vienna AUSTRIA

master thesis, Vienna University of Technology
instructor: Prof.Dr. Manfred Berthold

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

tobias v. EGLAUER: This project emerged from sucker punch´s lavender lake competition. It is designed by using the Paper-Crease operation. Paper-Crease is folding, is a process, is geometry, is one way how nature is shaping: car crashes, tree leaves, tectonics, protein folding, insect´s wings, tissue, space and time… - the whole world is folded. The Paper-Crease operation was developed starting from origami folding patterns which still are inherent in the project.

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ann arbor MICHIGAN

Friday, September 24, 2010 1:30 PM–6:30 PM
Saturday, September 25, 2010 10:00 AM–4:15 PM

Rackham Auditorium
915 East Washington Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

The Future of Technology Conference at University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, September 24-25, features critics, practitioners and academics presenting how technology empowers, inspires and adapts. The presentations and hosted conversations by the international roster of speakers are free and open to the public.

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new york NEW YORK

SOFTlab: CHROMAtex.me is a site specific installation designed and produced by SOFTlab for the bridgegallery. The installation was designed to produce a complex environmental and spatial combination of six different colors. The piece is inverted spatialy; the color is mixed in the interior of the form leaving a vibrant interior that is back lit by the gallery. The interior of photo glossy ink jet printed paper is meant to look very precise finished, and smooth, while the exterior is textured with a field of binder clips used to hold the piece together. Rather than having a finished façade or skin that hides the method of construction we chose to invert this relationship. The first thing viewers see is the method of fabrication and you discover the finished effects produced by the construction.

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new york NEW YORK

100 artists, architects and designers have generously donated drawings, models and works of art to be auctioned off to support Modern Views: A Project to Benefit Farnsworth House and the Glass House. Participants include greg LYNN, david ADJAYE, asymptote, zaha HADID, thom MAYNE, eric owen MOSS, wolf PRIX, and james WELLING.

new york NY

Congratulations to Fractured Bubble for being selected as the People’s Choice Sukkah of New York City

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

henry GROSMAN + babak BRYAN: The sukkah is a bubble: ephemeral and transient. It separates inside from outside with a thin, permeable membrane. Outside is the world of everyday life. Inside one gathers with loved ones. Together you look out to the world to find it fresh again, transformed.

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new york NEW YORK

meenal MISTRY: …it was the dresses—literally breathtaking—all exquisitely wrought this season with orientalist-inspired details: heavily bejeweled necklines, hand-painted florals on rolling sculptural drapes, and grand obilike loops that were revealed when a model turned. Amid the gowns were a few harem-panted jumpsuits. Cut in lace and finished with little bolero jackets and jewel-crusted clutches, they didn’t exactly read casual.

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berkeley CALIFORNIA

Design: Thom Faulders / Faulders Studio
Design Team: Jason Chang, Charles Lee, Devin Rutz, Scott Blew

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

thom FAULDERS: GEOtube is a proposal for a new 170 meter tall sculptural tower for the city of Dubai. With an open structure and an exposed membrane skin, the vertical planes of the GEOtube tower are continually misted with local salt water via an external vascular water system. The result is a uniform growth of salt crystals upon its highly visible surfaces. GEOtube provides an identifiable icon for the city, a specialized habitat for wildlife that thrives is this environment, and an accessible skin for the harvesting of crystal salt.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

kevin COOLEY: The goal of this project was to spend one month in Siglufjörður , the most northern town and one of the most remote areas in Iceland photographing the remarkable light they have there in the winter time. I was also working on Natural Forces a long term video project about the classic elements of water, earth, fire, and wind and our struggles as humans to live among these forces.

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new york NY

‘Sukkah City’ is an international design competition to re-imagine this ancient phenomenon, develop new methods of material practice and parametric design, and propose radical possibilities for traditional design constraints in a contemporary urban site. Twelve finalists were selected by a panel of celebrated architects, designers, and critics to be constructed in a visionary village in Union Square Park from September 19-20, 2010.

Vote for your favorite Sukkah at nymag.com.

Image: Fractured Bubble by henry GROSMAN + babak BRYAN

new haven CONNECTICUT

Yale School of Architecture, critic Ben Pell, thanks to Joshua Rowley

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

melissa SHIN + william MUDGE : The Form(work) bench was inspired by the unique corduroy-textured concrete walls of Paul Rudolph’s Yale Art and Architecture Building. Each 1/2″ plywood profile fits precisely into the spacing of the wall’s texture (a nod to the original wooden concrete formwork) and articulates a sitting surface for two people. The surface emerges as a thickening of the wall’s sectional relationship between verticality and horizontality, and juxtaposes the roughness of the wall with the smoothness of NURBS surface geometry.

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