los angeles CALIFORNIA

CENTER FOR URBAN FARMING COMPETITION
Honorable Mention - $100

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

jorge E. MUTIS : Recently the concept of urban farming has gained a well deserved amount of popularity. While consciousness is no longer an obstacle, the reality is that city centers are not designed to accommodate such ideals. This proposal investigates the potential of using inflatable structures to begin to occupy places we couldn’t before. The idea was to research the possibility of lunching theme up into the sky. Instead of using air as their structural material, helium would enable these structures to lift and float above the ground.

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vienna AUSTRIA

CENTER FOR URBAN FARMING COMPETITION
Honorable Mention - $100

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

Nikolay Hristov Ivanov: Fiber Garden is generating a micro cilmate (for the Scientific Research Center) on the base of urban farming through natural patterns. The main concept is emergence of three interrelated layers: skin – solar panels, skeleton – sprinkling/watering system and the green layer - plants. The generated pattern is based on the sun direction and allows the distributed solar panels to collect and transform sun energy. It also keeps a certain level of porosity to allow enough natural light to get indoors for the plants layer.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

CENTER FOR URBAN FARMING COMPETITION
Honorable Mention - $100

team: Palette Architecture LLC, Peter Miller, John Sunwoo, Jeff Wandersman

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

Palette Architecture: C.H.E.F. CSA is a repurposing of agricultural production to provide a novel connection to food that fits within the distinct economic and cultural patterns of New York City life. Rather than simply architecturalizing farming within the constraints of an already built environment, the C.H.E.F. CSA is primarily a single-source service provider that allows city dwellers access to high-efficiency farming that is fully customized to gourmet trends and individual tastes; hallmarks of urban culinary traditions.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

Finalists will be announced over the next seven days, there are four honorable mentions and three finalists. We thank everyone for their submissions!

los angeles CALIFORNIA + quito ECUADOR

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

ana maria BORJA + radha MISTRY: We examined alternative methods of design, construction and assembly as it related to product design. The “pomegranate luminaire” featured a composition of laser-cut and folded colored vellum “seed pods”, embedded with LEDs, held within a 3D printed shell. The form was generated by diagramming and abstracting the natural growth and decay processes of the pomegranate fruit form.

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sydney AUSTRALIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

tony OWEN: Eden is an inner city in-fill apartment building in Sydney’s Chippendale area. It contains 25 contemporary apartments with open plan living for the young urban dweller. Vertical louvres of varying colours and textures create a pattern on the eight-storey facade that is discernable only from a distance. The western side of Eden is visible from surrounding areas so we took the opportunity to treat the facade as a piece of sculpture in an urban landscape. Louvre fins in different colours and textures create an image that plays up the complexity of living in the city.”

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yorkshire UNITED KINGDOM

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

steven MCCLOY: A proposal to re-develop a squalid site on a fashionable high street. The design creates a closed pocket of space; its aim is to conjure up memory and sentiment, and to inspire curiosity, diversity and surprise in the city. The design process followed an exploration of ornament, antiques and the weird and wonderful world of the English antiquarians.

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san francisco CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

matt HUTCHINSON: As an exercise in parametric variation and control, the CLOVE lamps were developed with nearly the entire process/work-flow defined within a single parametric model - every aspect, from the global form all the way to final fabrication layout is parametric and associative. The final model was refined to accommodate specific size constraints, desired form, and maximum material efficiencies. By varying the degree of twist, the number of “cloves”, depth, and spacing of individual ribs, these lamps achieve a delicate modulation of light and visibility as well as a gradient glow which emanates through the undulating form. The warmth of the wood ribs blends subtly into a soft whiteness - the result of leaving the sides of the ribs natural wood and painting only the thin edges white (by hand).

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vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

stefan RITTER: My thesis researches novel part-to-whole relationships between figure and void and their development into architectural super components. The technique of sub-dividing a singular massing into components allows for spatially differentiated program, while maintaining a coherent whole. The resulting spacial effects are three-dimensionally nested super components that are at the same time separated as well as connected through an urban void.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

dan CUADRA: San Francisco del Oro, Mexico. A dead end stop on the Ferromex rail line. This small mining town in the foothills of the Sierra Madres is the site of an intervention in the memory of a railroad station long since dismantled. From the zinc mines in the outlying hills, ore is brought to a refinery complex in the center of town via an elevated cable car system, distinct in the city’s skyline.
Sorted and extracted, the precious metals are exported via train for further treatment and use. The intervention seeks to unite the terminus of the train tracks to the gondola system running throughout the city, bridging a discontinuity in the path of travel of materials from the mines to the end user.

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