vienna AUSTRIA

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gijo paul GEORGE / hend ALMATROUK: A frozen trajectory becoming an urban mnemonic device inspired the design of the new facade for the Pushkinsky cinema. A witness to history’s turbulences and cycles of change, the Pushkinsky (originally Rossiya) personify the very definition of metamorphosis and change. Having much in common with the movies she exhibits, she saw her young days in the limelight as well as a steady decline and fall from grace.Emerging again as the most important cinema in the glamerous new Moscow, it is her time again in the spotlight, only this time with a flourish.

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san francisco CALIFORNIA

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alexa GETTING: This thesis proposes a disparate trajectory of architecture: a dissension from current design practice, a design practice that is no longer confined to or constrained by a building code and standardization which inevitably lends itself to apathetic and conditioned users. Rather, this thesis probes a trajectory of architecture that capitalizes on an urban and architectural reconsideration of conditioning, via a design intervention of perpetually transforming space. This spatial strategy affords the user a higher level of self-awareness through re-conditioning, or what this proposal terms “hyper-conditioning.”

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atlanta GEORGIA

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spuybroek studio: Purely out of habit in architecture we make the distinction between necessity and beauty, generally known as structure and ornament. Alberti always emphasized this opposition between structure and ornament: first architects design the structural, geometric system, then it needs to be beautified with organic features. However, when we study the carpets of William Morris we see the reverse.

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hong kong CHINA

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han TANG: The aim for this design is to create a visionary icon for Parramatta’s CBD by introducing a world-class urban experience art center defined by hybrid urban environments. Different functional spaces are woven together by way of an elevated Concourse, creating a unified whole which has significant presence in the city. The Concourse is a bridging element which acts as circulation for the art center but also as a commercial zone which includes lively urban activities such as shopping, restaurants, bars, and other public amenities. It will be a 24 hour space which will support the theater functions but also operate independently.

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paris FRANCE

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alice LABOUREL: This is a project that is located Gare du Nord, in Paris, and that is made to prevent people arriving in the station from standing in the area.

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new york NEW YORK

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yong ju LEE+jaryeon SEO: Like many other spaces in Manhattan, height of this bathroom is relatively stretched comparing to planar footage. To manipulate this out-proportion space and to achieve new spatial atmosphere, geometric contrast in vertical way (floor to ceiling) is suggested. By adding atypical geometry contrary to other common fixtures and by matching their materials, user can experience vertical fluidity between function and perception, and tangibility and visuality.

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cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

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skylar TIBBITS: Single-Strand Structures are a series of prototypes looking at constructing structures from single chain of tent poles. Tent poles provide a cheap and quick assembly kit for constructing complex geometry with universal joints. These prototypes follow in a line of research on programmable matter and deconstructing complex geometry into single strand sequences of fold instructions, much like our Ribosome’s decoding of RNA into fold sequences of complex proteins.

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

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michael WETMORE / hang XU / winda XIAO: Eroded Matter seeks to explore notions of aesthetic ambiguity through the stigmergic erosion of a material. Operating through local agent behaviors within a high population multi-agent system, the project explores the transformation of a normative substrate into a highly differentiated system with macro-level order.

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new york NEW YORK

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ju-hyun KIM: Idea of MVTP (Metropolitan Vertical Theme Park) started with raising 2 questions:
01. Do we still need to keep the century-old prototype of (subway-located) theme parks?
02. Are there any solution for the under-utilized, decaying downtown (in cities like Dallas and Detroit)?

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

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karli MOLTER/ eli LINGER/ derek MOLENAAR: This project is not just a place of exchange for people associated with the transit hub, but also for culture, ideas and information. The existing site is rich in transportation, but dominated by vehicles. Our vision for the transit hub will transform the idea of circulation for Mexico City where a new landscape will emerge to prioritize the pedestrian and create a connective tissue between key programmatic anchors throughout the site.

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