london UNITED KINGDOM

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

linda HAGBERG: Sited in the area between the Danshui River and Taipei Main Station, Taipei Herbal Baths and Aquatic Sports Centre is inspired by an investigation into materials and how their properties change according to surrounding environment, particularly evident in wood and its change of shape due to humidity. The project explores the possibility of employing a materialistic approach to create a responsive space, an architecture of which ephemeral and sensorial qualities are constructed from environment and material.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

paul BROADBENT: Roll Up! Roll Up! Welcome to a park of fun, magic and entertainment!

Be it the frame of a door, TV screen or picture frame—framing devices order the world in which we live.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

dave EDWARDS: For Mircea Eliade “The distinction between the sacred and the profane is that of a boundary or threshold. a boundary between the ordinary mundane and confused versus the security and sense of being that comes only via accessibility to the sacred.”

The work centers on the notion of these two dialectic states, of the transition between the profane and the sacred. Initial studies began with a study into Dante’s Divine Comedy as a physical construction of the threshold between sacred spaces of Paradise and the Profane Inferno.

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bratislava SLOVAKIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

miro STRAKA: By adding architectural meanings to emotional understandings of delights, spectrum of functions is created. Selecting desired percentual share creates composition, which affects fetal disposition. Seed is basic spatial characteristic determining shape evolving process and final diversity. After successful hatching of basic form, skeletal system is designed, growing thin, rib-like structure, where loads are minimal, transfering loads through spine into thicker, fluent pelvis and grounding it with long, strong femur. Skin is assembled by pillows with liquid, which circulates through vascular system based on temperature requirements.

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lima PERU

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

alejandro vicente SOTO: The Hyper densification of Seoul Has led to its infrastructural proliferation thus the pedestrian realm has been overtaken leading to Seoul becoming a city adapting to the occupation of subterranean public zones, as a result the public domain operates through micro-spatialities; “Bang Culture.”[1] The premise of the project then becomes about adding sensorial experience to this underground realm and connecting it to the street.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc
advisor: volkan ALKANOGLU

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

jordan SQUIRES: This project is about converting ideas pertaining to the vehicle and the courtyard into a three-dimensional grid that would become a house in Silver Lake, California. The surfaces are constructed from the grid (not to represent the grid) so that any plan or section of the house would also have an elegant composition in the style of the original drawing. The sweeping outer wall acts as a porch, privacy wall, driveway and carport; and wraps the site in towards the reservoir and neighboring VDL house.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

erin LANI: This thesis is an exploration of graffiti techniques as they may be applied to architecture and the architectural design process. Qualities specific to the graffiti composition such as the action of layering, outlining, and coloring, as well as the arc of the wrist, elbow and arm have been engaged to create dynamic and woven compositions of three or more alphabetic characters (usually the pseudonym of the artist). More recent and complex graffiti is the inspiration, exemplified in the work of RIME (Los Angeles) and DAIM (Germany).

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london UNITED KINGDOM

BLOOM: A Crowd Sourced Garden
London Olympics 2012

“All possible branches are real.”
J. L. Borges, Garden of Forking Paths

Commissioned by the Greater London Authority as part of Wonder series celebrating Olympics and Paralympics, BLOOM is designed and developed by Alisa Andrasek and Jose Sanchez from The Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL.

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hangzhou CHINA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

bin LU: The site for this project is located at the west side of Hangzhou new city, 2.6km to the CBD center. The facility has a total built area of 15,500 square meters. Above ground floor area is 46,700 square meters. The southwest corner is the entrance for the planned Metro Line and around the site are high-end residential districts. The north side is bounded by a primary school. Adjacent to Qian Jiang River, the site is a connector between the natural and urban life of the city, making it a perfect location for a sports complex.

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new york NEW YORK

Drawing and Representation II, Spring 2012
Columbia University GSAPP

Coordinators: Babak Bryan & Michael Young
Instructors: Kutan Ayata, Frank Gesualdi, Jennifer Leung, John Morrison, Bryan Young
TAs: Kyle Hovenkotter, Emily E. Jones, Dan Lee, Bo Liu, Eliza Montgomery, Owen Nichols, Luis Felipe Paris

Students: geof BELL, kevin CERVANTES, madeeha MERCHANT, juan pablo AZARES, jim STODDART.

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