GUILLERMO ARANDA-MENA

BELL SHAPE: The Built-Environment Learning Laboratory is the first of RMIT's SHAPE electives initiative in which students and academics directly engage with planning and architectural interventions in Melbourne's Central Business District. Studio partners include the City of Melbourne, Melbourne Metro Rail Authority and private sector sponsors. The studio is truly collaborative across built-environment disciplines including planning, architecture, landscape architecture, construction management and civil engineering. The studio engages with social and economic infrastructure projects, such as planning and designing a new station for Melbourne Metro CBD North. The studio integrates tools, technologies and Cloud-based BIM services. Teaching Team Planning: Ian Woodcock Architecture: Guillermo Aranda-Mena Landscape: Karolina Bartkowicz Civil Engineering: Ron Wakefield Supper-imposing Koolhas in Melbourne CBD Guillermo Aranda-Men...

Basel design competition An international competition on Urban Identity for the city of Basel, Switzerland has sparked me to think on the overall topic of identity. The dictionary defines Identity as: [mass noun]   The fact of being who or what a person or thing is:  i.e. "I want to develop a more distinctive architectural identity" [as modifier] (of an object) serving to establish who the holder, owner, or wearer is by bearing their name and often other details such as signature or photograph: ie. an identity card. A close similarity or affinity: an identity between the company's own interest and those of the local community. Origin: Later 16th Century. In the sense "quality of being identical". From late Latin Identicas, from Latin idem "same". Over this month, I will be developing ideas for a project to create/strengthen urban identity. Thinking of what identity means and how this concept relates to a particular city is important. Q...