Projects / Professional Practice

Projects / Professional Practice

Professional Practice

  • 2003-... Co-founder and co-director of marcosandmarjan design limited, registered company in the UK.
  • 2000 Co-founder and co-director of marcosandmarjan, London UK.
  • 2000 Freelance architect, Bolzano/Bozen, Italy.
  • 1999 Giencke &Co, collaboration on projects and competitions in architectural practice, Graz, Austria (major projects: Free University Brixen – third prize, Rhodarium Bremen, Mega-BauMax Klagenfurt – built, University Bolzano), collaboration in layout and organisation of publications (Volker Giencke, published; and Toppings, published).
  • 1996 Arge Plan – Trebo, collaboration in architectural practice, Bolzano/Bozen, Italy.
Built Projects, Installations and Prototypes
  • 2010 Kitchen of the Future (Design team: marcosandmarjan), research and design of a prototype, with TIS innovation park Bozen (in progress).
  • 2009- Church façade for the Ermida Nossa Senhora da Conceição, Lisbon (Design team: marcosandmarjan with Unit 20 – in progress).
  • 2009- Recording Studio at the Working Men’s Club in Bethnal Green, London (Design team: marcosandmarjan with DS10 – in progress).
  • 2009 Nurbster X exhibition installation for the Bartfest 2009 (Design team: marcosandmarjan; Collaboration: Kasper Ax, Luis Reis).
  • 2008 Nurbster IX Dervishing Table exhibition installation for the Bartfest 2008 (Design team: marcosandmarjan; Collaboration: Tim Culverhouse).
  • 2008 Nurbster VIII Blisterwall exhibition installation for the Bartfest 2008 (Design team: marcosandmarjan; Collaboration: Kasper Ax, Ed Calver).
  • 2008 Taichung EXPO 2015 workshop project (Design team: marcosandmarjan and workshop students).
  • 2007 Nurbster VII exhibition installation for the Bartfest 2007 (Design team: marcosandmarjan; Collaboration: Yousef Al-Mehdari; Manufacturing of the LG HI MACS® elements: Rosskopf und Partner; lasercutting: Westcut Waterjet).
  • 2005 75a Feira do Libro, Lisboa Book Fair Lisbon, General Fair layout, built cafeteria and auditorium, Parque Eduardo VII, Lisbon, Portugal (Design team: marcosandmarjan; Collaboration: João Albuquerque, Marco Sacchi, Shui Liu, Wanda Yu-Ying Hu; Graphic Design: Barbara Says; Associate Architects: Guedes Viinikainen; Construction: Contubos; Laser cutting: Lasindustria; Photography: Virigilio Ferreira, Ute Klein, Leonardo Finotti).
  • 2005 Floating Arabesque (Nurbster VI) for ICP Hamburg Germany (Design team: marcosandmarjan).
  • 2005 Splinewall (Nurbster V) exhibition installation with FCU & Bartlett, UCL Digital Architecture Workshop (Design team: marcosandmarjan with workshop students).
  • 2004 Bartsters (Nurbster IV) exhibition installation for Mladá britská architektura - Nové projekty z Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL / Young British Architects, New Projects from the Bartlett School of Architecture, at the Galerie Jaroslava Fragnera, Prague, Czech Republic, sponsored by the British Council Czech Republic (Design team: Marjan Colletti).
  • 2004 Nurbster II exhibition installation for Metaflux at the 9th Architecture Biennial Venice (Design team: marcosandmarjan; Collaborators: Nat Keast, Samuel White; Cutting: Zone Creations).
  • 2004 Nurbster I exhibition installation for Unit 20 at the Bartfest 04 UCL, London UK (Design team: marcosandmarjan with Unit 20 students).
  • 2000 Blursking refurbishment of a flat in the city of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy. Built (Design team: Marjan Colletti).
  • 2000 Sommerbar installation for the Innsbruck University Forum, Austria, design M. Anker (Design team: M. Colletti, M. Malin, H. Stiefel, Studio 3 students, Prof. V. Giencke) (unbuilt).
Competitions
Won/Awarded Competitions
  • 2004 Xiyuan Entertainment Complex winning competition proposal for the People’s Republic of China (Design team: marcosandmarjan with Jia Lu - in competition phase with Jia Lu and Steve Pike; Collaboration: Nat Keast, James Pike, Shaun Siu Chong, Sirichai Bunchua; Renderings: Mark Exon, Kenny Tsui; Model: Keith Watson, Sirichai Bunchua, Andy Shaw).
  • 1997 Meetings competition entries Bolzano/Bozen, Italy (Design team: Marjan Colletti, Sonja Mitterer; Text: Ute Pernthaler) Several Prices in the categories Architecture, Design, Texts.
  • 1995 The Last House competition entry (Runner up), Graz Austria (Design Team: Marjan Colletti, Patrick Überbacher).

