AP Valletta participated in the first edition of designMT themed "Where tradition meets innovation’’, with the installation "The Myth of Abundance": adapting the structure of the cabinet of curiosities both as a conceptual framework and as an actual display, the project exhibited a multidimensional journey through historical artifacts, natural specimens, and cultural symbols that reveal the island’s complex relationship with its most precious resource, water.
Full project details →What if the 19th century building of the Osu Salem Presbyterian School was brought back to life with a new purpose? The proposal for the regeneration of this heritage building designed in 1843 and completed in 1865 by the Basel Mission in Accra aims at contributing to safeguarding the spirit of the place while positively impacting the Osu community.
Full project details →Re-imagining a pocket of open space at the Hamrun Secondary School, as a case study testing nature-based solutions.
Full project details →The regeneration proposal for the area of Qormi and Sewda Valley. The project aims at restoring and rewilding the canal crossing the area, bringing the historical water structure of Qormi back and allowing for the natural flow and absorption of rainwater.
Full project details →AP Valletta research on H-BIM (Heritage Building Information Modelling).
Full project details →The project brief intended to explore the potential of the site on which the Dragonara Casino lies whilst also proposing new uses that could be introduced to complement the current facilities.
Full project details →The proposal for a pilot masterplan for the regeneration of the Hastings area in Valletta. The intention is to test and hopefully implement a strategic vision for the country which takes into account post-pandemic considerations on the organisation of urban areas.
Full project details →A regeneration proposal for the Central Public Library area, which aims at injecting new life into the existing building while restoring and enhancing its genius loci, to create e new safe, open, green space.
Full project details →Modalities of performing have developed over the centuries, in adaptation to ever changing social and political conditions.
It is logical that in this moment of crisis of the status quo, spaces for artistic performances need to be reconsidered too.
As global warming changes the climate of the region, the role of public space and agricultural infrastructure as shared commons and as spaces of exchange, will continue to grow in value. The challenging task of imagining one of the most complex German regions in 50 years from now, gave us the opportunity to work on major sustainability-related themes that should be central to any project, in Malta just as in continental Europe.
Full project details →PLAYSPACE consists of a game which prompts children to consider the spaces they inhabit through architecture props and stories. It encourages play and imagination, inviting young participants to create new and fantastical scenarios for the realm of tarmac.
Full project details →This drawing project is set in London, Old Street Roundabout – coined the Silicon Roundabout – yet suffering from cultural amnesia and identified (by us) as an urban non-place.
Full project details →This project originated from work sent by Jon Tarry; a screed drawing 30/180cm on gabriano 200gsm with graphite, water base medium and 3 crossed lines.
Full project details →The drafted outline of the respective runways is a schematic set of boundaries within which the interaction between the land and the moving object, the plane, takes place.
Full project details →Drawing out collapse refers to the investigation of generative methodologies of spatial construction, (building up) and their collapse, (breaking down).
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