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Students from two consecutive MDA graduating classes win two architecture competitions in Afghanistan and South Korea

The project for Afghanistan, winner among 1,070 proposals, has already begun construction.

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17/08/16 08:41 Nagore Gil

Just one year ago in 2015, the graduate Franco Morero (Argentina), won together with Manuel Alberto Martinez Catalan (now MDA) on 1st award in the Bamiyan Cultural Center Contest in Afghanistan. Now the students Mario Galiana (Spain) and German Müller (Argentina), as part of the MADe studio team (India), win the 1st award in the international competition for a museum in SuncheonSouth Korea. Both the project in Afghanistan and Korea are integrated into the landscape through the management of the topography and the traditional materials of the region, generating two very powerful sets of great spatial richness.

The proposal for Korea, "The Hidden Cloister"The project seeks to revitalize the old part of the city with a place dedicated to art, carrying out a radical action through an extraction of a purely rectangular space, as if it were a Michael Heizer performance. This strategy makes it possible to generate a new urban relationship between city-river-place through this large subtractiona new link in the heart of the historic city.

The project for Afghanistan, winner among 1,070 proposals, has already begun construction. Look for create a new vital center for communication and ideas exchange. Therefore, the proposal tries not to create a building-object, but rather a place of meeting; a system of negative spaces in the breathtaking landscape of the Buda cliffs that intertwine with the rich cultural activity that the center will foster.

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