MAP Architects is delighted to have been chosen by Semersooq Municipality in Nuuk to design two spaces in the Imaneq main street. Challenged by harsh climate and snow accumulation, light extremes and dense fog conditions, Nuuk’s town centre is experiencing a revival and a new approach to public spaces. We look forward to collaborating with Kommuneqarfik […]
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 […]
Due to the exceptional relationship between the human population of Svalbard (2500) and the polar bear population (3000), the encounter between the two species occurs often, and not necessarily in the best of terms. Although the bears are protected by strict laws, no one is allowed outside zone 10 (urban area of Longyearbyen) with out […]
Placed on the remnants of an old titanium mine and at the mouth of the Jøssingfjord, Norway, the museum proposal plays with relationships between the vertical and horizontal landscape skyline and mining typologies as spatial design. Housing geological and mining museums, the spaces provide exhibition venues and educational facilities, inviting the outdoors landscape to be […]
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 […]
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 which […]
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 […]
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 […]
