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MNA information:
> introduction
> sustainable architecture
> collaborative architecture
COLLABORATIVE ARCHITECTURE
MN+A believes in actively working
in a collaborative way, using people
with different creative skills to give
the architectural projects greater
power and meaning. By shaping and
moulding the overall volumes and
interiors to carry additional visual
symbols and stories, we have been
able to create unique spatial forms
out of the same materials that are
the traditional fabric of contemporary
architecture, but in addition have
these buildings also be redolent with
other conscious associations and
memories.
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In our work, the designing of spaces
to include cultural ideas with all
their implied associative meanings
begins as an integral part of the
project's initial conception, so that
the emerging 'collaborative' ideas
about unique 'place making' also
functionally fits the building's brief.
Included in these stories are some
varied attempts at psychological
ʻplace makingʼ. In these projects, the
functional aspects of the different
layouts have been overlaid with visual
imagery designed to evoke a positive
emotional response on the part of
the ordinary, mainly architecturally
illiterate, people who have to live in
and use these buildings.
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These projects often include
major contributions by artists and
craftspeople and the sum total of
this collective creative interaction is
always greater than the individual
efforts of each participant, considered
in isolation. It is the way by which
lasting cultural values are formed.
significant MN+A Collaborative Projects include:
HJH Hotel
IXL Redevelopment Strahan Visitor Centre Bungawitta
Corumbene
Kanangra
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