turin ITALY

HONORABLE MENTION - $100

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

cesare GRIFFA, davide GUERRA + federico RIZZO: the gowanus site is A toxic body in which the degeneration of the space is a direct consequence of the industrial and criminal activities that took place here over time. the environmental clean up is a necessity. there is an hygienic problem that needs to be addressed, and social potential that need to be unveiled. a mere sterilization of the site is not enough, there is a need of oxygen to sustain life. the appearance of a gowanus social movement can be the engine of renovation. such a movement requires a specific space that embed also the dark and degenerated aspects of the area within an hygienic project.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

HONORABLE MENTION - $100

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

vanessa KEITH: our project emphasizes public space for the community, a ymca with a twist: art spaces + community spaces + research spaces. the main building, located to the north along fifth street, combines space for art with an environmental research and remediation program, including offices and research labs, which makes the project economically sustainable. we were intrigued by the concept of industrial symbiosis and the notion that the site’s industrial legacy could be transformed into an amenity for local residents. by incorporating site remediation within the program and structure, the project serves as a demonstration of a new locally focused strategy.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

matthew ROSENBERG: the decisions made to construct amusement parks were appropriations from previous architectural fragments stretching all the way back to borromini’s forced perspective at galleria spada or georges-eugène haussmanns paris boulevards of the early 19th century. these extractions have since turned into trends that imagineers have accented with their own insight. these objective models have evolved through the subjective formal and aesthetic decisions that park designers continue to recycle; much in the same way trends became definitive eras in architectural history. theme parks would extract, rearrange, and reapply, so as to create a set of ingredients that if one were missing, the amusement park would no longer “amuse”.

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milan ITALY

sarah MOWER: back to the land. for reasons that are purely instinctual, the emotional fallout of last year’s economic crash seems to be leading a lot of creative people to think fundamentally about the vast outdoors, landscape, the elements. that fascination has been cropping up in many style magazines lately and has caught the imaginations of proenza schouler and rodarte in recent collections. in milan, it has affected raf SIMONS, too.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerpunch: describe your project.

geoffrey ELANDER: where such architectural movements as modernism and dutch architecture were interested in the compositional effects of materiality, this thesis pursues a deeper interrelation of surface and shifting moments of materiality in response to local moments of geometric change, programmatic relationships, social contexts and environmental demands which are presently lacking within the field of architecture.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

chris ANTHONY: a metaphor for a sinking city…there are two venices in the world: one is the floating city in italy, the other is the palm tree-lined california beach. venice is a series of photographs documenting a post-global warming world. it could either be a sunken venice (italy) or a washed-away venice (california); in either case, its survivors are struggling to make it.

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new york NEW YORK

press release: theverymany (marc fornes + skylar tibbits + mat staudt), have recently designed and built an installation, echinoids, at bridge gallery nyc, part of the larger show wild child, by peter macapia. echinoids is the fourth in a series of built installations proposing aperiodic packing algorithms that provide a system of self-similar building modules and combine to approximate full scale surfaces.

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belgium

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

frederikVANHOUTTE: in retrospect strange symmetry is an attempt to break rules. it is not a true project in the sense that it was created with a purpose along some coherent timeline. it evolved over a couple of years in jumps and is still evolving. strange symmetry superficially ties in with popular concepts like self-similarity, complexity and, god-forbid, emergence but holds no philosophical ambition. it tries to get rid of the paradoxical familiarity of fractals: despite an infinity of detail, the julia and mandelbrot sets hold no surprises, nor do the more common strange and chaotic attractors.

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

evan m LITVIN + andreas TJELDFAAT: in our exploration of surface-form derived from a logic-based composition, we were initially drawn to both the fragility and translucent properties that coffee filters offer. the complexity of this project comes from the strata of organizational components starting with the most basic element: the cone.

university of pennsylvania school of design

studio instructor: simon KIM

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london ENGLAND

marloes TEN BHOMER: cutting edge, distinct shoe designs offer an alternative to existing design languages and typologies. they have a design language that is built on clean lines, materials, and construction techniques that are closer to design and architecture than women’s fashion. they allow women the incredibly rare chance of freedom from conventional style clichés and codes, because they do not conform to the existing codes.

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