new orleans LOUISIANNA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

luis QUINONES: This research deals primarily with Non-Linear Systems, Termite Structures, Robotics + Algorithmic design. The chosen site for this project is on the Shackleton Crater Rim on the South Pole of the Earth’s Moon. The project timeline spans from [0 - 60 +] years, the primary focus occurs from year [0 - 20+] where the deployment of robots to the Cabeus Crater will facilitate construction during the pre human arrival period. The Robots are based on termite behavior, characterized by programming local interactions which give rise to emergent structures. This project ends with the arrival of the first human settlers on the Moon, it is merely a case study for a process informed by complex phenomena and its potential implications in Architecture.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc 2GBX STUDIO
Instructor: Marcelo Spina

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

kim LAGERCRANTZ & chia-ching YANG: Exploring the 2D&3D qualities of flatness and contemporary pop-culture, we intend to develop systems of color, texture and plastics that will produce multiple affects and various degrees of sensation. Relating to the urban obsession for the Surface, the envelope becomes the prime target for an architectural escape that offers immediate satisfaction. Although our building may appear as a solid from the exterior, the interior reveals a new kind of figural condition developed from the initial two-dimensional digital drawing applied to the Surface.

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chicago ILLINOIS

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

ryan MACYAUSKI + marcella MARTINEZ: high contrast offers a way to regain a sense of political purpose within architecture, by recommitting architecture to visual reflection of contemporary culture, while at the same time avoiding the pitfalls of relentless abstraction and needless invention. we propose to engage in effects in a novel way, not through gymnastic routines of form, nor through cluttered collage differences, but to utilize a full bandwidth of effects, to provide true projected sensation.

critic: paul PREISSNER - uic school of architecture

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new york NEW YORK

wired: Tom Shannon’s paintings bustle with life — neon polymers suggest rampant vines, moist lips, and teeming coral reefs. But the multimedia artist generates these complex forms with a simple machine, a pendulum of his own design that swings over the canvas, releasing pigment from six radio-controlled paint guns. “The process is full of surprises,” the 62-year-old artist says. “The pendulum lets me step outside to observe nature as it produces layer after layer of detail.”

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