los angeles CALIFORNIA

UCLA
critic: greg LYNN

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

harlen MILLER & sontaya BLUANGTOOK: The Vault at Beverly Hills redefines the fine art and jewelry retail experience by merging commercial display and architectural form. The Vault acts as a display window and vertical plinth that emerges from the ground rather than the facade. Merchandise displays are oriented both towards the street as well as to the interior of the department store. The retail window display no long becomes a static plane, but an activated three dimensional construct.

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new delhi INDIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

studio SYMBIOSIS: Athletic Ripples is a project from a India based practice Studio Symbiosis, with principal Architects Amit Gupta and Britta Knobel Gupta.

“Athletic Ripples” is a project based on interfacing the user and his built environment into a coherent whole. The program has been translated into trajectories of movement. These flow lines generated the formal idea which is underlined by interweaving of the various activities. This results in creating a design with an inherent quality of interaction.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

rick GERSBACH: WMercantile lofts is an interior renovation of a 1906 Chicago Style Beaux-Arts building in Downtown Los Angeles. After changing ownership and uses over the course of a century, there are now extreme structural and mechanical constraints to making any further modifications to the building. These limitations provoked a series of questions about building in an environment that can’t be altered: If walls can’t be added or removed, what if design alters the character of existing walls? What if walls appeared to be deep instead of flat? What if graphic and color gets confused with three-dimensional objects? In other words, is it possible to manufacture more space without changing the size of a room?

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

mikhail GLADCHENKO: The project in this studio looked at current conditions of downtown Los Angeles’s private sector, exploring the idea that more and more high-rise real estate goes to businesses, and less and less to housing development.

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paris FRANCE

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

esjieun KIM: Located in Paris, a very small arena using for music festival and theatre. Influenced by a novel ‘The Secret Garden’ by Frances Hodgson Burnett, the project is to make a beautiful story of the site ; to create the pavilion seeds covering the site and it become a secret garden in Paris.

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istanbul TURKEY

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

alper DERINBOGAZ+ceyhun DERINBOGAZ: Gate_lab is a media space that can reconfigure itself in response to human stimuli.The “media space” starts moving with or against you, to distort your speed thus creating a time wrap illusion. An interior LED screen is filtered twice to shape the light inside the space. The first layer is a white diffuser; the second layer is a parametrically patterned image of a forest visualized by linear cuts.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

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evan TRIBUS+ezra ARDOLINO: Historically, the most critical element in the delivery system of ornamental effects was applied molding. From the Greeks and Romans to the Renaissance, Gothic and Baroque through the Victorian period, exterior and interior moldings served to provoke visual interest through the play of light and shadow across its articulated surfaces. Moreover, molding was underwritten by the relationship between the precision of its inherent geometry (a cross-section extruded along an axis) and its effectual geometries (the surfaces that receive light and project shadow).

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brooklyn NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

chandler AHRENS+john CARPENTER+axel SCHMITZBERGER+michael w. SU: Inaugurated on the occasion of the conference ACADIA 2010 LIFE in:formation, the exhibition Evolutive Means examines concepts, tools and technologies that implement responsive and generative aspects of information in the design process.

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new york NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

scott DRAVES: What is the relationship between man and machine? Is open source a sustainable way to run a creative society? Can digital creations have the subtlety we know in the natural world? These are the issues addressed by my work.

I create my art by writing software that runs an internet distributed supercomputer consisting of 450,000 computers and people. The first versions of this algorithm date from 1992. Each image is a form of artificial life, with its own genome, thousands of numbers that define how it looks and moves.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

francis a. BITONTI (FADstudio) + andrew ZIENTEK (Terrain Studios): This proposal for the Jardins de Métis garden festival uses augmented reality and other location based services to explore the notion of a secret garden . In the project Visitors, using their own smart‐phones or those provided (and tethered), can view and create another dimension of the garden. The interface allows visitors to choose a new species of plant, attach a secret message and then “plant” it in the garden to be viewable by successive visitors. The garden grows, receiving and containing knowledge that is hidden from plain view.

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