florence ITALY

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AmniosyA (marino MORETTI, marco CARRATELLI, natalia GIACOMINO, lucia LUNGHI, elvira PERFETTO, lorenzo PIANIGIANI, & leonardo PILATI): ArχipelagA it’s an unconventional bridge, we started thinking about the aggregation and the interaction of different element. In greek ἀρχή it’s the starting point of everithing, the primary idea. So starting from a single plane we started to study the different reaction and interaction between itself and the agents. An exotic bridge that formally looks like something natural, but in the material it’s totally artificial.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

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Synthesis Design + Architecture: Inspired by the geometric patterns of Taiwanese Hen Cages and the structural shells of luxury racing yachts, the building takes shape in a dynamic gradient form that transitions from exo-skin to exo-skeleton in response to programmatic content as well as performative requirements. Thus, what appears to be formal expression, is actually “informed form” which responds to the integration of weather, urban context, program, circulation, and sustainability through integrated design responses that inform the building orientation, spatial layout, façade design, and choice of material and structural system.

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mexicali MEXICO

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ATztudio (fernanda de la TORRE JIMENEZ, armando GARCIA OKADA): The following project proposes a Performing Arts School in one of the most touristic, exciting but also conflictive neighborhoods of Barcelona city.

The Idea of implementing a school of this kind in “El Raval” district, arises from the social problems and the improvement plans on the area.

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mumbai INDIA

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aatish MOON: Googleplex 2200, a prediction of architectural possibilities, draws inspiration from the futuristic world of author Neal Stephenson’s sci fi novel The Diamond Age where in, mediaglyphic language, phenomenoscopic and phantoscopic retinal implants, reproductive freedom machines, spinal teleaethetics, lidars, and the mediatron are a functioning reality. The structure’s design is informed most significantly by Stephenson’s vision of matter compiling atomic reconfiguration nanotechnology, through which articles may dissect themselves, reducing to their most basic elements and subsequently reforming to meet the ever-evolving need of the consumer.

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berkeley CALIFORNIA

University of California, Berkeley
critic: nicholas de MONCHAUX

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pablo ZUNZUNEGUI: Set in a speculative future, the project explores the reinsertion of man into the Amazon without compromising either one’s existence. A new ecosystem is created, where machine intermingles with the native ecology.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

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Studio Tobias Klein: Sunrise and sunset on the planet are the basis of all our time association in the real world and the basis for our patterns of life. We have begun to disassociate ourself from the universal sublime—to ourself, our self-constructed universe—the virtual world of avatars and profiles, emails and tweets? Virtual Sunset is a globally connected live installation, exploring the ephemeral notion of the sunset as an everlasting continuous global event and its equivalent in our daily expanding networked environment.

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cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

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conway PEDRON & rebecca BARTLETT: Africa holds only 4% of “world airline aircrafts,” and South and Central America 6.8%, compared with 43.7% and 23.7% in the USA and Western Europe respectively (Mackinnon 2001). Gabon, one of the wealthiest sub-Saharan countries in Africa, is posed to serve as a major hub for new air traffic that will inevitable grow as the continent of Africa futher develops. This projected growth of commercial air traffic will likely have adverse affects on the environments in which they are proposed and must address these issues in their expansion and new development.

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porto PORTUGAL

Constructive Geometry Pavilion 2011/12

On its 3rd edition, the course on Constructive Geometry at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP), has finally reached the 1:1 scale! For their last assignment of the 2nd semester, 46 students investigated the design of dome structures using computational design processes.

Differently from previous editions, this year goal was to select one solution and build it at full scale using corrugated cardboard. For the selection process, a review was set-up where the groups had to show the mock-up of a building component to inform the general discussion about the design interest, production timeframe, economic feasibility, and structural integrity.

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buenos aires ARGENTINA

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prechteck: Austrian architecture studio prechteck has proposed a concept plan that deals with the revitalization of Puerto Madero and development of the new contemporary art museum in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The design of the building draws influence from contextual associations like waves of the waterfront, or setting sail for the Fragata Sarmiento, where viewpoints of the main parameter are highlighted.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Screenplay is conceived of as a “play” on one’s visual perception. This twenty-one foot long screen wall is constructed of forty-five thousand linear feet of rope strung through a series of lightweight steel frames. The wall is designed with the intention of provoking a sense of curiosity by slowly revealing its form and complexity through physical and visual engagement with the work. The wall is made from a repetitious steel framework with rope infill that varies over the length of the wall in three dimensions, forming a thickened undulating screen made up of dense line-work. In its orthographic, or “straight-on” view, the wall forms a meticulously organized series of patterns easily recognized by the viewer.

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