london ENGLAND

tom WISCOMBE
extreme integration
friday 22 january, 7.00 at the architectural association school of architecture.
this lecture follows on from the drl phase ii jury which takes place in the lecture hall during the day.

los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project:

sandra e. JOHNSON: throughout generations of architecture, ornament has been applied within the final stages of design, becoming a secondary two-dimensional surface application rather than a transcendiary mechanism. within my project, ornament is rethought and reconfigured to become a generative force; reconciling its eagerness to surpass beyond a product of façade to a relevant author of design. ornament therefore initiates all phases of the architectural argument, developing the formal and aesthetic logic, while also organizing the volumetric and programmatic parameters.

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college station TEXAS

studio description: higher affect
high-rises in the era of sensation

“sensation is what determines instinct at a particular moment, just as instinct is the passage from one sensation to another, the search for the “best” sensation (not the most agreeable, but the one that fills the flesh at a particular moment of its descent, contraction, or dilation).”
gilles deleuze “the logic of sensation”

we live a time of experimentation, of thinking of ways architecture affect us now and in the future. how does architecture feel?

image: emau VEGA

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columbus OHIO

heather ROBERGE / murmur
5:30 pm / knowlton 250
january 20th
heather ROBERGE is a practicing architect and educator in los angeles. she is associate vice chair of the department of architecture at ucla, and is director of the undergraduate program in architectural studies. she teaches graduate courses in design and technology. formerly, as co-principal of gnuform, ms. ROBERGE explored an architecture of effective atmospheres through a vitalist-materialist model of practice. murmur continues these investigations, with a special focus on the spatial, structural and atmospheric innovation made possible by emerging digital design and manufacturing techniques.

new york NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH:describe your project.

joe MACDONALD: conceived as a “gravity-free space of creative imagination,” the ge “healthymagination” showcase developed into an experience organized around three “pods” and a central gathering space. urban a&o, thinc design and local projects partnered to design and produce the event. urban a&o developed the sinuous, organic overhead pod structures and their corresponding ramped floors in catia, which allowed them to rapidly generate the extremely complex, flowing forms that became the signature of the project.

(photos: esto)

additional credits: thinc design, local projects

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lexington KENTUCKY

performa is an advanced graduate seminar taught at the university of kentucky college of design.

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

performa: this work seeks to create multi-performative material systems utilizing optimization, aggregation and efficiency. simple units and semi-finished materials were physically tested in order to extract potential performative characteristics and limits. these limits were negotiated through rigorous digital and physical techniques in order to produce strategies of fabrication.

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ottery st mary UNITED KINGDOM

pery BURGE: radial spreads are made by placing different types of ink and paint over each other. then, when gravity ‘activates’ the spread, causing the ink to move outward, the resulting patterns of ink are photographed. recent work shows how different types of ink react to the force of the spread (by, for instance, forming thin films, or becoming filamentous). different types of ink can be used in conjunction to reveal different parts of the spread. regular shapes in tessellations, underwater 3d forms, and airborne radial spreads have been observed. radial spreads of ink in water can be seen in terms of both art and science. artistic aspects include an exploration of ink textures, and comparisons are made with other natural and man-made materials. parallels between radial spreads and organic life forms are made, and new juxtapositions of the ‘birth, life and death’ of the spreads are found.

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santiago CHILE

1ST PLACE - $1000

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

pablo esteban ZAMORANO + marcos CARDENAS: an art factory, an open public space, a beach, a picnic field, a crop garden, a space for the community and for culture, a land open to the water, the city and the arts. the border condition (water-land) of this site made us think about how these limits could react with each other to create something new. an hybrid space product of a simple movement: the inundation of the site, the analysis of a close up view of the canal and the projection of that into the site as a geometry, to translate what used to be water into land but now as a construction of the memory of the canal. the gowanus canal is now a new public space for the city that brings the canal back to the people.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

2nd place - $500

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

david JAUBERT: given the disparate relationship between the factory typology and public place exemplified by the surrounding context, the project seeks to explore the tension between the two as an impetus for a potential hybrid type. by shifting the ground plane on the site, the project’s parti allows for the multiplicity of the datum rather than it’s displacement, resulting in a site condition that aims to extend the synthesis between the public and private domain.

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bucine ITALY

3rd place - $300

suckerPUNCH: what or who influenced this project?

chiara GAMBASSI + jan KUDLICKA: typical rude ambience of brooklyn,train bridge on one side and the river on the other side. The urbanistic juxtaposition of the industry in the east and the living area in the west. missing of the green places. so we tried to make a project which has got some similar story with the surroundings but with using new materials. create the place with the symbiosis between the park/building

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