05.15.2015
STAR APARTMENTS
IN THE PLAN MAGAZINE
Star Apartments is the cover feature in the May issue of Italy’s The Plan magazine. The article includes photographs by acclaimed international photographer Iwan Baan paired with a descriptive essay by noted architectural critic and curator Raymund Ryan. In his description of the completed project, Ryan notes similarities with other MMA supportive housing projects but highlights new spatial achievements and construction techniques in Star. He observes that the “project opens up the protected communal space to light and air and views, a liberation that is not simply a compositional or morphological experiment – it results directly from carefully examined methods of construction.” Noting the project’s unique stacking of pre-fabricated units as an example, Ryan asserts that “Maltzan’s particular contribution to design culture was his attention to topography and to perception, to physical and visual experience as the human body encounters and moves through building mass and morphology.”
