london UNITED KINGDOM

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Code [9] (nassim ES-HAGHI, george KONTALONIS, jared RAMSDELL, & rana ZUREIKAT): Code [9] is a collaboration between Nassim Es-Haghi, George Kontalonis, Jared Ramsdell, and Rana Zureikat. Formed under the proto-design agenda of the Design Research Laboratory at the Architectural Association and situated within Patrik Schumacher’s agenda for a Semiological Campus. The studio viewed architecture as a frame to order and adapt society, while pursuing architectural distinctions and differentiation to have embedded cognitive intelligibility.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Amorphis (ramiro DIAZ-GRANADOS), IDEA Office (eric KAHN & russell THOMSEN), and Flab (heather FLOOD): NTCArt Museum (New Taipei City Art Museum)

Contrary to the conventional museum as an insular institution that isolates art from the life of the city surrounding it, the NTCArt seeks to generate new experiences and understandings by merging art, recreation and tourism as a compelling set of convergences. Rather than museum as a collector or storehouse of culture, the NTCArt will be a people’s art museum, a generator of culture and lifestyle that comes from the convergence of art and life.

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calgary CANADA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

jason s. JOHNSON (MINUS ARCHITECTURE STUDIO): AX2011 explores localized weather conditions as generative tactics for a parametrically limited undulating geometry. The project simulates the surface and formal effects produced by warm air masses often referred to as “Chinooks” or foehn winds as they collide with arctic air masses. This phenomenon which occurs in southern Alberta, is capable of producing rapid and extreme variations in air temperature as well as a cloud formation known as a Chinook arch. These formations are produced through orographic lifting and often manifest in variably coloured and rippled stratus clouds with a distinct trailing edge.

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washington DC

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

mad_lab (jon BAILEY, chad PORTER, & erick KATZENSTEIN): That government transforms the way we occupy and inhabit space is nowhere more geodetically relevant than in the United States capitol of Washington DC, where limits have reached capacity in both physical space and organizational structure. Never before has the government owned more enclosed space within the U.S. than in the present. Following September 11th, the increase in subsidiary agencies has led to an explosive acquisition of government land. This growth has led to exponential sprawl reaching outward into the neighboring states in search for suitable living spaces.

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lund SWEDEN

CIPHER SISTEMS are coded and encrypted structures we see in nature as a phenomenon of scale. Their fractal appearance in certain morphologies, diversifying in size, is an intriguing aspect for morphogenetic design. The reappearing relationship of macro and micro patterns found in different states of physicality in a variety of environments is leading to an understanding about emergence and the connectivity between systems. Thus, the MUTATING ARCHITECTURE studio will analyse, evaluate, & decrypt reoccurring natural patterns and explore possibilities of their application on visionary scenarios in futuristic city context. . . .

in collaboration with:
S.A.T. Space and Technology: Architectual Mutations and Tina-Henriette Kristiansen.
2112Ai [Arch. intelligence] 100yc - TOM KOVAC (RMIT); MARIBOR 2012 European Capital of Culture; VENICE BIENNALE ’12 Australian Pavilion.

new orleans LOUISIANA

Neri Oxman is a groundbreaking architect and designer who looks to nature for inspiration. Her work across the disciplines of art, science, design, and ecology transforms experimental design into eco-activism. The founder of MATERIALECOLOGY, an interdisciplinary design research initiative, Oxman is an assistant professor at the MIT Media Lab, and her work is part of the permanent collection at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City.

neri OXMAN
“Finding Form: at the Crossroads of Art, Science, Technology, and Environmentalism”
Wednesday, 03/21
6.00 pm / Freeman Auditorium
Woldenberg Art Center
Tulane University
6823 St. Charles Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70118

troy NEW YORK

Building Futures is an exhibition at The Hyde Collection running from February 11 to April 15. The exhibit presents architectural proposals designed by Rensselaer Architecture School faculty and students as an intellectual investigation stimulated by long-range planning activities for The Hyde Collection and its campus.

Faculty-led teams of students generated six proposals during a four-day charrette. Charrette is a term derived from the nineteenth-century École des Beaux-Arts in Paris for an intense creative session designed to focus multiple teams on a particular problem in compressed time and space. At the end of four days of all-day sketching, modeling and brainstorming, each team delivered a master planning strategy for expansion of The Hyde campus.

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paris FRANCE

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

david TAJCHMAN: Located in the North Port area of Busan, second largest city in the Republic of Korea, the New Opera House aims to bring the new maritime culture island a landmark character both at the city scale and at the international level. Surrounded by the sea, the city buildings and the mountains, “operascope” is conceptualized as a musical instrument and an observation machine. Dedicated to music and the seaside, the proposal is a vertical concept reaching 80 meters high and offering 360 degrees views on its surrounds. Expression of the sea sound, this sound body materializes air and water streams with its envelope.

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copenhagen DENMARK

Distortion II is both an acoustic architectural installation and a sound experience. The research creates new interfaces between acoustic science and the built environment by integrating sound performance, design and production. The installation is a complex surface that has been designed to create multiple visual and acoustic effects within a single, open space. Distortion II is part of a larger research project to develop new architectural tools that consider sound as key design parameter.

Collaborators: Patric Gustafson, Magnus Gustafsson – Akustikmiljö; Martin Tamke, Brady Peters, Stig Anton Nielsen, Lisa Uhlmann – CITA; Niels Jakubiak Andersen, Hasse Selvig Sandell, Dave Stasiuk – Krydsrum Arkitekter; Søren Vestbjerg Andersen, Matthias Haase, Claus Møller Petersen – Grontmij A/S.

Open from March 8th, 2012.

los angeles CALIFORNIA

In 2010, the innovative Nissan LEAF is introduced as the first mass-market electric vehicle (EV), planting seeds for Nissan’s vision of a zero-emissions future. Fast-forward to 2035: EVs and the green energy infrastructures that power them have matured into a fully sustainable system, bringing this dream to life.

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