new haven CONNECTICUT

Yale School of Architecture
critics: Tom WISCOMBE & Nate HUME

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Brandon HALL: This project engages with the discourse of contemporary composites through vacuum formed simulations, creating a composite surface by squishing and embedding objects, imitating thin film layers which could eventually have performative qualities such as EL lighting or thin film solar panels. This meta-assembly explores the relationship between the highly articulated figure and a faceted surface. The assembly embeds 3-D printed figures that have been clicked into the surface, pocketed to accommodate the figures.

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college station TEXAS

This project was inspired by Op Art, a twentieth century art movement and style in which artists sought to create an impression of movement on an image surface by means of an optical illusion. Passive elements consisting of composite laminates were produced with the goal of creating lightweight, semi-rigid, and nearly transparent pieces. The incorporation of active materials comprised a unique aspect of this project: the investigation of surface movement through controlled and repeatable deformation of the composite structure using SMA wiring technology. The integration of composite materials with SMA wiring and Arduino.

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new york NEW YORK

Mark Goulthorpe is an Associate Professor at MIT Department of Architecture, teaching digital design and fabrication and leading the new Design Stream in the SMArchS program. His current research centers on robotic fabrication and a variety of composite fabrication methodologies, as well as a new iteration of the dynamically reconfigurable HypoSurface. Goulthorpe is the author of Autoplastic to Alloplastic published by Hyx/Pompidou and The Possibility of (an) Architecture published by Routledge.

Mark GOULTHORPE, “Phototropic Implication.”
Thursday, 03/14
6.30–8.00 p.m. / Frederick P. Rose Auditorium
The Cooper Union
41 Cooper Square
New York, New York 10003

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innsbruck AUSTRIA

Ferda Kolatan is a founding partner ot su11 Architecture + Design in New York City and a Senior Lecturer at PennDesign. He received his Architectural Diploma with distinction from the RWTH Aachen in Germany and his Masters in Architecture from Columbia University. Kolatan has lectured widely and taught design studios and theory seminars at Columbia University, RPI, UBC, ICA, Washington University, Pratt Institute, and the RWTH Aachen. In 2010 he co-authored the book “Meander: Variegating Architecture” with Jenny Sabin.

Ferda KOLATAN, “Fleeting Morphologies.”
Thursday, 03/14
8.00pm / University of Innsbruck, Institute of Urban Design
Technikerstrasse 21
Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria

zurich SWITZERLAND

ETH Zurich

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Stelios PSALTIS: This project belongs to a series of experiments on investigating possible mechanisms of creating patterns. The logic behind creating patterns although, has less to do with specific expressions of stylistic preferences, but rather lies upon the idea of reusing information. These examples act as visual representations, depicting the powerful capacity of programed algebraic rules to reuse information. Repeated visual units and ordered patterns, produced out of any, even random given entities.

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rotterdam THE NETHERLANDS

INTIMACY is a fashion project exploring the relation between intimacy and technology. Its high-tech garments entitled ‘Intimacy White’ and ‘Intimacy Black’ are made out of opaque smart e-foils that become increasingly transparent based on close and personal encounters with people.

Social interactions determine the garments’ level of transparency, creating a sensual play of disclosure.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Repeatable formulas and spatial products make most of the space in the world now; not only buildings but also entire cities have become spatial products that typically reproduce free zone world cities like Shenzhen or Dubai. Space has become a mobile, monetized, almost infrastructural, technology, where infrastructure is not only the urban substructure, but also the urban structure itself.

Keller Easterling is an architect, writer, and professor at Yale University.

Keller EASTERLING, “Extrastatecraft”
intro. by Marcelo SPINA
Wednesday, 03/13
7.00 pm / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

columbus OHIO

The “Possible Mediums” Conference, which took place at The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture from February 07-10, 2013, brought together 18 designers, 120 students (from the four co-host schools: The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture, University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning and University of Kentucky College of Design), and special guests John McMorrough and Jeffrey Kipnis, to participate in design workshops and formal discussions surrounding the question of mediums in contemporary architecture.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

George SMYRLIS: Casa Duende is the headquarters of a secret organisation that its manifestation is based on a combination of anarchism socialism along with bullfighting values. Organisation aim is to educate its member and prepare them for a political system governed by individuals. The building concept is aiming toward a design of provocation and attempts to capture the critical moment when the bull gore the matador’s skin and a state of human body’s aposynthesis has already started. Casa Duende’s final phase is a heroic explosion aiming towards a symbolic destroy of Alhambra castle, the last remnants of hierarchical system that promotes the higher classes of its structure.

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london UNITED KINGDOM & beijing CHINA

A.A. Washington University, The Bartlett UCL

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Margot KRASOJEVIC: ABSTRACTION /// Abstraction is the action of divorcing properties of physical objects and ideas from the objects and concepts themselves. Mathematics, once regarded and revered as the absolute in truth, saw an epiphany with the discovery of abstraction and non-Euclidean geometry. Abstraction has been a major theme in the development of mathematics, as those interested in the field have come up with ideas further and further divorced from their basis in the real world, and then sought ways to bring them back to inform us about the real world, which we might otherwise not have known.

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