GUILLERMO ARANDA-MENA

From Central House to Tree House: a green tower for Melbourne It has been a while since my last exhibition. The G-LAB has been testing ideas for a green tower in Melbourne. It has tested design, materials and passive house technologies to design and build a green tower on Collins Street, better known as the Paris end of Melbourne. In this post you will see image collages of what a predominantly residential green tower would look in Melbourne's City Business District. This work is presented utilising photomontage techniques and digital paper-cuts utilising photographs, sketches and renders. It is playful and speculative in nature. It aims to awaken my client's appetite for a green tower. Precedence include projects such as Bosco Verticale by Stefano Boeri from Milano and work by  Kisho Kurakawa from Japan, Emilo Ambasz and Rafael Viñoly from New York. Other inspirations include the not-so-well-known work on parks, playground design and landscaping by Cesare Leonardi fro...

MIELE KITCHEN CONCEPT COMPETITION [Melbourne - 2016] The Timelessness of ‘Forever Better’ by Guillermo Aranda-Mena Image 1: Imagine yourself at the beginning of time when mankind was about to invent his first tool; a simple tool to survive, prepare, eat... Imagine yourself when fire was discovered and the first dishes prepared - the first simple hearths - the precursors to the Miele ideal. Image 2: Fast forward and imagine a time when agriculture provided means to end the nomadic lifestyle and to set up a place that was the home, and at the centre the family hearth - the stove, the kitchen - Miele. Image 3: Imagine now The Renaissance, where in the true sense of ‘Forever Better’ the kitchen continues to grow, where in castles the 14 course wedding banquet was pivotal in cementing an alliance between a ruling family in a yet to be united Italy and a monarchy in Spain or France. Here are the first commercial kitchens where the ideals of efficiency, performance, desig...

Guillermo Aranda-Mena©2015