canberra AUSTRALIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

jonathan McCABE: Sinet is the output of a small and simple neural network model, where the transfer function of the neurodes is the sine function. Outputs were iteratively composited together, using the colours to make a synthetic alpha channel. The resulting images look a little like coloured glass, with transparency and lovely curves. The images seamlessly repeat, and are freely available under a creative commons license. The set is on Flikr

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vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

stephan SOBL: The epitome of a Hypostyle Hall in my project is a field of massive and fragile columns that define a variation of spatial and volumetric interiors of the terminal. Denser areas of the field create intimate spaces and become areas to rest whereas less dens areas are circulation routes and contain architectural program.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

clark THENHAUS: The Star Gardens are abandoned agrarian silos across dotting the American mid-west landscape which have been re-conceptualized as empty vessels for star gazing and simple contemplation.

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san francisco CA

lindy ROY
Monday 11 April
7.00pm / Timken Lecture Hall
California College of the Arts
1111 8th Street
San Francisco CA 94107

philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

andrew TÉTRAULT / ben LEE: An air purifying infrastructure for New York City.

We have re-appropriated the contemporary obsession with sustainability through the design of a new type of cultural and ecological infrastructure. A project that blends a necessity for a pure, clean, livable, breathable city with the need for a new interpretation of public space. Bubble Wrap is a parasite powered by the excess energy of public transit and the exhaust pollution from our cars and buildings. It provides us with a public space, an air-purifying utility, and a cultural venue.

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kaohsiung TAIWAN

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

Alisa ANDRASEK + Jose SANCHEZ: Guided by the iconic features of pop culture such as exuberant colors and light, Phosphorescence explores the possibilities of bringing such polychromatic shimmer qualities to the site. As contemporary scientists marking brain neurons with phosphorescent glow to open new dimensions of our knowledge of the brain, we simultaneously sampled electrified lightscape of Taiwanese streets and night markets.

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istanbul TURKEY

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

salih KUCUKTUNA: The work of the students from the MTG Design Studio at Yildiz Technical University Department of Architecture. The students are displaying their first experimental 1 scale pavillions

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são paulo BRAZIL

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

lucas SIMÕES: I invited some intimate friends to make their portrait photographs while they tell a secret. My intention was not to listen to the secret, but to capture the images, so I asked them to choose a song for me to listen on my headphone while o took the photographs. After the shooting session I asked them if their secret has any color, each portrait carries the secrets colors.

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queens NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

MASS: Our Project, Bottle Service, captures that summer impulse to cool off by activating the senses of the subaquatic and urban refreshment. Beneath a stream of seemingly floating and frozen forms, Bottle Service is an urban menagerie, a refracted surface, a transformative plunge unique only to this courtyard, to this borough, to this moment.

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ITALY

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

vincenzo REALE: tensional integrities and intensive connections through a peripheral park of Bologna.

This is my fifth year’s thesis (march 2010) at Bologna University, in which themes such as tensegrity, form-finding, material and structural properties of complex systems, parameterization of physical behaviours, interaction of surfaces and components with external force fields, rapid prototyping techniques were discussed, in the search of elegance through a perpetual dialectics of complexity and refinement.

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