Architecture & Design
I am currently part of a team working with an innovative boutique hotel brand on Seattle’s first modular hotel. To be located in the city’s next central business district, South Lake Union, the hotel will consist of 264 fully-prefabricated rooms on top of a site-built ground-floor
Shenzhen Capital Group selected a joint PTW and CCDI proposal in a design competition for its new headquarters in Shenzhen’s Nanshan District. Located on a site that was formerly in the open water of Shenzhen Bay, a 54-story office tower will rise from a 4 story retail
The city of Dongguan, located between Shenzhen and Guangzhou (Canton), is the scene of breakneck development of late. For my first project as a lead designer, I was tasked with designing a 600 square-meter sales office for a multi-tower mixed-use
The civic ‘planning & exhibition center’ is a new and increasingly common typology found in Chinese cities large and small. The lush Dapeng peninsula in the eastern part of Shenzhen municipality is expected to be transformed into an eco-minded resort area
A unique ecological resource for an otherwise densely-populated urban region, the Xiasha district is a rural, coastal setting outside of Shenzhen. FCHA’s second-prize winning proposal for the masterplan project of Xiasha Wander Bay seeks to strike a balance between
Ink Pen / 2013. Quick drawings from my travels in China, as well as my everyday surroundings in the city of Shenzhen.
yangshuo landscapes / ginghui gardens/ historic beijing/
This competition project involved the consideration of a complex list of programmatic requirements. At its core, the Social Welfare Institute will provide a home for over 300 elderly people in its first phase, and 700 children with special
In the Summer of 2010, a coalition of community groups in Charleston, SC organized a design competition for the central hub of a new light rail system. Public meeting/banquet space, storefronts for local merchants, and badly needed affordable office space
The goal of this proposed masterplan is to transform the run-down beachside village of Dongchong on Shenzhen’s Dapeng Peninsula into a thriving eco-friendly resort community for residents and visitors alike. The plan is physically footprint-neutral, and puts special
In December 2013, the Shenzhen Design Center launched a small design competition titled ’10x10x100′ that focused on new approaches to density in urban development and the way architects approach FAR (Floor Area Ratio) parameters. As my exclusive
During my time at Corgan Associates in Dallas, Texas, I was fortunate to play a small role in the billion-dollar project to construct an addition to the city’s historic Parkland Hospital. In collaboration with HDR Architecture, the team at Corgan was tasked with the
This digital drawing exercise was meant to explore how far the plan of an office space could be abstracted while still maintaining some vestige of architectural form and intent. The end product was an image produced by arraying the office plans into columns and extracting
MATTHEW MARANO 