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mOOO letter to macau

 

#mOOO1 Publication sent to Macau DSSOPT

as a proposal for the development of New Urban Zone [#mOOO1 competition site]

 

In July, mOOO team compiled the TOP 36 winning entries for #mOOO1 macau [morphosis] as a publication. The publication has been sent to the Macau government urban planning department DSSOPT as a design proposal for the development of Macau New Urban Zone. 

We hope some of these winning proposals and wild imaginations would catch the eyes of planning officers and materialise in the physical world!

 

Rede de Informação de Planeamento Urbanístico [DSSOPT: Macau’s urban planning department] 

https://urbanplanning.dssopt.gov.mo/pt/index01.php

 

mOOO letter to macau

   

  

Macau Cloud Pavilion

 

Macau Cloud Pavilion

by Kee Yu Xuan from Mackintosh School of Architecture, The Glasgow School of Art

 

Kee Yu Xuan is a postgraduate student of Mackintosh School of Architecture. After graduated from Taylor’s University with Bachelor of Science in Architecture, he has accumulated 18 months of working experience under architecture design studio in Malaysia. As a passionate designer, he is interested in participating more architectural competitions to explore more intriguing design ideas. His goal is to be a licensed Architect while continuing to deepen his expertise in architectural design and finding his own design philosophy. 

 

What inspired the design idea(s):

The scheme aims to transform Macau new reclamation shoreline and intervene more entertaining public activities by creating a water fun palace. The design was inspired by the natural cycle of water and intended to create a self-sustaining micro climate. The overall design created a rainy scenery by inserting all the fun element and water system under an artificial rainy cloud floating on the skyline of Macau. The integration of sustainable fog nozzles and water pumps create a fun water experience at the shore. 

 

Favourite field(s) of study/research/design and future goals:

Kee Yu Xuan is interested in all fields related to the architecture and urbanism. He always positions himself towards the imaginative design and realize fictional ideas to solve urban problems as well as improve build environment. His future goal is to create more provocative design to transform the cityscape and witness his own designs to be realized.

 

Any further comment on / suggestion for the future of Macau:

The casinos, new hotels and entertainment architecture has been over developed in Macau. Without sufficient urban living room, the urban culture of Macau is rapidly being transformed into more private and indoor space which shifting the lifestyles by leading people to stay away from outdoor activities. Nowadays, the over excessive buildings have occupied most of the spaces in the city. Macau has beautiful shorelines and surrounded by water, the amount of outdoor public spaces and urban events should be outnumbered the domestic ones. In addition, the reclamation land has potential to set a new urban agenda for reconnecting people of Macau back to shore by providing more public spaces and gives rise to new physical layout to the city. With the extension of more urban living room and interventions that improve the people daily life, Macau can be transformed into another most liveable city. 


For more of his work, please visit: https://keeyuxuan.wixsite.com/archi

Macau Waterfront Bath Palace

 

Macau Waterfront Bath Palace

by Zijing Gao from University of Michigan

 

Zijing Gao is a Master’s student from Taubman College of Architecture at the University of Michigan with a concentration in design and health.

Gao’s recent work has won the Saarinen Swanson Essay Award for addressing contemporary critical discourse in design and urbanism.

 

What inspired the design idea(s):

  • Robert Venturi’s book “Learning from Las Vegas”, the intersections of the entertainment cultures of Las Vegas and Macau, and the intersections of the 20th century speed urbanism and the 21st century automation challenges.
  • The unique cultural and historical contexts of Macau, how Macau sits in the geopolitical and spatial relationships of Mainland China- Macau- Hong Kong- Taiwan, and how architecture can serve as a gentle, but firm tie of cultures and emotions.
  • The urbanism of Chinese cities vs. the scale of human and the care of bodies.

 

Favourite field(s) of study/research/design and future goals:

The coalescence of architecture, infrastructure and the culture of health under the massive incoming technological advancements of the new 2020s decade.

 

See his Instagram: @notsoarch

Macau: Back to the Ground

 

Macau: Back to the Ground

by Chengzhang Zhang, Xianming Sang from Graduate School of Design, Harvard University

Chengzhang Zhang has an MLA degree from Harvard Graduate School of Design and an MArch+BArch degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing. He’s currently working for Perkins & Will. While studying in Beijing, he spent two years doing projects and research on traditional/urban villages in South China. Thanks to the diverse educational design background, he enjoys the complexity and contradictions that could be revealed at all scales.

