bozeman MONTANA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

bryan SCHUTMAAT: For the past few years, I’ve been taking intermittent trips westward. I’m moved by the mountains, the open spaces, and all the other natural beauty the American West has to offer. But I’m also moved by the places in between—the old cafes, motels, gas stations, and so on. These days, both the wilderness and these small businesses seem to be in peril as developers move in and alter the physical and economic landscape. So, through photography I aim to preserve these aspects of the West that seem to be vanishing. From my trips, I developed this series, Western Frieze, which examines America’s cultural identity and how it relates to the landscape and whatever mystique the West has left.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

Pratt Architecture School Degree Project 2009/2010
Circus on the Edge: Nomadic Architecture as a creative aid and Distribution platform

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

guillermo BERNAL: A creative aid and distribution platform, the nomadic equipment can be positioned as momentary anchoring. Their goal is both to situate themselves on the exterior in order to open new trails, and to weave, or even to repair certain links. to put holes in the public space using the invasive, nomadic presence of the war machine, or any other technique of sudden appearance invades and overcomes everyday life.

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vienna AUSTRIA

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kadri KERGE: Toxic Garden is an artificial landscape for plants to investigate the nature of new paradigms in structures. Synthetic Structure is a new structure system that generates new species of formal behaviour. Toxic Garden is looking possibility of form generation as an autonomous act and new conditions of structure behaviour. The Structure contains toxic plants. The Growth of the plants and toxic miasma effects structure.This two functions together creates an autonomous system.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCIARC 2GBX Studio 2010 - Instructor: Elena Manferdini - “Intense Interiority and Ornate Enclosure”

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dave BANTZ: Guided by studio instructors Elena Manferdini, Marcelo Spina, and Tom Wiscombe, our studio was thrown into an intensive month long scripting workshop. After our workshop, we were encouraged to extrapolate and build from our respectable bank of scripting experiments adding consideration for program, context, and performance. A crisp, patterned, and prism-like exterior shell encases a sinuous structural and circulation network, which in turn, supports more focused plastic interior volumes.

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paris FRANCE

david TAJCHMAN: Slovenian lacework tradition-The external envelope uses a pattern shown in various treatments. Perforated, it works as a brise-soleil and filters natural light for exhibitions spaces. On grounds the same pattern is used but in relief, making surfaces non-slippery, especially on the walkable roof. The perforated material is also used in ceilings to hide artificial lighting and technical elements like air-conditioning and ventilation systems. The pixelated pattern is also used for signage in the entire museum.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

joey SARAFIAN: This design for a research institute in Downtown Los Angeles (where Grand Ave meets the 101 Freeway) looks at an operable skin with pyramidal apertures that open and close due to proximity to freeway noise and solar gain. The result featured a skin that becomes aware of its surroundings, and can perpetually adapt to them. The project site is adjacent to varying freeway noise depending on the amount of traffic, which will also influence the skin.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

michael YOUNG: Botanical Garden adjacent to SCIArc. The facility acts as a artificial reef for plants. The program contains a temporary laboratory for genetic plant engineering set to eventually collapse under the weight of plants along side the movement, which overtakes and weakens the structure. It investigates the idea of architecture as a temporary structure as opposed to the long held tradition of architecture as an eternal element within the world.

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new york NEW YORK

registration begins 08.16.10

submissions due 12.20.10

awards: US $2500 total and publication on suckerPUNCH

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

clark THENHAUS: The “Terra Nullis; Delinquent Vernacular” drawing series chronicles 5 fictional characters throughout agrarian history, pairing drawings and narrative with various topics of research. The Jepeto Rambunctious drawings are 3′ to 6′ long ink-alchemy mixtures. Made of ink, water, salt, and wax Rambunctiouos’ drawings were developed as alternative organizational strategies intended to challenge the inelastic Jeffersonian grid of the late 1800’s and early 1900’s.

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london UK

FABRICATE is an International Peer Reviewed Conference with supporting publication and exhibition to be held at The Building Centre in London from 15-16 April 2011. Discussing the progressive integration of digital design with manufacturing processes, and its impact on design and making in the 21st century, FABRICATE will bring together pioneers in design and making within architecture, construction, engineering, manufacturing, materials technology and computation.

Keynote Speakers: Mark Burry, Philip Beesley, Neri Oxman and Matthias Kohler

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