ann arbor MICHIGAN

University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

advisors: Ellie ABRONS & Ben SMITH

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Dorimar del RÍO VÉLEZ: FLATend challenges preconceptions of the architectural volume and its representation through the use of graphics applied and manipulated at different scales. Graphics—defined here as the flat composition of shapes and forms that construct figures and patterns— formally detached from architectural conventions but based upon cultural constructs of meaning and form through legibility.

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san diego CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Gabriel MORALES-OLIVARES, Kate HANSON, Taylor McGRADY, & Abe GUTIERREZ: The established built environment perpetuates an entropy laden system that depends heavily on non-renewable resources. We set forth a holistic framework, embracing the needs of society and the capacities of technology, in which a renewable and recursive, high resolution, self-powered piezo-based synthetic ecology can flourish.

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ann arbor MICHIGAN

University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
advisor: Ellie ABRONS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Nick SAFLEY: Animal House proposes a series of above ground tornado shelters placed within suburban homes and figured as architectural characters. Normally these exist as generic steel or reinforced concrete boxes hidden within the wall cavity and possessing extreme material durability to resist extreme weather that might destroy the structure around it. Taking the suburban single-family house as site these hyper-durable cores are freed and given personas and postures that enrich the interior with implied subjectivity and vitality.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Heather ROBERGE speaks on her recent studios and seminars, topology’s role in challenging Platonic solids, the status of precedent and history in architectural education, extradisciplinary case studies as a route to new architectural knowledge, and much more.

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*Image courtesy the author. Physical model, “Reimagining L.A.’s Union Station.” Research Studio, UCLA A.UD. Assistant Professor Heather Roberge, instructor. Students: Kim, Lee, & Nabi.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Erick CÁRCAMO discusses the similarities and differences between the East Coast, West Coast, and Vienna; the role of workshops in architectural education today; the effects of the Web on studio culture; and more.

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*Image by Vaso PLAVOU and courtesy the author. Erick CÁRCAMO, instructor.

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new york NEW YORK

The Non-Linear Solution Unit (NSU) at GSAPP Columbia University and Interni Magazine feature the project Instant Installation, winner for the University of Memphis Art Museum in the occasion of the Art Lab Installation. Developed by a group of international students and guided by Caterina Tiazzoldi, Instant Installation explores architecture’s capacity to adapt and be reconfigured for different uses and locations with a unique spatial experience and a highly innovative yet cost efficient assembly type. It is a product reinventing the material, social, and educational possibilities of temporary exhibit spaces, creating visitor involvement into the space.

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san francisco CALIFORNIA

California College of the Arts
critic: Gregory HURCOMB

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Alex WOODHOUSE: Animated sequences are often difficult to convey in a single, static image. Movement, intensity, and speed are terms associated more strongly with the animate than static, abilities showcased in the production and viewing of visually recorded events. Shadow Traceries is an investigation into the decoding and re-representation of these events, compressing time-based input into a finite, visualized moment.

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paris FRANCE

Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture
critics: Ricardo de OSTOS & Christian DELECLUSE

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Tom BENARD: This project challenges the narrow condition that has always existed between the human and the architectural, following the human being in his or her fantasy of transcendence. Spiritual and mystical architectures have often taken hybrid shape between a spiritual and physical attempt to reach a higher state of wisdom and understanding. This project speculates on the opportunities offered to us in this new millennium, analyzing transhumanism as a contemporary expression of mysticism.

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istanbul TURKEY & london UNITED KINGDOM

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Seda ZIREK: This table is inspired by the dripstone caves, which consists of a limestone formation called stalactite. These structures hang from the ceilings of the caves. They are created by dripping mineral waters of the cave. This water leaves its minerals behind in a circular shape as it descends towards the floor of the cave. Therefore, these structures represent the vertical movement of the mineral water as a result of the gravity force. Inspired by the stalactite structures, the Dripping Table is made of legs, which are descending from the top of the table into the floor. The continuity and elegancy of this table is a result of the emergence process of this continuous and elegant movement as it is in the dripstone caves.

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chicago ILLINOIS

Illinois Institute of Technology

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Daniel CAVEN: Center for Aerial and Circus Arts (CACA) is located on the Northern portion of Goose Island. Situated in a busy upcoming business area of the Near North Side of Chicago, the center takes on a new symbolism of architecture, orchestrating a new typology for performers and the public-realm. The exterior form and programmatic layouts coincide with each other with rationell towards fluidity and movement. This new type of language in architecture is developed and decomposed through formal and spacial studies of the performers.

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