vienna AUSTRIA
2nd PLACE - $800
with joanna-maria HELINURM + rangel KARAIVANOV
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project:
justin DILES: Lenticular Field is a low-flying cloud of steel and fiber-reinforced iridescent Mylar hovering over East River State Park. On the ground, a concrete plinth houses program and bends toward a waterfront stage while the voluptuous canopy shades and zones the park, its surfaces absorbing Apollonian power by day and releasing this energy in a Dionysian frenzy at night.
vienna AUSTRIA
THIRD PLACE - $300
williamsburg waterfront performance venue competition
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
sahand AHMADIAN TEHRANI + dena SAFFARIAN: Inspired by the mechanisms of self-organization and bottom-up adaptations of cities, we propose (instead of a final answer to the program) a network of “infrastructure” capable of hosting a multiplicity of configurations for the original program as well as undetermined scenarios and future programs.
buenos aires ARGENTINA
HONORABLE MENTION - $100
williamsburg waterfront performance venue competition
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
inés MOLINARI/mercedes PERALTA/dana SÁEZ/cecilia SEGAL/carolina TELO: The project presents an architecture investigation is inspired by geometrical models: Chinese traditional techniques such as origami and the tan gram game, geodesic investigations developed by B. Fuller, and other mathematical models such as fractals.
san juan PUERTO RICO
HONORABLE MENTION – $100
williamsburg waterfront performance venue competition
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
alberto FERNÁNDEZ ZEQUEIRA + francisco RODRÍGUEZ SUÁREZ: The concept for the project came from the park’s unique industrial past. Drawing inspiration from the original and forgotten railroad lines of the site, a new system of rails was designed for the project’s numerous stages and kiosks. This network provides for an infinite number of possible configurations depending on the size and type of venue while maintaining and enhancing the parks sense of open, natural and inclusive space. Maximum flexibility with minimal infrastructure. Innovation through historic interpretation.
london ENGLAND
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
yashin KEMAL: [myoo-tuh-buhl] mu·ta·ble
–adjective
1. liable or subject to change or alteration.
2. given to changing; constantly changing;
The urban proposal ‘Mutable Layering’ is a bus and metro transport interchange that links Beijing’s expansive 2020 masterplan with the city’s increasing problem with water shortages and drought.
new york NEW YORK
SOFTlab: After a month of printing, kickstarting, laser cutting, and binder clipping we are done! CHROMAtex.me will be opening this Thursday night at the bridgegallery. Thanks everyone for your support through kickstarter! It has been a ridiculous amount of work, but also a lot of fun. The people that have volunteered to give a hand have been great. We all can’t wait till Thursday night.
opening thursday august 26 6-8pm
bridge gallery 98 orchard st NY (between broom & delancey)
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.
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.
vienna AUSTRIA
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
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.
los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCIARC 2GBX Studio 2010 - Instructor: Elena Manferdini - “Intense Interiority and Ornate Enclosure”
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
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.