Xianming Sang is pursuing his MArch degree in Harvard Graduate School of Design and is currently doing an internship in OMA Rotterdam. Before studying in Harvard, he received a BEng degree in Structural Engineering from The University of Edinburgh. He’s interested in creating inspiring spatial experiences for the public, and believes that the physical experience is the ultimate testimony of architecture.

 

What inspired the design idea(s):

The idea started as an attempt to challenge the existing typology of casino architecture. Today the ground floor of Macau is a battle field between citizen and gambling industry. So, the building volumes took the form of lotus flowers, which taper towards the bottom and liberate the ground. By doing so, we flipped the conventional casino building upside-down and created an open ground floor for the public. The abstracted lotus flowers near the waterfront as a symbol also enhance the city’s identity.

 

Favourite field(s) of study/research/design and future goals:

Chengzhang believes that design is the synthesis of different elements, origins, and pursuits. To him, every situation has a specific design that best answers the question. He considers every person/voice potentially involved in design as stepping stones that push design forward. Thus he believes that architecture is not autonomous, it is instead a pathway to “somewhere”, differing from project to project. By revealing complexity and contradiction through the design process, he believes that “precision” would be the best reward for a good design.

Xianming is interested in searching for archetypes in architecture and translating them into powerful spaces. He travels to a lot of places to compare and understand the diverse built environment in different cultures. He also believes design is for people and by people. In his future career he wants to become an architect practicing thoughtful projects that both benefit local community and inspire everyone.

 

Any further comment on / suggestion for the future of Macau:

The balance between tourism industry and other industries is crucial for Macau’s sustainable future. Tourism and especially short-term tourists can bring good money but can also destroy a city. From the perspective of urban spaces, gambling industry is invading into public spaces that once belong to everyone. As a result, the city is becoming less inhabitable. To address this conflict, the new type of casino architecture in our proposal can be suggested to new developments. So that public spaces can be integrated into the new developments without compromising the profitable area of the developments.

 

For more of his work, please visit: zhangcz15.myportfolio.com

and their instagrams: @chengzhang_zhang | @x.m.sang

snapshot of entries

Thank you for your patience! It’s been more than a month since we began the evaluation process and we are thrilled to announce the 36 shortlisted entries selected by our jurors! These entries are now eligible for Public Voting on our Facebook page – A total number of 3 entries will be awarded the People’s Choice based on the most REACTIONS (e.g. LIKES, HAHA, SAD will also be counted towards total votes) so go now and share your design entries with your friends and fellow architectural designers!

The total number of REACTIONS will be recorded on 12 DEC 2019 11:59 pm GMT. Meanwhile, stay tuned on our Facebook and Instagram page as we enter the next evaluation phase. 3 Winners, 12 Finalists & 3 People’s Choice awards will all be announced together at the end of December / early January (subject to evaluation time). 

Link to Public Vote

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NICOLA CAMPRI

NICOLA CAMPRI

Partner
Fosbury Architecture
Italy
GIACOMO ARDESIO

GIACOMO ARDESIO

Partner | Architect
Fosbury Architecture | OMA
Italy

 

We are honoured to have the Partners of Fosbury Architecture to be on our #mOOO1 jury panel. 

Fosbury Architecture is a collective of design and research.

Fosbury’s work has been awarded prizes in various international contests, including Europan13 (Leeuwarden), the Museum of Natural Sciences (Turin), YAC (Bologna) and Recycling Socialism (Tallinn Architecture Biennale).

Fosbury took part in the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2016, and has been invited to display its work as part of various group exhibitions, such as: Re-Constructivist Architecture, Ierimonti Gallery (New York) and RIBA (London); Adhocracy (Athens); Re-Drawing the Theory Re-Drawing the House (Milan); and Capitalism is Over, (Milan, Fuori Salone 2017).

The collective was the youngest Italian group chosen to take part in the Chicago Architecture Biennial in 2017, Make New History.

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Check out their work at: https://fosburyarchitecture.com/ or https://www.instagram.com/fosburyarchitecture/. 

Conceptual Drawing of Fun Palace, Cedric Price

macau [ morphosis ]: WATERFRONT FUN PALACE is our first architecture competition to invite architecture students, young architects, landscape architects and planners to envision: What could be post-casino entertainments for Macau? Like the original Fun Palace was conceived to promote art, culture, technology and science or the 2014 reinterpretation: FUN PALACES realised the utopian idea in many communities across the UK, and internationally, to encourage cultural participation.

