barcelona SPAIN
Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia
critic: Marcos CRUZ.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Natalie ALIMA: Architecture today is seen something static and unresponsive. However it is time to take a hint from biology and allow our buildings to grow, adapt and self repair.
ann arbor MICHIGAN
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Meredith MILLER & Thom MORAN: A seasonal kiosk sited alongside Chicago’s lakefront, Plastic Sunrise does two seemingly opposite things at once: it creates a legible, referential form while simultaneously producing atmospheric effects in tandem with changing light from sunrise to sunset.
philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA
University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign
critic: Andrew SAUNDERS.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
David Zhewei FENG: Blendscape is a new gallery extension of the Norman Fisher House designed by Louis Kahn.
los angeles CALIFORNIA & stockholm SWEDEN
Acts of translation deal with the shift from one mode of description to another, creating gaps in perception that challenge what can be construed, or misconstrued, to be either real or fictive. Differentiating itself from literal translation [metaphrase] or parallel translation [paraphrase], the project Semblances instead produces translations that attempt to render things with varying degrees of latitude and to bring that rendition together with its source. . . .
brooklyn NEW YORK
The legacy of the Bauhaus is defined in large part by a multiplicity of identities and tensions which contribute to its continuing vitality nearly a century after its founding. It would be a reduction of the complexity of the Bauhaus to divide it cleanly into a technical side and an expressive side, yet technical and expressive factors were often in conflict and in conversation throughout its history. . . .
* One of two first-prize winning entries.
stockholm SWEDEN
KTH, School of Architecture
critics: Marcelyn GOW, Sam JACOB, & Cino ZUCCHI.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Luciano Peirone UDRIOT: Stockholm Roofscape Revisited is a vision of a vertical densification and continuation of the 19th-century city, through additions that translate and negotiate the historicity of Stockholm’s cityscape with a contemporary approach, drawing on the existing while projecting forward. . . .
columbus OHIO
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
David ESKENAZI: Often big things seem more serious than small things. Big things are heavier, more in the way, more noticeable, more aggravating. . . .
syracuse NEW YORK
Flavored Atria and Architectural Convictions
critic: Jennifer BONNER.
Flavored Atria and Architectural Convictions was a four-day design workshop that brought together an interest in seriality, the atrium typology, and taste.
los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc
critic: Andrew ZAGO.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Smita LUKOSE: Set in Rome, the context for this project looms larger over architecture and urbanism than any other city.
philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA
University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign
critic: Kutan AYATA.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Rajika MAHESHWARI & Roza PATTAH: The Natatorium condenses the European coastal culture of cove hopping from town to town; the arched trajectories of this pilgrimage are inverted and brought indoor to a Natatorium, promoting exploration and meandering from pool to pool within the building.
