brooklyn NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

m. casey REHM (Kinch): This is a series of sketches that is part of a larger project dealing with issues of agency and figure. I use short exercises like this with specific and internal constraints which operate in a conceptual vacuum to develop behaviors and methods with the intention of later integrating them into architectural projects which have a more complex set of constraints already built into them. This particular study links a genetic growth trigger with an agent population which has a topological understanding of its population as well as simulated material behaviors.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

Critic: Ferda Kolatan, Pratt Institute GAUD
Seminar: “Design Finesse”

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

roman CHIKERINETS: The theme is Horror Vacui, and I decided to use and re-appropriate elements directly from nature. That said I wanted to create a sort of coat, so I skinned and stitched once living tissue and created a vegetarian sort of cloak (I guess it is more ethical to skin something that does not make too much immediate noise). Here is where “Maya met raw fruit.”

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london UNITED KINGDOM

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
daniel FIŠER: Swift calligraphic strokes are executed by hand and further manipulated in a digital environment following methods of automatic drawing.

An abstract space emerges, without any specific form, figure or object present, offering spatial experience beyond any sense of scale, proportion or direction.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

This site specific installation investigates the relationship between rendered canvas and architectural envelopes: in particular “Painted Canvas” aims to blur the distinctions between what is living or non-living, organic or technological, promising or threatening, true or synthetic. Ideas about nature and its simulation are central to this small installation, inviting the viewers to question what is ‘real’ and what is not. Constructed out of flat sheets of printed canvas, this wall borrows some of the techniques developed and mastered by Impressionism, and apply them to manufacture specific effect for an architectural project.

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vienna AUSTRIA

Ben van Berkel studied architecture at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and at the Architectural Association in London, receiving the AA Diploma with Honours in 1987. In 1998 Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos established UNStudio (United Net). UNStudio presents itself as a network of specialists in architecture, urban development and infrastructure. Current projects are the restructuring of the station area of Arnhem, the mixed-use Raffles City in Hangzhou, a masterplan for Basauri, a dance theatre for St. Petersburg and the design and restructuring of the Harbor Ponte Parodi in Genoa.

ben VAN BERKEL
“UN, VIENNA AND US”
Thursday, 05/22
7.00 pm / Lichthof 2
University of Applied Arts Vienna
Oskar Kokoschka-Platz 2
1010 Vienna, AUSTRIA

los angeles CALIFORNIA

instructor: Tom Wiscombe, SCI-Arc - MArch2 Program

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

johannes BECK & stefano PASSERI: The project’s goal was to combine techniques developed in an initial exploration on digital drawing, with a building-scale proposal sited in West Hollywood (Sunset Blvd, Holloway Drive intersection). The approach to the architecture starts from the main programmatic elements: office space, three auditoria, and a large public garden. We decided to give each of these ‘blocks’ an independent generic volume. The resulting intersecting boxes are connected via a language of ‘joints’ - a direct consequence of our intention to avoid booleaning the middle. A spacious, central, mostly interior void becomes the indirect by-product of this move.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

gabriel a. HUERTA: The Page Park Pavilion is a proposed multifunctional pavilion sited in George C. Page Park between the LACMA campus and the Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits. The design intent was to create a pavilion that would explore the shaping of space with materials and light and yet be both programmatically flexible and formally responsive to its context.

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new york NEW YORK

American Design Club called on designers with one question: If your process became Raw + Unfiltered, what kind of object would that yield? The result is Raw + Unfiltered, a gallery show at the Heller Gallery in New York City, featuring forty-four pieces from both established New York designers and newcomers alike.

American Design Club presents: Raw + Unfiltered
Friday, 05/18 — Friday, 05/25
Heller Gallery
420 West 14th St.
New York, NEW YORK 10014

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los angeles CALIFORINA

Advisor: Dwayne Oyler
Special Advisor: Russell Thomsen, Jason Payne.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
carmelia CHIANG: “An art professor once told me that in composition, elements should either overlap or there should be some space between them; that it produces discomfort when things were tangential. . . .” — John Baldessari

This thesis explores the implication of tangential space: the condition caused by two surfaces, either physical or implied, approaching to touch at a single point. The moment of the new kiss resolves itself in spatial discomfort, awkwardness and tension.

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GREECE

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

dimitris GROZOPOULOS: Metéora is a complex of vertical rocks in central Greece (etymologically similar to “meteorite”). It means “suspended in the air” and was created when a mountain was smashed into smaller parts under the influence of geological and natural phenomena. Asceticism, from Ancient Greek: “ἄσκησις,” is the act which describes a lifestyle characterized by exercise, restraint and abstinence from cosmic pleasures, often associated with the pursuit of religious and spiritual goals. It is found in several religions, including Christianity or Buddhism.

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