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David Garcia Studio inaugurated this prize winning installation in September 2009. Combining simple geometry with playful intentions, the 6 elements were designed to enhance play and inspire two different age groups of a newly built kinder-garden in Drejens, Denmark.  Shifts in scale and direction, and variations in space, from intimate to shared and open, define the social qualities of the interventions. But it is the simplicity of the compositions, which allow for open interpretations, that has received so many compliments and have proven to be an instant hit with children. The installation was carried out in collaboration with artist Pernille Worsøe and designer Martin Larsen. The works were manufactured by boat builders Årøsund Bådværft.

www.MAP.davidgarciastudio.com MAP (Manual of Architectural Possibilities) is a publication of research and visions; research into territories, which can be concrete or abstract, but always put into question. Map is not a magazine (it only has two pages) and is not a book (it is issued twice a year). Map presents itself as a folded poster (A1) where information is immediate, dense and objective in one side, and architectural and subjective on the other. Map is a guide to potential actions in the built environment, a folded encyclopedia of the possible, a topography of ideas, or a poster on the wall. MAP 001 ANTARCTICA is introduced with a text by Peter Cook The first issue of MAP has cast itself upon the unknown, but also the very physical. Although the Antarctica has only been a building site for slightly over 100 years, the scenario is, to say the least, disastrous and marvellous at the same time. Building is almost impossible in some areas, but Mac Murdo Base Station seems a mining ...

The history of the skyscraper is inherently linked to that of the elevator. It is interesting to note that although structurally speaking the skyscraper has evolved enormously, it is still a vertical structure, dictated by the elevator, which in its effort to go up, it only meets a dead end. The lack for alternative methods of moving through floors (the elevator’s refusal to bend) has determined the typology of the skyscraper for the last hundred years or so. This proposal wishes to expand the understanding of high-rises, beyond a high FAR structure, or an extrusion of a plan. The proposal’s main concept is simple: that the idea of moving up in a building can also mean moving to somewhere else in the urban fabric, taking the pedestrians’ relationship to the city as decisive design factor. The concept converts the traditional structure into a double-ended skyscraper, making it rise and fall again, linking two sites and transforming the structure into a wormhole in the city. As thus, the...

David Garcia will be lecturing on the 4th of September at 17:30, at the Anual ASAE Symposium, where MAP publication will be introduced. ASAE is an annual two-day seminar at the School of Architecture, Lund University. It celebrates the beginning of the academic year. The aim is to keep an annual ongoing discussion about international education programs and architectural education strategies. ASAE promotes encounters between different schools of architecture in Europe, America and other countries, taking into consideration the objectives of the School of Architecture in Lund: Architectural Design, Experiment and Construction. ASAE is meant to be a public event and the ambition is to also engage local and international architects, teachers, students, politicians etc. in an open discussion about architecture and design. The first ASAE was held in the autumn of 2003 and has since then become an ongoing autumn semester event at Lund University. Invited Lectures: Sir Peter Cook [CRABstudio...

David Garcia Studio thanks everyone for the smashing success of the MAP 001 Film Festival. Three fantastic days of film and discussions. As a preambul to the upcoming publication MAP, we are showing three films on Antarctica, from the 18th to the 20th of August at 9:30 pm, at DAVID GARCIA STUDIO. All welcome and bring your own chair or pillow and refreshments. TUESDAY AUGUST 18th 9:30 pm “The Crystal Ocean” 1999 Director: Michael Single - Duration: approx 52 mins Award-winning filmmaker Michael Single won an Emmy for his beautifully cinematic look at the icebergs of Antarctica. WEDNESDAY AUGUST 19th 9:30 pm “The Thing” 1982 Director:John Carpenter - Writers:John W. Campbell Jr. and Bill Lancaster Plot: Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people that it kills THURSDAY AUGUST 20th 9:30 pm “Encounters at the End of the World” 2007 Director:Werner Herzog - Writer:Werner Herzog Plot: Filmmaker Werner Herzog travels to A...

David Garcia Studio was invited to Pecha Kucha night in Copenhagen Denmark 2009. Pecha Kucha Night, devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham (Klein Dytham architecture), was conceived in 2003 as a place for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. But as we all know, give a mike to a designer (especially an architect) and you’ll be trapped for hours. The key to Pecha Kucha Night is its patented system for avoiding this fate. Each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each – giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter is up. This keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to show. Pecha Kucha (which is Japanese for the sound of conversation) has tapped into a demand for a forum in which creative work can be easily and informally shown, without having to rent a gallery or chat up a magazine editor. This is a demand that seems to be global – as Pecha Kucha Night, without any pushing, ha...