cambridge MASSACHUSETTS
Cloud Cloak: The Cloak is a device that emits a wearable cloud. It emits a cover that negates the objectifying gaze of the observer. In a pervasive urban environment, the occupant may obscure their gender, their race, their identity.
The device also allows the subject to choose a moment of respite and willful separation from the city as the cloud creates a singular space of occupancy.
los angeles CALIFORNIA
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
christoph EPPACHER: The project Silent Territories - Los Angeles emphasizes on historical architectural configurations of places where Silent Movies were shot in and around LA , their location within the city and
the Gestalt of an on site Silent Movie Event.
Along with an installation at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles the project was presented with two different Silent Movie events in urban space.
lexington KENTUCKY
Instructor: mike McKAY
Students: adriana TORRES, anne SCHWAB, bethany LONG, brian MOORE, brian OLDIGES, darcy OSTING, david DUDLEY, jaime LAM, jeff GUIDUCCI, madelynn RINGO, & taisa SEHIC.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
mike McKAY: The PERFORMA Studio at the UK College of Design is an intensive research and fabrication studio run by professor Mike McKay. McKay’s research work involves the investigation of material systems and design strategies that create multi-performative material systems utilizing optimization, aggregation and efficiency. Simple units and semi-finished materials are physically tested in order to extract potential performative characteristics and limits.
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new york NEW YORK
Site specific installation, Bridge Gallery (NYC)
July 2012
Inspired by Lebbeus Woods’s Slipstreaming drawings, the installation is made from over one thousand CNC cut plywood pieces that notch together to create an undulating, dynamically patterned and brightly colored wall. Developed as the extrusion of a 2-dimensional drawing through the gallery space, the structure is then cut away to produce a set of interconnected 3-dimensional spaces. The project develops novel forms of digital drawing, “egg-crate” type assemblies typical in stick built construction, and our ability to describe and produce the dynamics of flow and turbulence, phenomena that have fascinated artists at least since Leonardo Da Vinci.
brooklyn NEW YORK
sP: Describe your project.
yoko SAIGO: After the nuclear power plant in Fukushima had hydrogen explosion, the land, the water and air include great amount of cesium. There is black fungus funded in Chernobyl which absorb cesium instead of carbon. The architecture device provides the certain condition to cultivate the relationship between fungus and cesium in the site of the nuclear power plant in Fukushima. This project proposes a cultivation device that produces an environmental condition by understanding the potential for localized ecosystems.
london UNITED KINGDOM
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Architectural Association (AA) DLAB Visiting School: “Fallen Star” is an installation set between biomimetics, interaction, and perception. It is the final working prototype of the Architectural Association (AA) DLAB Visiting School, which took place in AA London and AA Hooke Park during 23 July–05 August 2012. AA DLAB 2012, “Green,” explored the concepts of regeneration, emergence, and growth through their broad existence in natural and biological structures of differing scales, followed by their abstraction and interpretation into elaborated design proposals. The computational toolset of the workshop has been Processing, Grasshopper, and iPad or iPhone.
philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA
Dirt—edited by Megan Born, MArch/MLA’08, Lily Jencks, MArch/MLA’09, and Assistant Professor of Architecture Helene Furján with Phillip M. Crosby, PhD Fellow—presents a selection of works that share dirty attitudes: essays, interviews, excavations, and projects that view dirt not as filth but as a medium, a metaphor, a material, a process, a design tool, a narrative, a system. Rooted in the landscape architect’s perspective, Dirt views dirt not as repulsive but endlessly giving, fertile, adaptive, and able to accommodate difference while maintaining cohesion. This dirty perspective sheds light on social connections, working processes, imaginative ideas, physical substrates, and urban networks.
london UNITED KINGDOM
One of the Mayor of London’s “Part of Wonder: Incredible Installations.” Greater London Authority “Look and Celebrations” City Programme for the 2012 London Olympic & Paralympic Games.
Located at Euston Square Gardens, this installation consists of a large decorative canopy-structure, a Gazebo. The concept of the Gazebo follows an English tradition in which such filigree construction becomes a jewel that punctuates the landscape, creating a small gathering or viewing point that in turn organises the natural setting around it. The steel structure also fits in the tradition of exposed steel paraphernalia—gates, fences, fountains, pipe work, etc.—which distinguishes and enriches so many UK cities. The complex patterns of the surface create a unique ornamental structure that evokes a sense of delicacy and elegance, with an ever-changing effect of light and shadows.
chicago ILLINOIS
UIC SoA, Spring 2012
Thomas Kelley (Coordinator)
Details are vague. They range in scale, application, material, appearance, and ideology. Details are parts, details are wholes. Details lie, details tell the truth, and details don’t say anything at all. This is the folly of the detail; the doomed tendency towards an ambiguous list of definitions. And while details may often arrive at the end of an architectural process, this studio aims to confront the architectural detail from the start.
alexandria EGYPT
The AA Alexandria Visiting School aspires to explore how sound can affect an architectural space. The objective of HyperSpace dB is to feed off of the rich aural environment of Alexandria to find new potential acoustic design; whether it be musical, soundscape, or tapping in to the sound energy generated by the populous city. The resulting archetype will integrate space design as a musical instrument, and the space’s “music” composition, as one intertwined paradigm. The challenge to be tackled is the nature of sound and the dynamic characteristics of a visually indiscernible design tool.
AA Alexandria Visiting School
10–20 September 2012
HyperSpace dB, Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Applications due: 03 September
