International Architectural Competition | Egyptian Museum | Elenberg Fraser

" Our submission responded to the scale of ancient Egypt and the sublime. The scheme proposed to link a network of buildings within the sand dunes and cover the assemblage with an environmental skin to mediate the environment.
The skin moves as it responds to external conditions and is informedby the sun, wind, thermal loads, light levels and fresh air.
The Museum is a cluster of buildings under one roof where the circulation cores and internal network of lane and ramps maximise the complexity of circulatory options and programme adjacencies.".......more

Delta Mountain Complex | Denia Spain | Volido

Area =72.165 m2,(776.778sqf). Budget = 58.212.000€ ($80.914.680)
Mall, Opera House, multiplex cinema, parking for 1200 cars, Hotel and Spa. Located in the town of Denia on the Mediterranean coast of Spain. The program fills the hole of an old quarry and the facade reconstructs the profile of the mountain as it was before the quarry existed. The skin-facade wrinkles in 3 different scales allowing the paths of the passerby in their transit form one part of the building to the other and re-connects the the town, in the bottom with the top of the mountain, where the main monument of the city ,the Moorish castle is located. The new skin-landscape -facade is made from the repetition of a prefabricated geometry and is based in an hexagonal pattern.....more

Pier Museum | Miami | Rael San Fratello Architects

Located at the end of Fifth Avenue leading to South Beach, in the Miami Beach Area, is a “Pier-Museum” which, pointing out to sea, stands a horizontal monument to all the immigrants who have arrived on these shores in search of a better future. This 100 meter long structure points out to sea off Miami Beach and houses a museum in which the personal effects, souvenirs and photos belonging to the new generation of immigrants are exhibited – those who came to the city of Miami from the 1950’s to the 1980’s in search of their own personal American Dream......more