Boxes

This training report outlines my experiences, learning and documentation of small houses while working as an architect at Melling:Morse Architects in Wellington, New Zealand

Territorio no. 68

Titolo Rivista: TERRITORIO Autori/Curatori: Arunjyoti Hazarika Anno di pubblicazione: 2014 Fascicolo: 68 Lingua: Italiano Numero pagine: 5 P. 62-66 DOI: 10.3280/TR2014-068011 Abstract Commercialisation and shopping are often criticised not only in the public and political debate but also in the academic literature. This article probes urban fragmentation, both physical and social, as a cause of the downside of globalisation and other economic forces.

Blog: [O+C=A]

The blog explores unconventional architectural approaches in varied contexts, Landscapes and public realm that challenges our preconceived notion about space and its usage. Credits and sources of Images, videos and other intellectual property of various authors posted on the blog has been specified wherever it is necessary.

Conference: EAAE/ARCC

The well known sentence by Leon Battista Alberti: The house is like a small city and the city is like a big house, stressing a recognized Italian tradition on urban studies, is a brief and clear indication of the Conference themes that underlines the tight connections among Architecture and City. The Conference proposal is to discuss the role of architectural research in relation to issues linked to urban transformation, which are more relevant than ever given the widespread urbanization.

Alstom Grid with Mpartner

The project involves the construction of new production plant for ALSTOM, a French multinational conglomerate in Milan. It will serve as a new headquarter and high performance experimental laboratory of electical equipments. Construction process is undergoing at the site in Sesto San Giovanni, Milan, Italy

Iwan Baan

"Ingenious homes in Unexpected places" In the center of Caracas, Venezuela, stands the 45-story "Tower of David," an unfinished, abandoned skyscraper. But about eight years ago, people started moving in. Photographer Iwan Baan shows how people build homes in unlikely places, touring us through the family apartments of Torre David, a city on the water in Nigeria, and an underground village in China. Glorious images celebrate humanity's ability to survive and make a home -- anywhere.

Urban Hybridization

Collage : Shopping in the landscape presented at laboratorio di progettazione architettonica e urbana 1 for Prof. Fabrizio Zanni PhD course at Politecnico di Milano 2012

Split Box

The Split Box residence in Tuateawa Bay, Coromandel, New Zealand adapts the traditional bach materials, wood and corrugated iron into a spectacular two storey loft. The forward glazing and open planned layout, wouldn't look out of place in a down town Wellington penthouse.

Gerald Melling : Lecture

These few houses are selected from a body of work which responds to an increasingly noticeable demographic shift in domestic habitation in New Zealand - for a variety of reasons, more and people are deciding to live alone.

Super Critical

Landscape as Infrastructure

Some urban theorist and designers in Europe, particularly in Spain have been trying in the last decade or two to find new design expressions for the characterless soup of urban sprawl that one finds within and between many cities today. The Idea is to think landscape as infrastructure for development. It could also be described as designing the glue between developments – a notion of new shared space. The methodology tries to unravel geological and cultural history of the site.

Urban Void

The reaction to the problem of Placa de les Glories as a new Public node is to remain ‘voiceless’. We try to sculpt spaces by going downwards to balance the polarity between the verticality and horizontality and lay an ‘urban carpet’ that forms a collection of different public spaces in that area.

Edge Conditions

Aims and objective of this course is to understand the inherent meaning of edge. What are the tensions and multiple meanings associated with edge? How it can be related to a city or a particular object , place or a situation. What are the conditions that gives definition to an edge? What knowledge and tools we need to work with an edge?

Tsunami Housing

The project involves the construction of Tsunami housing at Kalutara, Sri Lanka, known as fisherman village who lost their houses during the fatal Tsunami in 2006. This project is desgined by Gerald Melling from Melling:Morse architects

Phenomenology

Space concepts tries to explore ideas about phenomenology of space by building models, drawings, photography, writings etc. Spaces can be both architectural and non architectural , conventional and radical, tangible and intangible. All these models are done during an academic project for a pavillion design in Venice.

Autocatalytic Block

Commercialization and shopping are often criticised in both public and political debate, as well as in aca­demic urban literature for producing spaces that are not entirely public and its distortion of the ‘true needs’ of the masses through commercial manipu­lation.

Cubo Milano

The project involves the construction of a new Yamaha store in downtown Milan. It is an architectural integration within an existing industrial complex that overlooks street Tibaldi, the axis of the second circle surrounding the city. Project is developed in collaboration with ARS architects, Milan.

Indus Center : Gujrat, India

The aim of the project – Indus center: “Ideas from the ruins” is to create an atmosphere that will provide the visitors an opportunity to re-live momentarily a Harappan experience. The layout of the buildings and basic ground plan will be adapted and re-invented from the existing plans from the archeological sites of Dholavira, Lothal, Mohenjodaro and Harappa. It shall evolve an architectural vocabulary, which envisions a modern expression of architectural concepts of Indus valley civilization.