Won/Awarded Competitions (Collaboration)
  • 1998 Free University Brixen competition entry for Italy (collaboration at Giencke&Co Graz Austria); Third Price.
  • 1997 Mega-BauMax Klagenfurt Austria, Project Designer of the competition entry ((collaboration at Giencke&Co Graz Austria); Winner. Built.
  • 1997 Tiroler Sparkasse Innsbruck, Austria competition entry for Italy (collaboration at Giencke&Co Graz Austria); Finalist.
Invited Competitions
  • 2008 The Pinnacles, invited private competition for a shopping centre and residential towers, Islamabad, Pakistan (Design team: Marjan Colletti; Collaboration: Kasper Ax, Luis Carlos Reis, Laurence Dudeney, Sara Shafiei, Graham Thompson, Jason Chang).
  • 2008 Dunes invited competition entry for a sales centre and model homes display, Cairo, Egypt (Design team: marcosandmarjan; Collaboration: Tim Culverhouse, Justin Lau, Damjan Iliev, Haroon Iqbal, Abdur Razzak, Arvind Varsani, Heba Layas). Second place.
  • 2008 The Boomerang invited competition entry for a 200m residential tower in Dubai (Design team: marcosandmarjan and Estudio Pérez Arroyo, Madrid).
  • 2005 El Coral invited entry for a museum extension for MEIAC, Badajoz Spain, on the occasion of the Meta.morfosis exhibition (Design team: marcosandmarjan; Collaboration: Shui Liu).
  • 2005 Lofting House invited design proposal for a housing project for Moita/Lisbon ‘A Casa Portuguesa, Mudando a Arte de Habitar’ and the exhibition ‘Experimenta Design’ Lisbon Portugal (Design team: marcosandmarjan; Collaboration: Tze-Chun Wei, Wanda Yu-Ying Hu, Po Chuan).
  • 2005 FIA – Feira Industrial dos Açores, Fajã de Cima invited competition entry and exhibition, Ponta Delgada, Azores Islands, Portugal (Design team: marcosandmarjan; Collaboration: João Albuquerque, Marco Sacchi, Shui Liu).
  • 2004 Bai Jia Zhuang Retail and Office Building study for Beijing, People’s Republic of China (Design team: marcosandmarjan with Jia Lu and Steve Pike).
  • 2003 Co-founder and co-director of marcosandmarjan design limited, registered company in the UK.
  • 2003 New Godet Club Istanbul Turkey (Design team: marcosandmarjan; Collaboration: Jia Lu).
Competition Entries
  • 2009 AgroPolis competition entry for a Self-Sustaining City, Egypt (Design Team: marcosandmarjan; Collaboration: Rocky Marchant, Sana Hasan, Heba Layas).
  • 2002 New Tomihiro Museum of Shi-Ga, Azuma Village competition entry for Japan (Design Team: marcosandmarjan; Collaboration: Andres de Aguilar, Jens Ritter, Steve Pike; Photography: Yu-ying Hu, Steve Pike, Jens Ritter; Renderings: Jia Lu).
  • 2001 100% Rubber, competition proposal for UK.
  • 2001 New England Biolabs competition entry for Massachusetts (Design Team: marcosandmarjan; Collaboration: Shao Ming; Photography: Yu-Ying Hu, Jens Ritter; Molecular Biology: Orlando de Jesus; Engineering: Daniel Bosia / Ove Arup and Partners).
  • 2000 Sommerbar installation for the Innsbruck University Forum, Austria, design M. Anker (Design team: M. Colletti, M. Malin, H. Stiefel, Studio 3 students, Prof. V. Giencke) (unbuilt).
  • 2000 Ottaware competition entry for Canada (Design team: Marjan Colletti).
  • 1998 The Competition screenplay, Innsbruck, Austria.
  • 1998 Six o’clock at the Mexican Rock competition entry for Broad Street, Rhode Island, USA (Design team: Marjan Colletti, Philipp Leube).
  • 1997 Union Square competition entry for San Francisco USA (Design: Marjan Colletti).
  • 1996 Carhouse of the Future competition entry for Innsbruck, Austria.
  • 1996 Phoenix from the Ashes competition entry at the Architekturzentrum, Vienna Austria (Design team: Marjan Colletti).
Competition Entries (Collaboration)
  • 1998 Osterholzer Feldmark competition entry for Bremen Germany (Giencke&Co Graz Austria).
  • 1998 Free University Bolzano/Bozen competition entry for Italy (Giencke&Co Graz Austria).
  • 1998 Rhodarium Bremen competition entry for Bremen, Germany (Giencke&Co Graz Austria).
  • 1996 Europan competition entry for Graz Austria (Giencke&Co Graz Austria).
  • 1996 Kaiserin Elisabethspital 1 Vienna, Austria, competition entry for Italy (Giencke&Co Graz Austria).
  • 1996 Europan competition entry for Graz Austria (Giencke&Co Graz Austria).
Public Service
  • 1991, 92, 94, 96 Bolzano/Bozen Municipality. Independent scrutineer and president of vote counting committee for administrative local and national elections and referenda. Presiding a committee of 5 people.
  • 1991, 1992 Humanistisches Gymnasium Bozen. Tent camp leader. Group of 10 pupils.