los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S: This building is a proposal for a 120-bed student dormitory for the Pontificia Catholic University of Puerto Rico in Ponce, the second largest city of the island and the old capital before San Juan. As part of a larger master plan aiming to attract students from the whole Caribbean region and fulfill the current demand of 500 apartments, the proposal aims to create a new presence within the campus. Articulating a vertical mass with a figural void that encapsulates the main social areas of the program, our proposal aims to induce human interaction among students and visitors in a vertical environment while enhancing unprecedented urban vistas from and to the historic center of the city just beyond the university campus.

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

XIE zhang: The sculpture is conceived by manipulating the lunar craters’ geometry. The diversity of depths for each concavity generates different lengths and curvatures, allowing a smooth transformation from surface to tentacles. The process of growing which results in forms and patterns implies a metaphorical analogy that a lifeless form being infected and eroded by organism, a chaotic betweenness of organic and inorganic.

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

HUIYING zhang & LEIXIN luo: This design is trying to give a solution to the sea level rise problem in New York. As the water is something not stable, with complex form and complicated interaction to others, we try to use the self-organization and algorithm to build a protection barricade for each block. However, between each block we don’t try to preserve other lower buildings which are not important enough. On the other side, in these blocks there will be some new spaces and residental areas.The people who lose their home will be set to these new blocks.

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hong kong CHINA

Set along the coast of Stanley Bay, davidclovers’ Beach House takes the idea of adaptive re-use to new lengths. The project is both a gut renovation of four apartment units and a restoration of the exterior. Re-working the edges, top and underbelly of the building the design includes three additions that unfurl into the garden, wrap the roof patio and interweave through the common space stair.

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pordenone-modena ITALY

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Disguincio&co (mirko DANELUZZO & mirco BIANCHINI): The intention is to occupy anthropized contexts, where the green is extremely controlled or even absent, to make ready an infrastructure able to sew up again different economies (in a classical way) in a single system: a connection between flora, fauna and the urban landscape, in its different characters, physical and psychological. This project collect many aspects: it is a system, an ecology, a roof, a place . . .

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

kaveh ARBAB: This school is about transparency and intersecting program to create a wholly unified & interactive learning environment.

In section I intersected diagonal gathering steps and musical classrooms with lab spaces at their meeting points. On the south west arm which meets the landscape i created a shadow program beneath the science lab which acts as an environmental science lab.

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new york NEW YORK

AIA NY celebrates the work of its New Practices New York 2012 winners tonight at The Center for Architecture.

The New Practices New York 2012 competition winners are: ABRUZZO BODZIAK ARCHITECTS; Christian Wassmann; formlessfinder; HOLLER architecture; The Living; MARC FORNES & THEVERYMANY; and SLO Architecture. New Practices New York honors firms that have utilized unique and innovative strategies, both for the projects they undertake and for the practices they have established.

New Practices New York 2012
Thursday, 06/14
6.00-9.00 pm / The Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place
New York, New York 10012

hong kong CHINA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

(renwick) CHAN kin chuen: There are numerous animals living in extreme weather and environment. For instance, Camels that live in desert and polar bears which live with the frozen regime.

These animals adapt these extreme environments by evolution and transformation, the term morphology describes the progress of such duration changes over long span of time.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

farnoosh RAFAIE: Color Code provides the opportunity for the individual to generate trigger and sequential memory through the cyclical display of the woven light fixture. As a color is chosen through the control panel, the activated pump runs the initial dye through the transparent tubing. When a sequence is made complete, the secondary color follows, prompting the primary dye to return back to the sourced supply.

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new york NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

aaron BERMAN: New York City has over 500 miles of shoreline waterfront. Recently however, urban neighborhoods, residents, visitors, commerce, and industry have been disconnected from it. The Red Hook Water Research Incubator aims to reverse that disconnect, while revitalizing the Brooklyn Waterfront as a productive edge for both research and recreation.

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