This is where the MMR is sited today. You find them in Avarua, close to "Te Atukura" in the old telecom building. - It must be hard to work there. Very small rooms. Not enough natural daylight. All rooms are packed with office material, hardly enough space to have two persons in one room. Everything is too small. - Go there, have a look into the laboratory, try to find a room where you can have a meeting with an international delegation. This building administrates 99% of the country ...

 

  View from the street coming from the international airport, heading towards Avarua. The capital of the Cook Islands. No traffic in the midday heat. But wait until the rushhour
begins, then you can´t cross the street for 5 minutes. The site slopes down one meter from street level to harbourplanform (behind building) and 3 meters form streetlevel
to the harbour waters. The new building will have to cope with there 3 meters hight difference. - Notice. This photo has been taken before the cyclones hit the buildingsite.
The buildingsite is like a peninsula. As the building will be visible from all perspectives, even from above, it has to have a shape like a sculpture. No hidden backside here.
The street you see is the main road. A ringstreet. During a week every citizen of this island passes the MMR a few times. - The building will be very close to the waterfront ...

 

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You can go back to the final concept page - here