  

The original Fun Palace –

is an architectural concept co-created by theatre director Joan Littlewood and architect Cedric Price in 1961:

“Choose what you want to do … dance, talk or be lifted up to where you can see how other people make things work. Sit out over space with a drink and tune in to what’s happening elsewhere in the city. Try starting a riot or beginning a painting – or just lie back and stare at the sky”

Conceptual Drawing of Fun Palace, Cedric Price
Conceptual Drawing of Fun Palace, Cedric Price
Conceptual Drawing of Fun Palace, Cedric Price
Concept of Fun Palace
Pompidou Centre, inspired by the idea of Fun Palace
Conceptual Drawing of Fun Palace, Cedric Price


However, the Fun Palace never realised.

 

The new interpretation of Fun Palace – 

the utopian idea remained; it materialised differently. In 2014, the Fun Palaces project kick-started an experimental approach — an annual festival takes over cities with temporary fun palaces — on 4 and 5 October across the UK and far away

In the spirit of a ‘laboratory of fun’, we launch the mOOO’s first architecture competition to create a platform to discuss a simple yet challenging idea of social spaces for fun. We revitalised a utopian vision that serves as a particular lens to look at the city of Macau and thus, it creates a focus to initiate a productive discussion. What is next for Macau?

Competition :  #mOOO1 macau [ morphosis ] 

External Resources 1: Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL

External Resources 2: Fun Palaces

 

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Zeth Ko

Zeth Ko

Senior Architect
Snøhetta
Hong Kong
 
 
William Tam

William Tam

Founder and Principal
ARVA
Hong Kong
 
 
Zeth Ko is a senior architect at Snøhetta. He co-chairs the Young Members Committee of the Hong Kong Institute of Architects and represents the institute in the Committee on Young Architects of ARCASIA. His devotion in developing high-rise office, cultural and educational projects shows how architecture mediates between tension and constraints in design and coordination processes.

 

After 25 years working at London Dockland Development Corporation in the UK and Rocco Design Ltd. in Hong Kong, William set up Arva Ltd. in 2015. With a series of award winning projects, William has developed a reputation for innovative design and pragmatic execution ranging from offices, residential, urban complexes, hotels, schools, art and cultural facilities, including museums, galleries and performance related facilities, civic buildings, such as government headquarters. He has been involved in a number of competition and award winning projects including the Kai Tak Residential Development in Hong Kong, Hefei TOD Urban Complex in An Hui, China, Chu Hai University College in HK, Okura Hotel in Taipei, Guangdong Museum in Guangzhou, HKSAR Government Headquarters in Tamar, Yunnan Museum, East Kowloon Cultural Complex, IFC urban complex and Airport Express HK Terminal, and the West Kowloon Cultural District in HK.

Alongside with practice, William is the Associate Professor of Practice at the University of Hong Kong, and the Adjunct Associate Professor at the Polytechnic University of HK. He also lectures on a range of subjects from urbanism, architectural typologies such as hotel, civic buildings etc.,  to the application of architectural technologies including façade and passive sustainable methodology around the region.

ZHA Morpheus photo by Ivan Dupont

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Zaha Hadid Architects joining macau [ morphosis ] Jury Panel –

Zaha Hadid Architects joining Jury Panel #mOOO1

We are honoured to announce that two jurors from Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) are joining the Jury Panel for our first competition: #mOOO1 macau [ morphosis ] . 

Viviana Muscettola

Viviana Muscettola

Associate Director at ZHA

MICHELA FALCONE

MICHELA FALCONE

Senior Architect at ZHA

 

Viviana Muscettola, Associate Director of Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA), has worked for a number of different practices in China, the Netherlands and Italy. She is a registered architect in both the UK and Italy. She has been working on a wide range of international projects as a Project Architect and Project Director. She is also the Project Director of Morpheus Hotel in Macau. 

 

Michela Falcone has work experience in France, Netherlands, Thailand and England, where she is currently working as Senior Architect at ZHA. Her work is focused on complex geometry and digital methodologies applied across scales, from urban visions to ecological mobile systems.

 
ZHA Morpheus photo by Ivan Dupont
ZHA Morpheus photo by Ivan Dupont
ZHA Morpheus photo by Ivan Dupont
ZHA Morpheus photo by Virgile Simon Bertrand
ZHA Morpheus photo by Ivan Dupont
ZHA Morpheus photo by Virgile Simon Bertrand
ZHA Morpheus photo by Virgile Simon Bertrand

 

Viviana Muscettola’s comments on Morpheus Hotel in Macau: 

Macau’s buildings have previously referenced architecture styles from around the world. Morpheus has evolved from its unique environment and site conditions as a new architecture expressly of this city.

The expertise of all members of the Morpheus team has created new possibilities for architecture. The comprehensive parametric model combined all of the hotel’s aesthetic, structural and fabrication requirements and will radically change how our built environment is planned and constructed.

