los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc
Advisor: andrew ATWOOD

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

CHAO yan & YICHEN lee: This project begin with some 2D images which are generated by script, then to make a discussion about deep surface. In this project, line drawing is used as the media in design process rather than a representation method for architecture. In the design process, based on the misreading of line drawing, more opportunities for design can be created and more possibilities of form can be generated.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

keyla HERNANDEZ & jason ORBE-SMITH: This project is a single family home located in Los Angeles California. The house and landscape are generated through a study of linework and different formal curve languages.

The ground is first interpreted as a grid and then deformed through a series of disruptions in this linear system in order to create topography and rhythm in a previously flat site.

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new york NEW YORK & philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

PennDesign
advisors: cecil BALMOND & ezio BLASETTI

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

youngbum KIM & sang-uk PARK: The title of our project is written in Icelandic, which means “Mud Flower” in English. Like a flower blooms in the mud, our pattern scaffold of the building appears in the extreme environment in Iceland. The enormous forces below the site has been expressed into a wide array of phenomena such as boiling mud pot, gas fumarole, and cracking of the ground.

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new york NEW YORK

“At least since Leonardo Da Vinci’s first attempts to describe turbulence, architects have been fascinated by the dynamics of flow—perhaps seeking an escape from the solid, stable nature of buildings. Beginning in the 1990’s, architects have used digital software to imbue structures and spaces with some of the same qualities as Da Vinci’s meticulous drawings: fluidity, undulation, instability and temporality. But while software has allowed architects to create novel, dynamic forms digitally, they have struggled to translate these qualities to the physicality of the material world. Slipstream is a physical structure that confronts that leap directly, translating a 2-D digital line drawing into 3-D space.”

Opening 07/12, 07.00-9.00pm
07/12-08/24 / Bridge Gallery
98 Orchard Street
new york, NEW YORK

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new york NEW YORK

1971: Charles Harker, founder of the TAO Design Group in Austin, Texas, juxtaposes Le Corbusier’s “machine for living” with a new concept for habitation that he coins the “soft machine.” The Tao Design Group—a group of architects, sculptors and artists— experiments on building without drawings, spraying urethane on a chicken wire armature based on sketches and written rules for enclosure. Every step is a fluctuating process of incremental adjustments that necessitates constant reinvention of the original plan.

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burbank CALIFORNIA

Woodbury University
advisors: david FREELAND & chandler AHRENS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

paul CASTELLANOS: Whereas Mies van der Rohe’s Crown Hall, for instance, defined a columns structural integrity by the perception of continuity juxtaposed by discontinuous mullions, this project defines the structural character of the column by its orientation. Vertical elements transition into secondary elements and account for spatial variations, circulation, and lighting. The orientation of the columns subdivide the open plan into smaller spaces and renders enclosure as delusive.

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new york NEW YORK

More recycling: Does recycling refer only to materials and physical matter? EcoRedux suggests that in addition to the recycling of materials, we recycle histories of the immediate past. In the history of ideas, discourses get recycled. Concepts emerge as allegedly new, though ideas undergo long journeys of migration from one epistemological field to another. Therefore, recycling is an ideational and philosophical system of viewing the world of ideas, information and matter as flow rather than as the accumulation of discrete objects. More than a material system, recycling signals the migration of life through the conversion of one thing to another.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc
advisor: michael ROTONDI

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

robert l. KOSHGARIAN, III: This is an experiment, to find an additive to the rhythm of urban growth and oppose the common urban design taxidermy of historic-kitsch promenades. A fusion of two development typologies founds a new, contemporary growth type, the ”Co-Urban” ecology.

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amsterdam THE NETHERLANDS

Dutch designer Iris van Herpen, in collaboration with architect Julia Koerner, create a stunning 3-D printed dress as part of van Herpen’s Autumn/Winter 2012-13 collection “Hybrid Holism.”

Photos: Michel Zoeter.

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valencia SPAIN

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

miguel ARRAIZ GARCÍA (bipolaire arquitectos): Tinc nostalgia de futur (I have nostalgia for the future)

The project consisted in representing the chaos, a desolate landscape of emerging termite towers. The use of fractal mathematics helped us build the towers in a manner at once systematic and organic. The interpretation of the intervention could take place in two different senses.

The project represents the future that we are doomed if we continue the current social model, or is this the present time on which the termites are able to create order out of chaos.

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