Consultancy
Duas Barras – Brazil
2008The project comprises 40 villas, a hotel, and a stand-alone destination of programmatic elements yet to be defined. Of primary importance to the client is the creation of place.
Skills Exchange at the Serpentine Gallery
2007With a view to encouraging intergenerational collaboration and dialogue, and the development of creative activities that are both stimulating and challenging, Skills Exchange will bring together age and experience with youth and ambition by fostering relationships between older people and artists, writers, designers and architects.
European Kunsthalle, Cologne
2006The project Spaces of Production that has been integrated into the foundation phase of the European Kunsthalle explores the spatial conditions and potential of Cologne as well as in other urban situations in Europe.
NHS SLAM – Mental Health Ward
2006Miessen and Murphy set up a working relationship with two Mental Health wards in London, trying to understand the realities and needs in terms of design in a specific situation. The main emphasis in this scenario was focusing on low-budget, easy to introduce designs that would change existing physical conditions and deliver measurable benefits to both patients and staff.
General Public Agency
2005As a spatial consultant and researcher, Markus Miessen has worked on a variety of projects for General Public Agency in London.
Walsall Council: An Urban Line
2005It is our believe that a building itself will not deliver such ambition. We are interested in ways of triggering social interaction in order to stimulate a potential market: a clientele that engages with the site as a piece of public space and therefore starts to identify with it.
Substitune®
2004As a reaction to the ongoing redevelopment of London’s King’s Cross interchange, the introduction of a service-interface attempts to create an economically independent health service, which operates autonomously from Borough-specific National Health Service (NHS) funding.