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Morpheus Hotel by team ZHA has received numerous international awards. These include 2019 Building of the Year Award by voted by readers of ArchDaily, the Prix Versailles Award and most recently the CTBUH Award of 2019 Best Tall Building Worldwide. TIME Magazine also listed Morpheus Hotel as one of the World’s Greatest Places in terms of quality, originality, innovation, sustainability and influence.

 

other international projects by Zaha Hadid Architects

ZHA 520 W 28th Street by photographer Hufton+Crow
ZHA 520 W 28th Street by photographer Hufton+Crow
ZHA 520 W 28th Street by photographer Hufton+Crow
ZHA 520 W 28th Street by photographer Hufton+Crow
ZHA Fornbuporten Station Platform render by VA
ZHA Fornbuporten Station Platform render by VA
ZHA Fornebu Senter Station West Entrance render by VA
ZHA Fornebu Senter Station West Entrance render by VA
ZHA Fornebu Senter Station East Entrance render by VA
ZHA Fornebu Senter Station East Entrance render by VA
ZHAGenerali Tower by photographer Luke Hayes
ZHAGenerali Tower by photographer Luke Hayes
ZHA Generali Tower by photographer Hufton+Crow
ZHA Generali Tower by photographer Hufton+Crow
ZHA MAXXI by photographer Iwan Baan
ZHA MAXXI by photographer Iwan Baan
ZHA MAXXI by photographer Iwan Baan
ZHA MAXXI by photographer Iwan Baan
ZHA Aquatics Centre by photographer Hufton+Crow
ZHA Aquatics Centre by photographer Hufton+Crow
ZHA Aquatics Centre by photographer Hufton+Crow
ZHA Aquatics Centre by photographer Hufton+Crow

 

Both of our jurors from Zaha Hadid Architects have extensive experience in projects based in Asia, especially in Macau. The mOOO team is sure that they would evaluate all our competition entries in the most fitting ways. 

While there is no doubt that the design of Morpheus Hotel has a great influence on the city-scape of Macau, we are yearning to see what creative proposals we will receive that could transform the city of Macau. 

 

 

Competition :  #mOOO1 macau [ morphosis ] 

Website Link : https://www.zaha-hadid.com/

Instagram Link : @zahahadidarchitects

 

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macau [ morphosis ] first jurors & archigraphics –

macau [ morphosis ] first jurors announced

We are delighted to announce that the first two jurors of  #mOOO1 macau [ morphosis ] have been confirmed. 

Negar Moghtadaei and Yashar Montazeri, Founders at Tarkib Studio, will be joining us on our #mOOO1 competition jury panel! 

Negar Moghtadaei

Negar Moghtadaei

Founder & CEO at Tarkib Studio

Yashar Montazeri

Yashar Montazeri

Founder & CEO at Tarkib Studio

Their unique graphical architectural drawing style is frequently featured amongst international platforms.

We are honoured to have them on board for our first design competition! Who better to judge a competition then our experts in aesthetic architectural designs equipped with advanced graphical skills themselves?

 

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Their impressive drawing standard is what the mOOO team would like to see in our design entries!

 

A lot of their design drawings are composed by three drawings in sequence and in a row. Even though different drawings showcase different details of designs, they share a coherent and stunning graphical language. 

 

This type of presentation is similar to a triptych and more or less goes in line with mOOO’s submission requirement.

 

The word triptych (pronounced trip-tick) has its origins in the Greek ‘triptykhos‘ meaning “three-layered.” It is, quite simply, a picture that is painted or printed on three panels.  – Artist Helen South

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A triptych has a lot of benefits over other forms of layouts –

  • To give the art a narrative in the beginning, middle, and end sense of a story.
  • To continue a theme along with three pieces.
  • To examine a subject from multiple scales, perspectives or with varying techniques.
  • To show the progression of a subject, such as its growth or decline.
  • To showcase three separate elements that are related and complement each other.
  • To break up a very large piece for easier transport, storage, and display.

 

As architectural designers and young professionals, our drawings should not only describe the design concepts. They should be aesthetically pleasing at the same time even to the untrained layman’s eyes. Even the best architectural designs could fall victim to poor graphics presentations. The quality of design drawings is crucial to getting the attention and exposure we young designers would need to flourish. 

 

To take a close look at their internationally recognised design work, click on Instagram and their website links below!

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Competition :  #mOOO1 macau [ morphosis ] 

Website Link : https://tarkibstudio.com/

Instagram Link : @tarkibstudio

 

 

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