los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project:

adrian YIM: Cumulative Coherence: Plastic Lines is a two part exercise.

1. It begins with the interest in moving from the “generative” digital environment to a renewed interest in craft and tectonics - privileging dexterity in a physical system of assembly; and through understanding a primitive’s material behavior (in this case, strips of mylar), begin to explore its expressionistic implications as an immersive field.

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lund SWEDEN

academy: DEPARTMENT OF THEORETICAL AND APPLIED AESTHETICS,
LTH SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, LUND UNIVERSITY

Professor: Florencia Pita
Assistant: Julia Koerner
Organisation/ Invitation: Abelardo Gonzalez
Student Assistants: Caroline Dieden, Ida Hammarlund

This workshop focuses on details, on the materiality, form and coloration of details. Those details would then be amplifying to each of the buildings typologies, expanding and transforming its character to meet that of a full building enclosure. During the first part of the workshop the students worked on research and morphology.

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new york NEW YORK

Exhibition July 15 - October 23, 2010
Opening: July 15 6-8pm
The Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, NYC

New Practices New York 2010 is the third biennial juried competition and exhibition sponsored by the AIA New York Chapter. It serves as a platform to recognize and promote new, innovative and emerging architecture firms within New York City that have utilized unique and commendable strategies - both is the projects they undertake and the practices they have established.

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SPAIN

suckerPUNCH: describe your project

drfranken: Nastplas is a studio of digital art illustration and Madrid (Spain). We all create pictures with different techniques such as Airbrush, 3D, Fractal Art, matte painting, vector art. Demeter is our latest project. The idea was to create an illustration with a natural essence and delicate basing on the natural environment. In this project we worked several weeks to achieve the end result we wanted.

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louisville KENTUCKY

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

jordan HINES, ian MCHONE, kyle TIERNEY: The new HMPL 1 Hotel and Convention Center will provide a mutually beneficial public-private development for the city of Henderson,Ky through an economically viable, culturally and environmentally sensitive reuse of a former industrial complex. This proposal not only provides a new regional attractor in Henderson, but also presents Henderson as a forwardly thinking, optimistic civic example for the region-particularly in terms of the adjustment of old industry to new uses, as this will be an increasingly pertinent issue globally in the years to come.

critics: Marcelo Spina and Drura Parrish
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mexico city MEXICO

Rojkind Arquitectos is getting ready to break ground for a new High-Rise in Mexico City´s prestigious Reforma Avenue.
Reforma Avenue has been one of Mexico City’s main avenues since the second half of the 19th century, and is one of the most important avenues and city hallmarks due to its symbolic value and urban quality.

R432, on Reforma Avenue, has achieved the best construction conditions for its type of building. It is a project that fully embraces its urban condition. The building opens up to the street, and the street, fully guaranteeing safety, comfort and privacy enters into the building.

exterior view from below rendering by ©rojkind arquitectos
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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Immuring (2010)
By davidclovers in collaboration with artist C.E.B. Reas

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

davidclovers: Immuring consists of six full-scale prototypes, each explore different possibilities for the cladding system for Lunar House. Designed as a speculative suburban home for a developer in Houston, Texas (Hometta Inc), a fresco designed by Reas is immured into the cladding and mass of the building. The illusive and painterly effects common to Reas’ artwork are digitized through his custom software, formed, etched, and manipulated architecturally by davidclovers.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

kerem AKIN / curime BATLINER / oliver b. LIAO / stephan SOBL: This is a continuation from last semester of the advanced X program at SCI-arc, with more of an emphasis on emergent materials and robotics for free form fabrication at varying scales from small to large crossing over to possible construction methods over computational scripting. A fictional but reality driven experimental CELL as a testing ground and simulator was designed to fit inside a space within SCI-arc, by the woodshop in particular, for robotic operations, experimentation, and production.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

zoe COOMBES of Cmmnwlth: Is the provisional name we’ve been using for a cabinet that will be launching in the fall as part of our upcoming ‘Morfina Series’, for MatterMade. We’ve been exploring the effects of gouged solids via soft body collisions, and cloth simulations on a relatively thin surfaces.

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ICELAND

batteries not included: Who are your own icons - or who inspires you?

ragnar AXELSSON: There are many. I look at photographs from all around the world and many photographers makes me feel happy just seeing their work.
I do like the old masters like W. Eugene Smith a lot and the old LIFE photographers which I think were great and they inspiered me a lot. Mary Ellen Mark is a good friend of mine and I like her work and her passion for photography a lot. Henry Cartier bresson is also one of my favorite.
Nowadays I think James Nachtwey is one of the greatest ones - he is quiet and is always showing some great stuff.

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