los angeles CALIFORNIA

robust morphologies & emergent tectonics

project team: steven ma/ tri do/ sanne kampinga

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

“the intercalated urban system extends to the integration of horizontal, vertical, and diagonal movement at a range of speeds and viscosities. movement patterns develop as an emergent system of organization, and in combination with tectonic ordering systems, challenge the tyranny of centralized core and associated striation of space. this urban topology implies seamless connectivity through circulation patterns, extending into and reprogramming adjacent systems and spaces within the moma.

through the analysis of these circulation patterns, and the implementation of switch-stops and a distributed core, morphological patterns are extracted to inform the overall structure, organization, and programming of the tower.”

sP: what or who influenced this project?

jussieu library: oma, hotel pro-forma: n_architects, hernan diaz alonso, onl

sP: what were you reading/listening to/watching while developing this project?

ratatat, manu chao, interpol, pamphlet architecture 27: tooling

sP: whose work is currently on your radar?

ben van berkel, hitoshi abe, toyo ito, oyler/wu, hernan diaz alonso, zaha hadid, mad