new york NEW YORK

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silivri TURKEY

This project was built as part of the student event MEDS, Meeting of European Design Students, during a two week period in August 2011. The theme was to design a pavilion that relates to the connection between Europe and Asia.

The interior of the Blue Mosque represents the starting point for the concept. The ellipse of light is the geometry that inspired the project. In order to determine the interior space of the pavilion, an ellipse is used to generate a fluid organic shape which eventually has to adapt to the constraints of the diagonals of the box.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Jesse Reiser is principal of Reiser+Umemoto RUR Architecture, P.C., in New York. Reiser+Umemoto has designed projects at a wide range of scales—from furniture design and residential and commercial structures to landscape design and infrastructure.

jesse REISER
Friday, 01/20
6.30 pm / Perloff Hall, Decafé
UCLA Department of Architecture & Urban Design
Los Angeles, California 90095

drenthe THE NETHERLANDS

UNStudio’s design for an Observation Tower for ‘De Onlanden’ presented to Natuurmonumenten

On September 22nd, 2011, the design for an observation tower for the nature reserve ‘De Onlanden’, situated to the South-West of the City of Groningen, was presented to Natuurmonumenten (the Dutch Society for the Preservation of Natural Heritage) during the mini-symposium ‘Experience Nature with innovative concrete’ in Peize.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

cheng GONG: For a public library the main idea is to emphasize the order and relationship between solids and voids. The final geometry derives from petals of flowers and small branches from trunks, the building walls are two sides within the site and grow like a generation of branches in their early development phases. Floors are inserted into the volume to divide spaces vertically while creating a domino structural system. Branches are detached out of a bounding solid which is restricted by the site so that the rest of the space in the solid box plays the role of an envelope. As a result, voids are large spaces with abundant light. In contrast, in spite of providing light to the other interior spaces, visitors are able to “touch” and “feel” the negative spaces in between the masses.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

Morel is co-founder of EZCT Architecture & Design Research, a collaborative practice created in 2000, and associate professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais (Architectural Theory and Computational Practices). He has written about the consequences of technological phenomena on global disurbanism and has lectured and/or exhibited at Harvard GSD, Mori Art Museum, TU Delft, Columbia GSAPP and MIT.

philippe MOREL
DRL Keynote Lecture
Thursday, 01/19
7.00 pm / lecture hall
Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture
36 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3ES

chicago ILLINOIS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

jimenez LAI: The White Elephant is roughly 10’x10’x10’. It has three basic premises:
A building inside a building, somewhere between a super-furniture and a small house.
An object that tumbles to attain multiple orientations to blur the qualification plans and sections.
An object that is hard on the outside, soft on the inside.

What is a building that can tumble freely without gravity or fixed orientations, hard on the outside but soft on the inside, and obstructs the continuity of interior spaces like an elephant in a room? This installation is a freestanding micro building / macro furniture that questions projection, inside/outside, rigidity/fluidity and size/scale.

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shenzhen CHINA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

franck CONSTANS, etienne MARES, cheng GONG: As a shining pearl in Pearl River Delta, Hong Kong connects four places between two sides in China. Its characteristics of identity, interchanging and flexibility are more and more emphasized not only in the future metropolitan context, but also in the role in the historical and political sense that it plays.

We propose to rethink HKBCF as the architecture of air, a geyser of fire, flaming on the moving surfaces of the sea by holistic way.

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new york NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

alicia ALONSO, jared DIGANCI, & farzin LOTFI-JAM: Inspired by the Bi-directional Evolutionary Structural Optimization (BESO) algorithm developed by the Innovative Structures Group at RMIT University, this project explores a novel or not-quite-right approach to optimization. A series of forces is distributed through a virtual domain and the negotiation of these forces have been relentlessly interrogated for architectural opportunity. This has resulted in a rich palette of spatial conditions, formal languages and surface articulations.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

Painter Perry Hall uses a set of experimental techniques that draw upon the organizing principles found in nature; his project integrates traditional painting, design, sound, improvisation and filmmaking in a body of work that spans two decades. Hall approaches paint not as an inert extensive material, but activates it as an intensive dynamic material force that has the ability to self-organize and show (as Nikola Tesla put it) “signs of living principles within.”

perry HALL
“Painting, Material Intelligence and Tidal Empire”
Wednesday, 01/18
06:30 - 08:00 pm / Darwin Lecture Theatre, Darwin Building
Bartlett School of Architecture
Gower Street
London WC1H 0QB