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Involving HMKV (Germany), Projekt Atol (Slovenia), the Arts Catalyst (United Kingdom), C-TASC (Canada), and Lorna (Iceland), this collaboration focuses on the global, cultural, and ecological significance of the polar regions. These zones are causing current geopolitical and territorial conflicts, while at the same time posing opportunities for transnational and intercultural cooperation. Arctic Perspective uses media art and the research of artists to investigate the complicated, global, cultural, and ecological interrelations in the Arctic, and to develop concepts for constructing tactical communications systems and a mobile, eco-friendly research station, which will support interdisciplinary and intercultural collaborations. Scheduled to run over a period of years, this project will involve workshops, field work in the Arctic, publications, exhibitions, and a conference. The Studio and architect Alanna Baudinet collaborated on a this project for a mobile arctic unit which is include...

Architects and architecture students are increasingly concerned with food production, designing everything from edible schoolyards (Work AC) to pig skyscrapers (MVRDV), as well as entirely new urban landscapes of cultivation (Nicholas de Monchaux's Local Code). But what about an edible architecture—an architecture that is designed to be consumed, whether by humans or our companion species? Back in 2007, I taught a workshop on hybrid programming to architecture students at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen. Part of the aim with this five-day-long exercise was to find alternatives to the traditional model-making materials, which at this school did not go much beyond cardboard and glue. To achieve this, on the  first workshop day, I took the students to the local supermarket, and presented the store to them as a resource for model-making materials. From packaging to Saran wrap, and pills to broom hair, I surveyed the store with them, as a palace of alternative construction materials. To...

The Weaving Pavillion is now finished at the Village, downtown Beijing, where it will be the main centre for the NOTCH 10 Art and Culture festival . It is the first weaved structure (no glue, screws or nails) to function as facade, roof, column and foundation. This pavilion wished to explore the potential of weaving as an alternative method of construction in architecture. While traditional building methods of construction are based on stapling (bricks), casting (concrete) and welding elements (space frames and trusses), weaving offers structural stability with weaving as the only binding solution.  The project is the result of a two year research, which started in Japan. Thanks to Liberty, Isobel and Max for their fantastic efforts on site.  More here. Pavilion: David Garcia, David Garcia Studio . Onsite team / David Garcia Studio: Liberty Adrien, Isobel & Max Gerthel. Electronic Ecosystem: Jacob Sikker Remin & Mogens Jacobsen . Composition: Morten Riis. PCB Design: D...

David Garcia Studio's submission for the International  UNESCO Delta City of the Future competition , has been awarded first prize. Out of 57 teams world wide, and after being one of the 7 teams selected in the first round, we were invited to Rotterdam to take part in the final, 24-hour competition session. The brief aimed to give solutions to the flood risk area of the harbour and the redevelopment taking place in Rotterdam. We were announced as winners at the Delta Climate Change Conference. More to come.

The Bartlett School of Architecture has awarded David Garcia with a Teaching Fellowship in Architectural Design. He will be teaching  BSc, Unit 3 together with Jan Kattein,  during the course 2010/11, starting this September. The Bartlett School of Architecture is part of a truly multidisciplinary Faculty of the Built Environment in world-class University College London. It is located at the heart of the world's largest cluster of innovative architecture and engineering firms in London. It attracts an extraordinary variety of staff, students and international visitors, all of the highest calibre.

David Garcia Studio has been published by DAMDI , in both ARCHITECTURE MODEL, LEAD TO DESIGN and PORTFOLIO books. We look forward to see these great works in the bookstores.

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 minimum environmental impact. To achieve this, we aim to avoid “building” by traditional means, which would implicate transporting materials foreign to the continent, which never leave Antarctica again. Instead, the “architecture” is holed out in a super large iceberg (about 2.5 square kilometre area), which would eventually melt in 7 to 10 years time. Icebergs are compacted snow, which only become ice at a depth of 25 metres, and as igloos have demonstrated trough out the centuries, snow is a very efficient insulation. Caterpillar excavators, traditionally used in the Antarctic to move and clear snow, would cut out the spaces inside the iceberg. The geometric logic of the m...