pasadena CALIFORNIA
ART CENTER COLLEGE ANNOUNCES MADE UP:DESIGN’S FICTIONS
Exhibition Explores the Future As Envisioned By a New Generation of Architects and Designers
Lecture Series and Public Exhibition January 29 - March 20, 2011
Wind Tunnel Gallery
Art Center College of Design South Campus
950 S. Raymond Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91105
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
EASTON+COMBS: The Aldgate Landmark Pavilion is a temporary entrance marker to the City of London in celebration of the 2012 Olympics. The site’s importance is that it is the location of the former city gate, the Aldgate, a historically significant point of entry to the city of London that was famous for being open to all social classes when the other city gates were reserved for various elites. The resonance of the history of the site serves as a gesture to the spirit of the 2012 Olympics in a bustling area of contemporary London by providing the venue of a temporary landmark.
college station TEXAS
Team Members:
ryan COLLIER
michael TOMASO
gabriel ESQUIVEL
The project was awarded an honorable mention in the REPEAT competition organized by TEXFAB November 2010.
gabriel ESQUIVEL: There is a vast precedent in fabrication projects that deal with the idea of weaving, however within those projects there are more specific techniques. This project concerns itself specifically in the spiral or coil. In “Tooling” Aranda/Lasch describe this technique as, “the spiral (which) is not so much the shape as the evidence of a shape in formation.”(1) This idea implies constant movement as a desired effect - something architecture has historically aspired to.
new york NEW YORK
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
tiffany DAHLEN and virginia MELNYK: The urban night club responds to the vibrant and eclectic youth culture of Harajuku and balances the high end fashion of Omontesando. The urban club consists of a large meet and greet entry area, sushi restaurant, sake bar, music lounge and two VIP lounges; Pockets of unique intensities are held within a white framework, creating zones of spatiality, surficiality, and crenalation. Five distinct qualities corresponding to the specific programs and aesthetic desires, transform between the different spaces through the medium of the framework and are embedded within it. They differ from a sweet salivating sushi restaurant to a soft pillowy lounge space.
london UNITED KINGDOM
KAOHSIUNG PORT TERMINAL
by BIOTHING 2010 _ competition proposal
principal designers: Alisa Andrasek + Jose Sanchez
design team: Knut Brunier – Gabriel Morales – Denis Lacej
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
alisa ANDRASEK: Cliff formations found along many coastlines (including Kaohsiung outer coastline) are resonated through strong vertical fissures of the building. Fractals are frequently used to calculate coastline behavior, given the different degree of “roughness” and multiple orders of scale found in natural coastlines. ||Fissures Port Terminal proposal reflects the idea of such complex articulation within the tectonics of the building.
college station TEXAS
Texas A&M University. College of Architecture. 1st Year Graduate Studio.
Critic: gabriel ESQUIVEL
kuangyi TAO: The House of the Future is a project reacting to the problems emerging during modern times: overpopulation, resource shortage and virtual world development.
Inspired by images of “body cells” depicted in the Matrix, I designed houses based on a similar system of energy and information exchange. The major difference is that people will be in control.
philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA
Immersive Kinematics is a Research Group at the University of Pennsylvania directed by professors Simon Kim and Mark Yim. This group is a collaboration between Penn Engineering and Penn Design and expands the roles of architecture and engineering focusing on integrating robotics, interaction, and embedded intelligence in our buildings, cities, and cultures. The group offers a class teaming architecture and engineering students in mechatronic projects.
los angeles CALIFORNIA
Yale University SOA
critic: hernan diaz ALONSO with erick CÁRCAMO
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
kyle STOVER: This studio examined the relationship of types versus species. Where type is viewed as “categories of standardization, then species are malleable entities in constant metamorphosis.” The brief called for a house to inspeciate a site in three acts by employing a cellular spatial logic. My project technologically romanticizes the idea of the house to present a radically picturesque possibility of inhabitation.
new york NEW YORK
When: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM TUESDAY, JANUARY 25
Where: At The Center for Architecture
This presentation by SOFTlab is the fourth of seven events featuring the winners of the 2010 New Practices competition.
New Practices New York 2010 is the third juried portfolio competition and exhibition in a new biennial tradition sponsored by the New Practices Committee of the AIA New York Chapter. It serves as a platform for recognizing and promoting new, innovative and emerging architecture firms within New York City that have undertaken unique and commendable strategies - both in the projects they undertake and the practices they have established. Distinguishing this award from others given to new and young practices is the attention focused on how the winning firms’ practices have been uniquely shaped to better facilitate and exploit the type of projects that are undertaken.
new york NEW YORK
Call for Competitors - Designers, Architects, Students or anyone in the building industry.
Enter here to submit to the challenge: designbymany
Deadline: 1/30/2011, Sunday 11:59 EST
Prize: HP Designjet T770 Printer USD $2750
Judges:
Josh Emig - Visiting Assistant Professor at Auburn University
Marc Simmons - Partner at Front, Inc.
Nicholas Holt AIA, LEED® AP - Technical Director at SOM
Controlling the way sunlight enters a space has been a design problem for architects since we began building shelters. This challenge seeks to create a beautiful external shading solution that is adaptable to various solar positions and orientations.
