santa monica CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

predock + frane ARCHITECTS: Commissioned for the 2010 GLOW all night arts event, Luminous Passage is a linear spatial construction of glowing lines that links the City to the Ocean across the extent of the beach. A physical “land bridge” connects the urban landscape of Santa Monica to the edge of the water, but also forms a conceptual leap from the “logics” that define the city to the those of the ocean. Composed of luminous lines of color (Electroluminescent wire - EL wire), the ambitous scale of the project is a relatively simple construction with only six fixed struts as primary support. From the boardwalk, the piece begins with serial vertical lines that gradually transition and twist toward the horizontal.
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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

philip n. KNIGHT: The project is about the movement of components as they become integrated into the design of architecture through macro and micro gestures. The program is a botanical garden located in a barren dirt lot in the middle of the artist district of Los Angeles. The kinematics and structures on the verge of collapse were drivers in the beginning of the project, while building an Architecture of pieces became the interest. The intensive breakdown of massing becomes the interest in the spatial affects that become experienced in the drawings, images, and in the animation. The architecture is an interior and exterior experience with the spatial relationships being blurred through the macro and micro scale of pieces.

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kiev UKRAINE

KOKKUGIA This project reconsiders the monument as object, instead positing the formation of an immersive space of remembrance, a space that emerges from the landscape and is carved from within a somber stone monolith – an inverted monument. The project explores the emergence of a space, rich with intricate detail, reflecting the culmination of individual differences within a multitude

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vienna AUSTRIA

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emre ICDEM: The main idea of the project is to evaluate religion as a mystic power that occurs at the event of horrific. It gathers people, creates social interactions and conversions. In this case the cathedral is designed with the idea of a “religious campus” that serves as a public space. It is mechanical and elegant at the same time with the light effects that change between day and night. The aesthetic agenda creates an atmosphere which tries to answer the question “what is the representation of holy?”

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project:

molly HUNKER + greg CORSO: Life Will Kill You is an installation for the Revolve Clothing showroom in West Hollywood. To stand in contrast to the high-fashion clothing of the boutique, an everyday industrial material – the zip tie – is aggregated to create a floating volume that nestles below an existing soffit. The design is intended to explore the edge between aggression and elegance through material sensibility, overall form, and visual effect. The cloud-like volume is created by a double-sided surface composed of over 100,000 zip ties. The exterior surface of the volume is an aggregation of longer, wider white zip ties while the interior is comprised of shorter and finer colored zip ties.

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paris FRANCE

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

brice MAURIN/julie CHEBAB/alice LABOUREL/laurent DUBUIS: The even flow project is an interface between the public and scientific researches inside the Royal Albert Hall.

It invites people to explore the exhibition from different point of view and in an interactive relationship.

The idea of the wall is overtaken with the unfolding of the nonexistent corner that evolves down to the floor offering places to show, sit, watch, look inside, touch, discover : a space-object.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Advisor: Eric Owen MOSS

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

joshua MORATTO: If we are to discuss architecture in terms of sensation, the transition of the drawing from the hand to the digital has been relatively “sensationless”. The drawing has been relegated only as a means of clearly diagramming space and organizations. The sensation comes through the rendered image and animations, a means of sidestepping the architectural issues of space, tectonics, and detail.

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calgary CANADA

Overall size: 6.3m *2.5m *3m

The sum of its parts:
- 1640 parts
- 757 unique stars connections
- 883 panels (11 unique types)
- 5 days CNC cutting
- 30 sheets 4*8’ of ½” thick Polyethylene
- 8 people – 72hours assembly time

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new york NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

LABSCAPE: The brand new showroom for Belgian lingerie firm “Van De Velde” opened its doors in March 2010 at the high pedestrian traffic intersection between Madison Avenue and 33rd Street, on the first floor of a historic building, in New York.

The typical “Manhattan” open space needed to be divided into four different areas. The entrance, a closed office for one person – that could also be used as a meeting room - two work islands and a showroom area.
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hong kong

davidclovers: At eye-level with the top of IFC, the tallest building in Hong Kong, the Barker Residence holds stunning views of Victoria Harbor. The project is the first of a series of projects designed by davidclovers for a developer of residential properties in Hong Kong. The basic approach is to hone in on the most potent areas of the existing layout, and enhance them. At Barker Residence, davidclovers reworks the unit horizontally and vertically using a series of subtly inflected walls and artificially-lit ceilings to bend space around corners and through floors. The design thoughtfully subdues the palatial scale of the flat while delicately intensifying its hidden potentials. The existing vestibule is broken open to the full panorama of the skyscrapers along the “fragrant harbor”, gently combining the living area and entry.

photographs by Almond CHU

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