los angeles CA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

nick KINNEY: A botanical garden on the verge of collapse, “The Garden” is the result of two different functional agendas. The contest between architecture and plant life plays out as a drama in this project, wherein the architecture is designed to sift the atmosphere for seed, pollen and the like while the plant matter cares only for resource and propagation. As the two functions become intertwined, collapse is imminent and part of the architectural life cycle.

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athens GREECE

Ahylo lab in collaboration with supermanoeuvre and kokkugia are pleased to announce the launch of the apomechanes 2010 studio (seminar and workshop) to be held in Athens this summer, from the 19th of July till the 6th of August.

Apomechanes is an intensive 3-week computational design studio held each summer in Athens, Greece. The studio is devoted to furthering techniques and concepts of algorithmic processes as means for design and fabrication.
Apomechanes brings together individuals from diverse backgrounds and fields of study to discuss, exchange and collaborate on projects that investigate modes of algorithmic and machinic processes in architectural design.

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athens GREECE

Apomechanes 2009 was held in the ex machina theater (από μηχανής θέατρο), located in the center of Athens. This 3 week computational architecture studio explored algorithmic design and fabrication techniques, culminating in the construction of a series of installations at Bios, a contemporary art space in Athens. These projects explored non-linear design methodologies through the development of recursive and self-organising algorithms.

Apomechanes is held annually over summer in Greece and is directed by Ezio Blasetti, Dave Pigram and Roland Snooks.

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los angeles CA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

daniella GOHARI, molly HUNKER, abby KATCHER, and daniel POEI: Point Blank is an exterior panelized rainscreen design, fabricated through the process of milling in foam and vacu-forming plastic. Instead of a tessellation that aggregates with specific rules to create a preconceived design, our panels are meant to aggregate in many orientations and groupings as an index of programmatic elements on the interior.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH will be posting interviews in a new section - in the ring

the third of five interviews will also be featured in the current publication of tarp: coding parameters. tarp is the architecture manual published by PRATT.

image: everything ornament by Bureau V

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

seongbeom MO: Animal colony is an integrated autonomous biology system, a group of organism of one species that live and interact closely with each other.
Urban colony is the near future urban-scale housing which has formational potential as an autonomous entity.
Structural quality differentiation creates systematic complexity and flexibility which allow the system to be integrated both within the system and existing urban contexts.

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miami FLORIDA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

reynolds DIAZ JR: This thesis is derived from Downtown Miami’s urbanism. It functions as a catalyst for public life, absorbing pulsations from diverse fields of motion. These motion fields are activated from: walkers, joggers, bicyclers, skaters and all sorts of travelers who traverse the city. At a larger scale, the context itself (buildings, roads, highways, edge conditions and topography) propose opportunities for designing with real field conditions. Each motion provides users a unique perception of their environment. The challenge of this thesis is to orchestrate these diverse fields of motion into public social space which provoke users to experimental conditions, areas of gathering, recreational activities, spaces of contemplating and displays of formal expression.

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

michael WETMORE & lucas SANJUAN : The course Advanced Mechatronic Reactive Spaces, a collaboration between architects and robotics engineers at the University of Pennsylvania, forms interdisciplinary teams that together design and build electro-mechanical reactive spaces. With an initial research task of fusing mechatronics and lighting design, we explored the potential of polyhedra for their transformative qualities. Using a Voronoi algorithm, we created a set of both fixed and motorized polyhedra. Interest in atmospheric affect led us to pursue the object as a transformative lighting element in which a user is given control over a reactive object and the space it inhabits. In its closed state, LED’s are focused inward resulting in an ambient object.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Complex Morphologies/University of Southern California - Professor roland SNOOKS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

megan MAGRAW/Dave SAUNDERS/nh RATHER : An examination of algorithmic morphology based on the transformation of agent based growth. as the agents evolve, cohesion factors cause bundling, forming structural characteristics as agents bind together. the result is a series of fibrous strands developing a dialogue between structural and inhabitable space.

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new york NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH will be posting interviews in a new section - in the ring

the second of five interviews will also be featured in the current publication of tarp: coding parameters. tarp is the architecture manual published by PRATT.

image: stack pavilion by freeland buck

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