Leisure / Culture Project - 2013 marcosandmarjan with Richard Beckett / RMJM The Pearl, regeneration of Union Squareand proposal of new Etihad Museum, Dubai UAE [unbuilt].
Design team:a collaboration between RMJM and marcosandmarjan with Richard Beckett
NEOARCH covers the experimental work of Marcos Cruz, his distinct research and pedagogy in the Bio-ID and C-Biom.A groups, as well as projects of mam/marcosandmarjan.
The work investigates the impact of innovative technology on current design practices, in particular what concerns the advent of synthetic life in architecture. It looks at advances in new digital media and biotechnology within a design context that is increasingly more interdisciplinary, while simultaneously focusing on a new spatial, programmatic and linguistic dimensions of architecture