators and slow release of heat, the shelter, clad in mylar, tested diffrent heat release result in the hilly […]

SVALBARD ARCHITECTURAL EXPEDITION

Posted by maparchitects in ARCTIC, EDUCATION, NEWS, RESEARCH on February 13, 2013

Finally back from the seven day expedition and research in Svalbard, where we received lectures by the municipality on Longyearbyen’s past and present , by LPO architects to understand the challenges of building on frozen (and now slowly melting) tundra, by UNIS, the university centre in Svalbard on the researchers community in the archipelago, and […]

ICELAND EXPEDITION

Posted by maparchitects in ARCTIC, EDUCATION, NEWS, RESEARCH on January 20, 2013

In late November 2012, The Bartlett School of Architecture Unit 3 embarked on an expedition to Iceland. Warmed by the Gulf Stream, endless geysers and caught between two major tectonic plates, this land of endless volcanic activity is also home to Europe’s largest glacier. Twelve students designed, built and tested a series of shelter/surveying devices to […]

COLLABORATION WITH NASA & LUND

Posted by maparchitects in EDUCATION, NEWS, RESEARCH, WORKSHOPS on September 24, 2012

In a time and age where science and technology inform both space missions as well as architectural constructions on earth, one wonders what the role of the architect is or should be, in both territories. Together with the students of architecture at Lund we will focus on space, an exo-landscape which is as young as […]

THE STUDIO EXHIBITS AT THE VENICE BIENNALE

Posted by maparchitects in ARCTIC, EXHIBITIONS, NEWS, PROJECTS, RESEARCH on August 19, 2012

The Studio is off to Venice, for the preview opening on the 27th of August, of the 13th Architectural Biennale. We are pleased to be one of the architecture practices representing the Danish Pavilion. After a year’s work, collaborating with Henning Larsen Architects and Greenlandic, KITAA architects, and an endless list of Greenlander who welcomed […]

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 […]

MYLAR RESILIENCE TEST IN GREENLAND

Posted by maparchitects in ARCTIC, NEWS, RESEARCH on February 13, 2012

As an ongoing research at the studio, and in the ocasion of our Greenland visit for the Venice Biennale, we are testing the properties of biaxially-oriented polyethylene terephthalate, or commonly known as mylar, as a light weight insulation material in the Arctic. To test the different binding methods (glue, sub zero tape) and the resilience of […]

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 […]

CCA exhibit “IMPERFECT HEALTH”

Posted by maparchitects in EXHIBITIONS, INSTALLATIONS, NEWS, POLLUTION, RESEARCH on October 25, 2011

We will be exhibiting our Quarantinable Farm and Domestic Isolation Unit projects at the CCA’s exhibition “IMPERFECT HEALTH” which includes OMA, SANAA, Morphosis, MVRDV. If you are in Montreal, make sure to drop by. Health is a focus of contemporary political debate in a moment of historically high anxiety, but are architects, urban designers and landscape […]

THE STUDIO TO EXHIBIT AT VENICE BIENNALE 2012

Posted by maparchitects in ARCTIC, EXHIBITIONS, NEWS, RESEARCH on September 21, 2011

The studio and HENNING LARSEN ARCHITECTS and are one of the four teams which have been selected to represent the Danish Pavillion at the Architecture Venice Biennale in 2012. The theme of study, FUTURE GREENLAND, aims to look at the challenging future of perhaps one of the most rapidly changing zones in the world. The Danish teams will […]

MAP 004 FLOODS LAUNCHED

Posted by maparchitects in FLOOD, MAP publication, NEWS, RESEARCH on September 20, 2011

MAP 004 FLOODS was launched in the Maldives on the 10th of September, and the sea measuring device survived monsoons and typhoons on two islands. Through out the tests we managed to chart tide surges and sand movements, and we will now continue the project to create an array of measuring devices at selected islands. […]

MAP 004 FLOODS TO BE LAUNCHED IN THE MALDIVES

Posted by maparchitects in FLOOD, MAP publication, NEWS, PUBLICATION, RESEARCH on September 2, 2011

MAP 004 FLOODS will be available to distribute world wide from the 12th of September. The official launch will be on the 10th of September in the Maldives. The firm PMO, have invited David Garcia to an underwater launch of this MAP issue, to underline the challenges that the archipelago faces in the immediate future. […]

GRANT FROM DANISH ART FOUNDATION

Posted by maparchitects in DESIGN, FLOODS, NEWS, RESEARCH on June 6, 2011

The Danish Arts Foundation, architecture review, has awarded the studio, 100.000 danish kroner to research on the spatial implications of sea level rise in Denmark in general and in Copenhagen in particular, with special emphasis of speculative proposal to such an extreme scenario. Just recently, The Danish Meteorological Institute has in May published a report […]

THE STUDIO’S MOBILE ARCTIC UNIT PUBLISHED

Posted by maparchitects in ARCTIC, NEWS, PUBLICATION, RESEARCH on January 29, 2011

Involving HMKV (Germany), Projekt Atol (Slovenia), the Arts Catalyst (United Kingdom), C-TASC (Canada), and Lorna (Iceland), this collaboration focuses on the global, cultural, and ecological significance of the polar regions. These zones are causing current geopolitical and territorial conflicts, while at the same time posing opportunities for transnational and intercultural cooperation. Arctic Perspective uses media […]

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 […]

GREENLAND MIGRATING

Posted by maparchitects in ARCTIC, EXHIBITIONS, NEWS, RESEARCH on September 17, 2010

INTRODUCTION In 1973, the small settlement of Qullissat was closed down due to the demise of its mining industry. Its population migrated to Ilulissat and took an important part of the community with them; their meeting space, their church. Today, this building stand as a symbol of how meeting spaces are of vital importance to […]

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 […]

SHADOW ORGANISTRUM

Posted by maparchitects in NEWS, RESEARCH on June 20, 2010

Inspired by the 13 century musical instrument, and working with the rhythm and tempo created by the human arm, the Shadow Organistrum tests interactive forms of virtual space. This device creates a continuously random link between the user, as they turn the lever, and the space that surrounds them. The installation puts into question the […]

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 […]